[SELECTIVE] DISCOGRAPHY:
LEMON KITTENS
'Spoonfed & Writhing' ep. [sleeve design only]
'We Buy A Hammer For Daddy' / '...those that bite the hand that feeds them sooner or later must meet...The Big Dentist' / 'Cake Beast' ep / tracks on compilations - '..in wooden brackets' on 'Perspectives and Distortion', 'what the cat brought in' on 'the wonderful world of glass', 'Funky 7' on 'Hoisting the Black Flag'.
DANIELLE DAX
LPs:'Pop Eyes' / 'Jesus Egg that Wept' / 'Inky Bloaters' / 'The Chemical Wedding' / 'Up Amongst the Golden Spires' / 'Dark Adapted Eye' / 'Blast the Human Flower' / 'Comatose Non-Reaction; the thwarted pop career of Danielle Dax. SINGLES-EPS 'Yummer Yummer Man' / 'Where the flies are' / 'Cathouse' / 'White Knuckle Ride' / 'Big Hollow Man' / 'Big Blue 82' / 'Tomorrow Never Knows' / 'Timber Tongue'.
and various tracks on compilations.
DVD - 'Bad Miss M'
Influences
THESE ARE MUSIC/FILM/BOOKS/ARTISTS ETC. THAT I LIKE:
MUSIC CONTEMPORARY/ NOT SO CONTEMPORARY ; Pram / Gorillaz / Kings of Leon / Mars Volta / The Roots / Torque / Shock Headed Peters / Lydia Lunch /
Arkkon / Jaga Jazzist / Kaito / Outkast / Aphex Twin [Richard D. James ]/ Talvin Singh/ Missy Elliott/ Eartha Kitt / This Heat / The Beta Band / cLOUDDEAD / Rokia Traore / Animal Collective / Radiohead / Roots Manuva / Franz Ferdinand / Alec Empire / Misty Roses / Pere Ubu / Muddy Waters / Mahalia Jackson / Nirvana /Luke Vibert / The Velvet Undergound / Miles Davis / Robert Wyatt / Captain Beefheart / Yes [up to 1974] / Andrea Parker / Jimi Hendrix / Frank Sinatra / Public Enemy / Stevie Wonder / Chrome / Beck / Os Mutantes / Can / Faust / Wire / P.J. Harvey / Prince / James Brown / Tom Waits / Elastica / Nick Drake / Deelite / Marvin Gaye / Deus / Trojan classics / Scissor Sisters / Diamanda Galas / Bjork/ /Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Acid Mothers Temple/ Muse /Neotropic / Node [Flood, Ed Buller etc.] /Lee 'Scratch' Perry / Tortoise / The Goats / Howlin' Wolf / Cab Calloway / Eels / Andrew Liles/ Astrud Gilberto / Bessie Smith / Toumani Diabaté / Isotope 217 / Money Mark / Roxy music [early years] / Mira Calix / The Shaggs / Iggy and the Stooges / DE La Soul / The Orb / Alice Coltrane / Photek / Aretha Franklin/ Leafcutter John / Goldfrapp / Califone / Bonobo ...
FILM COMPOSERS; Richard Rodney Bennett / Lalo Schifrin / Thomas Newman / Bernard Hermann / Ennio Morricone / Neal Hefti / Jerry Goldsmith / Georges Auric / John Barry.
MUSIC CLASSICAL; Pendereckii / Bela Bartok / Anne Lockwood / Arvo Part / Henri Chopin / Gustav Faure / Messiaen / Delia Derbyshire / Benjamin Britten / Gorecki / Taverner.
ARTISTS: Barbara Hepworth / Helen Chadwick / Odilon Redon / Grayson Perry / Francis Bacon / Andy Goldsworthy / Cornelia Parker / Ed Keinholz / COBRA group / Cranach / Louise Bourgeios.
ARCHITECTS/DESIGNERS: Frank Gehry / Bart Prince / Rod Arad / Facteur Cheval / Werner Panton.
PHOTOGRAPHY/CINEMATOGRAPHY: Freddie Francis / Geoffrey Unsworth / Joel Peter Witkin / Cecil Beaton / Nan Goldin / Diane Arbus / Nan Goldin / Weegee / Man Ray + Lee Miller / John Blakemore / Jack Cardiff / Andre Kertetz.
FILMS; Goodfellas / Liquid Sky / Legend of the Holy Drinker / The Innocents / Beauty and the Beast / Santa Sangre / Requiem for a Dream / Trainspotting / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / A Streetcar named Desire / Pulp Fiction / Beyond The Valley of the Dolls / Tetsuo the Ironman (pt.1) / Street of Crocodiles / Meet me In st. Louis / Eraserhead / Barberella/ Singing Ringing Tree / Alien / Padre Padrone / City of God / Raise the Red Lantern / A Chinese Ghost Story.
