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The Audion Guide to Nurse With Wound Notes on this electronic version: The contents of this document are the property of Steven & Alan Freeman of Audion. Their publication is now out of print, so hopefully they would not object to this information being made available to fans again. The Guide was released in an edition of 500 in 1994. Because it was released in a small edition and is now generally unavailable to fans of Nurse With Wound, I have typed it up this electronic version. The Audion and Ultima Thule prices and contact info are likely out of date, but are included for whatever historical value. Direct any errors/problems to Jeff Wrench at noisy@i.am. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Contents - Editorial - Publishers' Notes - Audion Info - A Brief Nurse with Wound History - The Nurse With Wound Discography - Label Discographies - The Nurse With Wound List [NOT YET TYPED UP] - The Audion Scrap Book [NOT YET TYPED UP] Editorial Well, obviously anyone reading this publication is a fan or keen follower of the music of Nurse With Wound, so we won't bore you with lots of twoddle as to why we've put this guide together. We all know that Nurse With Wound are amongst the most important of bands from the 80's through til now, and that in recent years their output has become increasingly confused for the casual collector, and thus such a discography has been amongst the most requested items from Audion readers. Publishers' Notes This is the "Audion Supplementary Publication" issued as a special limited edition to coincide with the Nurse With Wound interview "Chance Meeting at the Rock 'n' Roll Station" in Audion #28. Its selling price is £2.50 plus P&P at the usual Ultima Thule rates (in the UK currently £3.10 inclusive). Audion Info Audion Editorial Address: Steven & Alan Freeman P.O. Box 225 Leicester LE2 1DX Subscriptions & Payments: Ultima Thule (not Audion) 1 Conduit Street Leicester LE2 0JN telephone: 0116 2854545 fax: 0116 2854555 Editor/Typist/Layout: Steve Freeman Staff Writer/Graphics: Alan Freeman Special Thanks to: John Fothergill Clive Graham Peter Harrison Steven Stapleton David Tibet A Brief Nurse With Wound History 197? Inspired by the indie scene, three friends in North London have the idea to form a group, drawing on their experience in collecting Krautrock, progressive and avant-guarde musics. 1978 Nurse With Wound are formed. Original line-up of: Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak. Offer from Nicky Rogers to use his studio. Record debut LP without any rehersals or proper planning, in December, the band are excited with the results, and a finished mixed product is soon created. 1979 Finances for release of the debut LP are sorted out. Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella is issued in early Summer as a numbered edition of 500 copies. To gain attention, Steven puts his artistic talents to good use and gives the album a startlingly bizarre cover. Chance Meeting... gets the unusual accolade of ????? (instead of *****) as points of recommendation in Sounds! Later in the year Jacques Berrocal comes to London and joins in sessions for a second album: To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl, and a less focused style, a side-step to more jazzy and ethnic free-form realms. Heman Pathak ceases to be a regular member. He later established his own project: Hastings Of Malawi. 1980 Nurse With Wound continue to work as a duo of Steven Stapleton and John Fothergill. Third album, Merzbild Schwet, is recorded. A dedication to the dadaists, it marks a new direction in style, with more dramatic studio effects, use of voice and collage. In the Summer, To the Quiet Men... and Merzbild Schwet are released simultaneously, both as special numbered 500 copy limited editions. Steven discovers Whitehouse. John Fothergill gets Lemon Kittens for United Dairies. 