Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[golnar AT maximumrocknroll.com]

Woah, I wanna see this video! Couldn't find it on YouTube...

As far as I know, Unit 3 + Venus had an EP called Beer ("Beer isn't good
for you! I don't like beer!") and a song ("B.O.Y.S.") on the 2nd Rodney on
the Roq comp. Does anyone know anything else? Their songs are such a weird
mixture of amazing and creepy, with an eight year old girl intoning over
dissonant guitar parts. I still totally need this EP!

-g

p.s. I can't remember if U3+V has been written about before on this
listserv, but they also had a "brother" band in Mad Society, an early L.A.
punk band fronted by a 11-year old boy wearing punk Davy Crockett gear.
Rumor has it that he and Venus were "dating" at the time, whatever the
hell that means...
p.p.s. Layla you have to play these songs on the radio again! The old
shows were taken down!

> I recorded on videotape the appearance of Venus and Unit 3 performing
> their "hit" song, "Scott Baio", live at "Florentine Gardens" in Los
> Angeles, California plus a 10 second interview with Venus by Peter Ivers
> on the TV show, "New Wave Theatre", as broadcast on the USA network back
> on Aug. 26, 1983.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Layla Gibbon <lpgibbon AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Unreleased Chandra album
> To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa
>       1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> I love Chandra but she is not the only post punk child
> star! you are forgetting Unit 3 plus venus! they had
> an 8 year old singer and played post- Screamers LA art
> punk! They have a 7" and a comp track I think? I have
> played both singerrs/bands on MRR radio before
>
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