ArtistInfo

Peter Laugesen

voc, h, *1942 DK, Aarhus
Rock and Spoken Word
A.k.a. Consul Pepsi & The Sweet Thunder Poetry Parade

Peter Laugesen (born 5 March 1942 in Copenhagen) is a Danish poet and playwright who lives in Arhus.Peter graduated from Aarhus Cathedral School in 1961 and trained as a typographer. He became a member of the Situationist International in 1962. He was attracted by the writing of Ivan Chtcheglov and contacted Jeppesen Victor Martin and participated in a Situationist exhibition in Denmark. He was then invited to France where he met Guy Debord and Michelle Bernstein and was attracted to the dérive as a poetic practice. He was also influenced by Alexander Trocchi and his book Cain's Book. He was expelled in 1963. because he refused to give up poetic practice. It was only later that he met Jørgen Nash with whom he became good friends. He published his first collection of poems, Landscape, in 19

Instruments

• Vocals
• Harmonica

Genres

• Rock
• Spoken Word
• Folk
• World
• Electronic