musicians with interesting alternative careers/musical afterlives (1 Viewer)

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Kim Coletta from Jawbox is a teacher


Dan O'Mahoney from No For An Answer/Carry Nation/411 etc is a bar manager

 

[therealjohnny]

One of Ian Dury's Blockheads drives a taxi in London. His cab has the Blockheads logo on it. He noticed me noticing it and beeped and waved.

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[nuke terrorist]

Menno the singer of Dutch 80's HC thrash Marxist band LARM (means NOISE in Dutch) was then training as a lawyer. Larm were one of the first European straight edge bands.
after Menno pursed law the other three LARM lads then formed SEEIN' RED.
one of them became a principal of a Catholic high school when still in SEEIN' RED.
he had great fun telling (in the 2000s) telling his colleagues he was getting married.
they didn't know he was gay.

Gerry Casale (DEVO) worked as an art teacher in the 70s.

Iannis Xenakis was an architect.

Stephen Mallinder (CABARET VOLTAIRE) is a lecturer in sound art and digital music in Brighton.

Black power rapper Paris went into the stockbrocking in the 90's.

MALARIA! singer Bettina Koster from Berlin moved to NYC in the 80s and worked on Wall Street as a market analyst.

Fred Cole (RIP) and Toody Cole of DEAD MOON ran a music instrument shop in Portland and a cornershop next door.

Japanese noise artists Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai of INCAPACITANTS work at a bank and and a government office respectively.

Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Geldof and Gavin Friday all worked in slaughterhouses.

? aka Rudi Martinez of ? AND THE MYSTERIANS is a dog breeder.

Luciano Pavarotti wanted to be a goalkeeper but beacame a primary school teacher.

 

[xsteox]

Derek Roddy and Kerry King are both snake breeders

 

[GO]

Daevid Allen was a taxi driver in Brisbane for a decade in the 80s

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Japanese noise artists Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai of INCAPACITANTS work at a bank and and a government office respectively.

There’s footage of them performing live where they just rock up from work in their salaryman suits and proceed to freak the fuck out.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Citizen Canine Ireland|About Me| Dog Training|Experience

Training dogs and coaching their owners for the past 13 years, I am passionate about my work. My methods based on my experience is to make training rewarding.

www.citizencanineireland.com

I think she was the drummer for engine alley.

 

[GO]

Conzo from Female Hercules is a global authority on the comics of Jack B. Yeats

 

[rettucs]

Who likes to treat the people around him like cunts, by all reports

met him at Electric Picnic one year and he couldn't have been sounder. Maybe I just caught him on an off day

 

[rettucs]

Citizen Canine Ireland|About Me| Dog Training|Experience

Training dogs and coaching their owners for the past 13 years, I am passionate about my work. My methods based on my experience is to make training rewarding.

www.citizencanineireland.com

I think she was the drummer for engine alley.

Cathy Davey and Neil Hannon are running a horse rescue place in Kildare.

 

[magicbastarder]

i didn't know neil hannon was too; one of the roles cathy has according to the website is 'head of pig transportation'.

 

[Space]

i didn't know neil hannon was too; one of the roles cathy has according to the website is 'head of pig transportation'.

They've been a couple a long time.

 

[Cormcolash]

met him at Electric Picnic one year and he couldn't have been sounder. Maybe I just caught him on an off day

The only time I actually met him he was sound. Unfortunately, I've heard about 20 stories of him being a total cunt from reliable people.

 

[Cormcolash]

Bono from U2 is a professional cunt

 

[rettucs]

The only time I actually met him he was sound. Unfortunately, I've heard about 20 stories of him being a total cunt from reliable people.

I find its always better to judge people on second-hand information than from my own experiences

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Daniel O'Donnell is adding acting to his repertoire.

Daniel O’Donnell to star in new Halloween film

Daniel O’Donnell is set to debut his acting skills later this month with a lead role in an Irish short film.

www.independent.ie

He would make a great zombie.

 

[therealjohnny]

Daniel O'Donnell is adding acting to his repertoire.

Daniel O’Donnell to star in new Halloween film

Daniel O’Donnell is set to debut his acting skills later this month with a lead role in an Irish short film.

www.independent.ie

He would make a great zombie.

Nathan too

The UnHolylands: New movie featuring Nathan Carter and Tyrone McKenna set to showcase student area in 2023

A new movie about Belfast’s Holylands area is set for release next year, and with cameos from country music star Nathan Carter and pro boxer Tyrone McKenna, its Co Fermanagh director “can’t wait” to bring the student area’s story to audiences beyond NI.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

 

[sonofstan]

80% of musicians end up in precarious academia.

 

[ernesto]

80% of musicians end up in precarious academia.

anything but a proper job eh?

 

[GO]

Ted from Dead Kennedys is an architect