Current 93 - Crush, Kill, Destroy?

Seems to have (intentionally?) left out the earliest stuff like Dogs Blood Rising.

xp yeah swastikas for noddy eg, the 1st thing I looked for. And the split with OM, the 2nd thing I looked for! I owned both at some point.

I'm seeing these guys next month, the same day I see Beckett's Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby :-D

Why won't they playyyyyy heeeere

in the US? because when you book a tour the clubs ask "what did they make last time they played here and how big a room did they sell out." Current 93 would most likely only be able to bank on door deals over here

i keep assuming this thread title is a variation on fuck/marry/kill

def remember tibet saying he didn't like touring because he didn't like to be away from his cats for too long

They also have very specific and inflexible requirements for their engagements and there are a large number of musicians involved, I mean I get it, but ever since they announced then deleted a show at santos party house a few years ago I have lived in hope.

Too bad he took down his old Twitter photo showing him sitting in his garden with a hat on, he essentially looked like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who.

yeah don't they insist on the promoters flying all the current band members in individually from wherever they live?

Yes

Also lolol Ned otm

yeah don't they insist on the promoters flying all the current band members in individually from wherever they live?

this is perfectly standard practice, every promoter in the world has to do this where band members live in different cities/countries

there are like 20 of C93 though & they all live in different countries

except tibet lives in the same town as james blackshaw iirc. shirley collins too!

you can prove anything with facts

def remember tibet saying he didn't like touring because he didn't like to be away from his cats for too long

Which for me would probably be the sole endearing aspect of Mr. Tibet.

this is perfectly standard practice, every promoter in the world has to do this where band members live in different cities/countries

only if the band has enough draw to cover the costs. it isn't really standard practice for promoters to buy plane tickets. promoters make offers to artists through booking agents who relay the offer to the artist and offer their opinion on a) whether it's a good offer and b) whether they feel like the promoter will offer more to cover travel costs. if an artist had four sidemen flying from four different countries to NY and all those costs needed to be covered in addition to a guarantee he'd need to be able to fill a pretty big room for it to be worth the promoter's while.

Just seems kind of depressing that not a single booker in New York can put together a Current 93 show that won't lost money? Hopefully a museum or foundation will step up and make it happen.

I saw them play at a synagogue in NYC in the late 90s... It's got to be possible to do something similar again. Place was packed.

England's Hidden Reverse is finally being re-published, for the benefit of those who believe that David Keenan "refuses" to put it out in paperback:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1907222170

lol, thanks for the heads up, about fucking time

Someone who loves me please buy me that for my birthday, kthx.

it's really good except for when Keenan tells us which records he thinks are the best ones

(I finally read a pdf, but will buy this for sure)

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
Nov 20, 2014
by David Keenan
Currently unavailable

sell all you have, give it to the kittens

PDF all you have, email it to the kittens

So, EHR may finally be reappearing:

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/englands-hidden-reverse/

I just got a note from a courier that Mark Pilkington has sent me a package - can't think what it would be if not the hardback of the reprint.

tt has been getting me into this lot

it's incredible music. lucifer over london stopped my life for 8 minutes

Most important new obsession of my entire 30s, in hindsight

That's interesting, for me too. In my 20s I dipped into the waters a couple of times but didn't get much out of it but the whole Coil-NWW-DIJ-C93 axis fully clicked with me in my mid-30s.

partial to the Rotting Christ cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOCKBLN21Y

I'm in my 30s now and I've never really connected with that branch though I've always been deeply into related stuff. My time might be soon...

The Rotting Christ cover skips the 'sick of 666' part, of course.

Avoid the recent vinyl reissue of Thunder Perfect Mind, it sounds fucking terrible.

I thought it might just because I needed a new needle, but I've bought one, and it still sounds like shit.

^ this was the purple vinyl one, apparently they've repressed it again in black and that one is meant to be an improvement

Got the black one, sounds good to my ears

long after tt's raptures i've come to Of Ruine... at last

it is Vision and Light

Might still be my favorite c93 album

it's perfect

and i can't think of a better-sequenced album, it just keeps twisting indirect routes to new and more intense heights, culminating in 'dormition and dominion' which is the high-point of all music

the sound-art elements are incorporated SO well into the folk, it's such an incredible synthesis. everything feels right

I love it, but it's hard for me to pick a favorite Current 93 album - Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre, The Inmost Light Trilogy (The Long Shadow Falls EP / All the Pretty Horses LP / The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home EP), Faust, and Sleep Has His House are all great I think

you've got me wanting to go back to this one in particular again!

TPM is great but it's an album even I would describe as maybe slightly overlong (although its longest tracks are its best)

OROSBS is...perfect, as I say

black ships ate the sky is my favorite one lyrically still. probably favorite overall tbh

that's pretty great too

I love the sound of Michael Cashmore's guitar

the whole baroque renaissance faire thing

Yeah « Of Ruine... » clearly his best. Always felt it was somewhat overlooked in C93 circles (where TPM is generally considered the undisputed classic)

I’m probably most partial to Sleep Has His House and some of the EP’s (Special Plan, Lucifer Over London). I’ve never really given the live albums much time tho, is it worth diving in?

Keenan goes on and on in England's Hidden Reverse abt how Ruine is the peak, fwiw

In Menstrual Night is still my favorite, I think, I prefer the longer abstract pieces. love Where The Long Shadow Falls as well.