1981 Nurse With Wound, in essense, becomes the solo project of Steven Stapleton (and whoever he cares to work with) and he goes on to record Insect and Individual Silenced with the aid of John Thirwell (best known of "Foetus") and Trevor Reidy. Not a very well received album, nowadays rejected as "terrible," even by Steven Stapleton himself! John Fothergill goes on to production of other projects. Steven collaborates with Whitehouse, live in concert and in studio, and together they record the album The 150 Murderous Passions..., with Nurse With Wound in control on one side, Whitehouse on the other. 1982 Time of the "Industrial Boom" and numerous contributions to compilations on record and cassette. Homotopy to Marie is recorded and released, a step on from the Dadaist rock of Merzbild Schwet, with much use of tape manipulation and classical avant-guarde techniques. 1983 Steven meets David Tibet. David Tibet starts collaborating with Nurse With Wound, and also establishes his own group Current 93. Nurse With Wound sign up to a new divison of the Belgian label Les Disques du Crepuscule: L.A.Y.L.A.H. Records. Steven and David Tibet record together as Nurse With Wound the coldly electronic and abstract mini-album Gyllensköld, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's. 1984 Steven meets Diana Rogerson. Concerts in Britain and Europe. Recordings as Aeolian String Ensemble, a planned album doesn't materialise, only contributions to compilations exist. Mini-album Brained by Falling Masonry dedicated to Brainticket's Cottonwoodhill, backed by an abstract excursion dedicated to the film Eraserhead. Extensive work with Current 93 from this point on, in parallel to Nurse With Wound, excepting live work Steven is involved either as a musician or engineer/producer on most releases. 1985 Sessions and concerts with various projects, with: Current 93, Annie Anxiety, D&V, some recordings end up as what can be heard on three albums titled Live at Bar Maldoror. Completion of the ambitious opus The Sylvie and Babs High-Fi Companion, a concept on 60's pop music, with a huge guest cast-list, and lots of hijacked pop records. Debut album by Diana Rogerson, offering a rocky and daring twist on the Nurse sound, with extraordinary X-rated lyrics! 1986 Recordings with the German band Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, Organum, and numerous other sessions. Scrag cassette issued, featuring leftovers from Sylvie and Babs... and Diana Rogerson sessions. Further projects and releases on United Dairies, including the first in the Automating series mopping up classic tracks by Nurse With Wound previously only available on various artist albums (including remixes). Nurse With Wound signs to the Dutch label Torso Records for Spiral Insana, a very complexly technical album, like a patchwork quilt of sonic snapshots, sewn together in a most unusual manner. Reissue of most of the United Dairies and Nurse With Wound back-catalogue on cassette. Second Diana Rogerson album. 1987 Various projects and United Dairies releases. Attempt to get an Uli Trepte album together. Special limited edition project of 100 uniquely presented albums: Drunk with the Old Man of the Mountains, each with individual artwork covers and inserts painted by Steven Stapleton, it collected Steven's favorite unreleased recordings made during the Sylvie and Babs... to Spiral Insana era. 1988 Idle Hole Records is started, as an attempt to go professional, first release is Soliloquy for Lilith, a triple boxed set of meditative music. Meanwhile on United Dairies is the curious avant-rock mini-album Alas the Madonna Does Not Function. Further United Dairies productions by Masstishaddhu and Current 93. 1989 Steven moves to Ireland. People Who Can't, a division of Vinyl Experience in London, agree to take on the production of new United Dairies releases, and issue A Sucked Orange, a collection of 28 tidbits covering almost every style of Nurse With Wound. It's the first Nurse With Wound production to be released on CD. In celebration of his new home, Cooloorta Moon offered a very different Nurse With Wound. Steven announces in the press, following his move to Ireland, a hiatus of Nurse With Wound activity, yet numerous releases appear (in the years 1989 to 1993) with a proliferation of reissues, compilations, and collections of previously unreleased music. Recording starts on Lumbs Sister, an ongoing project to score Chris Wallis's surreal film. 1990 People Who Can't are dissolved and become "World Serpent" handling United Dairies and other labels. Tony Wakeford (from Sol Invictus) helps with the Nurse With Wound records Soresucker. Early albums reissued as a limited edition deluxe box set Psilotripitaka (on LP and CD). 