We spoke to Drag Race UK’s Scaredy Kat about her music career, her drag race stint and her new show at the Edinburgh fringe festival! Enjoy
Hey Kitty girl, okay lets jump right into things, I wanna talk about your new single “Gasoline”, can you tell us a bit more about the song?
Yeah, so I wrote Gasoline probably when I was like…17, so quite a long time ago, and I’ve basically just been adapting it ever since. its supposed to embody when you feel really really shit about the world, you know, getting on the tube and seeing everyone around you and wishing that they could all just maybe…fuck off (laughs). It’s Very teenage angst. But at the same time it’s also got an environmental message because I really care about being vegan, not eating animals and also not adding to the environmental problems that we have at the moment, and that’s kind of what I turned it into as I got older.
The video for the song also features your Drag Race UK sister Divina DeCampo, what was that experience like getting to work with her in a setting other than Drag Race?
It was weird because you’re used to being around really high-tech equipment and working in a studio with lights, and then It was just me and my girlfriend with a camera. It was just really different. We’ve kind of seen each other a few times since the show though, it was more weird having her in my house, that felt weird…like “Oh you were on TV” (laughs). Divina’s also vegetarian, she cares a lot about the planet, obviously she did that thing on Drag Race UK as a mermaid about the plastic too…alot of silly things.
Now during your stint on Drag Race UK you set a couple of records, both as the youngest queen to compete and as the first openly Bi-sexual contestant, do you feel like that added any pressure to your performance or to what you wanted to show whilst you where there?
The age thing I always knew would obviously play a factor, and with that the lack of performance, I literally hadn’t done anything, id just come out of school really, but the whole Bi thing I didn’t really think would be a thing. I said in my audition questionnaire, because they ask you who your closest person is, or who is closest to you, and I said my girlfriend, and they asked me like “Oh is that a girlfriend like a friend or…” But I never really thought it would play a part, if anything I thought it would stop me from getting on
Oh really?
yeah, I just had no idea, I thought it might hinder my chances in some kind of way. And then obviously going on there and talking about it, the response afterwards was both good and bad, but it was crazy to watch, and it was amazing that I was also able to help people in a similar situation
So if, in the future, you were asked to return for an All-Stars season of Drag Race what would you want to show the world that they haven’t seen yet from you?
I would love to be able to do like a singing challenge or a rap challenge, I feel like I would be really good at it, better than everyone else. I also would’ve loved to have shown more of my outfits that I made, I didnt have a designer, I didnt have big money so I had to make them all from second hand shit, and I do art which is why I look like a weird arty-freaky thing so I would’ve loved to have shown more outfits. I would’ve hated to do a sewing challenge, I would’ve hated to do acting again, and dancing also can just fuck off (laughs). I mean i’d give it a go.
You also announced on Instagram today that you are doing your own show at Edinburgh fringe festival, can you tell us a little more about that?
So the show is called “Pussy boy”, I’m doing a few shows around London hopefully, once this outbreak kind of calms down, then i’m taking it to the fringe festival in August, im going to do a show every night for 25 nights, but its going to be really really cool. It’s basically a comedy show, thats the main premise of it, but there’s gonna be like funny stupid songs and funny poems, like I’ve taken some of my hate comments and made a poem out of them, its also going to be just stupid little stories and a lot of “Pussy Boy”-ness…it’ll be great, come watch it!
I‘ll have to do that! And are you working on anything else at the moment?
Theres always a music video to be filmed, and there’s a few other very weird projects going but I can’t say very much about that at the minute, but they’re all very long-term things because aside from drag me and my girlfriend are artists, so there’s always some shit going on in the background (laughs)
And finally, as queer people a word we use with a lot of power is ‘pride’, what does pride mean to you?
Pride is owning who you are and not giving a shit about people who are being nasty. And thats not in a way thats like im gonna be who I wanna be and if it hurts anyone, or if its loud and obnoxious, thats not it. Its owning who you are and being stealthy with who you are you know what I mean? Its not as obvious as it seems, pride can come out in many different ways and in unique ways, its not just one thing
A huge thank you to Scaredy Kat, her team and all our readers for making this interview possible, you can buy tickets to Scaredy’s one woman show “Pussy Boy” here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/scaredy-kat-pussy-boy
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