WEBurlesque Podcast Network

The Music That Made WE volume 5 continues with Seattle's Pat Smear, one of the folks behind Fatbottom Cabaret. They've chosen 10 songs that make up his story, with a soundtrack that includes Chappell Roan, Scissor Sisters, The Presidents of the United States of America, and more. + Stick around for Viktor's hidden bonus track. Pat's links: https://www.instagram.com/pat___smear/ https://linktr.ee/p...

Singer-stripper and emcee Professor M finally meets to talk to Viktor Devonne years after a clandestine almost-meeting in the New England Carousel Museum.  Helming Scandalous Saturdays in Fairfield, Connecticut, M talks about masculinity, splitting time between passions that sometimes win an Emmy or a Silver Tusk Award (2023's Favorite Host), corsets and thongs, sexuality, favorite songs to sing,...

Take a listen to the 2nd episode of "The WEView" panel discussion show featuring: Scarlett Letter , moderator:  https://scarlettletterburlesque.com/ Joona Bae , featured panelist: https://www.instagram.com/joonabae/ & https://www.instagram.com/diverse.desires/ Harpy L'Amour :  https://www.instagram.com/qweenharpy   &  https://www.facebook.com/HarpyBird/ Coco Rose : https://www.instagram.com/thecoc...

Beau Briefs if Seattle chats about what boylesque means to him, plus more about his favorite obsession: underwear, and sometimes appearing in less; from the car ride that led to getting on stage, dressing up like a turkey, what regional burlesque at large looks like, and what winning the Silver Tusk Award for Equipment Manager was like. This chat was recorded on March 17, 2025. Give love to the fo...

The Music That Made WE volume 5 continues with Fleur the Tease aka Tricker Tease of Southern California. They've chosen 10 songs that make up his story, with a soundtrack that includes Florence + the Machine, Morphine, Tom Waits, and more. + Stick around for Viktor's hidden bonus track. Tease's links: - https://www.instagram.com/fleur_teases/ - https://www.instagram.com/lustykitten/ The Music That...

The Music That Made WE volume 5 continues with Fleur the Tease aka Tricker Tease of Southern California. They've chosen 10 songs that make up his story, with a soundtrack that includes Green Day, Queen, Hozier, and more. + Stick around for Viktor's hidden bonus track. Tease's links: - https://www.instagram.com/fleur_teases/ - https://www.instagram.com/lustykitten/ The Music That Made WE is a creat...

Fantastic emcee, enterainer, and trailblazer Alotta Boutté (San Francisco) joins Viktor Devonne to talk only so briefly about a fantastic 30 years on stage with the last 15 or so dedicated to burlesque. Let's get into it, as we go from Harlem Shake Burlesque at the goat farm, sideways up-and-downs from legends (and warm embraces from others!), feeling hot, relevancy, Beach Blanket Babylon, and wor...

Take a listen to the first episode of "The WEView" panel discussion show featuring: Queerly Femmetastic , moderator: https://www.instagram.com/queerlyfemmetastic/ & https://linktr.ee/queerlyfemmetastic Twen Peeks , featured panelist: https://www.instagram.com/twen_peeks/ & https://www.elucidationproductions.com/links-out Harpy L'Amour : https://www.instagram.com/qweenharpy & https://www.facebook.c...

WEBurlesque is back! Our first episode is a dual video/audio format* featuring the Emolesque Festival producers Regal Mortis, Raina Sinclair, and Noctua of New York City.  We discuss the inaugural edition of the event, held in April at Coney Island, and set to feature gobs of eyeliner and pathos.  Including a primer on what "emo" is, the approach and mission to project these interpretations to the...

The Music That Made WE volume 5 continues with our first collaboration; this one with Rex Halligan of #ShirtlessHistory to discuss Irish history (1740 to 1930s) as best can be abbreviated with the format. Rex is a sexy historian based in New York, where he also co-produces Fire and Fury Burlesque.  He began his Shirtless History series informally (and still only whenever the mood strikes) during t...

The Music That Made WE volume 5 continues with our first collaboration; this one with Rex Halligan of #ShirtlessHistory to discuss Irish history (1740 to 1920s) as best can be abbreviated with the format. Rex is a sexy historian based in New York, where he also co-produces Fire and Fury Burlesque.  He began his Shirtless History series informally (and still only whenever the mood strikes) during t...

The Music That Made WE volume 5 continues with Irish Lashes of Seattle. He's chosen 10 songs that make up his story, with a soundtrack that includes Bernadette Peters, John Denver, Dropkick Murphys, and more. + Stick around for Viktor's hidden bonus track.   Irish Lashes' links: - https://www.instagram.com/irishlashesbq/ -https://linktr.ee/irishlashesbq   Register for Burlycon! https://burlycon.re...

