As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists. From 2005 to 2015 he co-ran Volcanic Tongue, an online retailer and magazine dedicated to the enthused presentation of contemporary underground music. An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground-with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.

More than anything, this book is wonderfully well-written in detailed, easy prose that skilfully darts between the three bands. The new edition comes redesigned and expanded with two new chapters, one of which "traces the transgressive urge that animates industrial culture all the way from Palaeolithic cave art through rock n roll and punk rock and up to contemporary noise music", as well as previously unseen photographs, and will be published in late November by Strange Attractor Press, the publishing house that put out tQ editor John Doran's recent book, Jolly Lad.Written over a period of six years and first published in 2003, the book moves between John Balance and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson of Coil’s original Threshold House in Chiswick and the old boys’ school they later moved to in Weston-super-Mare, to Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound’s goat farm and visionary art environment in Cooloorta in Southern Ireland, to the roof of a house in Muswell Hill where David Tibet of Current 93 receives a vision of Noddy crucified in the sky.

England's Hidden Reverse, the celebrated history of the UK's esoteric underground by The Wire contributor David Keenan, is getting a long-awaited republication. To enter into the work of any of these groups is to enter a world dense with intertextual references and allusions, to undergo a mind-expanding induction into a wider world full of strangeness and wonder, a recurring motif in Keenan’s own fictional work. This new volume contains almost 100 pages of extra material culled from Furfur, a collection of interviews with musicians and artists whose careers intersected with the bands', initially published alongside Strange Attractor's first limited edition of the book. Neuware - An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. Noddy had appeared in the sky crucified, and since Christ was God, therefore Noddy was also God, so he was Goddy.

David Tibet, a Malaysian-born Crowley-obsessive armed with a Tibetan thighbone trumpet and a fascination for theology and the occult, would form Current 93. Read today, England’s Hidden Reverse stands as the definitive document of a unique collective of uncompromising, original and underrated artists as well as a fascinating glimpse into the early obsessions and development of one of our key authors. Having] decided that Noddy is a gnostic deity, then it’s a small step to thinking that I might as well worship Punch and Judy. Leading to a chain of unpleasant retorts, reprimands and bitter critiques in the Letters section of the aforementioned Wire.

Sleazy und Balance, als Paar und Künstler (definitiv ein Begriff, den ich wo es nur geht, versuche zu vermeiden), atmeten die gleiche Luft aus wie ein Marquis De Sade, ein James Baldwin oder vermutlich auch ein Warhol. An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. Keenan's Herangehensweise an NWW und C93 ist freilich ähnlich geartet, wenn auch das Potential ähnlich mitzureißen wie Coil schwer davon abhängt, wie gut oder schlecht man Stapletons und Tibets Lebensprojekte kennt und schätzt. If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers.Was ein Glück, dass wir's hier mit Sachliteratur zu tun haben, uns den ganzen Rattenschwanz einer Interpretation ersparen dürfen und schlicht von einem Referenzwerk reden können. Strange Attractor Press are proud to announce the release of a new revised and expanded edition of David Keenan’s seminal secret history of the UK’s esoteric underground, England’s Hidden Reverse. And this book is an exploration of not just the bands, but their influences; from David Tibet (Current 93)'s religious obsessions, and his other stranger obsessions such as his Noddy obsession, to Coil's mystical, ritualistic ideal of Austin Osman Spare and the like, and Stephen Stapleton's (Nurse With Wound) more music-based fascination with Krautrock, the book catalogues, expounds and places these influences within the canon. actually being able to read about the culture firsthand (err, second) sometimes has that surreal/frightening duality in equipoise just as their music does, and its also been a real treat.

Immerhin hatte ich mich mit Coil und vor allem C93 über einige Jahre bereits recht eindringlich befasst, sodass ich beide Bands durchaus zu meinen Lieblingen zähle. This expanded edition comes completely redesigned, with many new and previously unseen photographs and ephemera. MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. This new and expanded edition has been completely redesigned, with the addition of some new (and previously unseen) photographs and two new chapters, bringing the book up to speed with 2015.Opening the book to the index reveals, across two pages, entries for Arthur Machen, Mutiny on the Bounty , Eartha Kitt, and The Last of England. Written over a period of six years and first published in 2003, the book flits between John Balance and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson of Coil’s original Threshold House in Chiswick and the old boys’ school they later moved to in Weston-super-Mare to Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound’s goat farm and visionary art environment in Cooloorta in Southern Ireland to the roof of a house in Muswell Hill where David Tibet of Current 93 receives a vision of Noddy crucified in the sky. I went on vet work experience placement instead of going to the last ever Coil gig, a decision I regret to this day.