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Lydia

I told you...you know nothing about wickedness

About Me

Lydia Darling is a skilled performer, model and aerialist and a jolly nice lady to boot. I'm available for bookings - please get in touch on lydia[at]twisted[dot]com , or you can message me here on myspace. I don't really do TFP/CD shoots anymore, but if you have an interesting project feel free to get in touch as we might be able to negotiate something.
Lydia xxx

I AM CURRENTLY TAKING BOOKINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING SHOWS:
Peacock mating dance - a classical fan-dance with a cheeky twist performed with unique peacock mask, fans and skirt - I have been known to perform this act in full blue bodypaint if your venue has a shower!
Film Noir Fancy - "I knew she was trouble from the second she walked into my office" - how right he was! A smouldering bump n' grind routine performed to a specially recorded score - this private dick didn't know what hit him!
Neo-burlesque striptease - so you run a rock/alternative/industrial night and are worried that 1940's music won't fit in? No problem. I've been known to dance to everything from White Zombie to Bjork!
'The Mistress and Margarita' - for the more literary-minded burlesque fan, this is a slyly humourous homage to the Bulgakov novel, and the power of greed!
'Gaijin Geisha' - a beautiful static trapeze act to traditional Japanese music, slowly shedding robes, parasol and fan as the Blonde Geisha drops and spins through a storm of snow or cherry blossoms.
Trapeze show 'Cockatoos' - this little bird sits and whistles on her perch before gracefully dropping into a gravity-defying sequence. Can be performed to either contemporary music (The Cure's 'Like Cockatoos') or melancholy old-time (Bird in a Gilded Cage).
Patient Zero - beautiful fetishistic body-art shows performed with artist Obadiah Arkham. These performances are fairly intense and visceral, and not recommended for burlesque clubs.
Double Trouble - LYDIA DARLING AND CHRYS COLUMBINE PERFORM TOGETHER!
The double act you've been waiting for...a highly choreographed, cheeky, Vegas-style fan-dance performed in matching outfits by burlesque's hottest blonde bombshells! NOW TAKING BOOKINGS!
I am also a very experienced DJ who loves to play 20's-40's, neo-swing, gypsy punk, circus songs and showtunes.
For more info and show pictures, visit my website at http://lydiadarling.com
p.s. - here are a couple of music videos I appear in. Please don't sue me.
Jacknife Lee - Making me money
Directed by Up the Resolution productions
Not a music video, but a trapeze show...static show

|More Videos And below: Nemhain - Ana
Directed by Amy Akkonite of The Cry and the Chainsaw
ooh and look! My Peacock show.Wahey! Snake on my face.
Miss Amanda Mae Steele and I as the Hoodoo Dollies:


My Interests

anarchism, anarcho-dandyism, apocalypse, apocalyptic skies, art, art terrorism, barcelona, bdsm, becoming obsessed, being in charge, being shown who's boss, berlin, bittersweet, blood, boys in braces, breaking you, breath control, cacophony society, charming men, charming snakes, chris morris, climbing, comics, copenhagen, corsets, crossing roads recklessly, cruelty, cyberpunk, dadaism, decadence, dischordianism, disfnordia, drugs, dynamism, evil, existentialism, fascist imagery, fetish, fire, flesh, flirtation, freedom, futurism, games, george orwell, glistening boys, grotesque, hallucinations, high five, history, honoursville, hoodoo, improper behaviour, incarceration, interesting underwear, japanese culture, jareth, k, la nausée, latex, liberty, limerance, love, lydia lunch, military chic, moral absolutes, moral ambiguities, mouths, movies, neo-victorianism, nouveau louche, outsider literature, pain, paradigm shifts, paris, passion, perversion, philosophy, pleasure, pornography, power, psi, purity, ray caesar, sadism, sarcastic men, scarlet mews, schadenfreude, sexy parties, slacklining, socialism, spanish civil war, spontaneity, squealing flappers, static trapeze, stillhouse orchestra, stone carved as fabric, strong women, switching, tango, the flaming doo dits, the night porter, the sherrif of badtown, things that live, travelling, trevor brown, tyranny, undeserved arrogance, vengence, victory, vorticism, wax trax, wednesday night specials, wierd stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded individuals, filmmakers, writers, designers, photographers, performers, club promoters, you know the drill. Subs can add me if you like but I'm not going to do anything especially Dommey, and I'm certainly not going to respond to any speculative messages. Save that for Pedestal.

