― matulageci (matulageci), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― CowboyTrance (cowboytrance), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Where?
More Chicago musicians:
Janet Bean of Eleventh Dream Day and Freakwater works at a law firm. Tim Kinsella of Joan of Arc and Johnny Herndon of Tortoise have both bartended at the Rainbo Club in Wicker Park. John Navin of the Aluminum Group is a public school teacher; his brother Frank waits tables at the restaurant in the Hancock Building.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cdjk, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I remember Steven working in the music department of John Smith' before they sold up to Starbucks. Alan Rankine helped get Belle and Sebastians career off the ground.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― CT (cowboytrance), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― gspm (gspm), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
on the pylon website, there's information about all the current occupations of its members.
i almost never hear of musicians / artists in general existing without some sort of dayjob.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Mark Perry (Alternative TV) worked in WH Smiths for a whileVic Godard (Subway Sect) is a postmanManic Esso (Lurkers) was last seen working as a draymanViv Albertine (Slits) works (vaguely) in televisionTopper Headon (Clash) is apparently a taxi driverGaye Advert (Adverts) works (vaguely) in personnel / adminPauline Murray (Penetration) I believe works in Social ServicesJayne Casey (Big In Japan / Pink Industry / Pink Military) works for Liverpool CouncilHoward Devoto (Buzzcocks / Magazine) works / worked for a picture archive libraryPaul Jones (drummer with Killing Joke protegees Red Beat) works for High Wycombe council; as, I believe does Howard (also form High Wycombe but no relation afaik) Jones' mime-artist chum Jed Hoile.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
If you follow the link in my first post....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
dave allen from gang of four and shriekback is in the digital/computer/music/whatever biz in some capacity.
john s. hall from king missile is an entertainment lawyer.
as for M4rk 1bold of Pavement -- hell, he was working as the mersh guy for other bands even when pavement was at the height of their success. i'm not sure he ever went back to work inasmuch as i'm not sure he ever didn't work.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
You worked at sonicnet, fcc? Was that what used to be Addicted to Noise?
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
sonicnet and addicted to noise were two separate companies that merged in the late '90s and continued using both identities; i started not long after the merger and essentially worked for both.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― laticsmon (laticsmon), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
must ... fact-check ... self. for the historical record: sonicnet was on broadway. damn close to bleecker, though.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― xenografia, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― tipustiger, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
in the late 1980s or early 1990s, i no longer remember, i visited friends who lived in a squatted flat in brixton. I was introduced to a couple that was temporarily staying in one of my friends rooms. they guy looked like a heroin addict. he was introduced to me as topper headon, the clash drummer. i had no idea of his or the clash's fame and had certainly not heard their music before. topper told me he works as a cab driver. not sure if he still would be as some of their songs were successfully rereleased.
― xenografia, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
re: mid-level indie bands -- lots of them work temp jobs in between tours. this also explains why bands like that tour a lot: its one of their few sources of income.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― joey deacon, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
That would be Tim Quirk: He went on to become editorial director of Listen.com, now a part of Real.com. Great, great guy. TMJ unfortunately didn't make him much money due to the ol' demon RECOUPMENT.
But as for others: Bobby Sherman became a California EMT; and of course Pete Best made donuts at a bakery after becoming an ex-Beatle.
Does becoming a preacher count as "going back to work"? If so, we can add Vanity, Little Richard, Ma$e, and a ton of others.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
That's awesome.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
actually, i was talking about sandy smallens. tim was tmj's singer and might have had a desk awfully close to the sonicnet office in san francisco, but never inside it. sandy was the tmj's bassist and his desk was inside the sonicnet office in new york. apparently, being in tmj was an excellent background for getting back to work in the digital music biz! (and tmj, of course, had a song back in the day that celebrated noted getting-back-to-worker hugo burnham of gang of four.) ((and if you spend your time in music tv/video circles, you're likely to run into a third member of too much joy.))
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Somebody once told me they had met a lawyer at a business meeting who told them he had been in Looking Glass, if not the lead singer himself.
And what about the bass player in Huey Lewis's old (and for one album, Elvis Costello's) band Clover, who has been known to play with Lucinda Williams but also got a day job as a chiropractor, Dr. John Ciambotti?
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Paging Al Green.
― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
guess those stock options never quite paid off, huh? ;-)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Last I heard (a couple of years ago) he was living somewhere down near (Dover?) and still driving a taxi.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
when I read that Guardian piece I did think that his was not an accurate take on Róisín Murphy's recent career:
After singer Róisín Murphy had navigated the end of her pop duo, Moloko, and then attempted to steer an idiosyncratic solo career with a determination Orson Welles might have admired, she moved to Ibiza to focus on two things: motherhood and the Mediterranean. “Sometimes it’s nice to just relax, you know,” she says.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 17 April 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link
I saw something about how after her solo album tanked, Jemina Pearl from Be Your Own Pet was overseeing open mics and karaoke nights in Nashville.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 April 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
Forgot, I looked into the Gang of Four after catching their reunion. Turns out Hugo Burnham went into academia to teach art🕸, Jon King became the chief executive of World Television, which produced news reports, webcasts and corporate video for clients from Greenpeace to Nestlé, and for awhile Dave Allen went into advertising and brand marketing, first with a division of Overland Agency and then co-founding the digital strategy firm Fight.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
Kira (Black Flag) - computer programmerActually she went into the film/TV business - currently a dialogue editor with two Emmy Awards.
Actually she went into the film/TV business - currently a dialogue editor with two Emmy Awards.
Update yr info. Kira won an Oscar for sound editing on Mad Max Fury Road.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 April 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
When I last checked on him, in the 90s, Arthur Brown was doing this:
In the 1980s, Brown moved to Austin, Texas, where his wife came from, and obtained a master's degree in counselling.[28]...Together with former Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black, he also became a painter and carpenter for some years,[10] and released an album with him, Brown, Black & Blue (1988). In 1992, Brown and fellow counsellor Jim Maxwell founded Healing Songs Therapy, a service that culminated in Brown creating a song for each client about their emotional issues.[30]
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
Hah, even better! I just pulled everything from the opening paragraph on Wikipedia - I was surprised it's not in there. (It actually is, but buried towards the bottom.)
― birdistheword, Monday, 18 April 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
Bit of a niche interest this, but Michael McGuire, from 80s' conceptualists/ pranksters Sudden Sway, is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey.
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/michael-mcguire
And if you doubt it's the same guy then about one seconds worth of hearing him talking about cybercrime on YouTube will convince you it's definitely him!
― Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 April 2022 08:59 (two years ago) link
my brother-in-law is in advertising, used to live in portland, and would run into dave allen at things regularly. It took him a few times before he realized it was the guy from GoF and not just some random advertising guy
― joygoat, Monday, 18 April 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
Xpost I have a home made box off all the "sing song" bits, so "Yes, yes, I did know that actually..."
― Mark G, Monday, 18 April 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
Inspired by that latest Dandy Warhols thread, I fell into a clickhole and discovered Zia McCabe is/was a realtor.
Nice interview from 2017: https://www.wweek.com/music/2017/12/26/when-zia-mccabe-got-tired-of-touring-with-the-dandy-warhols-she-became-a-licensed-real-estate-agent/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
Mojo piece this month reveals that Scott Walker became a painter and decorator in the post Climate of Hunter period.
'Though Walker began work on an album produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois in March 1985, the project was rapidly aborted. Later, the singer made one of his infrequent visits to his manager. “I said, What have you been up to?” recalls Bicknell. “And he said, ‘I’ve been painting.’ I said, Oh, oils or watercolours? He said, ‘No, man, walls.’ He’d been working as a decorator. He could, at any point, have put The Walker Brothers back together and done the nostalgia circuit, but he would rather, literally, get up a ladder with a pot of Dulux and paint somebody’s flat and get a few quid."'
― piscesx, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 13:58 (five hours ago) link
pretty sure that was widely reported in the 90s during his critical comeback
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:05 (one hour ago) link
yeah. it's definitely not the first time i heard that story too
― Born Under a Bad Sine (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:11 (one hour ago) link
Figured him for an electrician
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:12 (one hour ago) link
stretching the term "rock star" here, maybe, but Hailu Mergia deserves a mention.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:34 (one hour ago) link
I saw Tommy Tutone on one of those "Where are they now?" VH1 things and he's just a regular office worker whose coworkers apparently razz all the time
gotta say though he's got one hell of a "fun fact" whenever they make him introduce himself
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:41 (fifty-seven minutes ago) link
This is the guitarist from Tommy Tutone:
Jim Keller went on to become the director of Philip Glass's publishing company, Dunvagen Music Publishers.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:54 (forty-five minutes ago) link
Nice gig
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:02 (thirty-six minutes ago) link