She was, she shyly reveals, a genuine, get-’em-off stripper for “about three months” after leaving Brunel University. “I learnt to strip in a gentleman’s club in London. No, I’m not telling you its name. It was one of the most un-erotic and creatively unfulfilling experiences I’ve ever had. Clinical and impersonal and uninteresting to me, because it didn’t involve much performance. I wanted to do it my way.” By the time Goldfrapp picked her out at an audition, Immodesty had graduated to a Mexican outfit “with big black tail feathers, very bump-and-grind” and her new career was launched.
Today she objects to people who compare burlesque with striptease. “It’s like comparing acid-house music with tango. They’re from different eras with different objectives. I don’t mind people calling me a stripper, because that’s what I do. I take my clothes off for a living. But I don’t like people who take the moral high ground about it.” Did burlesque artists look down …
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