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Fact #156090

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Short story:

When socio-political shock-rockers Ludus play at The Hacienda, Manchester, England, UK, Europe, they decorate the tables with blood-soaked tampons on paper plates, and their co-founder/singer Linder wears a dress made of meat, which she whips off halfway through the set to reveal a massive dildo.

Full article:

Linder Sterling (Ludus) : At the time at The Hacienda they were showing lots of soft porn, and they thought it was really cool. I took my revenge. I was a vegetarian, I got meat from a Chinese restaurant, all the discarded entrails... The Hacienda was still this male preserve. They were panicking - "It's going to mark the floors!" And they withdrew the Bloody Linder from the cocktail bar.'
 
Dave Formula (keyboards, Ludus) : Tony Wilson came in and just went fucking spare. He went completely bananas. I've never seen him lose it like that before - he's normally the urbane Mr Cool, you know. He was incredibly shaken by it, meaning they put them all away. But then Linder came up with the trump card of the dress.
 
Linder : I remember the audience going back about three foot. There was hardly any applause at the end. And that was a crowd who thought, ‘Nothing can shock us, we see porn all the time, we're cool.’ When that happened, when they stepped back, I thought, that's it. Where do you go from here?
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