ARE U DOWN WIT NWW?

All in all, I can only echo Ned... guh.

... when else would you release the most partyin' CD of 2006?

his butler cleans irr.app.ex's sheets! i saw that

i wouldn't classify him as a 'this guy' though

http://www.nndb.com/people/080/000033978/stapleton01.jpg

http://www.cosmomovieawards.com/actors/images/simonpegg_shaun.jpg

This was the case during Stapleton's utterly whacked "DJ set" in Portland (ostensibly the record release party for the Eelectric trilogy). Except that time it was Stapleton who joined the Irr.App.Ext people (there were 4) during their opening set for a live encore of, I kid you not, "Cooloorta Moon". Mr. Nurse played the little whistle-sounding thing.

Any news on the album?

btw, any reports on NWW live in SF? did anyone go?

Our plan was initially to stop and camp on the way because everybody told us it took a long time. But as we flew down the coast and approached the city, it was only 5 PM! We kept going and found a hotel around the block from the club (the Great American Music Hall). We decided to go to the FIRST night of NWW performances - there were two and we only had tickets to Saturday. They still had tickets so we ate excellent Thai food and settled in to the club. Somebody dressed as a huge surreal starfish-like creature was playing the accordion as an opening act. Then the NWW crew came out with augmented members and performed a version of their track "Salt Marie Celeste". Long, oceanic drone with shivering noises scampering around the outskirts. We were impressed but not blown away.

After a day of record shopping and exploration of the Golden Gate Park Conservatory's butterfly exhibit, we ate some excellent tapas at Cha Cha Cha (right next to Amoeba on Haight, if you're going there). Ceviche, jerk chicken, and an unbelievable fried banana dish with a black bean sauce. Yum!

That evening was the major performance, and we were not disappointed. As the lights dimmed and the strains of NWW's "Soliloquy For Lilith" filled the air, three mermaid-like creatures in full costume with ornate masks came weaving through the crowd from different outside points, converging in front of the stage. As the music changed into a different, more rhythmic NWW piece, a giant 12-foot sun god puppet entered the hall. They all danced around, the music changed some more, a giant 12-foot moon goddess puppet came in and they all danced around some more. Then four more apelike creatures came in, there was more dancing, and they left. It was really pretty amazing, the creatures looked quite alien.

Moe! Staiano (formerly of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) was on next, and he did a virtuoso percussion performance on a series of 78's set up on foam pads and mic'ed. One by one he broke the records until they were all destroyed. Fun!

The main NWW event featured a slightly different lineup including Moe. All of the music was new for the most part and there were some pretty heavy psychic emanations going down.

For the first 40 minutes or so of the set, there were three people sitting at the front of the stage. One had a moon mask, one had a flower mask, and one had a kind of frog-like mask. The moon and the flower sat at two chairs with a small table between them and wrote on a piece of paper. When they decided it was ready, they handed it to the frog (sitting at the edge of the stage), who walked out into the seated audience and handed the piece of paper to a random person. Then the two seated people would start another piece and the process repeated. They must have done this a dozen times. A nice effect, and a great souveneir I'm sure.

We staggered out with our brains all fried and went back to our king-size bed. The next day we drove back to Arcata and stayed with some old friends of mine, then drove to Eugene and made it to my radio show with 15 minutes to spare. Whew!

(ok, I'm back on ILM now)

So yeah, that was the show. One of the first night folks was a woman named Frida, Andrew Liles also performed with them both nights. The puppet people were super awesome and reminded me of some local Oregon folks called The Illuminated Fools Of Takilma, but I don't think there's any actual connection. They do larger-than-life puppet figures also.

As most casual eBay perusers know, there were a few CDs that they pressed up for the performances. Those being: a 10-minute EP (2 alternate versions) called Natal Moonies, the last installment of Shipwreck Radio, and a full-length disc of outtakes from 1983-2006 called Rat Tapes One which is excellent and recommended. Beta Lactam Ring has copies via mailorder. They also pressed up a truly gorgeous poster which BLRR also had copies of last time I checked. Stapleton seemed to be as chatty and engaged with the crowd as the last time I saw him (at the Angry Eelectric Finger DJ set/CD release party).

