Donna Lynch- Vocals/Words/Piano/Synths::
Steven Archer- Guitar/Vocals/Synths/Drums/Programming::
More PHOTOS on www.myspace.com/ego_likeness
and on www.egolikeness.com
Influences
...and other people & things that we love... Danielle Dax, Skinny Puppy, Foetus, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, The Swans, Angels of Light, Shriekback, God Speed You Black Emperor, The Cult, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, New Model Army, Nick Cave, Genesis, X, Cocteau Twins, VNV Nation, The Cramps, The Damned, Loretta Lynn, The Police, Rasputina, Swervedriver, Ministry, RevCo, Curve, TKK, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Cruxshadows, Patsy Cline, Harvey Danger, Johnny Cash, Jarboe, Blondie, Lou Reed, Heart, Nina Hagen, NIN, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Robbie Williams, Leonard Cohen, Mozart, Queen, Cop Shoot Cop, Tool, Sarah McLachlan, Chopin, Prince, The Waterboys, Chris Corner, Sneaker Pimps, IAMX, Kate Bush, Firewater, Pink Floyd, The Last Dance, Maria Callas, Big Black, Fields of the Nephilim, The Pretenders, Delerium, FLA, Billie Holiday, Sisters of Mercy, Cool Keith, Voltaire, Edith Piaf, Ayria, Low Pop Suicide, Sinead O'Connor, Janes Addiction, Thomas Truax, Revue Noir, Combichrist, PJ Harvey, Richard Wagner, Anathema Device, Tangerine Dream, Queensryche, Massive Attack, Moby, Angelspit, David Bowie, Rick Springfield, Aerosmith, Dresden Dolls ::: HP Lovecraft, Poe, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Michael Gira, Emile Zola, Dorothy Parker, Umberto Eco, Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Oscar Wilde, Frank Herbert, Thomas Harris, Wilton Barnhardt, Wally Lamb, Charles Bukowski, TS Eliot, Dava Sobel, The Brothers Grimm, Shakespeare, George Orwell, Neil Gaiman, Tom Robbins, Nabokov, Douglas Adams, David Eddings, Patrick McGrath, Anais Nin, Alan Moore, Malcolm Gladwell ::: Mucha, Francis Bacon, Remedios Varo, Gustav Klimt, Dave McKean, Vesalius, William Blake, Lucien Freud, lauren e. simonutti, Waterhouse, Bill Waterson, Leighton, Picasso, Motherwell, Edward Munch, John Coulthart, Larry Clark, Gunther von Hagens, James O'Barr, DaVinci ::: John Waters, David Lynch, David Cronenburg, George Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Sofia Coppola, Jeremy Irons, Alan Rickman, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Kevin Spacey, Alan Cumming, Julie Taymor, Ben Kingsley, Tim Roth, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Juliette Lewis, Judy Davis, Christian Bale ::: travelling, cartography, genetics, history, religions, sociology, robots, psychology, folklore, anatomy, mythology, urban legend, fire, evolution, horror, things that light up and make noise :::
Sounds Like
Ego Likeness. For fans of Curve, Collide, Berlin, Delerium, Blondie, The Cruxshadows, Skinny Puppy, The Last Dance, Siouxsie, etc...
"Songs from A Dead City" Ego Likeness's first demo is also available in CDR format. Email Egolikeness (at) egolikeness.com
BIOGRAPHY
..Ego Likeness was created by artist Steven Archer and writer Donna Lynch in Baltimore in 1999.
Their music has ranged from raw, darkly experimental trip-hop (Songs From a Dead City, 1999) to moody and melodic electronica (Dragonfly, 2000/2005 DFD) to a fusion of industrial rock and darkwave (Water to the Dead, 2004 DFD & The Order of the Reptile, 2006 Dancing Ferret Discs).
Coming from art-based backgrounds, Archer and Lynch incorporate their various non-musical projects into the albums, building connections between their creations. EL has been signed to Dancing Ferret Discs since 2004.
EL has toured the continental United States, Germany, Poland, the UK, and Luxembourg, and has played at several Dracula's Ball events (Philadelphia PA), Convergence 11 (San Diego CA), Eccentrik Festival I & III (Raleigh NC), Freak's United (DC), Gothstock 2005 (Hartford CT), The Black Sun Festival I (New Haven CT) and Dragon Con (Atlanta GA).
They have had the honour to share the stage with The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, The Damned, New Model Army, Ayria, Angelspit, Chris Connelly, Collide, Razed in Black, Bella Morte, Das Ich, Rasputina, Meg Lee Chin, Attrition, Carfax Abbey, Anathema Device, The Start, Iris, Decoded Feedback, The Azoic, More Machine Than Man, In Strict Confidence, Combichrist, Hypofixx, Still Life Decay, Nurzery Rhymes, nicki jaine (of Revue Noir), Dismantled, Thou Shalt Not, Anders Manga, In Tenebris, Stromkern, The Last Dance, Abney Park, Android Lust, and many others.
They have also appeared on numerous compilation CDs, including several Asleep by Dawn releases and the Neil Gaiman tribute CD 'Where's Neil When You Need Him?' (DFD, 2006); released remixes for The Cruxshadows (Cassandra- Fortress in Flames), The Last Dance (Terribly When- Reflections of Rage), Thou Shalt Not (Inside of You, Inspite of You- The Projectionist), Angelspit (Vena Cava- Krankhaus), Hypofixx (Demon- After December) and Black Tape for a Blue Girl (Tarnished- Scarecrow);and appeared on Voltaire's album Then and Again. EL has also been featured in publications such as Gothic Beauty, Outburn, ABD, Side-line and Sonic Seducer, to name a few.
Archer and Lynch also have an experimental/ spoken word/ instrumental band called The Trinity Project. Trinity was formed in 1999 and released two albums, The Trinity Project I (1999) and The Subtle Movements of the Entropy Engine (2001).
Archer is the creator of the experimental/noise project Hopeful Machines since early 2005 and has albums available for download. He DJs at Spellbound (Recessions) in Washington DC, and Ascension (Club Orpheus) in Baltimore, and performs with the DC industrial band Blind Till Now. He is also the author and illustrator of a children's book, Luna Maris (Imaginary Books, 2008).
In addition to co-writing for EL and touring, Lynch is currently working on several short stories and a second novel. Her first novel 'Isabel Burning' will be published and released by Raw Dog Screaming Press (www.rawdogscreaming.com) in August 2008. She has released two collections of poetry, 'In My Mouth' (2000) and 'Ladies & Other Vicious Creatures' (RDSP 2007).
COMING 2007-2008: The Compass EPs (Feat. new material, remixes, and new versions of earlier songs) and EL's 4th full length album (Fall 2008)
For more info, merchandise, and other photos, please visit www.myspace.com/ego_likeness and www.egolikeness.com
Hey Ego Likeness! I interviewed Steve for a few minutes before you guys packed up. I'll let you know when we have the video up! :] nice meeting you guys, and I'm really loving the CD I bought!
Steviepoo, you wouldn't believe the week I've had already!?!? I gave birth to a three headed monkey child. Yeah, that hurt. Little fucker was born with sharp little teeth and tore my asshole up!!!
BTW, I'm still putting up the clown pictures!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
just wanted to let you know that i took some awesome shots of you at the knitting factory in may and they are posted on the Gothic Goddess Media web daily for everyone's viewing pleasure. the link is the following:
I saw you open for The Cruxshadows on their Shadowbox Tour at The Labrynth, in Detroit, MI and have been a fan ever since. I have since moved to FL and was wondering if you ever do any shows down here. I am trying to see if I can make it to DragonCon this year. Is that something you go to?
