FLEXING NEW MUSCLE: SLAV SIREN TO PLAY MATA HARI
Marlene Premilovich—professionally, Lene Lovich—has been out of the musical limelight for awhile, since the January 1980 release of Flex and a subsequent tour of Ireland, America and Europe (including her ancestral Yugoslavia). She did only two live turns this summer: both on the stage of London’s Venue, helping a visiting Tom Verlaine with sax and co-vocals on “Postcard From Waterloo.”
FLEXING NEW MUSCLE: SLAV SIREN TO PLAY MATA HARI
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Cynthia Rose
Marlene Premilovich—professionally, Lene Lovich—has been out of the musical limelight for awhile, since the January 1980 release of Flex and a subsequent tour of Ireland, America and Europe (including her ancestral Yugoslavia). She did only two live turns this summer: both on the stage of London’s Venue, helping a visiting Tom Verlaine with sax and co-vocals on “Postcard From Waterloo.”
And though her famous locks streamed down unbound (revealing a cascade of colors from blonde through auburn to black) over a plain dress, Lene was rapturously recognized by one and all—bar a couple of music critics.
This October, after two years of confusions and re-evaluation, Lene’s putting her revitalized energies and hard-won equilibrium to the service of something completely different: a London stage musical about Dutch adventuress Mata Hari (executed as a spy under somewhat dubious circumstances on October 15, 1917).