Camille O’Grady - Terminal Fascination LP

Another gem potentially lost to the recesses of history that has been excavated by the ever-great Dark Entries! According to the liner notes, Camille O’Grady spent her early years kicking around CBGBs where her band Leather Secrets supported the likes of Television while also crossing over to play gay, leather and BDSM clubs throughout NYC before relocating to San Francisco, yet never released a record in her lifetime.

Primarily consisting of a live recording from 1979, O’Grady’s music is embedded in the kind of camp, drama, and filth that coloured post punk of the time. Pulsing organ lines underpin her songs of dressing in leathers, picking up in bars, S+M, songs dotted with appearances of classic film actors, with between song banter displaying her caustic and dry sense of humour. One to file alongside  edges of performance, poetry, and music such as Karen Finley, or Patti Smith with less sepia-toned hero-worship and a bit more grit! –Mitch

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