A good five minutes or so devoted to Coil. Some of it was for them to
help explain Crowley, but presenter Matthew Collings did talk about
their records and activities/interests. They were pictured playing with
their modular synths on jagged rocks by the sea (!! I kid you not) and
had footage from the Octoberish show I saw, when they released the
_Constant Shallowness_ CD. Also had "How To Destroy Angels" as
incidental music at an earlier point in the programme (talking about
Crowley I think). The interview took place in their house.
The tone of the programme is very light-hearted and educational, and
Coil seemed happy to be interviewed talking very broadly about bad guys
in art, without going into too much depth about it. "Coil" in this
incarnation was Sleazy, Balance, and (I think) Thighpaulsandra. TPS
didn't say much.
I felt Coil didn't get much opportunity to speak articulately about
their own ideas, but they were portrayed positively, and got a lot of
screen time. Regardless of my own feelings about how good they are, I
thought that, from an outsider's perspective, they did very well for
themselves getting a significant mention on a programme otherwise only
about Byron, Burroughs, Crowley, the Marquis de Sade, Manson (Charles
and Marilyn [they had more time than CM and MM]), Jerry Lee Lewis, and
Mick Jagger. I mean, _we_ may know they are culturally significant but
you don't normally see them mentioned in the same breath as those
people!
"hello badness" (the coil bit)
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