Le Tigre - This Island

Tomorrow is my birthday. But it's a Monday and everyone has to work (except me cos I took a leave day). So decided to do birthday celebrations early this weekend. My partner snooped my discogs want list and surprised me with this. A hard vinyl to get here in Australia. It oddly hasn't been repressed. I don't tend to rebuy vinyl from this era. But there are a few exceptions. I can still listen to this album start to finish today - 22 years (sheesh) after its release.

My friend Tara and I fell in love with Le Tigre early on. We were big electro punk fans. The album cover is iconic. I fucking hated my school formal. I remember this being the first time I'd seen a publicly out non binary band member and how little representation there was, even then, in 2004.

I saw Le Tigre at the 2005 Big Day Out. Some creep in a Bikini Kill t-shirt who looked like Richard D James kept trying to rub suncream on me. Not the vibe one would expect at a Le Tigre show. Thankfully he got really high and then fucked off to the side and my friend Bianca arrived. Le Tigre had matching outfits and danced like I did in my loungeroom. I had so much fun. Little did I know how unwell Kathleen Hanna was that tour. You couldn't tell at the time. Twas my favourite Big Day Out that year.

This pressing is the one from their own label - Le Tigre records. I dig details like that.

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