Lad In Fuzzy
Selasa, 31 Mei 2011
Amanda Lepore
Amanda Lepore's Alien Autopsy- Photo Sam Matamoros.
To see the 'I Am An Alien' video clip please copy this link into your browser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_EKYQF8Cg
Copyright Keanan Duffty 1998.
Leigh Bowery
“Leigh Bowery, peripheral in the notion of art practice by combining dandyism and body art, reconstructed his image while performing ...he uses the expression of the 'other' to create a form of cultural lip-syncing transvestism.”
In 1993 Bowery formed the band Minty with friend and former 1980s knitwear designer Richard Torry, Nicola Bateman and Matthew Glammore. Their single "Useless Man" "Boot licking, tit tweaking useless man..." which was remixed by The Grid along with their twisted onstage scatological performances caused The Sun to describe them as the "sickest band in the world", of which Bowery was very proud.
Fashion collections:
"Hobo": New York Fashion Week. 1982.
"Pakis from Outer Space": Camden Palace for London Fashion Week. 1982/83.
"Mincing Queens": Institute of Contemporary Arts 'Performing Clothes' for London Fashion Week and The Hacienda Club, Manchester. 1984.
"Disease / Spastic": Riverside Studios and Earls Court for London Fashion Week. 1986.
Models: Models for these shows included old friends such as: Trojan (aka Gary Barnes, died 1987), David Walls, Peter Hammond (aka Space Princess, died 1993), Marc Vaultier (Mark Golding, died 1987), George Gallagher, James Payne, David LaChapelle, Jim McGuire, Robert McGuire, Sandra Cosijn, Dezi Campbell and Malcolm Duffy.
Reportedly one death bed pronouncement "Tell them I've gone pig farming in Bolivia", illustrates the gallows humour and dark irony that can be traced in much of his work. Among his last requests was that his middle name be unknown.
Wonder Stories
The fourth member of Wonder Stories didn’t actually play in the group or appear onstage. Her name was Yvonne Taylor and she was our manager, costume designer and cheerleader. Yvonne and the other guys in the band were a few years older than me, they’d actually been to London’s new romantic Blitz club and had passed the test of style by gaining entry at the grace of the club’s promoter Steve Strange.
Like Kraftwerk, on hire purchase.
We always performed with panache and a lot of pan stick, not realizing that we would never scale the heights of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. The British music press took to us and we garnered a couple of reviews in the inky weekly paper Sounds acortesy of Betty Page and Pete Scott and a photo in I.D. magazine, posing in our local grave yard. Wonder Stories became local heroes but never made the big leagues. Our look was thrift store chic and our sound was Kraftwerk, on hire purchase. Traveling to gigs in the back of Nick’s butcher van, we arrived in frilly shirts and smelling of meat-thereby inspiring my later move to vegetarianism.
1981
It was February 1981, I was sixteen years old and the band were rehearsing for our third gig at the New Outlook Club. The original Outlook Club played host to the best of punk’s first wave; Sex Pistols, Generation X, Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees. The New Outlook could claim only Wonder Stories, albeit proudly, with an advert in the local newspaper: “The area’s top electronic group”.
Wonder Stories
Wonder Stories: Crushed Velvet and Eyeliner
http://www.theblitzkids.com/site_archive/holly_city_zoo/keananduffty.html
“Dracula’s at the front door, and he’s brought Robin Hood with him”. My dad spoke with bemused solemnity, his head poked around my bedroom door. He was signaling the arrival of my two band mates in Wonder Stories-Doncaster’s very own New Romantic pop group. Dennis, in his black cloak, was the vampire in question and Nick, butcher by day, foppish Sherwood Forrester by night.
Letter from Sounds Journalist Betty Page, an early supporter of the New Romantic scene and of Wonder Stories.
New Outlook Kids 1981
Allegedly Oscar Wilde once passed through Doncaster on a train. He didn't actually get off at Doncaster, but there is anecdotal evidence to suggest he may have glanced out of the window when the train pulled into Doncaster train station. If he has seen any of these Doncaster dandies he may have rested there awhile.
New Outlook Kids 1981. See more at:
http://www.theblitzkids.com/site_archive/holly_city_zoo/keananduffty.html
King Rocker
Generation X-King Rocker
Generation X were formed on 21 November 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe. Three members of Generation X were previously in Chelsea along with lead singer Gene October, they soon broke away from October and selected the name Generation X (after Jane Deverson's 1965 sociology book, a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother).
Idol switched from guitar to lead vocals, and Bob "Derwood" Andrews joined as lead guitarist after leaving the Fulham band 'Paradox'. This was the band that were at the centre of the infamous riot at Fulham Art centre in 1976, which is where Billy Idol first saw Bob Andrews. Generation X played their first concert on 21 December 1976 at The Roxy (becoming the very first band to play at the venue). Towe was later replaced on drums by Mark Laff (ex-Subway Sect), to complete the 'official' line-up, before the band signed to Chrysalis Records and released their first single, "Your Generation" in September, 1977.
Towe was replaced on drums by Mark Laff (ex-Subway Sect), to complete the 'official' line-up, before the band signed to Chrysalis Records and released their first single, "Your Generation" in September, 1977. This line-up would remain through their first two albums, the self titled, Generation X (1977), followed by Valley of the Dolls (1979).
n 1980, Andrews and Laff left the band (subsequently forming the post-punk band, Empire), to be replaced in Generation X by The Clash and Cowboys International's former drummer Terry Chimes, and former Chelsea guitarist James Stevenson.[4]
Generation X made a last stand, re-recording some of the Sweet Revenge material, as well as several new songs. With this final release, Kiss Me Deadly (1981), the band abbreviated its name to Gen X. Kiss Me Deadly included a version of "Dancing with Myself", first recorded as part of Sweet Revenge with Andrews and Laff, and which Idol would later cover as a solo artist to kick-start his own career with a hit.
Idol went on to pursue a solo career in the United States, where, managed by Kiss manager Bill Aucoin, he became a pop star. James later formed Sigue Sigue Sputnik and performed with bands including The Sisters of Mercy and, much later on, Carbon/Silicon with Mick Jones of BAD/The Clash.
2 i's Coffee Bar
2 i's Coffee Bar Exterior
2 i's Coffee Bar/Cliff Richard design-Expresso Bongo.
It's a Soho life for this mobile knife...
(Gary Kemp)
McLaren Montage
Madame Butterfly Video
The 1984 single "Madame Butterfly", based on the opera. The track is arranged with drum machines, atmospheric synthesizers and spoken verses. It reached #13 in the UK and #16 in Australia. The producer of the single, Stephen Hague, became a much sought after producer in the techno pop genre following his work with Malcolm McLaren on the following full length LP, Fans.
Malcolm McLaren - Waltz Darling
My Cassette Pet
A1 Louis Quatorze
A2 Gold He Said
A3 Uomo Sex Al Apache
A4 I Want My Baby On Mars
B1 Sexy Eiffel Towers
B2 Giant Sized Baby Thing
B3 Fools Rush In
B4 Radio G String
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