Jean-Louis Costes

This article is about Jean-Louis Costes. For Hotel Costes and the related music CDs, see Hotel Costes.

Jean-Louis Costes
Jean-Louis Costes during a live musical performance in Dijon, June 2009.
Born	May 13, 1954 (1954-05-13) (age 57)[1] Paris, France
Nationality	France
Field	Radical performer, Scatological shows, film actor
Movement	noise music
Works	Suckdog
Website	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.

Career

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^{[citation needed]}.

Filmography

He appeared in the controversial film Irréversible (2002) and Life Pornography (2003).

Shows

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.

Bibliography

• Jean-Louis, Costes (2003). Viva la merda !. Nancy: Éd. Hermaphrodite. ISBN 2951956517. 
• Costes, Jean-Louis (2006). Grand-père. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 2213625530. 

References

1. ^ Jean-Louis Costes at the Internet Movie Database
2. ^ "Jean-Louis Costes". Prism Escape (3). http://www.digital-athanor.com/PRISM_ESCAPE/article_us5b48.html?id_article=82. Retrieved 14 February 2011. 

External links

• Official Costes site
• Mon grand-père, immigré fasciste raciste anti-français (small novel by Costes, full original French text online)
• PRISM Escape interview regarding The Holy Virgin cult tour
• Fecal Master newest Release
• COSTES HEROS SOLITAIRE, the unofficial website
• South Dakota Art Center Stops French Performance Involving Vomiting, Simulated Sex (Fox News, March 2007)
• Costes Performance photographs (caution: graphic)
• Costes performance cancelled in club 013, Holland, text in Dutch
• Costes at the International Noise Conference in Miami 2007 (caution: graphic)

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Name	Costes, Jean-Louis
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Date of birth	13 May 1954
Place of birth	Paris, France
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