Winston Tong:
Probably best known as the singer for Tuxedomoon, is a multi-disciplinary performance artist from San Francisco, the son of Chinese parents exiled by the Communist revolution. Graduating in Theatre from the California Institute of Arts in 1973, he quickly established a reputation in the Bay Area with a string of charismatic Avant-garde performance pieces such as "Wild Boys" and the Obie Award winning "Bound Feet". In late 1977 Tong met an early incarnation of Tuxedomoon, then comprising Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Victoria Lowe. Tong agreed to perform with the band as and when time allowed, a flexible arrangement which would remain in place until he finally ceased working with the band in 1985. At about the same time Tong met Bruce Geduldig, who would take on responsibility for visuals and staging with both Tong and Tuxedomoon. Tong's first record appeared in the spring of 1979 and is a Tuxedomoon release in all but name. Featuring

Tuxedomoon members Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger, Peter Principle and Paul Zahl, "The Stranger" paid homage to the existential classic by Albert Camus, while the flipside "Love / No Hope" offered spiky angst-rock at one with the first two Tuxedomoon eps, "No Tears" and "Scream With a View". Tong was absent from the first Tuxedomoon album, "Half Mute", but returned for "Desire" (released to great acclaim in 1981) as well as their first European tour. Soon afterwards the band relocated to Europe on a permanent basis, settling first in Rotterdam and then Brussels. Several albums emerged on which Tong featured heavily, including "Divine", "Suite en Sous-Sol" and "The Ghost Sonata", the latter an ambitious 'opera without words' staged in Italy in the summer of 1982. This tally also includes the classic single "Time to Lose". Tong's 'sophisticated disco'/'pop' album, "Theoretically Chinese", released in 1985, was "an album of peerless electronic dance pop, the sound expansive and expensive, and a million miles from the angst, night and fog for which Tuxedomoon were renowned." Tong had already donated "his best solo composition", 'In A Manner of Speaking' to Tuxedomoon. This song proved an undisputed highlight of Tuxedomoon's 1985 album Holy Wars; later being covered by Martin Gore (of Depeche Mode), "free-style" artists T.K.A., and most recently the French bossa-nova post-punk covers group Nouvelle Vague, among (many) others. This phenomenally popular song has also recently been used for a yogurt commercial (!) in Spain, in a BBC TV show, featured in a French film soundtrack, and more. Currently recording new work, Tong has continued to perform his own pieces, as well as performing with Tuxedomoon for their San Francisco reunion shows in March 2005; most recently joining the stage with Nouvelle Vague in San Francisco for their cover of Tong's "In A Manner Of Speaking" (September 2005)

LX RUDIS:
whatever. ancient synthpunk type rocker dude, transgressed into the realm of interactive entertainment when software was still sometimes sold in plastic baggies. rumor has it he'll be taking the stage with a server next time out, and intends to dump the Interweb, alive and wriggling, onto an unsuspecting audience. but perhaps that's not the case. one thing's for certain - that 'bio' blog is waaaaay overdue. and he's too damned busy with the present to even think about writing about 1979, no matter how cool it were. oh well. whatever. keep checking back, keep badgering him. he does get things done, but typically in his own time, on his own terms...