Suckdog
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Suckdog or "Suckdog Circus" was an American underground band. The core members were the married couple Lisa Crystal Carver
and Jean-Louis Costes
. The troupe toured every state in the continental United States for several years, performing a mix of wrestling, musical performances, film-screenings and general audience agitation. The heart of the Suckdog Circus were the noise music
"operas" written by Costes and Carver which involved strange experimental fantasy stories with lots of blood, sex and audience agitation.
Other performers in the Suckdog Circus included Dame Darcy
, Davey "OHIO" Highben, Coz the Shroom, Nick Zedd
and Helen Suckpuppy.
Suckdog also recorded four albums: Rape GG (1988), Drugs are Nice (1989), Little Flowers Dying (1990) and Onward Suckdog Soldiers (1998). A DVD was released in 2005 by Nut Music entitled Drugs Are Nice: A Suckumentary 1988-2005 containing excerpts of various performances, music videos, short films, and commentary from Lisa Crystal Carver and friends.
Lisa Crystal Carver
Lisa Crystal Carver , also known as Lisa Suckdog, is an American writer known for her writing in Rollerderby. Through her interviews, she introduced the work of Vaginal Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes , Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many...
and Jean-Louis Costes
Jean-Louis Costes
Jean-Louis Costes is a noise musician, performance artist and film actor. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin, though unlike Allin's rudimentary brand of hardcore punk, Costes' music is largely synth-driven, relying heavily on looped beats, overmodulated vocals, and random...
. The troupe toured every state in the continental United States for several years, performing a mix of wrestling, musical performances, film-screenings and general audience agitation. The heart of the Suckdog Circus were the noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
"operas" written by Costes and Carver which involved strange experimental fantasy stories with lots of blood, sex and audience agitation.
Other performers in the Suckdog Circus included Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy is an alternative cartoonist. Her comic book, Meatcake, has been published by Fantagraphics since 1993. Darcy has also released several graphic novels, Frightful Fairytales, Dame Darcy's Meatcake Compilation, The Illustrated Jane Eyre, Dollerium , Comic Book Tattoo, and Gasoline .-...
, Davey "OHIO" Highben, Coz the Shroom, Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work...
and Helen Suckpuppy.
Suckdog also recorded four albums: Rape GG (1988), Drugs are Nice (1989), Little Flowers Dying (1990) and Onward Suckdog Soldiers (1998). A DVD was released in 2005 by Nut Music entitled Drugs Are Nice: A Suckumentary 1988-2005 containing excerpts of various performances, music videos, short films, and commentary from Lisa Crystal Carver and friends.