Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM to Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Gold—Diggers, Los Angeles
Sid The Cat Presents Gordi 10/5/2025 at Gold-Diggers 21+ “She said that she watched him die on FaceTime” That poignant line – from track 10 “PVC Divide” - comes from Sophie Payten’s (aka Gordi) first hand observation working in hospitals during the pandemic. As she clocked on for a shift, a deceased patient’s family waited in the fluorescent corridor. Families weren’t allowed to visit during lockout periods, and so had to endure a cold, digital farewell; decades of memories, love, regrets, distilled to pixel. As a final year medical student, Payten learned to certify death. Beyond just what we see in the movies – checking for a pulse, hearing the monotone of a flatline, announcing the time – the process involves observing a person who's no longer responding. As she looked at their still, waxy skin, Payten says “It made me think of plasticine - that soft, malleable substance, that we can shape and mould in our hands, until we leave it to set in place. I thought about all the ways we are like plasticine in life - how forces we can’t control, contort us into shapes, stretch us thin, and test our resilience. But sometimes, heart-wrenching change can be a thing of beauty.”