Pat Briggs Informations

Pat Briggs is the lead singer of the glam rock band Psychotica. He also played the role of gay rock musician Luke in All Over Me in 1997 and was once briefly associated with Bill Hastings. In addition, he appeared in the New York Theatre Workshop version of Rent, in the role of Tom Collins.

He started performing when he was eight when he went into a little theater in Burbank, California. He mistakenly had an audition for “The Seven Year Itch (play)” as he was the only kid in the theatre, he won the role of Little Ricky.

His first music group was a short-lived glam rock band formed for The Limelight, consisting of Tracii Guns, Johnny B. Frank from Kingdom Come and Rikki Rockett (of Poison) on drums, and then Briggs as the backup singer. He then became a go-go dancer at the Limelight.

In the 80’s, Briggs moved to New York City and started working at the Cat Club.

In 1994, Briggs was the manager of a small New York City nightclub called Don Hill's, to help attract clients to the club, Briggs teamed with bassist and Don Hill bartender Tommy Salmorin to found Psychotica.

Briggs was instrumental in the creation of a theme night at a club in Atlanta called 'Glitterdome'. It was a night of sex, drag, and Rock n Roll. Briggs was typically dressed as his alter-ego, Torment, and would sing live with the Glitterdome band. It also featured other local drag queens from Atlanta as well as other nationally known stars.

Briggs also had created the night in Los Angeles at the El Rey theater called Club Makeup, which the E! channel did a special documentary on. He also was the creator of Squeezebox in New York City. Squeezebox! The Movie premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25, 2008.

Briggs Briggs also sang and toured with a band called the Impotent Sea Snakes for a brief time.

In late 2001, a close friend of Briggs', Carrie Hamilton, Carol Burnett's daughter was diagnosed with lung cancer. Briggs left Atlanta and returned to Los Angeles to be by her side. He spent almost the entire year in Los Angeles with her and her family supporting her through her illness. In January 2002, upon Miss Hamilton's urging, he returned to do another Glitterdome show in Atlanta. On January 20, 2002, immediately after his performance, he learned that Carrie Hamilton had died. Briggs returned to Los Angeles and took part in a six-page long interview in the November issue of Popular 1 magazine. The article includes never before seen pictures of Briggs. The interview was done in July 2008, only a few weeks before the news of the reunion of Psychotica, who signed with Toxic Shock Records.

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