Lu Edmonds

Lu Edmonds
Lu Edmonds performing with The Mekons on July 15, 2015.
Background information
Birth name	Robert David Edmonds
Born	(1957-09-09) 9 September 1957
Origin	Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Genres	Punk rock, new wave, alternative rock, folk rock, world music
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Guitar, bass, keyboards, bouzouki, baglama, drums
Associated acts	Public Image Ltd, The Damned, Shriekback, The Spizzles, The Mekons

Robert David "Lu" Edmonds (born 9 September 1957) is an English rock and folk musician. He is currently a vocalist and saz player in The Mekons and the lead guitarist for Public Image Limited. Growing up abroad in Poland, South America, Russia and Cyprus, Edmonds was educated in local schools and at Ampleforth College.

Edmonds first came to prominence as a member of The Damned, playing guitar on their second album, 1977's Music For Pleasure. It was the rest of the band that nicknamed him "Lu"—short for "Lunatic". Billed simply as "Lu" while with The Damned, subsequent bands billed him as Lu Edmonds (or occasionally "Lu Knee"). He has played in Public Image Ltd, The Spizzles, The Mekons, Shriekback, as a Bloke in Billy Bragg & the Blokes as well as on tracks by The Waterboys and Kirsty MacColl. He also co-wrote songs with MacColl for her first album and played lead guitar on her first single "They Don't Know" (and also on the cover of that song by comedian Tracey Ullman).^[1] He has played various instruments in "world music" pioneers 3 Mustaphas 3 under the pseudonym Uncle Patrel Mustapha Bin Mustapha. Edmonds reportedly plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, bouzouki, saz, cümbüs, oud and drums, among other instruments.^[2]

In 2009, together with fellow-pickers Justin Adams and Ben Mandelson, Edmonds formed the band Les Triaboliques,^[3] and released their debut album Rivermudtwilight.^[4] Edmonds was guitarist/vocalist in new-wave band "The Edge" in 1979. This band also featured drummer Jon Moss, (whom Edmonds met in The Damned, and who went on to become the drummer in Culture Club), bassist Glyn Havard who played in proto neo-age prog-rock gods Jade Warrior and keyboardist Gavin Povey who now plays with UK virtuoso guitarist Albert Lee in Hogans Heroes.

In 2010, Edmonds appeared on Poets and Lighthouses, the latest album by Albert Kuvezin of the Tuvan ethnic-rock fusion group Yat Kha.^[5]

References

↑ Lu Edmonds at AllMusic
↑ "Lu Edmonds". Norbert "Nobby" Knape. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
↑ Les Triaboliques at AllMusic
↑ Rivermudtwilight at AllMusic
↑ "Official website of Yat Kha". yat-kha.ru. Retrieved 2 April 2013.

External links

Biography & Discography

The Damned

Dave Vanian Captain Sensible Monty Oxymoron Pinch Stu West Brian James Rat Scabies Lu Edmonds Dave Berk Henry Badowski Jon Moss Lemmy Algy Ward Gary Holton Paul Gray Roman Jugg Bryn Merrick Paul Shepley Kris Dollimore Alan Lee Shaw Moose Harris Garrie Dreadful Patricia Morrison Spike Smith

Studio albums	Damned Damned Damned Music for Pleasure Machine Gun Etiquette The Black Album Strawberries Phantasmagoria Anything Not of This Earth Grave Disorder So, Who's Paranoid?

Live albums	Live Shepperton 1980 Live at Newcastle The Captain's Birthday Party Not the Captain's Birthday Party? Final Damnation Ballroom Blitz – Live at the Lyceum Molten Lager Live at the 100 Club

Compilation albums	Light at the End of the Tunnel The Radio One Sessions Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987

EPs	Friday 13th EP Testify

Singles	"New Rose" "Neat Neat Neat" "Stretcher Case Baby" "Problem Child" "Don't Cry Wolf" "Love Song" "Smash It Up" "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" "White Rabbit" "The History of the World (Part 1)" "There Ain't No Sanity Clause" "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" "Wait for the Blackout" "Lovely Money" "Dozen Girls" "Lively Arts" "Generals" "Thanks for the Night" "Grimly Fiendish" "The Shadow of Love" "Is It a Dream?" "Eloise" "Gigolo" "Anything" "Alone Again Or" "In Dulce Decorum" "Fun Factory" "Prokofiev" "Shut It" "Little Miss Disaster"

Associated acts	Masters of the Backside London SS The Lords of the New Church Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords Naz Nomad and the Nightmares

Related articles	Discography "Nasty" The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead

Public Image Ltd

John Lydon Lu Edmonds Bruce Smith Scott Firth Keith Levene Jah Wobble Jim Walker Vivian Jackson David Humphrey Richard Dudanski Karl Burns Martin Atkins Steve New Ken Lockie Pete Jones John McGeoch Allan Dias

Studio albums	Public Image: First Issue Metal Box The Flowers of Romance Commercial Zone This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get Album Happy? 9 That What Is Not This Is PiL What the World Needs Now...

Live albums	Paris au Printemps Live in Tokyo

Compilation albums	The Greatest Hits, So Far Plastic Box

Singles	"Public Image" "Death Disco" "Memories" "Flowers of Romance" "This Is Not a Love Song" "Bad Life" "Rise" "Home"

Related articles	Members Sex Pistols The Clash The Damage Manual Cowboys International The Flowers of Romance Jeannette Lee

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