My life in advertising: scoring drugs, porn and commercials
In this guest column, Glenn Dormand aka Chit Chat von LoopinStab formerly of Machine Gun Fellatio and currently MusicMAX, on how he went from writing music for porn to TVCs, repurposing work in unexpected ways, and why you might get paid in chicken.
I came to make music in advertising by making music in porn. How I got into porn is a longer story for another time but it was definitely a major stepping-stone to getting to work on some truly abstract art being dressed up as commerce.
Hours spent underscoring the ‘in and out’ left its mark on my already addled mind but it also gave me and my fellow musicians a little dough to invest in our own pop music release: 18 tracks that no record company was likely to ever go near put on to one self-funded CD, Unsound Sounds.
One track, Isaac or Fuzz became a minor novelty hit on Triple J, got us a record deal and began the live music career of Machine Gun Fellatio.
Long time fan. first time caller. Glenn you are a god. Bring back MGF.
This is the most fantastic thing I’ve read in a long time. Thank you for making my day. Jason
Best all time Mumbrella op-ed!
I was one of the owners of the agency responsible for the Cottees and Solo work. I had no idea 😉
Some really good 90s spots. When ads were awesomely weird and nobody cared.
Fuck, bring some of that shit back.