Edie Sedgwick

Washington Post journalist Justin Moyer spent years playing in post punk bands in the US capital, but his creation of E.D. Sedgwick - an electro-clash drag queen named after Andy Warhol's muse - made him the talk of the indie underground in the 2000s. The band Edie Sedgwick formed in 1999 when Moyer started writing songs about dead celebrities with drummer Ryan Hicks, and they released their eponymous debut album on Mud Memory Records before Moyer was diagnosed with epilepsy and was forced to stop touring. The project was revived in 2004 when he emerged smothered in make-up and clad like a 1970s disco diva, and released the acclaimed dance album Her Love Is Real But She Is Not. Grouped alongside the likes of Peaches, Fischerspooner and Ladytron, Moyer ditched the female attire after the release of Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer (2008) and recruited an all-female band for Love Gets Lovelier Every Day (2011) and We Wear White (2012).

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