![]() ![]() In addition to being the original drummer for VU, to be quickly replaced by Maureen “Moe” Tucker before recording their first album, he was an interesting experimental musician in his own right. One day, I am curiously looking through Angus Maclise’s Wikipedia page. However, with the exception of Kraftwerk and The Velvet Underground, I am relatively unfamiliar with electronic, industrial, and experimental music. I am a 16-year-old American high school student, decently educated in good music, thanks mostly to my father and older brother. John Balance has been dead for almost 10 years, and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson for 3. It was a veteran keyboardist from Julian Cope’s band and Spiritualized, Thighpaulsandra, who would change history by convincing this duo to return Coil to the stage… But we don’t want to dilute what we think we have, by either compromising it in a live situation, or becoming just another little marker in the marketplace, you know?” -John Balance, aged 24Ĭoil played four live shows in 1983, mostly in conjunction with Zos Kia, and before that, John Balance and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson briefly played together in Psychic TV, but for the next thirteen years after this interview, Coil would not formally grace a live stage again. We get this perverse pleasure in turning these things down in a way. We’ve been offered to play the Palladium, which is like the biggest night club there, at the moment. We’ve had numerous opportunities to play huge festivals in Holland and in America. It makes me physically ill…In a sense, we’re being tarred by our own brush in this condemnation but try to have that, and have the ability and have the time to work in isolation, you know? Get on with what we really believe in…This is the first time we’ve stood in front of a video camera and said these things. DOWNLOAD NIRVANA LIVE AT READING RAR TVTurning away from outside influences, you spend so much energy shutting out and filtering everything, records and TV and that…I can’t actually listen to the radio. I actually believe that you can strengthen yourself through those things by putting yourself through it…If anyone wanted to look for a message in our music, in our overall sort of thing, it would be that you just have to go through individual visions, whether they be Hitler or Bosch, Breughel, or something, but it’s only by plowing into yourself that I think you can get anything worthwhile. As we were saying before, we believe states of delirium and sort of self-induced madness, whether it be from LSD or schizophrenia, which you would invoke and make worse. ![]() ![]() Not in a sort of punk-anarchy kind of way, but mental chaos. From The Sound of Progress : “You sort of utilize the chaos, that we propagate and generate chaos. ![]()
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