Suburban Lawns - Unable- Live

Suburban Lawns, Long Beach, California Feb. 24th, 1979. Photos By Ann Summa, Su Tissue painting by Tomata du Plenty (Screamers), "Slash" magazine cover art by Mark Vallen. Any uncredited photographers please contact me here so I can give you the proper credit.
"The Suburban Lawns were from Long Beach and featured a bizarre, off-kilter singer named Su Tissue."-- Craig Lee
"Like a character from 'Eraserhead,' Tissue has a rivetingly grotesque beauty....she seems to be in some sort of pain and stands so still that the smallest gesture becomes loaded with power--minimalism at its finest....the question everyone was asking at the Starwood wasn't 'Will they get signed," but rather, "Is Su Tissue for real? Is she actually like that offstage?' It's ultimately irrelevant whether she's a well-adjusted bachelorette in real life because when she edges up to the microphone, awkward and odd as a subject from a Diane Arbus photograph, you can't take your eyes off her." --L.A. Times
"The intensity of her neurotic performance, her quivering clenched attempts at grasping the mic stand, the twisted deformed shape of her face while she spews out her lyrics, it was all very unexpected and slightly awesome. That strange unfashionably dressed girl sang like others slip into the first stage of an epileptic fit. Absolutely unlike anybody else in the vocal originality sweepstakes.
And the performance she stunned us with stuck with me for the next few hours. It was hard to believe I saw what I saw, and even harder to absorb it in a reasonably satisfying manner. Puzzlement, and a very strong need to see more of it."--Kickboy Face/Claude Bessey
"Sue Tissue comes out...in a beige boarding-school blouse and 'good' wool skirt, her long brown hair pulled back from the round, childish forehead, she looks exactly like a Jehovah's Witness, But wait-- in the prim navy pumps there are several dozen nails driven through the platform soles...
My attention never wanders when she's onstage: the music becomes subsidiary to the force of her strained, feverish performance. Eyes popping, over-ripe lips pursed in an asexual pout, she clings to the mic stand, fingers white from the pressure. She is very nervous-- her legs shake; even her face shakes. This only heightens the clenched-teeth feeling of her performance." --Slash magazine

[@OccupyJordan]

More live lawns please.

[@surfleopard]

OccupyJordan just posted another

[@ughman7694]

1979 was the best year in the 80s

[@ughman7694]

Holy fuck suburban lawns played with the germs

[@surfleopard]

Many times. And with X and many others

[@1seansouth]

wow

[@gogoyubari366]

Yes kiddie winkies, Suburban Lawns was a punk band.

[@surfleopard]

EXACTLY! There was no such thing as "new wave" back then. The Lawns were considered an "art punk" band

[@flesone9936]

I want a su tissue girl if they still exist

[@elhatesallofyou]

flesone You just gotta look for her in the underground hangouts, dude.

[@saganyouth5123]

Is this taken from a live Suburban Lawns 1979 tape going around? Thank You

[@surfleopard]

1978-79. Two discs and 2 locations

[@neuymarc]

abducted by aliens...vanished into thin air