Lu Edmonds

Robert David F. "Lu" Edmonds (born 9 September 1957, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English rock and folk musician. 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 (PiL), 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 comedienne Tracy Ullmann). He also played various instruments in "world music" pioneers 3 Mustaphas 3 under the pseudonym Uncle Patrel Mustapha Bin Mustapha. Edmonds plays guitar, bass, keyboards, bass-pulur, bozok, bouzouk, saz, cümbüs, ud, Norwegian flute, tüngür, drums and he once played some Turkish bagpipes on a Mekons record. In 2009, together with fellow-pickers Justin Adams and Ben Mandelson, Edmonds formed the band Les Triaboliques, and released their debut album Rivermudtwilight. Edmonds was also guitarist/vocalist in new-wave band "The Edge" in 1979. This band also featured drummer Jon Moss, who 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 uber virtuoso-guitarist Albert Lee in Hogans Heroes. In 2010, Lu Edmonds appeared on Poets and Lighthouses, the latest album by Albert Kuvezin of the Tuvan ethnic-rock fusion group Yat Kha.

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