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Flesh for Lulu

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About Me


Flesh for Lulu formed in London around('83-'84) the time when the punk scene was becoming a generic dirge of uniforms and staid, pseudo ideolagy. Frustrated with this bland wasteland, Nick, Rocco and James Mitchell, along with several other london bands and night-crawlers gravitated towards a tiny, seedy soho club called "The Batcave". This was the place where it is widely credited that "Goth" originated, although FFL later denied any affiliation, despite sporting black lip-stick and towering hair. The band went on to tour the globe with the likes of the sisters of mercy, P.I.L, The Ramones, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Cramps and many other memorable(?) excursions.
After the 3rd album release, FFL made a big commercial breakthrough in the USA with "postcards from paradise" and "i go crazy" both singles featured in soundtracks for John Hughes directed teen-movies, which took the band into the main-stream as well as alienating the original,"alternative" following. After a disasterous trip to Australia to record a follow up record, relations broke down and the Lulu's soldiered on with only Nick and Rocco remaining.
In 1996 they recorded the now legendary"dissenchanted"lp under the name"Gigantic" with Dave Blaire and Al Fletcher on a big corporate label who dropped the album amidst some kind of internal dispute.After a few attempts to re-release the album,the band members drifted off into other projects.
Marsh recorded the solo album "A Universe Between Us" available at www.nickmarsh.info, produced by Katharine Blake (Miranda Sex Garden, Mediaeval Baebes). He also formed The Naked Goat with other MSG member, Ben Golomstock and wrote and recorded with Mediaeval Baebes.
Rocco, as well as doing his own record,has made a "reality tv home make-over show"called "A Place in Spain"centering around his home in Barcelona for channel 4 t.v, (screening now) Having been presented with the idea of re-releasing a best-of, Nick and Rocco have decided to re-record a selection of songs with long time studio(and tour) producer Harvey Birrell. These recordings are now nearing completion and you will get to hear them here first.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/30/2007
Band Website: fleshforlulu.co.uk
Band Members: Nick Marsh, Rocco Barker
Influences: 60's/70's classic rock;Stooges,David Bowie,Lou Reed,Alice Cooper,Dylan,Stones,Glam,Punk,too many to say....
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Corporate Risk
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Spectacular Developements!

Just finished some new mixes for the "Rear View Mirror" record, one of which, (Avenue) you can hear hot off the desk on this page. The Gigantic album and the single "Cold Flame/Big Love"7" are availab...
Posted by Flesh for Lulu on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:12:00 PST

New single

Me and Harvey just finished mixing the new Flesh single"Cold flame"which is backed with our version of Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love"These songs are available to download now and it will also be available...
Posted by Flesh for Lulu on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:58:00 PST

True english eccentrix

just played a solo set opening up for my dear old freind Andi Sex Gang,t'was fantastic to see the old scoundrel.i'd forgotten how amazing that man's lyrics and stage persona is,could'nt be more inspir...
Posted by Flesh for Lulu on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:12:00 PST

Ava Sophia Marsh

Ladies and Gentlemen,Nick Marsh and Katharine Blake would like to invite you to celebrate the birth of their lovely baby girl, Ava Sophia,Weighing in at 8lbs 3oz,gotta go clean up some poo,ROCK'N'ROLL...
Posted by Flesh for Lulu on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:17:00 PST

Long Live the Flesh

Greetings my Fleshlings,this is a work in progress hosted by me,Nick(singer,guitarist since the start,around 83-84)i shall soon be putting some tunes from our back catalogue,plus some new recordings u...
Posted by Flesh for Lulu on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:51:00 PST

GREETINGS

Hello and welcome to the wierd and rocking world of the new Flesh for Lulu space.Nick Marsh at your service.I've been meanining to do this for a while,but have been too busy working on my solo record ...
Posted by Flesh for Lulu on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:00:00 PST