PREVIOUS
PERFORMANCES
May 2012: Bramsche, Todmorden, UK (Impromptu performance with
James Blackshaw)
April 2012: Babel, Malmö, Sweden (Playing as a member of
Current 93)
April 2012: Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
April 2012: Glav Club, St. Petersburg, Russia (Playing as a
member of Current 93)
April 2012: Sixteen Tons Club, Moscow, Russia (Playing as a
member of Current 93)
March 2012: Savoy-Teatteri, Helsinki, Finland (Playing as a
member of Current 93)
October 2011: LUFF, Lausanne, Switzerland
(Playing as a member of Art Error Ist and Nurse With Wound)
September 2011: Trades Club, Hebden Bridge,
UK (Playing as a member of Art Error Ist)
August 2011: OFF Festival, Katowice, Poland (Playing
as a member of Current 93)
June 2011: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
June 2011: The Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK (Impromptu performance
with (r))
June 2011: Cité de la Musique, Paris France (Playing
as a member of Current 93)
June 4th 2011: Kunstencentrum België, Hasselt, Belgium
(Playing as a member of Current 93)
June 3rd 2011: Kunstencentrum België, Hasselt, Belgium
(Playing as a member of Current 93)
May 2011: Koko, London, UK (Playing as
a member of Nurse With Wound)
March 2011: Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
March 2011: Locomotiv, Bologna, Italy (Playing as a member of
Current 93)
March 2011: Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
March 2011: VoxHall, Aarhus, Denmark (Playing as a member of
Current 93)
March 2011: Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
March 2011: Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
February 2011: Ear We Are, Biel, Switzerland (Andrew Liles and
Steven Stapleton)
January 2011: Bangor Pool, Bangor, Wales (Andrew Liles and Steven
Stapleton)
January 2011: Chew-z Showcase c/o Spazio 211, Torino, Italy
January 2011: Fabio Quaranta Fashion Show, Part of Pitti Immagine,
Florence, Italy (Playing as a member of Current 93)
August 2010: Schlagstrom Festival, MIKZ, Berlin, Germany (Andrew
Liles, Steven Stapleton & David Tibet)
July 2010: The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK (Impromptu performance
with Damo Suzuki)
July 2010: Unwound, Padova, Italy (Playing as a member of Current
93)
June 2010: The Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland (Playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
June 2010: Mutek, Montreal, Canada (Playing as a member of Nurse
With Wound)
May 29th 2010: HMV Forum, London (Playing as a member of Current
93)
May 28th 2010: HMV Forum, London (Playing as a member of Current
93 and Nurse With Wound) May 24th 2010: Wave-Gotik Treffen, Leipzig, Germany
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
May 22nd 2010: Wave-Gotik Treffen, Leipzig, Germany
May 2010: Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany (Playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
April 2010: Stimul Festival, Prague, CZ (Playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
March 2010: Ikra, Moscow, Russia (Playing as a member of Current
93)
November 2009: Festival Musiques Volantes, L'arsenal salle,
Metz, France
(Andrew Liles, Steven Stapleton, Boubacar Traoré)
October 2009: Festival in famous carousel,
Paris Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
(Andrew Liles, Steven Stapleton, Boubacar Traoré)
October 2009: Post Romantic Final Fest,
Roma, Italy
(With Ernesto Tomasini, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo & Paul
Beauchamp also playing as a member of C93)
September 2009: Il Sacro Attraverso L'ordinario
c/o MiTo, Torino, Italy (Playing as a member of C93)
August 2009: Avantgarde Festival, Schiphorst, Germany (Playing
as a member of Nurse With Wound)
June 2009: Wolv, Vienna, Austria
May 16th 2009: Salon Teatro, Santiago De Compostela, Spain (Playing
as a member of C93)
May 17th 2009: Salon Teatro, Santiago De Compostela, Spain (Playing
as a member of C93 and Solo Set)
May 2009: Musraramix Festival, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel
May 2009: Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig, Germany (Playing as a
member of Current 93)
March 2009: Radar Festival, Mexico City, Mexico (Playing as
a member of Nurse With Wound)
