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15:08 / 24.04.02

KCC: Ute is a German chanteuse & thespian who (as far as I know) specializes in Weimar-era cabaret. I suspect your Isherwood-friendly ficsuit name gave wembley the idea...

...and yeah, it's a good thing.

wembley can change in 28 days

15:10 / 24.04.02

'Chicago' was not her fault! She's bloody brilliant.

wembley can change in 28 days

15:11 / 24.04.02

Rothkoid, in ficsuit, is Henry Rollins on a lazy Sunday.

15:13 / 24.04.02

Here's Ute:

watch out.

15:18 / 24.04.02

Crikey. I wish...

... so thank you :]

15:24 / 24.04.02

I have a warm glow now. God bless you all.

Saveloy has always reminded *me* of Capt. Beefheart (or They Might Be Giants or Bonzo Dog Band), and Rizla of either Beat Happening or Unrest (at their "zine-y-est" if that makes sense).
I know Margin Walker is a big Replacements fan, so I associate them, even though Margin is less rough around the edges.

Dao Jones is Steve Albini, yes.
Haus as Momus I can see.

Crunchy as Madonna, though - not nearly punk enough. It'd have to be Jello Biafra.

Flux I've gotten CDs from which I associate closely with him. It'd have to someone encyclopedic & discerning, a band with deep love of music and an ability to cover just about anything, but with a low cheese factor. First names I came up with: The Kinks, David Byrne, Houston Person, The Zombies, Bacon Ray (www.baconray.nu and Neil Young. But I think John Zorn will do.

Is Kooky Slant 6, or is that just me?
Mazarine as Gillian Welch, maybe.
PATricky as Zappa.
Rosa/Disco as Michelle Shocked, at her most political. (There's this new "texas swing" Michelle Shocked that's all weird.)

Tom, of course, is Duke Ellington.

15:35 / 24.04.02

This just in:

Runce = Tricky

grant:
"Crunchy as Madonna, though - not nearly punk enough."

I know, I know. I can't explain it but there's some strange catholicism association going on in my head with those two. I picture Crunchy as a priest giving a lecture about original sin.

Matthew Fluxington

15:45 / 24.04.02

Oooh! Oooh! I'll take "David Byrne", thank you!

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:58 / 24.04.02

Runce = Tricky

"Oi loikes tharrrrt New Ehhhchs-Men, oi do..."

Yes!

18:12 / 24.04.02

Wow! How many times have I tried to explain my hatred of Jilted John to karika?

Normally running thus: It's shit Yes, but thats the point! Yes, but it's shit Yes, but that's the point But it's shit Yes, but that's the point!

And suds, you owe me a Smog mix now just so I know what you mean...

And suds is The All Girl Summer Fun Band. i've never heard them, but I've thought thus ever since I heard their name. And before she linked to them off her blog.

Flux is Kid Koala

auto is El-P

Karika is Mogwai

Knodge is blink-182

18:18 / 24.04.02

Rothkoid, in ficsuit, is Henry Rollins on a lazy Sunday.

Jahebius. That's so true. Such an angry young man, when he finds the time...

uncle retrospective

19:06 / 24.04.02

Haus is Laptop.

19:22 / 24.04.02

When you say "The Go-Gos," do you mean "Shiney happy cleaned up punk girls" go-gos, or "Behind The Music with Belinda Carlisle keeping a shoebox full of coke in her closet and getting caught on camera drunkenly explaining the virtues of masturbation" GoGos?

19:43 / 24.04.02

Not to diss the Go-Go's or anything, but...

Myself and Miss Bomb. Obviously.

19:46 / 24.04.02

the shoes!!!!!!!!!!

20:16 / 24.04.02

Lothar - The Shamen

Another no-brainer, I'd think

Who gets to be Wierd Al?

20:27 / 24.04.02

Wow Ierne, you like, made my day with that one!

I think bitchiekittie would be Veruca Salt, doing "Seether."

I have to think about more of these. Music math is hard.

20:30 / 24.04.02

Not so sure about Rothkoid as Rollins...how about

Andy Cairns?

