Oliva Spleen, Rich Leppard, Ben Sumner, Tim Fearless
Influences
Rimbaud, Verlaine, Burroughs, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Leigh Bowery, Leadbelly, Can, David Bowie, Harry Partch, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Serge Gainsbourg, John Coltrane, Pixies, The Carpenters, GG Allin, New York Dolls, Memphis Minnie, Le Tigre, Noel Coward, Joy Division, The Who, Sonic Youth, Bauhaus, The Shangri-Las, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Grandmaster Flash, Black Sabbath, Ray Charles, Charles Manson, Alan Lomax, Edith Piaf, Virgin Prunes, Gram Parsons, Richard Hell, Bonzo Dog Band, P J Harvey, Charlie Parker, Joni Mitchell, Bad Brains, Verdi, Aphex Twin, Hank Williams, Carole King, Buzzcocks, Duke Ellington, Nick Cave, Kate Bush, Woody Guthrie, Television, Miles Davis, Dolly Parton, The Ronnettes, Bessie Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Suicide, Tricky, Nina Hagen, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Cab Calloway, Libertines, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Little Richard, Ramones, The Kinks, Lydia Lunch, The Orb, The Doors, Billie Holiday, Nine Inch Nails, X-ray Spex, Tom Waits, The Fall, Antony and the Johnsons, Bob Dylan, The Pogues, Klaus Nomi, Jacques Brel, Jimi Hendrix, Diamanda Galas, Bjork, The Cramps, The Cardiacs, Chuck Berry, Captain Beefheart, Jane's Addiction, Pulp, Public Enemy, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Sex Pistols, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Story of the Eye, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Fox in Socks, The 120 Days of Sodom, Darren Aronofsky, Spike Jonze, Paolo Pasolini, Harmony Korine, John Waters, David Lynch, Dada, Allen Ginsberg, Hubert Selby Jr, Henry Miller, Hunter S. Thompson, Jean Genet, Dylan Thomas, Baudelaire, Poe, Plato, Warhol, Coleridge, Crowley, Huxley, Basquiat, Hieronymus Bosch, Spike Milligan, William Blake, Edward Lear, Aubrey Beardsley, Chris Morris, R. Crumb, Marcel Duchamp, Fraggle Rock, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, my grandmother...
"You know that special demo that only lands once a year, the one that stops everything, the one thats so good it takes you an age to try and get down how good it is. The excellently named band have a frantic sound Proper Punk Energy and attitudes like the Buzzcocks, Iggy or the first days of those Manics when You Loved Us. The Flesh Happening are urgent urgent urgent." - The Organ “The Flesh Happening, undoubtedly the greatest band in Brighton” – Meatbreak BBC6 "This band dive headfirst into places most people fear to, both musically and lyrically, with live shows proving they are in possession of the best frontman in town" – The Brighton Source "Filth. Degredation. Power. Glamour. Hitler. Bowie. A grandmotherlover in a gimp mask. Lick your lips and get stuck into The Flesh Happening." – Jon Hillcock - XFM “You know how glam flirted with gayness but got coy before it got too dirty, the forces of straight acceptability moving in and turning it into a minor facet of the bloke-ish personality? Well The Flesh Happening take it back for the queers, drag it into an alley behind a really scary bar and rape it back to life. They are the answer to the big men at Morrissey gigs who fancy a quick weep before their next fight. Angry, squealy, arresting and the only band that has made me uncomfortable in the twenty-first century.”
– Julia Indelicate The Flesh Happening - WASTE (2007)
SEVEN has some pretty good stuff coming up over the next couple of weeks with the best of up-and-coming talent both locally and nationally. Take a gander below- something might just take your fancy...
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