March 2009: The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA,
USA
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
November 2008: Brainwaves, Arlington, Boston, MA, USA
(Andrew Liles & Jonathan Coleclough performance)
November 2008: Industrial Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
(Solo show with guest Matt Waldron and playing as a member of
Nurse With Wound)
October 2008: Andrew's Lane Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (Playing
as a member of Nurse With Wound)
September 2008: Colour Out of Space, Brighton, UK (Impromptu
performance with Limpe Fuchs)
July 2008: Wet Sounds, London Fields Lido, London, UK
(Solo performance with guest Ernesto Tomasini and playing as
a member of Nurse With Wound)
July 2008: Avantgarde Festival, Schiphorst, Germany (Playing
as a member of Nurse With Wound)
June 2008: The Amersham Arms, New Cross, London, UK (Playing
as a member of Faust)
May 2008: Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
(Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles - Live Soundtrack to the
Murnau film"Der Brennende Acker")
April 2008: Ikra, Moscow, Russia (Playing as a member of Current
93)
April 2008: Volksbuehne, Berlin, Germany (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
April 2008: Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, The Netherlands (Playing
as a member of Current 93)
April 2008: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK (Playing as a member
of Current 93)
November 2007:Volksbuehne, Berlin, Germany (Playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
November 24th 2007:Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venezia, Italy
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
November 25th 2007:Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venezia, Italy
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
October 2007: Les Voûtes, Paris, France
September 2007: Ikra, Moscow, Russia (Playing as a member of
Nurse With Wound)
June 2007: Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium (Playing as a member of Nurse
With Wound)
June 2007: Villette Sonique, Paris, France (Playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
June 2007: The Corsica Studios, London, UK (Playing as a member
of Faust)
June 2007: Rough Trade, Covent Garden, London, UK
(In-store appearance with guest Ernesto Tomasini)
May 2007: Send + Receive, Ace Art Inc. Winnipeg, Canada
(Solo show and Improvisation with MINIBLOC & Martin Tétreault)
May 2007: Auditorio Serralves, Porto, Portugal
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
April 2007: Musikcafe-Egon St. Pölten, Austria
April 2007: Donau Festival, Krems, Austria (Playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
March 2007: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK (Playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
March 2007: The Penthouse, Brighton, UK (Playing with Matt Waldron
as guests of 'Under Mother Bungalow')
February 2007: Sala Apolo, Barcelona, Spain
(Solo set with guest Ernesto Tomasini & playing as a member
of Nurse With Wound)
December 2006: All Tomorrow's Parties, Minehead, Somerset, UK
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
August 2006: Private Event, Walkenstein, Austria
June16th 2006: The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco,
CA, USA
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
June 17th 2006: The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco,
CA, USA
(Playing as a member of Nurse With Wound)
June 2006: Sabalas, Portland, OR, USA (Solo Set & part of
Scribble 7)
March 2006: St Peters Arts Centre, Preston, UK (Solo set &
part of Scribble 7)
October 2005: clubOKOcafe, Kraków, Poland
October 2005: Aurora Club, Warsaw, Poland
May 7th 2005: Narrenturm, Vienna, Austria
(Solo set and part of 'Salt Marie Celeste' - Diana Rogerson,
Steven Stapleton, Matt Waldron & Colin Potter)
May 7th 2005: (2 P.M show) Narrenturm, Vienna, Austria
(Solo set and part of 'Salt Marie Celeste' - Diana Rogerson,
Steven Stapleton, Matt Waldron & Colin Potter)
May 6th 2005: Narrenturm, Vienna, Austria
(Solo set and part of 'Salt Marie Celeste' - Diana Rogerson,
Steven Stapleton, Matt Waldron & Colin Potter)
November 2004: Rhiz, Vienna, Austria
November 2004:The British Protection, Manchester, UK
