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we will upload some new photos from the old days..1970s -of Sylvia & The Synthetics in Sydney.

Thanks for being patient.

Update soon...

Hi folks-

apologies for being so slow in getting things up and running but we have been working on a proposed exhibition of Sylvia and the Synthetics and all who travelled along with them.

We hope to have the proper website up and running by LATE 2013 and exciting news about the exhibition!..

lots of love until then..

xx Oscar

Murder at the Pink Tarantula

By Jack Boulware Wednesday, Jun 18 1997 

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Carmel Sanger's death -- a walk-in shooting at a SOMA hair salon called the Pink Tarantula -- was professionally brutal. Her life was a wondrous combination of the drag queens and musicians and druggies and gays and bikers and lesbians and tattooists

 The hustling came in many forms. A boyfriend who did advertising voice-overs got her a similar gig. Soon, her young voice was heard on Australian television, shilling for an ambulance service. She made and sold jewelry and sang in punk bands, but her true talent -- her eye for the outlandish edge of fashion -- was already emerging. On her own body. Her head was totally shaved; outrageous mascara and eyeliner swoops launched out from her eyes and whooshed back across the temples, twin ocular flames that met at the back of her skull. She modeled for the hip '70s Australian designer Zandra Rhodes. British photographer Norman Parkinson came to town, in the midst of putting together a book on punk fashion called Beautiful Women. Although his finished product focused on the street-rat scene of London, two shots were included from Australia. Both were of Carmel.

http://www.sfweekly.com/1997-06-18/news/murder-at-the-pink-tarantula/2/