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The Flesh Happening

If Ziggy Stardust survived the AIDS epidemic

About Me


"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
The Flesh Happening - WASTE (2007)

Singles Available Now at Tamworth Records

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/11/2005
Band Website: thefleshhappening.com
Band Members: 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, 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, Jacques Brel, Jimi Hendrix, Diamanda Galas, Bjork, The Cramps, 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...
Sounds Like: See The Flesh Happening for more details.
Record Label: None, free downloads at www.thefleshhappening.com
Type of Label: None

My Blog

HITLER AND JESUS

My Hitler, my Jesus, my one and my twoOne was a German and one was a JewOne seemed quite wicked, the other, quite weirdOne had a moustache, the other, a beardOne had a parting, the other, nice sandals...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:17:00 PST

SHIT ON ME

I once knew a farmer Who lived on a pig farm All of that manure Never did him harm   And he loved his piggies Every little bit He was naked in the pig farm Rolling in the shit   Shit on me ...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:32:00 PST

FORMALDEHYDE, THALIDOMIDE, HERMAPHRODITE

Put me in a tiny box I like my arms and legs squashed Nice and tight Preserve me in formaldehyde I'll be your thalidomide hermaphrodite   Keep me watered and well fed Stitch my eyes and tape my ...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:04:00 PST

TOTAL SURRENDER

I was a dark twistedLimp wristedHard fighterPillow biterWho transcended gender You were a shirt liftingDeep fistingCock suckingFudge packingFriend on a bender And when our two twisted souls ...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:11:00 PST

Interview

The Flesh HappeningWith a feverish lust like a fire in your chest / You drug and you fuck till there's no fucking left / Your mind is a mire of hunger and hate / Your body's the temple that you desecr...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:19:00 PST

DEATH RATTLE

I know I will not live Until an age thats ripe and old I feel this fear more certain As the virus takes its hold And I fight a loosing battle As if something can be gained As my heart infects with f...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:54:00 PST

KAMIKAZE

With a feverish lust like a fire in your chest You drug and you fuck till theres no fucking left Your mind is a mire of hunger and hate Your bodys the temple that you desecrate   This mind fuckin...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:06:00 PST

WASTE

Do you remember that night? Those few wild hours of our lust I was young and didnt know you But I wanted love and gave my trust   I who you fucked with great fury up the arse I who you fucked fir...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:21:00 PST

MASOCHISMO

My mouth and tongue flood with salivas salt As flame flushes my ears, and blood, my brain And all my skin writhes with a sense of fault -As livid with the parasites of shame   A second fist hits ...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:14:00 PST

MOTHER AND THE SPOON

At times, tormented by the tones Of memories and mobile phones -  Encased and cut off in my room The walls and windows my cocoon - Id lie in linen streaked with mud And filter poison through...
Posted by The Flesh Happening on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:11:00 PST