Entertainment For Lively Minds
Chainsaw Chick: Rock Stars and their Strange Hobbies
I watched the movie about The Runaways last night, it was OK, great music and a couple of good performances from the actor who played Kim Fowley (it took me while to realise it was the same actor who played the god-fearing, puritanical prohibition Agent in "Boardwalk Empire") and the girl who played Joan Jett, who was excellent.
I know that Joan Jett went on to have a solo career after The Runaways, but I always wondered what happened to lead singer Cherie Currie. I have now discovered, thanks to the "where are they now?" blurbs during the movie's end credits, that the gorgeous Cherry Bomb herself is now a "Chainsaw Artist"...!
If there's a more bizarre career switch or hobby from a rock star I'd really like to know about it.
Does the Massive have any other examples to beat this?
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I give you Alannah Currie out of the Thompson Twins
Makes armchairs out of dead animals.
Where's my prize?
Damn! Trumped already...
Yes, you're right that is even stranger (and slightly more creepy).
I'll have to think of a suitably bizarre prize to hand over at the next Massive gathering...
She doesn't kill them though.
They top themselves when she starts to hum "We Are Detective".
Phranc
as in the lesbian folk-singer last seen supporting The Smiths, Billy Bragg, et al is now a Cardboard Cobbler.
A what?
Yes readers, she makes shoes out of cardboard...
http://phrancthecardboardcobbler.blogspot.com/
Crikey...
my idea of a bizarre hobby is obviously extremely conservative!
PE X
Public Enemy's Terminator X is an ostrich farmer.
Yes, but...
... could his ostriches beat the Security of The First World in a fair fight?
Cheese
I thought Alex James and his cheese was a real career change until now, but Alannah Currie has raised the bar. (Assuming that making chairs out of dead animals doesn't just mean leather covers)
Greg Lake
Songwriter, Rocker, Pen Aficionado
Bet he shops here
http://www.penisland.net/
At the risk of repetition
Keyboard player in D-Ream to Particle Physicist. Famous particle physicist to boot. Not many of those around.
any feckin' excuse
because it's so feckin' awesome, like
feck...
Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter
chairs Congress's Civilian Advisory Board for Ballistic Missile Defense.
"Never Mind The Butter"
"Pretty Vacant" to "Country Life" is quite a shift isn't it?
Matthew Sweet
Makes slightly strange Rosina Wachtmeister-esque pottery cats.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LolinaArtPottery
Bill Wyman
Doesn't he now sell metal detectors and those strange plastic cigarettes that emit some sort of water vapour-based 'smoke'?
Ugly Rumours
One of them went on to become a music journalist.
But whatever
happened to Mark Ellen?
(Sorry... someone had to...)