Meg Lee Chin

Meg Lee Chin was born on 16 March 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan, to a US Air Force electronics engineer and a Taiwanese mother.[11] She worked as a sound engineer while studying experimental art and video production at San Francisco State University, forming her first band, Felix Natural, during the early 1980s. Chin went on to co-found the short-lived Teknofear with Lunachicks drummer Becky Wreck and Swans guitarist Joe Goldring; frustrated with American life, she spent the late 1980s living in London, and eventually formed the all-female band Crunch.[9] Crunch had the distinction of being one of the first Western bands to perform in Ukraine just after the breakup of the U.S.S.R. After the tour the band gifted their Russian hosts with a DAT tape of an album's worth of their music to be distributed throughout the USSR copyright free. [12]

She has been recording since her college days in San Francisco, when she recorded Faith No More's first-ever recording on her 4-track, and the vocalist was one Ms Courtney Love! Meg grew tired of being ignored by chauvinistic male engineers who ignored her in the studio so she rolled her sleeves up and produced her debut album in 2000 (out on Invisible Records) at home on a PC. [13] [14]

Other works include a remix album Junkies and Snakes,[15] also released on Invisible, along with some remixed covers of Ministry, David Bowie and Dead Kennedys tracks. A notable track, "Nutopia", paints an apocalyptic vision of the future as a twist on Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl". Tracks have appeared on Showtime's "Queer as Folk",[16][17] Warner Bros. Records "Witchblade" [18] and "Sleeper Cell".[19]

Chin contributed tracks for Underground, Inc. releases such as the 2004 release of What's the Word, Volume One, featuring Jello Biafra, Mike Ladd, among others.[20] In 2014 she released "I Can't Pull the Trigger" as a music video. [21]

In 2000 she built, developed and co-founded Gearslutz.[22] Gearslutz is the largest pro-audio producer and sound engineer's forum on the web. On the 18th June 2010 in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, Meg Lee Chin won a claim against her former partner Julian Standen. After 3 years of battling for her right to ownership Judge Mr Justice Briggs ruled in Meg's favour for claim #HC07C03181. The settlement was agreed out of court.[23]

Meg now lives in London, England[9] She blog's regularly [24] and has also written articles for Country Squire magazine in the UK. [25] After the UK's 2016 referendum to leave the EU Meg formed the "Brexit Creatives" along with The Football Factory (novel) novelist John King (author) independent arts consultant Manick Govinda,[26] Arts and Society Forum convener Dr. Wendy Earle. [27] On March 29. 2019 Meg appeared as a panelist on a "Uniqlo Tate Lates" discussion at London's Tate Gallery along with 3 other London artists. The discussion entitled "Artists Explore Brexit" and was to explore contemporary European identity in the work of the panelists. [28]

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