(Solo set and improvisation with Karl Blake & Colin Potter)
October 2004: St Peters Arts Centre, Preston, UK
September 2004: Cinematheque, Brighton, UK (Improvisation with
Karl Blake)
October 2003: Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, UK
October 2003: Rock Café, Prague, Czech Republic
April 2003: MIT Radio Session, Cambridge, USA
April 2003: Berwick Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA
April 2003: Evos Arts Center, Lowell, MA, USA
April 2003: Flywheel Arts Center, Easthampton, MA, USA
April 2003: Artist @ Large, Inc. Hyde Park, MA, USA
April 2003: Rensellear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
April 2003: Big Orbit Soundlab, USA, Buffalo, NY, USA
April 2003: Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA
April 2003: ACME Art Company, Columbus, OH, USA
April 2003: Garfield Art Works, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
April 2003: Doubting Thomas Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
(Solo set and Improvisation with Beequeen)
April 2003: Free103.9, Brooklyn, NY, USA
August 2002: 291 Gallery, London, UK
March 2002: The Verge, London, UK
June 2001: Rective - Upstairs at the Garage, London, UK
February 2001: Knitting Factory, New York, NY, USA
November 2000: Hinoeuma - Red Rose Club, London, UK
October 2000: The Plough, London, UK
September 2000: Cecil Sharp House, London, UK
June 2000: Rective - Upstairs at the Garage, London, UK
Nurse With Wound - Paris
- 2007 - Photo by Gilles Rammant
Paris - 2007 - Photo by Eric Chevalier
Berlin - 2010 - Photo by
Oliver Krakow
Current 93 - London - 2008 - Photo by Schrollum
Steven Stapleton and Andrew
Liles - Paris - 2008 - Photo by Olivier Naudin
Current 93 - London - 2008 - Photo by
Malachi
Tilburg - 2008 - Photo
by Giulio Di Mauro
Moscow - 2008 - Photo by Elena Golovnina
Nurse With Wound - Mexico
City - 2009 - Photographer Unknown
Ghent - 2007- Photo by Matt Waldron
Hvar - 2008 - Photo by Melon
Liles
Nurse With Faust - Schiphorst,
Germany - 2008 - Photo by Mark Pilkington
Wet Sounds, London - 2008 - Photo by Tango-Mango
Wet Sounds, London - 2008 - Photo by Olivier Naudin
Wet Sounds, London - 2008
- Photo by Olivier Naudin
Wet Sounds, London - 2008
- Photo by Olivier Naudin
Wet Sounds, London - 2008
- Photo by Tango-Mango
Wet Sounds, London - 2008
- Photo by Olivier Naudin
Nurse With Wound - Paris
- 2007 - Photo by Gilles Rammant
Nurse With Wound - Moscow
- 2007 - Photo by Geraldine Fagan
Current 93 - Berlin - 2008
- Photo by Martyn Flash
Nurse With Wound - San Francisco
- 2009 - Photo by Kevin Spencer
Cefalu - 2009 - Photo by Melon Liles
Dublin - 2008 - Photo by
Matt Waldron
Moscow - 2007 - Photo by
Geraldine Fagan
Nurse With Wound - Backstage - Ghent - 2007 - Photo by Andria
Degens
Faust - London - 2007 -
Unknown Photographer
Brighton - 2007 - Photo
by Melon Liles
Nurse With Wound - Paris
- 2007 - Photo by Gilles Rammant
Boston - Brainwaves - 2008
- Photo by Greg Cristman
Will Foster and Andrew Liles
- Berlin - 1999 - Photo by Melon Liles
Porto - 2007 - Photo by Matt Waldron
Nurse With Wound - Donau
Festival - 2007 - Photo by Ronaiandras
Nurse With Wound - Donau
Festival - 2007- Photo by Ronaiandras
Donau Festival - 2007- Photo
by Matt Waldron
Nurse With Wound - London
- 2007 - Photo by JPaul23
Nurse With Wound - London
- 2007 - Photo by JPaul23
Nurse With Wound - London
- 2007 - Photo by Matt Waldron
BRAINWASHED
REVIEW
Nurse With Wound and Christoph Heemann
3 March 2007, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Written by John Kealy
Monday, 05 March 2007
Nurse With Wound's long overdue return to the stage finally
saw them make their London debut. Steven Stapleton was calmly
and amiably wandering the venue prior to the show, so evidently
it wasn't making him as nervous as the hype machine surrounding
the night would suggest. Nevertheless, this concert more than
lived up to both the hype and my expectations (which were well
and truly blown out of the water).
Nurse With Wound were not
the only performers making a rare live appearance, Christoph
Heemann was drafted in by Stapleton to provide support. Barely
acknowledging the crowd, he took his position behind his table
cover with neatly arranged electronics and began his performance.
