Chicks On Speed -vs- Lesbians On Ecstasy

Melissa Logan (from New York), Kiki Moorse (from Munich) and Alex Murray-Leslie (from Bowral, Australia) are Chicks On Speed. They use the Chicks On Speed name for their music productions, clothing label, design work and their record label (Chicks On Speed Records).

Chicks on Speed are art duo Melissa E. Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie who met in Munich, Germany while studying at The Academy of Fine Art, Munich. The duo cross lines and build new groups and are direct decedents of bauhaus, Fluxus, SI and created Electroclash in the last milenia. When they take a break they sleep in a lab and record their dreams which are sonified into the endless songs.

Chicks on Speed are a female electroclash band, born when Alex and Melissa met at the Munich Art Academy in Munich, Germany in 1997. Chicks on Speed's core members are Melissa Logan (Upstate NY, USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Bowral, Australia), who collaborate with amongst others Anat Ben-David (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kathi Glas (Berlin, Germany) and A.L. Steiner (NY, USA). Around Chicks on Speed there is grouped a large and ever-changing collective of musicians, producers, fashion and graphic artists, designers, film and video makers, and so on. Though usually considered part of such musical genres as electroclash, actually Chicks on Speed started as a multidisciplinary art group, who applied punk-inspired DIY ethic to performance art, collage graphics and home-made fashion (they have created their own stage costumes with cheap and recycled material such as plastic bags and gaffa tape, for example). They originally got their name when they earned some extra money at art galleries by hanging paintings to the walls, and someone quipped that they worked like "chicks on speed". They had their own club nights at Munich's Seppi Bar: Chicks on Speed had created an installation piece which was called "I Wanna Be A DJ, Baby", where they stood behind DJ decks and smashed records while a sound collage tape was playing. For this project they also put together a "box set" with a T-shirt, a cassette, a paper record and a fake interview for their "band", at this stage yet imaginary. During this time period they met Upstart (a.k.a. Peter Wacha) of Disko B record label who helped Chicks on Speed to actually get started in music.

Chicks on Speed's attitude, combining punk rock aesthetics and feminism – inspired among all by the cultural criticism of such people as Situationists, Valerie Solanas or Stewart Home – towards music-making is mischievous, prankish and not a little bit ambiguous; they have jokingly called themselves a "fake band", as a sort of parody of producer-led girl groups like Spice Girls. On the other hand they are very serious about running the whole business; with single and album releases, promotional videos, tours and their own record label, not to mention their art exhibitions, performances, fashion designs and similar activities. The ambiguity is about whether they want to remain an experimental art project or aspire towards being a pop act making it all the way to the charts.

Website: http://www.chicksonspeed.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chicksonspeed/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chicksonspeed/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chicksonspeed
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@chicksonspeed
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/chicks-on-speed
Banndcamp: https://chicksonspeed.bandcamp.com/

Chicks on Speed - Text, Vodka & Le Rock’n’Roll

Chicks on Speed - Kaltes, klares Wasser

Chicks on Speed - Wordy Rappinghood

Chicks on Speed - We don't play Guitars

Chicks on Speed - Super Surfer Girl

Chicks on Speed - Glamour Girl

Chicks on Speed - Utopia

Chicks on Speed - Vaccinate Me Baby

Chicks On Speed - We Are Data (Cora Novoa Radio Edit Remix)

Chicks On Speed - Warm Leatherette HD

Electronica all-female group from Canada, formed in 2003 in Montreal.
Lesbians On Ecstasy is an electro band from Montréal, Québec, Canada in 2003. The band consists of:

Fruity Frankie, aka Lynne T: vocals
Veronique Mystique: bass guitar
Jackie "the Jackhammer": drums
Bernie Bankrupt: keyboard and samples

The band's name is a twist on the name of renowned electroclash group "Chicks on Speed".
The band toured across Canada and the US with Le Tigre before the release of their first recording. The first album, the self-titled Lesbians On Ecstasy was released on October 26, 2004. In 2005, the song "Bitchsy" from this recording was featured on the tv series, Queer as Folk. That same year, Lesbians On Ecstasy was chosen as the 'Album of the Year' by the U.S. magazine The Advocate.

In the summer of 2005, the band released their follow-up recording Giggles In The Dark, an LP of Lesbians On Ecstasy remixes by Le Tigre, Scream Club, Tracy and the Plastics, Kids on TV (featuring Maggie MacDonald), 1-Speed Bike, DJ AÏ, Jody Bleyle (formerly of Team Dresch), Katastrophe and Sean Kosa.

Lesbians On Ecstasy are a sound force that bridges the gap between electro/techno with punk rock and occasional flirtations with the clamor and thud of industrial music. The band’s varied musical influences are mirrored by the diverse crowds packing their live shows, a melting pot of disco queens, party goers, indie rockers and even punks and metal heads if you happen to catch them in Hamburg. The band’s live set-up consists of sample-based sounds traditionally heard on dance floors everywhere, but in L.O.E.’s case the sounds are performed live with electronic drum pads, live bass, synthesizers and a bevy of effects and pedals.

The band is on currently on hiatus and its future is in doubt.

Members: Bernie Bankrupt, Fruity Frankie, Jackie The Jackhammer, Marie-Hélène Delorme, Veronique Mystique

Website: http://lezziesonx.com/ https://lesbiansonecstasy.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lezzies.onx/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lezzies_on_x/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaCOfSzkVJhtTKYBh-9Cq-w
Bandcamp: https://alien8recordings.bandcamp.com/

Lesbians on Ecstasy - Sedition