bitter69uk: sowhatifiliveinkyushu: Nina Hagen @ Bismark Theater, Chicago, IL (1985-08-15) by Paul Na
bitter69uk: sowhatifiliveinkyushu: Nina Hagen @ Bismark Theater, Chicago, IL (1985-08-15) by Paul Natkin “Nina Hagen is at once the most outlandish of rock clowns and the most intensely committed and flaked-out female pop visionary since Patti Smith herself.” / From Tim Holmes’ review of the album Nina Hagen in Ekstasy (1985) in Rolling Stone /Happy 67th birthday to berserk punk diva Nina Hagen (born 11 March 1955). For me, futuristic 1982 post-punk masterpiece Nunsexmonkrock is the freaky German chanteuse’s definitive artistic statement. All these years later, it still sounds like bleeding edge science fiction. Listening to it almost makes me forgive Hagen’s shambolic hot mess 2016 concert at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire! Pictured: portrait of Hagen at the Bismark Theatre in Chicago by Paul Natkin, 1985. -- source link