Proceedings were gentle for the first few minutes, recordings
of traffic sounds murmuring through the hall. Gradually Heemann
upped the ante and intensified the sound in both volume and
texture, smoothing the traffic noises into a powerful set of
drones, always slightly out of key leading to beating between
the notes. The result was a splendidly rich sound which is how
I imagine God must experience tinnitus. It was nearly too much
for my ears thanks to one of the speakers being pointed directly
at my head but after a few minutes, Heemann relented his assault
on my eardrums and focused on a softer sound.
With my ears able to relax
I was then able to pay more attention to what he was doing on
stage. Most of the sounds seem to be pre-recorded as he was
mixing different CDs together and tweaking them from a mixing
console with various processors sprouting from it. This was
a little disheartening that most of what we were listening to
was not of this moment but the quality of the sounds and the
power of their delivery more than compensated. He again brought
his performance to boil towards the end the set, the sound perfectly
complemented by colored lights searching around the stage like
spotlights dotted along prison walls. Although this time Heemann
launched a painless attack, the PA was not sounding the best
as it spluttered trying to cope with some of the lower frequencies.
On any other night this would have been a great headlining performance
but the evening was just getting warmed up.
The five members of Nurse
With Wound's live line up took to the stage to a surprisingly
muted applause. Colin Potter jokingly asked the crowd to settle
down in his best schoolmaster’s voice, class was now in
session. For an hour, Stapleton and company voyaged through
an A-Z of odd noises. Many of the sounds were familiar from
the Nurse With Wound back catalog but were used out of context
which freshened them up no end. The stage was set up like a
long work bench, with each member tinkering away on his chosen
toys. Stapleton spent a long time bowing a guitar, creating
a hypnotic swirl of sound. Andrew Liles and Potter both seemed
to be concentrating on the technological side of things; although
it was difficult to figure out what they were actually up to.
Potter in particular was dwarfed by a stack of rack equipment
and a laptop; he seemed to be pooling everything together, sampling
different elements and playing them back later (sometimes in
a mutated form). Marcus Ripley’s percussion was subdued
and impeccable, he brought just the right amount of extra atmosphere
to the already heavy mix of sound.
Special mention goes to
Matt Waldron who was the star of the show in terms of physical
performance. He seemed to have brought Mary Poppins' travel
bag as minute after minute he pulled out some new item to make
completely unexpected sounds from. It is hard to pick one highlight
from his performance but his singing while bashing his own head
in with a little drum and later his vocalizations through the
tube of a gas mask were definitely two things I will remember
fondly. The gas mask in particular was surreally funny and eerie
at the same time, a description that summarizes the entire performance.
David Tibet made two appearances during the night to sing his
parts on “The Dead Side of the Moon” and “Two
Shaves and a Shine.” The former did not quite gel together
right for me, in retrospect it was a great take on the piece
but at the time it was not what the set needed. “Two Shaves
and a Shine” on the other hand was fantastic. It was slowed
down and stripped of its guitar and bouzouki, shards of noise
instead breaking up the bass lines.
After about an hour of getting my mind massaged and fucked in
equal measure, the group began to gear down. It seemed that
would be our lot for the evening but then a familiar creaking
sound began to emerge from the speakers. The performance was
already one of the best gigs of my life but finishing with a
nearly full rendition of “Salt Marie Celeste” was
the finest icing this cake could be topped with. It was hard
to tell how long it lasted, it must have been at least half
an hour but felt like longer (in a good way). Seeing the group
perform this piece explained some of the mysteries behind the
sounds, such as the clacking noises of the ship’s timber
being a mechanical wooden whale toy. Each member of Nurse With
Wound came into their own here although for most of them it
was hard to discern what they were doing. The sound that came
from the PA was full and immensely powerful, I found it hard
to sit still as the sound washed over me in waves.
When the good ship Nurse
With Wound finally set sail, I wandered out of the venue stunned
at how unbelievably good tonight’s gig has been. Either
"Salt Marie Celeste" or the preceding performance
alone would have made it worth my time and money venturing to
London but the two combined made it special beyond words. The
heavens obviously were in harmony with the performance, when
I left the Queen Elizabeth Hall I noticed that the lunar eclipse
had turned the moon the color of dried blood. A fitting reprise
of “The Dead Side of the Moon” to say the least!
