Hmm I had no idea
Kink Heaven
Wanna explore a fetish? Well, here's your chance
by
James Reel
Fetish Heat
8 p.m. to 3 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 20
The Rock
136 N. Park Ave.
$15 (a 21+ event)
www.azfetishball.com
Horns & Halos
Show up at The Rock this Saturday night, and instead of a disco ball hanging from the ceiling, you'll see people suspended from meat hooks.
Don't be alarmed; they
like it like that.
The event is called Fetish Heat, a summertime extravaganza for devotees of latex, handcuffs, goth apparel, whips, fishnet, piercing, S&M and
Hello Cthulhu.
OK, I'm joking about
Hello Cthulhu. That's just too twisted.
Fetish Heat is organized by the folks who back the Arizona Fetish Ball in Phoenix: Horns and Halos, and TNG:Arizona (
www.tng-arizona.org). This will by no means be the first public fetish event in Tucson; Asylum and Heart-Five have hosted similar affairs in the past. But this could be the biggest, according to mastermind Mitch Palmer (sadism is his specialty).
"The Tucson fetish community is really growing," Palmer enthuses, "but as I understand it, it's extremely underground. If you're not invited to those events, you don't know about them. I don't want to rip on the Tucson scene in any way, because some of the events I've been to there have been absolutely outstanding, while some events in Phoenix have been absolutely disastrous."
Disastrous in terms of attendance, not personal injury. One of the big draws is the featured bands, and since Tucson has a higher band-to-venue ratio than Phoenix, Tucson bands have fewer opportunities to play than their counterparts in the Valley of the Singed--and that means their performances are more of a special occasion. Bands at Fetish Heat will