LUDUS, LINDER STERLING - TOO HOT TO HANDLE, LIVE AT THE HACIENDA, 1982
“LUDUS performing “Too Hot To Handle” at the Hacienda November 5, 1982.
no audio, but the only video of the infamous Hacienda gig that has made it out of the hands of Linder Sterling or the Factory archives.”
Sterling’s performance with her band Ludus at Manchester’s Hacienda in 1982 – during which she wore a dress made from meat over a large strap-on dildo – became legendary; bloodied Tampax were hung from the banisters.
“This was my retort to the Hacienda’s casual and interminable showing of porn films. I finished the last song to absolute silence from the audience,” said Sterling.
“linder sterling - stuart shave”, the independent, november 13 2007
Are you pleased that Lady Gaga is popularizing some of the aesthetic and conceptual concerns in your work?
Sterling: It makes me laugh when people like Gaga appropriate my ideas without understanding my intentions. But I guess it is flattering. Morrissey recently visited Lady Gaga after one of her shows. On her dressing room wall, in a silver Gothic frame, was a print of the collage that I made in 1977 of a woman with an iron as her head and smiling mouths over the nipples. Lady Gaga said to Morrissey, “I always decorate my dressing room with the images that I like.” If that collage is one of Gaga’s icons of inspiration — and we all need them, as much as air and water — then that’s great. But feminist history isn’t just a dressing-up box. Feigned cultural amnesia is never very attractive.
“linder sterling’s fashion turn”, t magazine blog, october 14 2010
