Dead C 'the damned'

Yeah was feeling sad when I caught some of Glastonbury playing in the pub last night. Why can't music be like this instead of that?

I’m so jealous of you all! Hopefully they get back to the U.S.

Been listening to Rare Ravers this week and it captures their current state quite well.

All three Oto gigs have been uploaded to YouTube. It's interesting the way the vocals come through much clearly on the video footage than they did at the gigs.

Will check it out later

I don't think I've actually listened to this band, and maybe I would like them?

I think you would! my faves are Operation Of The Sonne and the Helen Said This 12"

Pretty sure I've not heard a Dead C record right the way through, but saw them at an ATP and it was a beautiful, monstrous noise.

perfect descriptor, I have probably said this upthread but I always loved the Seymour Glass description "like Sonic Youth in a wind tunnel with broken microphones"

i think i stumbled on the white house in a used cd store somewhere in my early 20s. i catalog-ordered harsh 70s reality shortly after. those albums felt like major accomplishments to get through, just the most dejected, misshapen, filthy, obscure, depressing audio garbage you could imagine. the name of the band and the fact that there wasn't much info about them i could find at the time added to the allure. it's been forever since i listened to them, i feel like i'd probably get something totally different out of them now.

for a few years there i was convinced that the country of new zealand had authored the highest apocryphal gospels of indie music in existence, and i was reading them folder download by folder download via someone's irc fileserv

I walked in on the Dead C out of a bright afternoon and there was just this *thing* in the room. No recourse to stage art that I remember, just harsh lights on and a wall of filthy, misshapen (exactly that!) creeping noise. It was perfect, tbh.

My sister is married to a Dunediner. He can be a bit like that Dead C show when he's had a few.

yeah they really had a knack for creating noise that really gives you pause. like, this shouldn't be allowed - people shouldn't be able to make a sound like this - it's not right, it's not wanted in any way, by anyone. and then that bleak feeling becomes drawn out and concentrated and turns into these overwhelmingly beautiful vistas. it's a feeling like seeing something you're not supposed to see and being stirred by it. and here i am, waxing poetic about a band i haven't listened to in more than a decade lol.

Sarahell: you would LOOOOOOVE them, and it’s a big discography

Concur you'd like them Sarah. You pretty much start with Harsh 70s reality and the comp on Shock is really good but might be harder to find

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Peace_Hope_et_al.

Not sure what happened to that link but you can see that through the dead c wiki.

Dunediner

ahem... dunedinITE

per wiki: "Driver U.F.O." is performed over a recording of Douglas Lilburn's "Poem in Time of War". how did i not know this?!

Funnily enough I knew but never looked up the composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd1QQEsu4jY

ahem... dunedinITE

I knew I should have checked!