#Divinyls

[perversion666]

the vibe at the moment

[balkanparamo]

Ybon: DiVinyls

[n-poeticus]

“I love myself, I want you to love me”

[riphertoshreds]

Chrissy Amphlett on stage, photographed by Paul Jendrasiak in 1991.

[dramalove247]

Coping with The Heart Killers drought

Neither one of us could stop thinking about The Heart Killers and Fadel Style... but we're fixated on very different moments. The contrast will tell you a lot about our personalities. 🤣🤣🤣

Anyone else hear this song when watching Fadel??? Playing on repeat in 🐈Kat's brain while giggling to herself...

🐠Dori's brain twisting the knife Fadel left in her heart...

Less than a week to go. We can do this! Lying to ourselves is also our coping strategy.

[fabulous-gabulous-theartist]

Just a silly idea that popped into my head. PV and Boxman crash Billiam's Cobmas party and Venomous gets stupid drunk.

Honestly has a lot of fun drawing PV drunk and being the stupid one.

Edit: Fixed Boxman's hand.

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 65 years ago: Christina Amphlett (née Christine Joy Amphlett, 25 October 1959 – 21 April 2013), feral and perverse raspy-voiced frontwoman of Australian post-punk band Divinyls. I’ve seen madmen Iggy Pop and Lux Interior of the Cramps perform and Amphlett matched them for lunacy and intensity. And like Lydia Lunch, she created a sense of tension and drama simply by turning up. In her warts-and-all 2005 memoirs Pleasure and Pain, she-devil Amphlett recalled that when Divinyls toured the US for the first time, audiences frequently recoiled in horror from her onstage antics. You can see why Jim Farber of Rolling Stone would summarize her demonically possessed St Trinian’s girl persona as “all four Shangri-Las rolled into one – with a snatch of pre-exorcised Linda Blair tossed in.” I was privileged to see Divinyls perform and interview bad girl Amphlett for my university newspaper in 1991 in Montréal (when Divinyls had their fluke late-career international hit with “I Touch Myself”). She was great! The Montréal audience was totally nonplussed by the volatile Amphlett’s confrontational sex kitten-gone-berserk “glamour fits” (there was lots of deep stripper squats, breast-cupping and crotch-grabbing delivered with a snarl). The New York Times critic absolutely nailed this combativeness: “Ms Amphlett often touched herself as she sang, but she wasn’t flirting with the audience or the band… Many of her gestures were those of a hostess at a party she didn’t want to give, with contemptuous curtsies and over-elaborate arm waves … The audience … didn’t seem to approve of Ms Amphlett’s mixed messages … pop audiences like their come-ons without irony; otherwise, there’s a possibility that the joke might be on them.” Pictured: Amphlett with Divinyls’ co-founder and guitarist Mark McEntee circa 1985. The two were in a tempestuous romantic relationship and Divinyls’ music is essentially the sound of them fighting. Amphlett died far too young from a combination of Multiple Sclerosis and breast cancer.

[psychedeliclush]

( INFORMATION AND EXAMPLES OF EACH GENRE UNDER CUT )

AUSTRALIAN PUB ROCK !

Artists: INXS, Divinyls, The Angels, Cold Chisel, AC/DC

Most popular Era: 70s - 80s

Basic definition: Australian pub rock gets its name from the fact that the majority of associated bands developed their sound at inner-city and suburban pubs. The genre incorporates elements of hard rock and blues rock, with the occasional mix of psychedelic and progressive rock. Multiple Aussie pub rock bands would experience huge mainstream success, such as AC/DC and INXS.

Song examples:

VISUAL KEI !

Artists: X Japan, DIR EN GREY, Luna Sea, kaneto-juusei, Malice Mizer

Most popular Era: late 80s - mid 90s

Basic definition: Visual Kei (or "Visual Style") is a genre that began in the 1980s in Japan. The genre encapsulates a variety of different genres, such as heavy metal, glam rock, and gothic rock. Visual kei is most known for its distinctive look, with bands commonly wearing intricate clothing and detailed makeup, playing into the shock and glam aspect. The music itself is known for heavy guitar riffs, along with the occasional ballad.

Song examples:

[queer-reader-07]

Wet Dream by Wet Leg and I Touch Myself by Divinyls are in a mildly toxic lesbian relationship with each other in my mind

[darlinhutchence]

Michael Hutchence and Chrissy Amphlett reading Smash hits magazine sometime in the late 80s.

[beelzebub-barbie-art]

Chrissy Amphlett of Divinyls

[musicman69love]

Christine Amphlett, the powerhouse sexy frontwoman of the Australian Rock Band "The Divinyls" sadly passed away in 2013 from MS and Breast Cancer. The MS complications did not allow her to get treated for the cancer. I was lucky to see them with her. What a rocking band, and what a tragedy.

[myimaginaryradio]

I Touch Myself - Divinyls - 1991

[riphertoshreds]

Chrissy Amphlett is such a rockstar.

[ms-boogie-man]

Divinyls - Only Lonely (1982)

Chrissy Amphlett, Mark McEntee

Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎

[the-spooky-mind-of-spiderwish]

80s Summer Beach Party