| Jean-Louis Costes | |
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Jean-Louis Costes during a live musical performance in Dijon, June 2009. |
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| Born | May 13, 1954 [1] Paris, France |
| Nationality | France |
| Field | Radical performer, Scatological shows, film actor |
| Movement | noise music |
| Works | Suckdog |
| Website | www.costes.org |
Jean-Louis Costes is a noise musician, performance artist and film actor. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin, though unlike Allin's rudimentary brand of hardcore punk, Costes' music is largely synth-driven, relying heavily on looped beats, overmodulated vocals, and random outbursts of screaming and glitch fills.
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He was once married to Lisa Crystal Carver with whom he performed in Suckdog. He helped write the backing music for the "noise opera" music of the Suckdog Circus. His albums include Hung by the Dick from Nihilist Records. A few of his albums have been banned in France for obscenity.
He appeared in the controversial film Irréversible (2002) and Life Pornography (2003).
In 2004, he performed the Holy Virgin Cult show across the United States, scaring audiences with a barrage of apparent flung feces, urine, tortured screaming, public sex and religious flagellation.[2] In 2007, Costes and Lisou Prout completed the "Les Petits Oiseaux Chient" (English: Little Birds Shit) tour across the United States and Canada.