Boyband star Mark Feehily has revealed that the performance artist is his 'inspirational hero'
Lost in Showbiz was this week delighted to see a deeply improbable name crop up in conjunction with late performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery: Mark Feehily of the boyband Westlife, who, in an article to mark what would have been Bowery's 50th birthday, describes the man behind the fashion collections Pakis From Outer Space, Mincing Queens and Disease/Spastic as "a creative and inspirational hero".
Something about the combination of the words "Leigh Bowery" "inspirational" and "Westlife" caused LiS's mind to boggle in no uncertain terms. It notes that Bowery variously performed naked with his face blacked up; administered enemas to himself on stage and climaxed his act by "giving birth" to a blood and excrement-covered woman before apparently vomiting in her mouth and giving her a cup of urine to drink: "The kids were all covered in blood and piss," remembered one observer happily.
LiS fully expects to see the great man's influence very much in evidence during the next Westlife tour, provisionally titled From Singing Ballads While Perched On Stools To Showering Our Audience With Them: indeed, it finds itself booking front-row seats, pausing only to take the precautionary measure of ordering a sou'wester and waterproof hat. Furthermore, it crosses its fingers in hope that this ushers in a whole new era of boybands, in which extreme performance art inspired by extreme performance art. It suspects that at this very moment JLS are debating whether to appear on The National Lottery Live singing the Austrian National Anthem while masturbating and cutting themselves with razors in the manner of G�nter Brus's contribution to the 1968 action Art and Revolution and that Simon Cowell is planning on forcing Harry from One Direction to crawl naked across broken glass then have his hands nailed to a Volkswagen Beetle in homage to the oeuvre of Chris Burden.
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