Nurse With Wound @ South Bank
For fashionistas some top tips at the event included: black suit with white tie and white patent shoes; a couple where the woman had a black dress and a black shoulder animal, and the man had a tweed suit and hat (they were both very short); and minus one million points for the gay couple with orange diamond pattern socks, tweed shorts with turnups, white tank tops, and identical short back and sides haircuts, and identical piercings (perhaps they should stick with yodelling and flugelhorns).
Christoph Heemann has apparently been hanging out for years, but this was my first introduction to him. The first five minutes were just unpleasant as beats in the sounds were aggrevating my ears and it was not nice, but after that settled down it was excellent. Somehow more deliberate and thoughtful than whitehouse, and with a very clear and complete story arc, the soundscape was fairly opressive and mindblowing in places. The sensation made me think of liquid metal wind, resonating through ice crevices on a moon of saturn.
Nurse With Wound (their first gig for 20 years) were five guys in a row (one of them apparently Stapleton from beneath his hat), with various bits of equipment, percussion, gasmasks, etc. On a couple of occasions a barefoot David Tibet came on stage and sang with a slightly overblown effect on the vocals so you couldn't hear what he was singing. But overall, it was a majestic and ambitious piece of music, and in contrast to the first band, it had no form or structure, in fact continually defied any attempt at rational ingestion. This time the sensation that came to mind was gargantuan robots battling under water.
Overall, a refreshing and unique experience! It's also got me back into listening to my NWW back catalogue, and I seem to have missed about four releases over the last few years, so time to catch up with them a little perhaps. Finally, walked outside to a crowd of people looking up at the lunar eclipse, it was remarked that David Tibet probably arranged or summoned it specifically for the event, as it was so appropriate!
Christoph Heemann has apparently been hanging out for years, but this was my first introduction to him. The first five minutes were just unpleasant as beats in the sounds were aggrevating my ears and it was not nice, but after that settled down it was excellent. Somehow more deliberate and thoughtful than whitehouse, and with a very clear and complete story arc, the soundscape was fairly opressive and mindblowing in places. The sensation made me think of liquid metal wind, resonating through ice crevices on a moon of saturn.
Nurse With Wound (their first gig for 20 years) were five guys in a row (one of them apparently Stapleton from beneath his hat), with various bits of equipment, percussion, gasmasks, etc. On a couple of occasions a barefoot David Tibet came on stage and sang with a slightly overblown effect on the vocals so you couldn't hear what he was singing. But overall, it was a majestic and ambitious piece of music, and in contrast to the first band, it had no form or structure, in fact continually defied any attempt at rational ingestion. This time the sensation that came to mind was gargantuan robots battling under water.
Overall, a refreshing and unique experience! It's also got me back into listening to my NWW back catalogue, and I seem to have missed about four releases over the last few years, so time to catch up with them a little perhaps. Finally, walked outside to a crowd of people looking up at the lunar eclipse, it was remarked that David Tibet probably arranged or summoned it specifically for the event, as it was so appropriate!