Pitch.com – By Crystal K. Wiebe
On Halloween night at the Uptown Theater, a red-wigged drag queen screams into the mic, “I’m Mercury Motherfuckin’ Mad!”
And don’t you motherfuckin’ forget it.
Not that you could. The leader of Mercury Mad and the Plastic Bitches is a polarizing force — beautiful or raunchy, freaky or empowering, depending on one’s perspective. The effect is apparent even on the one night of the year when dressing like anything — even the opposite sex — is condoned.
The Plastic Bitches come on third at KRBZ 96.5’s HIM-headlined Halloweenie Roast, sandwiched between local new wave (and now defunct) pansies Lovers in Transit and hardcore act Bleeding Through. Mercury emerges in a black corset, a short polka-dot skirt and platform boots and announces, “I get kind of horny when I wear these clothes. Sorry!”