BOOKS: Perfume / Crash / Behind the Scenes at the Museum / Birdsong / Gormenghast / u lysses / The Cement Garden / The Wasp Factory / The Shining / Tender is the Night / Lolita.
WRITERS: Lisa Pickard / Ian McEwan / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Marge Piercey / J.G. Ballard / James Joyce / Nabokov / Alison Weir / James Lovelock.
CLOTHES/HAT DESIGN: Yuki / Erte / Vionett/ Sonja Delauney / Courreges / Shapirelli / Preen / Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell / Jon Galliano / Avshalon Gur / Phillip Treacy / Manish Aurora / Rachel Auburn / Stephen Jones / Vivian Westwood / Edith Head.
PEOPLE: [SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND HOLES]: Edith Sitwell / Leigh Bowery / Muriel Belcher / Ivor Cutler / Quentin Crisp / Eartha Kitt / Anna Piaggi / Diamanda Galas / Jayne County / Nina Hamnett / Lord Bath / Yma Sumac /
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BUT - THIS SITE IS MANAGED FOR DAX BY A 'caretaker' WHO MAY TAKE 'executive' DECISIONS ON OCCASION RE- ADMISSION, INCLUSION OR OTHER THINGS AS HE VISITS MUCH MORE OFTEN -
I DO TRUST HIS JUDGEMENT MOST TIMES; BUT A WARNING, HE CAN BE HARSH AT TIMES, SO DON'T BLAME ME!
INDEED, [THIS IS THE 'CARETAKER' HERE ]- AND I WILL TAKE AS MUCH CARE AS TIME ALLOWS AND IS NECESSARY - PLEASE NOTE THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER ETC. - THIS MEANS THAT DAX DOES NOT ENDORSE AS 'NICE PEOPLE' EVERYONE WHO ARE HEREIN INCLUDED UNDER THE TITLE 'FRIENDS' - A FEW 'BAD APPLES' MAY HAVE SLIPPED THROUGH, AND PEOPLE WHO ENDORSE THINGS THAT DAX FINDS ABHORRENT. IF I FIND AS MUCH IN MY TRAVELS, I MAY REMOVE THEM. ALSO - I WILL NOT ADD 'FRIENDS' WHO SEEM TO BE ONLY ADDING WOMEN TO THEIR FRIENDS FOR WHAT I CONSIDER 'SEXIST' REASONS [GENERALLY SPEAKING, IF THERE ARE RATHER A LOT OF SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN AMONGST THEM]. IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS I WILL TRY TO CHECK PROFILES ON HERE.
TIME IS NOT KIND, UNFORTUNATELY!
sept. '06.
FIRSTLY, A DISCLAIMER;
ANY OPINIONS HELD OR VIEWS EXPRESSED [EXTREME OR OTHERWISE] - BY INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ON MY 'MYSPACE' ARE THEIR OWN AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME AS THOSE HELD OR EXPRESSED BY MYSELF. MERE PRESENCE ON MY 'FRIENDS' LIST [OR FOR THAT MATTER, MY PRESENCE ON THEIRS] DOES NOT MEAN THAT I NECESSARILY ENDORSE OR APPROVE OF ANY WORLD-VIEWS OR PREFERENCES THAT THEY MAY HAVE.
but.... I will not tolerate Racism, Sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry or similar on here - if i , or more likely, my 'caretaker' chances across such 'stuff' amongst the profiles then the offending profile[s] will most likely be removed, never to be allowed back. Furthermore - if anyone chances across such stuff on here then please bring it to the 'caretakers' attention and it will be dealt with.
SECONDLY - THIS IS AN OFFICIAL SITE - BUT OWING TO MY WELL-KNOWN RECLUSIVENESS AND AVERSION TO TECHNOLOGY I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ANSWER ALL CORRESPONDENCE FROM VISITORS TO THIS SITE - BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR KIND INTEREST AND SUPPORT - IT MEANS A GREAT DEAL TO ME ;
YOURS WITH AFFECTION
Danielle Dax."
updated May, 2006.
Thanks to salome morte for her help, and 2karlblake4 assistance with this site.
BIOGRAPHY [SHORT]
Danielle Dax is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, artist and designer.
She began her recording career in 1980 as part of the duo Lemon Kittens with Karl Blake [having previously designed the cover for the groups earlier release - the ep. 'Spoonfed & Writhing'].
Lemon Kittens released 2 L.P.s and 2 eps.
In 1982 Dax began her solo career with the 'Pop Eyes' LP. Subsequently she has released numerous LPs, EPs and singles and has toured extensively.
She has also designed reord/cd sleeves for both herself and other artists, stage sets, costumes, furniture, interiors and even gardens.
At present Dax is mainly performing her lyrics/poems in spoken word shows and at poetry festivals with backing music written especially for these by herself and long-term musical collaborator David Knight.
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