Nurse With Wound - All Tomorrow's
Parties - 2006 - Photograph by Julia Parsons
Nurse With Wound - All Tomorrow's
Parties - 2006 - Photograph by Herrhanz
Nurse With Wound - All Tomorrow's
Parties - 2006 - Photograph by Matt Waldron
Nurse With Wound - San Francisco
- 2006 - Photograph by Nebulagirl
Nurse With Wound - San Francisco - 2006 - Photograph by Nebulagirl
Nurse With Wound - San Francisco
- 2006 - Photograph by Nebulagirl
Nurse With Wound Entourage - San Francisco - June 2006
Nurse With Wound Entourage
- San Francisco - June 2006
Palermo - 2004 - Photograph
By Melon Liles
Portland - June 2006 - Photograph
by Melon Liles
St. Polten - Austria - 2007 - Photo by Walter Robotka
Faust - London 2008 - Photographer
Unknown
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Adrian Ball
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Adrian Ball
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Adrian Ball
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Adrian Ball
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Paul Bradley
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Paul Bradley
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Paul Bradley
Scribble 7 - Preston UK
- 2006 - Photo by Paul Bradley
Review
from Rotten Meats
Intergration
5
Fri 3rd March 2006 - Intergration 5 [ Scribble Seven ]
Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Matt Waldron
Freida Abtan, Maja Elliott, Andrew Liles
Joolie Wood and Monos @ St Peters Arts Centre
Preston Lancs
Andrew Liles started off the proceedings with a short set, bleach
damaged archive footage supported his nocturnal atmospheres,
glimpses of the original films spookily broke through the ‘23
Envelope’ textures. Sonic textures switch bladed, previously
introduced elements blossomed then were cut over by others.
I enjoyed the Eastern vibes that went with the silhouetted camel
trail on the horizon of dunes, the sound swaying around exotically
as the film was buried in a blizzard of decay. Strange echoes
of conversation bounced between the speakers and equally strange
noises emitted from his equipment, creeping round your ears
in macabre shadows.
Three guys, collectively know as Monos took up the reins after
Mr Liles, with Colin Potter at the helm. Starting from the slow
building of sliding textures, the music grew organically as
star shapes flickered over a blurred skyscape.
Light broke through trees to a cacophony of crows squawking
from within the electronic flux. Meditative drones mimicked
the pristine shapes that formed and dissolved before my eyes.
Superimposed impressions complimented the sound's multi-layered
density. Somebody on screen was tinkering with a guitar, the
image split then patterned into a geometric kaleidoscope of
possibility as the sound disjointed into a multitude of colour.
The Monos sound was incredibly optimistic, radiant and soothing,
but never feeble or prone to slipping into anonymity. They captured
a prevailing flow that was as alluring as bright sunshine on
a crisp winter’s day, possessing a burnished brilliance
that was truly engrossing.
After a long break, filled with strange 'John Lacy' luggage
obsessed film work, the highlight of the evening began to gather
- The Scribble Seven, comprising of the cream of the sonic underground.
Two absolutely beautiful Joolie Wood songs (highlights from
her forthcoming debut) began the set, with Maja Elliot providing
backing on piano and the rest of the contributors giving a subtle
electronic presence to Joolie’s flute and violin accompaniment.
This was closely followed by a full-on continuous improv that
filled the rest of the evening’s performance.
Everything seamlessly gelled together. Droning electronics punctuated
by the masterful Matt Waldron, Joolie scratching her violin
strings and Maja Elliot teasing stuff from the innards of the
piano (although she was obscured from view a lot of the time)
and at one point slamming the lid with a large crash that was
quickly taken up by something Matt was fiddling with at the
time. Colin pulled out a ‘Dr Seuss’ like stripy
horn, mixing breathy moans into the scrawl. Steve Stapleton's
hand hovered over an electro-sensitive box, the other twisted
the sound shapes this way and that. The dense construct finally
came to a close with Maja stroking her keys and Joolie plucking
her violin. They were just fabulous and frankly words fail me
when it comes to describing the bizarre concoction of sounds
that flowed with breath-taking ease that night.
