Lynnette Shelley
vocals, lyrics, percussion & noise, webmistress
Influences | psychedelic & space rock; avant garde; medieval & early music; progressive & experimental music; garage rock, sixties rock & some classic rock; psychedelic folk music, random weirdness, meteorological conditions, dreams & artwork, books & words, fairy tales, mythologies, Childs Ballads, nature
Favorite and/or influential vocalists | Peter Hammill, Peter Murphy, Grace Slick, Sally Norvell, Yma Sumac, Diamanda Galas, PJ Harvey, Lisa Gerrard, Siouxsie Sioux, Katharine Blake, David Bowie, Cathy Berberian, Patti Smith, Dagmar Krause
Bands I like | The Art Bears, Archaia, The Great Society; Dead Can Dance; early-mid period King Crimson; Peter Hammill & Van Der Graaf Generator; Patti Smith; Magma, Pink Floyd; Bauhaus; Siouxsie & The Banshees; Thinking Plague, 5UUs, Amon Duul II, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake, Henry Cow, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Mars Volta, Muse, Comus, White Willow, Porcupine Tree, Jon Rose, Present, Univers Zero, Miranda Sex Garden, Medieval Baebes, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, David Bowie, Yes, Curved Air, Incredible String Band, Donovan, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Hawkwind, Robert Wyatt, Acid Mothers Temple, The Zombies, The Animals, The Pretty Things, plus some avant garde and classical composers (Carl Orff, Hildegard Von Bingen, Wagner, Berio, etc). I also have a fondness for interpretations of Child's Ballads.
My most favorite album | Comus "First Utterance" and anything by Van Der Graaf Generator plus "Over" by Peter Hammill and "Usher" by Peter Hammill. Also Art Bears' "Winter Songs", and the out-of-print, self-titled Archaia album.
(Some) Favorite Films | I like a lot of different types of films -- from foreign to art films to action and horror and B-movie cult films. Love old Hammer films and like anything with a dark sense of humor. Favorite films also include "Delicatessen", "Bartleby", "Dead Alive", "Lord of the Rings", "Cemetary Man", "Office Space", "Wicker Man" (the original), "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Devil's Backbone." Loved the recent "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood."
Favorite Books | I read everything and usually average 2-3 books in a month. Favorite genres include historical fiction, biographies, sci-fi, and non-fiction books about historical events. (Some) favorite authors include Pearl Buck, Neal Stephenson, J.R.R. Tolkein, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Beirce, Poe, Lovecraft, Orhan Pamuk etc etc etc. I am also partial to graphic novels. New favorite book: The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.
Likes | anything velvet, art, apocalyptic day dreams, Halloween, the smell of oranges & burnt matches, boots, books & movies, sloths and other weird animals, Mid-East & Mediterranean food, thunder storms, Autumn, chocolate (Belgian), unique architecture, antiques, pomegranates, ghost stories, sunflowers & gerber daisies, my cat & my apartment (unfortunately, not haunted, but it does kind of look like it).
Hates | cell phones, trends, "reality" TV, the current state of the government, Philly cockroaches, and Hollywood remakes of perfectly good foreign films or cult classics
Undead Credentials | performing as an extra in a zombie film ("The Unholy Sideshow")
Latest News | Started my own design company (Redeye Design LLC, www.designbyredeye.com) and I have a bunch of art shows coming up.
Contact | lynnette@theredmasque.com
MySpace Page | www.myspace.com/scarlett_experiment
NEW! Blog | Pen and Think
photo by Matthew Romano
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