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Scatological, goofy and gender-fucked, Lovely Little Girls somehow hit at a perfect balance between pretentious-as-hell art-faggotry and hilarious self-deprecation. -BLASTITUDE.COM
Lovely Little Girls started in August of 2001 as a one-off performance piece by artist/performer Gregory Jacobsen. The performance was an attempt to convert his sound and noise based absurdist performance group Ritualistic School Of Errors into a dissonant minimalist rock band of synths and drums that would leave a wide open space for his syllable-stuffed cut-and-paste prose and confrontational contortionist interpretive dancing.
Since then the group has gone through many changes with Jacobsen providing the aesthetic thread that runs through all stages of the group's history. Using Jacobsen's grotesque paintings as a basis for ideas, Lovely Little Girls craft songs of ridiculous simplicity that morph into nose-fornicating forays of dissonance and odd stumble-down-the-stairs-timing. Performance and concept has always been a large part of the group- either by staging horrendous fanfares or writing musical parts that depend on a theatrical playing.
The current incarnation of Lovely Little Girls features Mike Kendrick (Rope), Monika Bukowksa (Brilliant Pebbles), Doug Abram (Black Bear Combo), Zack Weil and Alex Perkolup (Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer-Accident, Bobby Conn). The line-up culls many influences from No-Wave, Rock-In-Opposition, Zeuhl, 80s Thrash Metal, Childrens' Music, Punk, Kurt Weill, 20th Century Classical and the art-damaged theatrics of The Residents.
We now have a theatrical, RIO-inspired Zolo group in the USA. The Lovely Little Girls meet the 20-year cycle head-on with a fantastically Euro-styled art rock cabaret that wouldn’t be out of place on Rec-Rec. Their sound and their playing are spot on. The imagery is a little dark for my tastes, but they can look however they like as long as they keep making this music. -Zoloscope blog
Gregory Jacobsen's group Lovely Little Girls were superb...Their crazed crossbreeding of Brechtian narrative menace and Zappa/zuehl theatrics was a bracing rejoinder to just about anything you'd care to name... -Tom Smith of To Live & Shave In LA
Hey, "Pale Pink Pancake Punching Bag" I love this track, I'd like you take part in the next Dégling'zine #-7 project (French art fanzine with silkscreen pictures and open sounds (for the first time) about stranges circus and freaks for this one. If you want you're welcome.
thanks for letting me choke out my little heart on your record.Cant wait to hear the rest, fleet of garbage sounds more and more like your vision. yeahie!
...et-fonia en la Feria del Libro. Sábado 31 de mayo de 2008, 20:30 hrs. (http://a360.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/4/l_51ebd94f9810013aaef91e21686a8417.jpg)
possibly RARE but certainly WELL DONE, never MEDIUM! A parallel so consistent between art formats (painting/music/pooetry) has not oft been attained; it borders on the synaesthesiological!
We just got off a Time Machine from the 1980's Chicago Punk Scene. We have a reunion show to do Sat. Dec. 29th at the Lucky Gator Loft at 1278 N. Milwaukee Ave. Can you point us in the right direction?
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