Ed Kuepper

Infobox Musical artist


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Name = Ed Kuepper
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Edmund Kuepper
Born = birth date and age|1955|12|20
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Origin = flagicon|West Germany Bremen, West Germany
Genre = Rock, punk, Avant-Garde, Post-punk, Blues, Grunge
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Associated_acts = The Saints, The Laughing Clowns, The Aints.
Occupation = Singer, Songwriter, Instrumentalist, Record producer
Years_active = 1975–present
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URL = [http://www.thekuepperfiles.com/ Ed Kuepper site]
[http://www.myspace.com/edkuepper Ed Kuepper on Myspace]
[http://www.myspace.com/theaints The Aints on myspace]
[http://www.myspace.com/laughingclowns Laughing Clowns on myspace]

Ed Kuepper (born Edmund Kuepper in Bremen, West Germany, 20 December 1955) is an Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group The Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints. He has also recorded over a dozen albums in his own name with a variety of backing bands, notably Ed Kuepper and the Yard Goes On Forever, Ed Kuepper and his Oxley Creek Playboys, Ed Kuepper and The Institute Of Nude Wrestling, The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, Ed Kuepper and the New Imperialists and presently Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective.

In 1976 Kuepper and the Saints were one of the first acts to form their own record label {Fatal Records] to release that bands first single ' [I'm] Stranded'. In 1980 Kuepper started up Prince Melon Records to release his work with Laughing Clowns

Kuepper was awarded ARIAs in 1993 and 1994 for Best Independent Australian Release (and nominated for similar awards in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998). He was probably Australia's most prolific recording artist in the early nineties.

In recent years, Kuepper has been involved in soundtracking radio drama and experimental films. He toured Australia and Europe performing semi-improvised music to some of these films under the banner of MFLL. Venues included The Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Sydney Opera House, The Austrian Film Museum (Vienna) and The Cartier Foundation (Paris), where Kuepper has the distinction of being the only rock musician to be invited to play apart from the Velvet Underground.

2007 saw the release of Kuepper's "Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog"album, which was inspired by the story of Jean Lee who was the last woman hanged in Australia, and features amongst others, performances by Jeffrey Wegener (Laughing Clowns), Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys), Warren Ellis (Dirty Three), and Chris Bailey (The Saints).

After extensive touring in 2008 [including a European tour with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ] Kuepper relaunched Prince Melon Records

Discography

External links

* http://www.myspace.com/edkuepper
* http://www.myspace.com/laughingclowns
* http://www.myspace.com/princemelonrecords
* [http://www.thekuepperfiles.com/ The Kuepper Files - The Ultimate Guide To Ed Kuepper]