FREAKER'S BALL with Quintron and Miss Pussycat | Mr. Let's Paint | Mattie | New Fumes
Quintron and Miss Pussycat
Date
Saturday
June 20, 2026
Time
Location
General admission is $20.00. Doors open at 6:00PM. Event starts at 7:00PM. Online tickets at rubberglovesdenton.com
FREAKER’S BALL?
With a title inspired by Shel Silverstein’s dirty liberation song/poem “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball” this mid-summer party emphasizes courageous eccentrics who perform and create to inspire – waving their freak flag from the summit of a mountain to the hollow of a ditch.
· Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s long-awaited return to Denton since their late 1990s performances with the storied Good/Bad Art Collective for a grande finale of their 2026 West Coast tour.
· The Texas debut of public-access television, viral maniac performance artist John Kilduff (Let’s Paint TV) who takes multi-tasking to motivating extremes and asks you to “EMBRACE FAILARE”.
· A visit with Flaming Lips collaborator, UFO enthusiast, and igloo-resident Daniel Huffman (New Fumes) who joins the ball with a rare live set since the release of his 2024 album “Experiencer”.
· Bringing the #humanthing experimental artist Mattie promises to ask questions through unique soundscapes and wild installations.
· A double-bill screening of Todd Rohal’s grotesque comedy “Fuck My Son” adapted from the shockingly transgressive work of underground cartoonist Johnny Ryan coupled with the regional premiere of Robby Rackleff and Alan Resnick’s “Dance Freak”.
“Feels so good, it must be wrong – Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball.” - Shel Silverstein,1972
Quintron and long-time collaborator Miss Pussycat have been making genre-defying noise and hard rocking dance music in New Orleans for over thirty years. The majority of their thirty albums have the psychedelic soul of traditional New Orleans party music, filtered through a Hammond organ, technicolor puppets, and a battalion of distorted, homemade instruments.
In addition to his collaborations with Miss Pussycat, Quintron has been releasing albums featuring a self-made weather synthesizer called WEATHER WARLOCK, which uses sun, rain, temperature, and wind to make music. He has also played organ on a number of records by other artists, most notably with The Oblivians and Steve Riley's album "Grand Isle" which was nominated for a Grammy in 2012.
Quintron regards his most significant creation to be a patented instrument called THE DRUM BUDDY, a light activated analog synthesizer which creates murky, low-fidelity, rhythmic patterns. Notable DRUM BUDDY clients include performers Nels Cline of Wilco, Laurie Anderson, Fred Armisen, and DJ Mr. Dibbs.
Puppeteer, musician, and artist Miss Pussycat began her career as a child in the Southern Baptist Church of Antlers Oklahoma as part of the Christian Puppet Youth Ministry. She later moved to New Orleans and started a secret nightclub in her house, called Pussycat Caverns, which hosted bands and performances in a unique and lively atmosphere. Today, and for over 30 years, she remains busy presenting live puppet shows in rock clubs, libraries, and secret clubhouses all around the world, and singing and playing maracas with her partner Quintron.
Her puppets and their worlds often become the genesis for other art projects, such as ceramic statues, paintings, videos, and electronic soundtracks. Four albums of her puppet show soundtracks have been released over the years; on Hanson Records, Skin Graft, and Terror Vision, as well as various singles. Her puppet movies include “Trixie and the Tree Trunks (for VBS)”, “The Mystery in Old Bathbath”, “North Pole Nutrias”, and “Electric Swamp”. In 2017 she created a character driven short, “Frenchy and Jett”, for Disney productions.
Miss Pussycat has exhibited her work at The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Center for Contemporary Art in New Orleans, The New Orleans Art Triennial, Prospect 4, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Galveston Art Center, Webb Gallery in Waxahachie Texas, and the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi Mississippi.
MR. LET’S PAINT (JOHN KILDUFF)
“He is my idol… I feel like compared to what he does, the art world is full of pretentious, humorless snobs…” - Eric Andre
Artist and performer John “Mr. Let’s Paint” Kilduff wants to inspire you. The legendary host of the long-running public access television show “Let’s Paint TV” demonstrates extreme multi-tasking with the aim of encouraging his audience to create art regardless of skill level, and to “EMBRACE FAILARE”, a personal philosophy of liberation and motivation.
“KEEP TRYING PEOPLE! DON’T GIVE UP!” a paint-covered Kilduff chants in a rumpled Brooks Brother suit while simultaneously jogging on a treadmill, blending drinks, playing keyboards, and singing as he paints portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in front of a green screen of super-imposed chaos.
Kilduff’s “Let’s Paint TV” fully transitioned to internet streaming in 2008, gaining millions of views and followers on social media. In recent years Kilduff has added songwriting as a noise musician, recording his show process for his albums “Inspirational Outbursts” and “Everything is Under Control” among other titles.
John Kilduff is a longtime Los Angeles resident. He received comedic training at The Groundlings, studied improv at Los Angeles City College, and attended the Otis/Parsons Art Institute. In 2008 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA. Kilduff has appeared as a guest on the Eric Andre Show, the Tyra Banks Show, and America's Got Talent.
NEW FUMES (DANIEL HUFFMAN)
New Fumes is Daniel Huffman from Dallas, TX. A noise musician and visual artist, Huffman has lent his talents to a multitude of diverse bands. He was a member of the 90s space rock outfit Comet as well as the “Bitches Brew-loving” improv group Ghostcar, and was a touring guitarist for the Polyphonic Spree, and TOBACCO. As a part of the touring entourage for and a collaborator with the Flaming Lips, Huffman performed with the group breaking the Guiness World Record for most shows played in a 24-hour period.
Creating most of his albums in his monolithic dome home in Dallas, Huffman’s most recent release, 2024’s “Experiencer” features a laundry list of talented musicians including Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips), Josh Garza (The Secret Machines), and Mike Watt (Minutemen). After completing an album, Huffman creates some of the most gorgeous vinyl records on the planet, having invented a complex process for pouring records with specially mixed colors so each piece is unique with its own startling and vibrant effect.
When not working on his own projects, or helping others, Huffman hosts a weekly radio show on Denton’s KUZU freeform radio station, playing sounds that inspire him and discussing UFOs.
Country churches and chains, piranha and shrimp, bathtub water and baptism, your father’s voice.
Building structures and installations as live performance habitats, Hutchins Texas-based experimental artist Mattie conducts “social sound experiments” describing themselves as a “singer asking freedom questions through music”. Choosing to perform in unique locations and incorporating deeply symbolic elements through costuming, props, and collective soundscapes.
“They may label you as weird, when you’re actually just before your time.” - Mattie
A loser gets dumped. A weird experiment goes crazy. A dangerous Dance Freak runs wild…
In a secret government facility, a team of scientists have done impossible, indescribable things. Genetic mutations, inter-dimensional experiments: nasty top-secret stuff. They played GOD. And like GOD they are all probably dead. There’s also some dancing.
This is the cinematic directorial debut of Robby Rackleff and Alan Resnick. The filmmakers only had $45,000 to make this movie and they ran out of that money almost immediately, so a lot of that stuff is just implied through dialogue.
"One of the most outrageous, boundary-pushing, sleaze fests I have ever seen." - Steve Ramsey, Shade Studios
"No redeeming qualities… an abomination.” - Ankit Jhunjhunwala, The Playlist
Director Todd Rohal’s 2025 X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. Inspired by the work of John Waters and Tobe Hooper’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “Fuck My Son” is an unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan’s joyfully disgusting comic book.