Music:

At the moment? mainly...
The McCarricks, Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Marlene Dietrich, Cab Calloway, Flaming Doo Dits, Stillhouse Orchestra, Fantasmagoria, Gogol Bordello, Dresden Dolls, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Nina Simone, Fats Waller, Humanwine, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, The Dead Brothers, The Tiger Lillies
Of course I have very eclectic tastes and at any given time I might be listening to any other of the random musical stylings left over from my previous incarnations, such as Lydia Lunch, Bjork, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Miranda Sex Garden, Mediaeval Bæbes, Autechre, Orbital, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, FM Einheit, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, New Model Army, David Bowie, The Cramps, Foetus, The Pogues, The Damned, Godspeed you Black Emperor, Cubanate, Revolting Cocks, Sheep on Drugs, Senser, Nirvana, Therapy? Complusion, Alice In Chains, Faith No More, Curve, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Swans, The Cure, The Cranes, Depeche Mode, Relaxed Muscle, Pulp, Blur, Gorillaz, Aesop Rock, Saul Williams, Recoil, Meg Lee Chin, Underworld
Favourite Composers: Michael Nyman, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Prokofiev, Bizet, Mozart

Movies:

The Night Porter
Night of the Hunter
Audition
Blue Velvet
Bleeder
Man bites Dog
Brazil
Bad Boy Bubby
Requiem for a dream
Pi
American Beauty
Apocalypse Now
Fight Club
Barton Fink
Elizabeth
Blade Runner
Delicatessen
Videodrome
Dangerous Liaisons.
The Cook, The Thief, His wife and her Lover
Richard III.
In the Company of Wolves
Donnie Darko
Happiness
Ridicule
Cabaret
Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil's Backbone
O Brother where art Thou
Ran
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Big Sleep
Betty Blue
The Libertine
The Idiots
The Pillow Book
La Reine Margot
Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead
Un Chein Andalou
Favourite directors: Cohen Brothers, Cronenberg, Lynch, Del Toro, Aronofski, Greenaway, Kurosawa.

Television:

Chris Morris, Black Books, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, Green Wing

Books:

Illuminatus trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson
Principia Dischordia, Malaclypse the Younger
Bigot Hall, Steve Aylett
The Dice Man, Luke Rinehart
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, Neal Stevenson
1984, Animal Farm, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
True romance, Helen Zahavi
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Days of Hope, Andre Malreaux
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemmingway
V for Vendetta, Alan Moore
A hundred years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Junior
And the Ass saw the Angel, Nick Cave
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Outsider, Albert Camus
Exquisite Corpse, Robert Irwin
The Blue of Noon, Georges Bataille
Favourite writers: Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Jim Thompson, Franz Kafka, Maupassant, Voltaire

Heroes:

No more heroes anymore

My Blog

New pictures...

New pictures in my ’shows’ gallery of my Peacock mating dance as performed at ’Unjust Deserts’ on Sunday, and some excellent shots by Laurence Tucker of the new Patient Zero wo...
Posted by Lydia on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:00 PST

This Sunday: The Unjust Deserts Variety Show!

Hosted By: Lydia Morgan & Chrys ColumbineWhen: 16 Mar 2008, 19:00Where: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal GreenLondon, London and South East|66 E26NBUnited KingdomDescr...
Posted by Lydia on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:45:00 PST