I'm still pinching myself with dis-belief...
posted by Cloudboy @ Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Crooked
Stylus
On Friday the 3rd of March,
2006, about 90 people gathered at St. Peter's Church in Preston
for Intergration 5.
On the bill; solo performance
from Andrew Liles, the first live appearance of Monos (Paul
Bradley, Colin Potter and Darren Tate) and the enigmatic Scribble
Seven (Liles, Steven Stapleton, Potter, Matt Waldron, Maja Elliott,
Joolie Wood and Freida Abta)
Before I go any further
I want to make it crystalline that this was NOT a Nurse With
Wound performance and that the Scribble Seven are a self-autonomous
group comprised of people to whom improvised music making is
second nature.
First up was a 20 minute
set from Andrew Liles that was both humorous amd disturbing
(a bit like the man himself) and involved him embellishing pre-prepared
tracks with various processing techniques and makers of noise.
On a huge screen behind him were projected some very beautiful,
old and decaying black and white film pieces which seemed tailor
made for the music. Scratches and holes in the celluloid competed
for attention with the actual images filmed and sent the subconscious
mind into overdrive, the imagination filling the gaps with…well,
it depends on the type of mind you are blessed with!
Next up were Monos. This
was their first live performance and the first time that Darren
Tate had ever been on stage, He told me he would be playing
guitar and a left-handed one at that. Then he said that he didn't
know how to play guitar anyway. I only wish I couldn't play
as well as he does! He coaxed some truly ethereal sounds from
it whilst Colin and Paul provided the substance of tone. Darren,
being nervous, had hidden away at the back of the stage but
his stab at anonymity was thwarted when a piece of film of him
playing guitar in his flat appeared on the 20 ft screen behind
him. The piece they played was a stripped back affair with more
space than NASA could dream of. Blissful.
One short interval later
and the main event began. Step up Scribble Seven. The first
two songs were penned and sung by Joolie Wood and accompanied
by Maja Elliott on piano. Both of them play together as part
of Current 93 and this shone through in the economy of notes
passing between them, each one counting and none surplus to
requirement. The rest of the Seven were an exercise in restraint
during these pieces, adding just enough to underline the melodies
of Joolie and Maja.
After these unexpected musical
bonuses were done, the main Scribble Seven experience began.
It would not only be lazy but also wildly inaccurate to compare
what was heard to any extant Nurse With Wound piece (Oooooh,
it sounded a bit like Salt Marie Celeste getting the Angry Eelectric
Finger…..)
The 40 odd minute symphony was unrehearsed and on the fly (I
am told) but sounded seamless and completely intentional. As
you can imagine it is virtually impossible to describe in words
something that is difficult to grasp and comprehend with your
ears. To see the noises being made was an interesting expeience
in itself – Matt Waldron, the one-man avant band with
his collection of bicycle pumps, kazoos, magnetized hematite
clackers, kitchen sink…..Mr. Potter overhearing everything
from behind his glorious mixing desk, occasionally rattling
and tweaking various mystery items, Andrew Liles a' scratching
and a' scraping with malice aforethought, Freida absorbed in
the glow from the screen of her lap-top as she processed and
manipulated away, Steve feeding CDs into the mix through his
unique blend of sonic spice and Joolie and Maja using their
respective instruments in ways certainly not intended by the
manufacturers! All those sounds you wonder about (What the fuck
was that?) made apparent and all by people with big fat grins
on their faces! Scary stuff indeed.
Unfortunately, due to a
hard-drive mishap the event wasn't recorded as a desk mix but
luckily Matt and myself came away with some very decent mini-disc
recordings so all is not lost.
All in all this was an experience
I am so glad not to have missed – I travelled up from
Brighton which I thought was quite dedicated until I met the
guys who had travelled from Sweden and Poland just for the night.
I doff my hat to you sirs. Mostly though, I bow in respect to
Scribble Seven – long may your pencil-cases be full of
crayons.