I just did a 3 hour special with Tibet on WFMU and he talked at length about Stapleton's fandom for someone named "Lady Pooch".

We are excited to announce that Lumb's Sister, a film by Chris Wallis featuring David Tibet and music by Nurse With Wound will make its world premiere at Brainwaves. This film has been nearly 20 years in the making and it's finally ready to be seen. This will be the only place to see the film at the moment as there are no current plans for release or distribution.

This film has been in the works since at least 1989 or so. Maybe in another ten years or so I'll get to see it.

My lonely vigil continues.

tibet on tha mike, stapleton on the decks. beautiful.

which recentish NWW should i get

Hmmm, this was pretty great until tibet started rocking the mic..

JW, why don't you get last year's comp?

The second clip with Jac Berrocal replacing Tibet is 10X better.

oh and the whole set can downloaded here (scroll down)

Jon, the Shipwreck Radios are all good. I like Echo Poeme a lot and Livin' Fear of James Last is a great comp/remix/whatever the hell it is.

Now I need to get home so I can check Tibet's MCing. (This isn't gonna be good, is it?)

Oh hang on, I've already got that Paris Trabendo thing. I've only listened to it the once, tho.

it's just a slowed down version of "two shaves and a shine" from an awkward pause and it's awesome

Shipwreck Radios did sound interesting. I'm a little burned out on some of the singlemindedness of earlier stuff.

not recentish really, but automating vol 1 and spiral insana are my faves.
i liked rock n roll station, too. and thunder perfect mind. those are recent.

i watched that video for a coupla minutes but nothin happened

david tibet: i like him as an idea, but god, i really can't get into his voice for the most part.

david tibet is really annnoying, that weedy preciousness he has to his voice is horrible, but the "two shaves and a shine vocal" is the only thing of his i really like mainly for the ace lyrics

Tibet's singing voice is probly the weakest part of Current 93 but it works in the right contexts.

Shipwreck Radios are mave fave NWW outside of Soliloquies for Lilith

could someone pls explain what's going on?

Nurse With Wound has been threatening to produce a female rap album for a number of years, and he were are, waiting for it.

thx!

My lonely vigil continues.

-- God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Friday, January 19, 2007 8:54 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

colab. with Faust: 'Disconnected' is worth buying.

New Sunn0))) '00void' is pretty shit, but the CD of NWW remixes is worth a download.

Chinese Democracy etc

'the bacteria magnet' vinyl. lovely.

I'm gonna pretend this is never gonna happen then maybe it'll happen all unexpected, like.

at this point I will be satisfied if David Keenan just represses that goddamn England's Hidden Reverse book so I can read it without paying $225 on Amazon for a beat up library copy.

Why oh why did I not get that when it came out.

sigh

Huffin' Rag Blues rocks the docks and rules the pools, anyway.

"Function of the Hairy Egg" is my jam.

yeah it almost makes up for the nonexistance of the record discussed above, really really good.

MAKIN LOVE UNDER THE BOARDWALK AT SANTA CRUZ

sorry to disappoint - but I heard the stapletone thing was never meant to be a release - it was just a joke cover made up for fun and put on the nww website.

lalala not listening

Nobody thought the cover was real, btw. That's not the point.

Has anyone got the image of the cover saved? It has disappeared from the Durtro site!

(long sigh) I was just thinking about this thread the other day, the lonely vigil continues.

also I bought a pdf of that damn book finally, loved reading about Stapleton being a roadie for Kraan in the 70's.

this was on the main nww thread, from an interview translated from russian:

I remember five years ago, you talked about how you are going to write a hip-hop album . Failed?

Nothing came of it . I did some time to love rap , I came up with a project that invited all their favorite hip -hop musicians to participate, and they agreed , surprisingly . But then I lost interest in the genre , just two weeks . He saw it all became very commercial and empty. Money , boobs , guns . Boredom . So I end up with the album recording just did not.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070408055316/http://www.durtro.com/images/gallery/gallery028.jpg

bummer. i still held out a tiny bit of hope that this would appear one day.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/24/got-any-horrific-child-discover-the-list-of-the-worlds-291-weirdest-bands?fbclid=IwAR3To8Hbsk93Te524Qcp9LnNk1yhxriTToM-ESUxBSKyKrPbt7m6w_SRpEM