23:57 / 24.04.02

Great post Flux!

I'm getting some nice match-ups. Embarassingly, though, I've had to look up half these bands and find out who the hell they were.

And Rothkoid is so Rollins it's not even funny.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:24 / 25.04.02

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:27 / 25.04.02

Saveloy: I so very think NOT!

02:01 / 25.04.02

Dunno anything about Andy Cairns, Ierne, but he *looks* too Charles Mansonish fer Rothkoid, don't you think?

Remember, Roths's the pirate king , in G & S stylee. Arrrr, yes.

02:04 / 25.04.02

And I'm not quite sure why, but I think of Nick Cave for JtB.

02:42 / 25.04.02

Margin Walker will forever be associated with the Afghan Whigs for me, but that's just cause of the stripping thread. I have to think about the rest of you.

03:28 / 25.04.02

Johnson Chong = Robyn Hitchcock
Cop Killer = The Delta 72
Impulsivelad = Jonathan Ritchman
Johnny Zenarchist + Trijhaos = Ween
Persephone = Emmylou Harris
Ganesh + ZoCher = Pet Shop Boys
Todd = Archers of Loaf
Cherry Bomb = Blondie
Rizla = The Saints (orig. line-up)
tSuibhne = Jawbox
Rothkoid = You Am I
Mr. Tom Coates = Slutcore (duh!)

Knodge = That little French shit that sang that "It's Hard Being The Baby" song

Myself, I'll be taking on the part of Mr. (skinny) Greg Dulli (3rd from left)

03:32 / 25.04.02

Wow, synchronicity! I posted the last post w/ Greg Dulli pic and there was Auntie Mazarine's post.....

05:45 / 25.04.02

Cherry Bomb:
"When you say "The Go-Gos," do you mean "Shiney happy cleaned up punk girls" go-gos, or "Behind The Music with Belinda Carlisle keeping a shoebox full of coke in her closet and getting caught on camera drunkenly explaining the virtues of masturbation" GoGos?"

I think you know the answer to that one, Ms C...

09:43 / 25.04.02

I like being the Beat Happening, don't know much about the Saints, weren't they a NY punk band?

more connections:

Saveloy = a cross between the Bonzo Dog Band and The Fall
Glint = BrightEyes
Rosa = Patti smith
True Art = The Magnetic Fields
Knowledge = Limp Biscuit

09:47 / 25.04.02

yay! glint said i was:
[img src="http://www.artisdead.net/agsfb/45.jpg"]

which makes me very happy.

09:55 / 25.04.02

Rizla: Shimmer Kids UnderPop Association

09:56 / 25.04.02

Rizla:
"don't know much about the Saints, weren't they a NY punk band?"

Aussie garage/punk band from the late 70s, I think. There's a track by them on the compilation you get with the current copy of Kerrang (the one with the Hives on the cover).

"Saveloy = a cross between the Bonzo Dog Band and The Fall"

Woof woof-ah!

09:59 / 25.04.02

Oh, and sud's pic, should you be wondering...

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:04 / 25.04.02

Margin Walker, I love you. I always wanted to be Tim Rogers. Evidence the first: a relic from my dodgy compulsive-gigging past -

Before that new guitarist bullshit, baby.

But then, given that I am wearing the same outfit today, this is pretty appropriate, I guess:

Busted.

Barry Auckland strikes me as quite Neil Finn-ish.
Expressionless is Gene Krupa. Or Buzz Melvin. I can't decide which.
KCC is The Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Videodrome is Kim Salmon.
Wembley is Cab Calloway, in full suit-and-chain stylee.
Cavatina definitely has an 18thC music-hall vibe.
Mordant Carnival, JtB and Miss Spooky are Mr Bungle, mask-era.

10:43 / 25.04.02

thanks, glint. me and html mix like whiskey on the rocks.

11:15 / 25.04.02

skinny dulli ohhh yum yum yum.

saveloy is SO the bonzo dog band.

cop killer = the stray cats
videodrome = dream city film club
betty woo = add n to x
johnny suede (or whomever he is this days) = the charlatans

this is actually harder than it looks.

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