they were an Icelandic post-punk band that included a young Bjork in her pre-SugarCubes days..
They released 2 albums on the anarchist punk label ‘Crass Records’ including the track in the video below, and I was fortunate enough to see them live in concert 1984 along with anarcho-punk pioneers Flux of Pink Indians. I clearly recall Bjork’s unique and wildly expressive voice, and phenomenal stage presence, but it wasn’t ’til I met her in person at a squatted acid-house party in London in 1990 that I also recognized her as the singer with KUKL..
I’m gonna post some of their edgier stuff in the future, but for now here’s a youtube clip of them performing ‘Anna’..
As a kid I was rarely teased about my unusual name. And considering I attended mostly traditional working class schools where fist-fighting, bullying and vicious teasing were as commonplace as pimples, I clearly got off easy..
But there was one name my friends briefly branded me with, after she got a song to the top end of the British music charts - “Lena Lovich”. As a result of that short-lived but annoying name calling I’ve always felt a certain connection with her and her crazy braids, and I’m glad to say she made a couple of decent post-punk tracks along a path of mostly pop-induced musical quirkiness. So here she is - Jeno (oops, I mean Lena) Lovich! Enjoy..
not the first time I’ve posted something re; Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, but it inspires me that this talented woman was looping beats when I was still a twinkle in my parents eyes..
posting part 1 of the short film Mon Ami, because it contains the fabulously ethereal 2006 shoegazer track from Robin Guthrie called Continental.
And who is Robin Guthrie, you ask? He’s the guitar playing genius from the Cocteau Twins, of course. And if you need to ask who the Cocteau Twins were, then you’re probably not half as old as I am. ha, ha..
I turned them all away I turned it all away when i leave there’s nothing left to say i won’t answer my phone you call it all you want river runs and takes the boats away i thought i’d never see river so clear and mean how many others have you drowned? river’s bottom dark and blue why do i love you so? river so clear and blue i’m so in love with you, but you’ll drown me…..
