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Molecules · 04-03-2009, 09:49 PM

reasons to love Ludus no.245
Hacienda show 1982

Recalling the show to Ian Greaves in 1997, Linder said: "At the same time at the Hacienda they were showing lots of soft porn, and they thought it was really cool. I took my revenge. I was a vegetarian, I got meat from a Chinese restaurant, all the discarded entrails... The Hacienda was still this male preserve. They were panicking - "It's going to mark the floors!" And they withdrew the Bloody Linder from the cocktail bar."

Prior to the Ludus performance, Naylor and Carroll decorated every table in the venue with a paper plate, on which sat a red-stained tampon and a stubbed cigarette. Dave Formula: "Tony Wilson came in and just went fucking spare. He went completely bananas. I've never seen him lose it like that before - he's normally the urbane Mr Cool, you know. He was incredibly shaken by it, meaning they put them all away. But then Linder came up with the trump card of The Dress."
The Dress was made of discarded chicken meat sewn onto layers of black net, pulled aside during the last number (Too Hot To Handle) to reveal a large black dildo. As a response to Bucks Fizz losing their Eurovision skirts the previous year it drove home one of Linder's central themes (the cultural expectation of women) all too well, but the gesture was unlikely to launch the group far towards the mainstream.

Whipping aside the meat dress certainly had a dramatic effect on the Hacienda crowd, as Linder recalled: "I remember the audience going back about three foot. There was hardly any applause at the end. And that was a crowd who thought: nothing can shock us, we see porn all the time, we're cool. When that happened, when they stepped back, I thought, that's it. Where do you go from here?"

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Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	reasons to love Ludus no.245 Hacienda show 1982 Recalling the show to Ian Greaves in 1997, Linder said: "At the same time at the Hacienda they were showing lots of soft porn, and they thought it was really cool. I took my revenge. I was a vegetarian, I got meat from a Chinese restaurant, all the discarded entrails... The Hacienda was still this male preserve. They were panicking - "It's going to mark the floors!" And they withdrew the Bloody Linder from the cocktail bar." Prior to the Ludus performance, Naylor and Carroll decorated every table in the venue with a paper plate, on which sat a red-stained tampon and a stubbed cigarette. Dave Formula: "Tony Wilson came in and just went fucking spare. He went completely bananas. I've never seen him lose it like that before - he's normally the urbane Mr Cool, you know. He was incredibly shaken by it, meaning they put them all away. But then Linder came up with the trump card of The Dress." The Dress was made of discarded chicken meat sewn onto layers of black net, pulled aside during the last number (Too Hot To Handle) to reveal a large black dildo. As a response to Bucks Fizz losing their Eurovision skirts the previous year it drove home one of Linder's central themes (the cultural expectation of women) all too well, but the gesture was unlikely to launch the group far towards the mainstream. Whipping aside the meat dress certainly had a dramatic effect on the Hacienda crowd, as Linder recalled: "I remember the audience going back about three foot. There was hardly any applause at the end. And that was a crowd who thought: nothing can shock us, we see porn all the time, we're cool. When that happened, when they stepped back, I thought, that's it. Where do you go from here?" __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her