Darius Akashic (06/03/06ev)
Krakow - Poland - October 2005 - Photo by Kasia Wieczorkiewicz
Andrew Liles Britons Protection,
Manchester 13/11/04
Photo By Adrian Ball - Still from video footage
Karl Blake, Andrew Liles
& Colin Potter, Britons Protection, Manchester 13/11/04
Photo By Tim Jones
Vienna - 2005 - The Guided
Tour - Photo by Hagen Stockhausen
Vienna - 2005 - Photo by Matt Waldron
Vienna - 2005 - Photo By
Hagen Stockhausen
Review from Brainwashed
Contributed by András Rónai
Sunday, 08 May 2005
Friday, May 6th, Anatomical Museum / Narrenturm, Vienna
The organization of the event was perfect, from the presonalized
tickets to the special CD-R.
The show took place in a little room on the 3rd floor, no real
skeletons there, just same bizarre black-and-white drawings
about deformed skulls etc. on the wall. The Little Dipper Minus
Two (Echo Poeme Sequence 1), the special CD-R is one track,
less than 20 minutes, with a black-and-white cover by Babs.
After the first listen I would say it's the usual quality expected
from Nurse With Wound: amazing, but at the same time without
any big surprises.
Colin Potter started. I was totally unimpressed with his show.
His set consisted of some drones, strange sounds etc, with ocassionally
totally pointless beats dropped in. There were only a few good
moments and lots of commonplaces, without direction or sense.
He was standing behind a large electronic rig, and the only
visible performing was when he occasionally touched the cymbal-like
thing or moved his hand around it (a bit like around a theremin).
During his set a window made very annoying sounds, but later
the organizers removed it.
Andrew Liles was pretty
amazing. He was sitting behind a little table with some electronic
stuff and a cymbal with a microphone. He played a lot of prerecorded
stuff, but was very busy turning knobs for filtering and effects,
and made nice drones with his little synth. He sometimes touched
his cymbal and scratched the arm of the mic with a stick. The
music was very much along the lines of My Long Accumulating
Discontent: very nice, clear yet strange and disorienting at
the same time.
After a 30 minute break
the NWW members took to the stage, all dressed in medical coats
(so the Potter/Liles duo didn't play contrary to what was announced).
The line-up was Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson, Colin Potter,
and Matt Waldron with Andrew Liles (him being the bonus to the
announced quartet). Stapleton was sitting next to Potter's large
rig behind a table with a discman and a what looked like a Pioneer
DJ CD player—sometimes with the latter and sometimes adjusting
things on Potter's equipment. Steven didn't appear to do anything
spectacular, it was Potter who behaved more like a conductor,
but these two talked a lot, so who knows. Diana played the accordion
in the beginning, then read something from a paper, than made
sounds with a dish, which I couldn't tell if there was water
in it or not. Matt Waldron played tabletop guitar with lots
of kitchen utensils and other things (including a yellow ballon
at one point) while Andrew Liles did basically what he did in
his own show. A film of ocean waves was projected behind them,
but it was very pale.
The music was droney with
the amazingly (un)structured noises Waldron and sometimes Rogerson
and Liles added. There were other noises, squeakings, etc. from
Stapleton and/or Potter; sometimes it seemed that they used
noises recorded during the show itself. There were a few technical
mistakes (feedback etc.), a few surprises, but mainly they sticked
to the drones and noises structure. For the first few minutes
I thought that "it's good, but I have heard music like
this hundred times before," but then I found myself totally
immersed in the sound, and realized that I could listen to it
for hours. It had a strange, subtle, elongated cathartic effect
on me. It lasted about an hour.
A lot of people were taking
photos, I saw one guy recording the show with a mic on minidisc
and one on video. Colin Potter also recorded it (as he told
Diana not to start playing the accordion - "I'm not recording
it yet."). I took photos as well: see http://ra.underground.hu/nww_main.htm
for my set. On the ground floor there was a merchandise table
with black & white T-shirts made for the occasion, lots
of NWW, Potter and Liles-records (I had to spend a lot of money
on them...) and some of Klanggalerie's releases. All the people
were very nice.
Vienna - Rhiz - Ocotber
2004
Freek Kinkelaar, Frans de
Waard, Andrew Liles - Cleveland, Ohio, USA - 2003
Photo by Melon Liles