1991 Special project The Sadness of Things is realised by Steven Stapleton and David Tibet, in parallel to Nurse With Wound and Current 93 productions. Nurse With Wound's Creakiness, half and LP created in the manner of Sylvie and Babs..., though derived from the sound effects of classic cartoons like Roadrunner. 1992 Start recording at Colin Potter's IRC Studio. Thunder Perfect Mind sessions, taking Nurse With Wound to more electronic industrial realms. Steven records Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish with Tony Wakeford, making a really creepy gothic album, full of Nurse trademarks and the unexpected. 1993 Further reissues, collaborations, productions, etc., including extensive remixing of recordings by Coil, Legendary Pink Dots, and Stereolab. CD compilations of material previously only on record, including remixes and rare tracks. 1994 Fifteen years of Nurse With Wound, and a startling new twist with Rock 'n' Roll Station, a weird techno album! Planned release of Lumbs Sister soundtrack as a 2CD set, to coincide with the release of the film. Planned release of Automating Vols. 1-3 as a 2CD set. The Nurse With Wound Discography Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella LP, CD United Dairies UD 01 (LP 500 copies numbered) MC United Dairies UDT 01 "Two Mock Projections" "The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal" "Blank Capsules of Embroidered Cellophane" (c)1979 Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, Heman Pathak + Nicky Rogers To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl LP, CD United Dairies UD 03 (LP 500 copies numbered) MC United Dairies UDT 03 "Umbrella Link" "She Alone Hole and Open" "Ostranenie" (c)1980 Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, Jacques Berrocal Merzbild Schwet LP, CD United Dairies UD 04 (500 copies numbered) MC United Dairies UDT 04 "Futurismo" "Dada X" (c)1980 Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill +Eve Libertine Insect and Individual Silenced LP United Dairies UD 08 MC United Dairies UDT 08 (remix) "Alvin's Funeral (The Milk Was Delivered in Black Bottles)" "Absent Old Queen Underfoot" "Mutilés De Guerre" Steven Stapleton, Trevor Reidy, Jim Thirlwell (c)1981 Pirate reissues of the first three Nurse With Wound LPs exist. You can tell the originals easily as the limited edition numbers are painted on by hand - not printed! The 150 Murderous Passions, or Those Belonging to the Fourth Class, Composing the 28 Days of February Spent Hearing the Narrations of Madame Desgranges, Interspersed Amongst which Are the Scandalous Doings at the Château During that Month LP Come Org WDC 88109 CD United Dairies UD 09 MC United Dairies UDT 06 (remix) A collaboration with Whitehouse. No track titles. (c)1981 Steven Stapleton, William Bennett Homotopy to Marie LP United Dairies UD 013 MC United Dairies UDT 013 "I Cannot Feel You As the Dogs Are Laughing and I Am Blind" "Homotopy to Marie" "The Schmürtz (Unsullied by Suckling)" "The Tumultuous Upsurge (of Lasting Hatred)" (c)1982 Steven Stapleton Maldoror Is Dead MC ? (b/w Current 93) No track titles. (c)1982 (maybe 1983) Ostranenie 1913 LP Third Mind TMR 03 MC United Dairies UDT 05 "Ostranenie" "Dada X" (c)1983 Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill +David Tibet, Sinan, Jacques Berrocal This is remixed and elaborated versions of tracks from To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl an Merzbild Schwet. Gyllensköld, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's MLP L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 3 "Several Odd Moments Prior to Lunch" "Phenomenon of Aquarium and Bearded Lady" "Dirty Fingernails" (c)1983 Steven Stapleton, David Tibet The Burial of the Stoned Sardine 7" L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 6 (b/w Current 93) "The Burial of the Stoned Sardine" (c)1983 Steven Stapleton, David Tibet