Forget classical training — Arto Lindsay has been involved in a wide and wonderful cross section of music for more than 30 years. Lindsay is also an extraordinarily gifted storyteller and was witness to a time when the worlds of experimental music and the so-called fine arts were only starting to take notice of each other. As one of the outstanding figures of the illustrious Lower East Side avant-garde (alongside the likes of Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, David Byrne, John Zorn, Richard Kern and many, many more) he was deeply involved in the no wave scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s, and thus knows a tale or two about crucial points in pop culture, and how the girls went crazy for a bunch of guys in suits called the Lounge Lizards. He remained a focal point of the downtown Manhattan scene all throughout the 1980s, with projects like DNA, the Golden Palominos and Ambitious Lovers.
