they\'re from athens, ga
The name of the band is because the guy got dumped by some smart chick who was from Montreal.
Really affected him by the looks of it.
forced him to create a trans-gender alter ego, georgie fruit. i almost wish i was making that up
I don\'t think those two things are related. This band has been around since the mid 90\'s and the band name was decided then. He was not Georgie Fruit at the time. Georgie Fruit was actually realized during the album before skeletal lamping, Hissing Fauna are you the destroyer?. That like 11 minute tripped out angry synthesizer song about 2/3 of the way through the album is actually supposed to represent Kevin Barnes transformation into the alter-ego Georgie Fruit.
And Georgie Fruit is really just Prince if you ask me. It\'s a way for him to be sexually ambiguous, like Prince. Supposedly Georgie Fruit is an ex-front man of a funk band from the seventies who had transgender surgery to turn him into a woman, then back into a man, back into a woman, then back into a man again.
I\'m a big fan of this band, too bad I was sick as hell on Sunday or I would have tried to check them out live. I don\'t really care about the artsy stuff, I just think that Barnes can write some great songs. Satanic Panic in the Attic is a great pop album and the way he\'s able to layer his own vocals is really incredible. If you are to check out one album by this group that would definitely be the one i recommend.
At least Kevin Barnes isn\'t Scott Weiland, a wife beating heroine addict. There are worse things to be than strange.