This single was never sold on its own, it was given away with the first pressing of Current 93's Nature Unveiled. Brained by Falling Masonry MLP L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 7 "A Short Dip in the Glory Hole" "Brained by Falling Masonry" (c)1984 Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson, David Tibet +Jim Thirlwell, L. Cailand Mi-Mort MC Mi Mort 1 MC United Dairies UDT 014 (b/w Current 93) No track titles. (c)1985 Gyllensköld, Geijerstam and Friends: Live at Bar Maldoror LP Mi Mort III MC United Dairies UDT 027 "Part 1" "Part 2" (c)1985 Steven Stapleton, David Tibet, John Balance, Diana Rogerson (aka: Nurse With Wound and Current 93), Annie Anxiety, Tim, D&V. This is recordings from concerts by the above musicians remixed by Steven Stapleton and thus, according to Steven, is not really a Nurse With Wound album although it sounds like one! Also it is nothing to do with any other Bar Maldoror or Gyllensköld releases! The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion LP L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 15 MC United Dairies UDT 012 "You Walrus Hurt the One You Love" "Great Balls of Fur" (c)1985 Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson + contributions from: John Orr, Ritva Ross, Robert Haigh, Christine Glover, Tathata Wallis, Marc Moain, Jim Thirlwell, Edward Ka-Spel, David Kenny, Peter McGee, Ross Canon, David Michael Bunting, Jonathan Stone, Paul Hurst, Flora McCrindell, Glen Michael Wallis, John Fothergill, Mary Dowd, William Bennett, Paul Donnan, Geoff Cox, Flora Anne Burr, David Elliot, Robbie Sylvester, Sinan Leong, John Murphy, Chris Furse, Lisa Donnan, Brian Williams, Tracy Roberts, Graeme Revell, Laura Calland, Iva Morgan, Marlene, Andrew Cox, Dorothea Bendik, Stephen Holmes, Margaret Evers, Wilf Harris, David Jackman, Trevor Reidy, Darren Klingaby, Nikki, Geff Rushton, Karl Blake, Harpunkt, Barry McCarus. Diana Rogerson: The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record LP United Dairies UD 017 MC United Dairies UDT 017 "Cradle Your Snatch" "The Little Seed" "Satzo" "Relax" "Two Hot Pricks" "Reach for Your Gun" "Unknown (Part I and II)" "Young Model" (c)1985 Diana Rogerson, Steven Stapleton + Karl Blake, Robert Haigh, Matt, Barry McCann, Trevor Reidy, Tathata Wallis Automating, Volume One LP United Dairies UD 019 MC United Dairies UDT 011 "Duelling Banjos" "Stick That Chick and Feel My Steel through Your Last Meal" "Nana or a Thing of Uncommon Nonsense" "Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree" "I Was No Longer His Dominant" "Ciconia" (c)1986 This is a compilation of tracks from various samplers, featuring some liberal remixes, notably Duelling Banjos which is nothing like the original! Nylon Coverin' Body Smotherin' MC United Dairies UDT 020 (b/w Current 93) No track titles. (c)1987 Hit Again! MC Staaltape 00M No track titles. (c)1987 This is recordings by Nurse With Wound radically remixed and added to by The Hafler Trio. A Missing Sense LP United Dairies UD 020 MC United Dairies UDT 09 (b/w Organum) "A Missing Sense" (c)1986 Steven Stapleton, David Tibet + Tathata Wallis, Diana Rogerson, Andrew McKenzie Scrag MC United Dairies 031 No track titles. (c)1986 A compilation of unreleased Nurse With Wound and Diana Rogerson recordings circa 1985-1986. When initially released (being the first United Dairies cassettes) it never had a catalog number. Chrystal Belle Scrodd: Belle de Jour LP United Dairies UD 021 MC United Dairies UDT 019 "Source" "Muse" "Immanense" "Ideath" "Soup of the Day" "Scapegoat" "Deadroads/A Gothic Western" "The Demon Flower" "Riding the Red Flag" (c)1986 Diana Rogerson, Steven Stapleton + Tathata Wallis Spiral Insana LP Torso 33016 MC United Dairies UDT 022 "Sea Armchair" "Migration to the Head" "Earthwork" "Red Period" "This Lady is Not for Burning" "Chasing the Carrot" "Sugarland" "There's Always Another Illusion" "Stewing the Red Herring" "Pulse Interplay" "A View from Lammas Tower" "Swallow Head" "Fitching the Wrong Sucker" "All That's Left-Over" "Forever Chasing the Carrot" "Ther Terminal Song" "Ship of the Dead" "Obituary Obligation" (c)1986 Steven Stapleton, Robert Haigh, Chris