If you wanna be my lover

March 2, 2007 11:21 AM

Burka Band : Afganistan's first riot grrl band
posted by Stynxno (32 comments total)

via krrlson
posted by Stynxno at 11:21 AM on March 2, 2007

Mission of Burka?
posted by psmealey at 11:25 AM on March 2, 2007 [1 favorite]

i call bullshit
posted by keswick at 11:25 AM on March 2, 2007 [1 favorite]

The Hijab Division
posted by psmealey at 11:26 AM on March 2, 2007

Afghan Wigs?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:27 AM on March 2, 2007

* i meant krrrlson
posted by Stynxno at 11:30 AM on March 2, 2007

The Gang of Chador
posted by psmealey at 11:30 AM on March 2, 2007

"I'd like to play again, but right now it is not possible. Last year there was a big bomb at a concert here in Kabul, and lots of people are still against female singers because the religous leaders condemn it. It will probably take 10 years before we will have real girl bands here in Afghanistan, says Nargiz, who now works in an international organisation in Kabul."

See, Islam values and protects women.
posted by davy at 11:33 AM on March 2, 2007

If they are getting bombed because religious "leaders" condemn females singing, I doubt it'll be as soon as 10 years. How long did it take to get women in the office here in the US and there was relatively little actual bomb-throwing preventing them.
posted by DU at 11:38 AM on March 2, 2007

The Chastity Pistols.
That... video. I was prepared to take them seriously up until the shot of the guitar player.
posted by boo_radley at 11:40 AM on March 2, 2007

I can't for sure whether it's real or not, but the song is kind of catchy. It has a sort of ESG-type sound, with a dash of "Know Your Chicken" (Cibo Mato)
posted by stifford at 11:45 AM on March 2, 2007

Well, I think we have the plot line for Dreamgirls 2: Burka Bugaloo.
posted by billysumday at 11:46 AM on March 2, 2007

When you bomb in Kabul, you really bomb in Kabul, am I rite?


I like Afghans n' Roses for a band name...
posted by stenseng at 11:47 AM on March 2, 2007

Dreamgirls 2: Electric Burkaloo, surely.
posted by boo_radley at 11:47 AM on March 2, 2007

Taliband?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:48 AM on March 2, 2007

psmealey wins.
posted by inoculatedcities at 11:51 AM on March 2, 2007

The Burkals
posted by Mental Wimp at 11:52 AM on March 2, 2007

Meet the Burkals
posted by djrock3k at 12:01 PM on March 2, 2007

All that up-and-down movement under what looked like a blanket at the beginning made me think maybe you'd linked to the wrong sort of video....
posted by gurple at 12:02 PM on March 2, 2007

Burka Blue 7"

barbara morgenstern remix sample
posted by setanor at 12:15 PM on March 2, 2007

and on the official monika enterprise site
posted by setanor at 12:17 PM on March 2, 2007

So, has anybody covered them yet?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:29 PM on March 2, 2007

Gives a whole new meaning to the term: getting stoned at the show, doesn't it?
posted by psmealey at 12:35 PM on March 2, 2007

Dude, I call dibs on the tall one. HOLLAH!
posted by elwoodwiles at 12:43 PM on March 2, 2007

That... video. I was prepared to take them seriously up until the shot of the guitar player.

It's a base. And it probably wouldn't look too unusual for an afghan.
posted by delmoi at 12:53 PM on March 2, 2007

"Dude, I call dibs on the tall one. HOLLAH!"

Don't you mean H'ALLAH?
posted by stenseng at 1:21 PM on March 2, 2007

read more about them here
posted by laz-e-boy at 1:53 PM on March 2, 2007

psmealey FTW! each of your bandname suggestions made me giggle, but The Gang of Chador really slew me.
posted by numinous at 2:58 PM on March 2, 2007

Thanks, numinous. I could go all day.

Some people can speak many languages, others can do open heart surgery, still others can fly state of the art aircraft... my special gift is naming bands.
posted by psmealey at 3:08 PM on March 2, 2007

I prefer the Burka-clad babes in Bride of No No.
posted by pfafflin at 3:57 PM on March 2, 2007

Saddest thing ever.
posted by odinsdream at 8:42 PM on March 2, 2007

No this is:

I think it is wrong to a muslim women to sing in a public place where men are present. There is no wrong, what so ever, for women to sing to their childern, husbands, and to the family as a group. But it is wrong to do so in public for money and for show.

- Posted by saif on Jun 27, 2004, 4:29 am
posted by illovich at 8:53 PM on March 2, 2007