David McIntosh

David McIntosh is a writer, singer, performer, and Artistic Producer of battery opera. Born in Kentucky, trained through transience, the construction industry and taxis, he now lives in Vancouver, BC. His theatre work, art/punk/fuck bands, lounge acts, video and audio work have been performed and shown internationally. His stories have been published in bourgeois fashion magazines as well as a play in the National Theatre Review. He has co-created four or five dance works.

In 1995, he co-founded battery opera with Lee Su-Feh with whom he has been collaborating ever since he was run over while on his bicycle somewhere between Kuantan and Kota Baru.

Since 1989 he has studied martial arts with such teachers as Li Yu Wen, Xu Gong Wei and John Camp. He is currently a student of Bagua Master, Yang Guo Tai.

To read David's career suicide blog go here.

David in Paris




A Holiday Messages from the 1980s with Five Year Fuck at the Railway Club:


David McIntosh reciting "t'were", a poem brought to his attention by Adrienne Wong, who got it from her sister Karen, who got it from a  boyfriend (now former), to whom it was given by an acquaintance he soon after stopped associating with. -Anonymous, as it t'were, and yet it spoke to him.