Wallis, David Jackman, Peter McGee Drunk with the Old Man of the Mountains LP United Dairies UD 025 100 copy special limited edition, each signed, with original photographic paintings on the cover and on an insert "Mourning Smile" "Swamp Rat" "Sheela-Na-Nig" "Astral Dustbin Dirge" "Shattering Man Falling" (c)1987 Although originally advertised as being an album of new music mixed by the Hafler Trio, this album was actually all original material. The later version sof tracks like "Swamp Rat" and "Shattering Man Falling" are very different. Crank 7" Wizewound WW 01 "Crank" "Wisecrack" (c)1987 The A side of this single is by Nurse With Wound, whereas the B side is credited to The Termite Queen (aka Diana Rogerson). Automating, Vol. 2 MC United Dairies UDT 032 No track titles. (c)1987 This was initially issued as a montage of compilation works, just two long pieces, it is radically different to later LP and MC releases. The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion LP, CD L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 15 "You Walrus Hurt the One You Love" "Great Balls of Fur" (c)1988 (Recorded 1985, remixed 1988) Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson + contributions from musicians as previously listed. This is shorter than the original, being radically remixed and edited by Steven Stapleton at a later date. Soliloquy for Lilith 3LP Idle Hole MIRROR ONE "Part 1" "Part 2" "Part 3" "Part 4" "Part 5" "Part 6" (c)1988 Steven Stapleton A special edition 3LP deluxe box set, of meditative music, very different for Nurse With Wound. Test pressings of various sides (some with test-tone grooves on the reverse) are in circulation too. Alas the Madonna Does Not Function MLP United Dairies UD 027 "Nil by Mouth" "Swansong" (c)1988 Steven Stapleton + Diana Rogerson, David Tibet, Dik, Tathata Wallis, Babs Santini Augenblick 7" Supernatural Organization 5 (b/w Current 93) "Scrambled Egg Rebellion in the Smegma Department" (c)1988 Steven Stapleton, Geoff Cox This was given away with a Japanese magazine. Faith's Favourites 12" EP Yankji 2 (b/w Current 93) "Swamp Rat" (c)1988 Steven Stapleton, Barry McCarrus Presents the Sisters of Pataphysics LP Idle Hole MIRROR TWO "Blank Capsules of Embroidered Cellophane" "Ostranenie" "Dada X" "The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal" "She Alone Hole and Open" "Futurismo" (c)1989 (Recorded 1979-1980, remixed 1988) Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, Heman Pathak + Jacques Berrocal, Nicky Rogers Compiled and edited from Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl, and Merzbild Schwet. Soliloquy for Lilith LP Idle Hole MIRROR ONE/C (200 copies) "Part 5" "Part 6" (c)1989 (Recorded 1988) Automating, Volume Two LP United Dairies UD 030 "A Strange Play of the Mouth" "Elderly Man River" "Dance of Fools" "Lonely Poisonous Mushroom" "Human Human Human" "Lea Tantaaria" (c)1989 This is a compilation of tracks from various samplers, featuring some liberal remixes. Cooloorta Moon 12" Idle Hole MIRROR THREE "Cooloorta Moon" "A Piece of the Sky Is Missing" (c)1989 Steven Stapleton + Tony Wakeford, Dik, David Tibet, Douglas P., Chris Wallis, David Jackman, Bradford Steer A Sucked Orange LP,CD United Dairies UD 032 "Pleasant Banjo Intro with Irritating Squeak" "It's All Gone Weird" "Spiral Theme" "Man Is the Animal" "A Precise History of Industrial Music" "Raymonde Fluffs It" "Musical Bovine Spongiform" "I'm a Frayed Knot" "Sinan Sings for Her Chums" "It Just Ain't So" "Nasal Hair" "Rockette Morton (Part One and Two)" "Dogs Breath Rising" "This Piano Can't Think" "Crack Up" "Scissor Rock Bicycle Revelation" "Dream of a Butterfly Inside the Skull of a Horse" "Raymonde Cries a River" "Fade/Crack Down" "Ritva Sings for the World" "Peccadillo" "Great-God-Father-Nieces" "It Just Ain't So (Slight Return)" "A Little Missing Piece of 'Homotopy to Marie'" "S.B.B. Dragged through a Hedge Backwards" "Scrapie" "Flea Bite" "Scrambled Egg Rebellion in the Smegma Department" (c)1989 Steven Stapleton + Diana Rogerson, David Tibet, and numerous others The recordings featured on this album cover a vast era of unreleased Nurse With Wound archives. "Rockette Morton" was