Suckdog

The Suckdog Circus toured every state in the continental United States for several years, performing a mix of wrestling, musical performances, film-screenings and general audience agitation. The heart of the Suckdog Circus were the noise music operas written by Costes and Lisa Crystal Carver -- strange experimental fantasy stories with lots of blood, sex and audience agitation.

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Performers in the Suckdog Circus include: Carver, Costes, Dame Darcy, Coz the Shroom, Nick Zedd and Helen Suckpuppy.

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Suckdog also recorded four albums: Rape GG (1988), Drugs are Nice (1989), Little Flowers Dying (1990) and Onward Suckdog Soldiers (1998).

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Suckdog: The Suckdog Circus toured every state in the continental United States for several years, performing a mix of wrestling, musical performances, film-screenings and general audience agitation. The heart of the Suckdog Circus were the noise music operas written by Costes and Lisa Crystal Carver -- stra...

Noise music: Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. "Noise" music is regarded by some as a contradiction in terms, because "noise" is generally defined as unwanted and undesigned or unintentional sound and music as the opposite. However, "noise" in a m...

Costes: Jean-Louis Costes's noise music albums can be described as "wild, chaotic screechfests through dark Freudian terrain". One-time husband of Lisa Crystal Carver, he helped write the backing noise-opera music of the Suckdog Circus, and was also a performer in Suckdog, along with Carver, Dame Darcy, Coz...