“Hopefully by the end of this night we’ll know what this ritual is about,” a suited Redcar, arms spanned showman-like, told the audience at the start of a special concert in London. Last night was the sole opportunity for fans of the French artist – stage name Christine & The Queens – to catch him in the capital for a poetry-meets-music-and-theatre spectacle. It was a chance to see his new album Redcar les Adorables Toiles brought to life.
Redcar is the male artistic iteration of the soloist born Héloïse Letissier. For debut album, 2014’s Chaleur Humaine, Letissier explored gender fluidity and pansexuality under the assumed guise of Christine. A revised alter ego entered for his 2018 synthpop masterpiece Chris, in which he championed female sexual freedom as a masculine woman, where the binary system that blinkers society was put under the lens.