The Music That Made WE volume 5 continues with Irish Lashes of Seattle. He's chosen 10 songs that make up his story, with a soundtrack that includes Evanescence, Mister Mister, John Denver, and more. + Stick around for Viktor's hidden bonus track.   Irish Lashes' links: - https://www.instagram.com/irishlashesbq/ -https://linktr.ee/irishlashesbq   Register for Burlycon! https://burlycon.regfox.com/...

(Part 2 of 2)  The Music That Made WE volume 5 starts up with Deja Louve of the Queen City Burlesque Festival and the new podcast series The Howling Tales. She's chosen 10 songs that make up their story, with a soundtrack that includes Tool, A Temple of the Dog, Ministry and more. + Stick around for Viktor's hidden bonus track. Deja Louve's links: - http://dejalouve.com/ - https://www.instagram.co...

The Music That Made WE volume 5 starts up with Deja Louve of the Queen City Burlesque Festival and the new podcast series The Howling Tales. She's chosen 10 songs that make up their story, with a soundtrack that includes Peter Gabriel, A Perfect Circle, Ministry and more. + Stick around for Viktor's hidden bonus track. Deja Louve's links: - http://dejalouve.com/ - https://www.instagram.com/dejalou...

Viktor Devonne talks to one of his dearest friends and collaborators Petra Fried to give a send-off to 2024, such as it was.  Talk includes health and wellness, Wicked the movie (ok, a lot of Wicked the movie), the election and that guy, Chappell Roan, artificial intelligence, and alleged wokeness. This chat was recorded on Dewcember 28, 2024. Silver Tusk Awards 2025 voting ends January 3rd at 12:...

Vena Kahlo and Viktor Devonne chat on the pod about Seattle burlesque, coming off of productive feedback at Burlycon's peer review, heavy burlesque, Frida Kahlo, hispanic and latino diaspora and multiculturalism, queer identity, and how the E Salvador civil war inspired her most personal act yet. This chat was recorded on December 6, 2024. Silver Tusk Awards 2025 voting  round 2 voting ends Decemb...

Viktor Devonne talks to Delta Rae Delise (formerly Dixon) of Utah via Tennessee discuss being Southern Fried French, geology, blue laws, criticism and competition, and being inspired by sexy cheese and bearded nipples, This chat was recorded on Decembr 5, 2024.   Silver Tusk Awards 2025 round 2 is December 15th 2024 to January 3rd, 2025.  To support the Tusks, you can throw dollars at viktordevonn...

Black Ivy is a performing burlesque artist living in Indianapolis, Indiana.  She and Viktor talk about her 3 years in burlesque, transferring talents from pole dancing to chair dancing, festivals and major events of the year, psoriatic arthritis, Akasha, Landon Cider, mainstream burlesque, and what does mom think of all this? This chat was recorded on December 4, 2024.   Silver Tusk Awards 2025 ro...

Mx Dayton Gay Pride 2024, Sasha A. Bombfox, joins Viktor Devonne to talk pageantry at Walmart, nonbinary identities, Prince, Rocky Horror, The Crow (new and old!), furries, and more. trigger warning: some unpleasant medical talk (traumatic brain injury and stomach cancer) occurs from about 14 minutes in to about 19 minutes, This chat was recorded on November 15, 2024.   Silver Tusk Awards 2025 rou...

Haughty Hazelnut of Minneapolis talks with Viktor Devonne about post-election burlesque, tokenism, the glory that is Fatlesque, doing things for oneself, alleged cancel culture, and her personal origin story. This chat was recorded on November 17, 2024.   Silver Tusk Awards 2025 voting begins November 25, 2024.  To support the Tusks, you can throw dollars at viktordevonne on cashapp and venmo; and...

Ruby Tesla calls in from Florida to speak to Viktor Devonne for the first episode since the 2024 presidential election.  We talk uncertainty in the future, performance, sex work, the many places she has lived, Ursula the sea witch, and living in a state governed by DeSantis. This chat was recorded on November 17, 2024.   Silver Tusk Awards 2025 voting begins November 25, 2024.  To support the Tusk...

Cincinnati power couple Alex/Alexander Cameron and Ginger LeSnapps of Cin City Burlesque join Viktor Devonne to talk "wiggling for the people."  Topics including being saved by Party City, eating 8-tracks, performing whilst queer and interracial, being called brave, marketability, cancel culture when it comes to lipsycning, and what it's like being in love and married to their stage partner. This...

Cleveland's great masquerader Shrimp Cocktail sits with Viktor Devonne talk about nerdlesque, signs of non-scrotal nature, ADHD, cartoons, garbage Spongebob noncanon series, marine biology, breaking one's thumb at show choir, gingham, and classic spaghetti on the shoulders.  This chat was recorded on September 30, 2024 - The Count Censored:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM - Tom Waits...

Taryn Garters (Tucson, AZ) and Viktor Devonne talk about nerdlesque, producing before and after quarantine, giant tortoises(!), and more! This chat was recorded on October 14, 2024.  A note: there is osccasional but minor surface pops in the recording due to microphone spiking. We've removed the worst of it, but you may here it gently on some s's and t's, particularly if you listen on headphones....