Paul had all this footage for years and years because he documented the entire scene from day one with his video camera. It was an exercise in mythmaking, in a way. So we decided to craft a story, which is inspired by reality. We couldn’t play with anybody’s memories of us because nobody had memories. Thompson: We knew that no one really knew who Mouth Congress were.
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The Mouth Congress documentary uses archive footage of the band from the 1980s and it has stories you made up, so I don’t know how to describe it.īellini: It only has about 30 percent of the truth. I think Mark was, in a subtle way, kind of making fun of Paul and I telling our bathhouse stories. It always seemed to work for the fans, I guess they they got the joke. We did four iterations of the contest, two American and two Canadian ones over a span of four years. They wanted a unique prize, and the weirdest thing we could think of is me in a towel. The Kids didn’t want to do an ordinary contest where you get to meet The Kids and have dinner with them. Paul, will you talk about the genesis of you wearing a towel on The Kids in the Hall and how it became a staple of the show? It grew into a whole fandom.īellini: The towel thing was a contest that we did back in the second year of the show in 1990. Thompson: Paul has less physical boundaries than a porn star. It’s kind of understood that if you know who I am, then yeah, you’re allowed to touch. Paul Bellini: You’re always allowed to touch me. He knows everybody, so we asked him if he would try to get us into a venue, and he got us booked at C’mon Everybody at the last moment. Bill Coleman, who’s a producer and manager, he’s a tastemaker and a scene maker. But really, it all happened at the last minute. Scott Thompson: It’s the early bird special! We need to have our supper early. Why is ‘ Mouth Congress‘ screening at the scandalous hour of 5:30 p.m. “It was more important to make something entertaining that would burnish our legend.”īrooklyn Magazine spoke with Scottt Thompson and Paul Bellini about relaunching Mouth Congress and Amazon’s new season of The Kids in the Hall and performing at 60. “We decided from the very beginning, we were not going to let the truth get in the way of an entertaining documentary,” says Scott Thompson. The “documentary” combines archive footage by Bellini in the 1980s, footage of their 2016 reunion show, thread together by a made-up mythology of the band, performed by Kids in the Hall actor Kevin McDonald.
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for a free screening of their other new project, a sort-of-documentary about the band, also called “Mouth Congress.” The world finally caught up to Mouth Congress, and to celebrate, Thursday the duo appear in person at C’mon Everybody at 5:30 p.m.
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That both members were unabashedly gay, and that The Kids in the Hall were skyrocketing to fame, Mouth Congress was put on the backburner. Thompson told Brooklyn Magazine the band didn’t take off because it was impossible to be out of the closet in the 80s. Young, frustrated and terrified to be young gay men at the height of the AIDS era, the duo each channeled their sexuality into delightfully crude lyrics about race, gender, fucking and general nonsense. They recorded over 600 songs that didn’t see the light of day until 2021.īrooklyn label Captured Tracks released the band’s three-song single “ Ahhhh the Pollution” for Record Store Day, followed by “ Waiting for Henry,” a 29-song compilation of their best songs, restored and available for the first time. Mouth Congress formed in 1984 and were active for nine years. Known for their work as part of the legendary comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini began their careers as a gay electro-punk band called Mouth Congress-named for the Kama Sutra’s term for oral sex.