originally composed for Barooni's A Bead to a Small Mouth compilation but not used there, some other pieces are recognisable as being from Spiral Insana sessions, and there are also snippets from the forthcoming Lumbs Sister. Lumbs Sister 12" EP Yankji 3 (b/w Current 93, Sol Invictus) "Part 3" (c)1989 Steven Stapleton, Rose McDowall Brained/Gyllensköld LP, CD L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 30 Brained "Glory Hole" "Brained" Gyllenköld "Odd" "Aquarium" "Dirty Fingernails" (c)1990 (Recorded 1983) This is a remixed and repackaged version of the two record releases Gyllensköld, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's and Brained by Falling Masonry. The mix, traack details and running order were incorrect, and it was withdrawn from release. A corrected Gylensköld/Brained release was never issued. Psilotripitaka 4LP, 4CD United Dairies UD 0123 Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella "Two Mock Projections" "The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal" "Blank Capsules of Embroidered Cellophane" To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl "Umbrella Link" "She Alone Hole and Open" "Ostranenie" Merzbild Schwet "Futurismo" "Dada X" The Ladies Home Tickler "Duelling Banjos" "Registered Nurse Second Coming" (c)1990 (Recorded 1979-1980) Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, Herman Pathak + Jacques Berrocal, William Bennett, Jim Thirwell This is a special limited edition box set (1000 copies) containing remastered version of the first three Nurse With Wound albums (the LPs came with pastel tinted covers), plus an EP of two compilation contribution tracks: The Ladies Home Tickler. The Merzbild Schwet CD insert was incorrectly printed. Later CD reissues of other discs in this set also have some of the artwork arranged differently. Lumbs Sister 3LP Cerne 03 (other LPs by Current 93, Sol Invictus) "Part 1" "Part 2" "Part 9" "Part 12" (c)1990 This seemed to be a promotional idea by World Serpent to present Current 93, Sol Invictus, and Nurse With Wound to fans of the music of the others. An ill-conceived idea that gained a very mixed reaction. The Sol Invictus album has been reissued separately. Burial of the Stoned Sardine 7" Harbinger 01 (b/w Current 93) "Burial of the Stoned Sardine" (c)1990 (Recorded 1983, remixed 1990) Sinister Senile 7" Shock SX 004 "Human, Human, Human" "Psychedelic Underground (In Memory of Lüüd Noma)" (c)1990 Steven Stapleton, David Jackman, H. Rowe, Larry Wenot. Soresucker 12" + CD EP United Dairies UD 031 "I Am the Poison" "Journey through Cheese" (c)1990 Steven Stapleton, Tony Wakeford (from Sol Invictus) Live at Bar Maldoror CD United Dairies UD 034 "Hymn for Konori" "Shatterin' Man Falling" "Mandrake Memorial" "Stoned Age (E.F.S. No ß?!)" "Tickling that Great Pudarkus in the Sky" "Psychedelic Underground" (c)1990 (Recorded 1984-1986) Annie Anxiety, Steven Stapleton, Chris Wallis, David Tibet, Diana Rogerson, John Balance This includes various live concert recordings, and new mock live versions of tracks that have appeared on other releases. It is thus not a compilation, nor is it anything to do with the earlier Live at Bar Maldoror releases. The Sadness of Things LP, CD United Dairies UD 037 (credited to Steven Stapleton & David Tibet) "The Sadness of Things" "The Grave and Beautiful Name of Sadness" (c)1991 Steven Stapleton, David Tibet + Ruby Wallis, Joolie Wood, Geoff Cox Creakiness LP United Dairies UD 035 (b/w Spasm) "Creakiness" - Hair, Fur, and Twigs Jameson - Delilah's Lap - Creakiness - Admirals of the Blim - Electric Fretum Attachment (c)1991 Steven Stapleton, Joolie Wood, James Mannox, Tony Wakeford An odd idea this, as the Spasm side was totally incompatible with the craziness of Nurse With Wound! Homotopy to Marie CD United Dairies UD 013 "I Am Blind" "Homotopy to Marie" "Astral Dustbin Dirge" "The Schmürtz" "The Tumultuous Upsurge" (c)1992 (Recorded 1982) The is the full length version of the Homotopy to Marie album, as "Astral Dustbin Dirge" was cut from the LP originally due to it being too long to fit at the end of side 1 of the record. Thunder Perfect Mind CD United Dairies UD 040 "Cold" "Colder Still" (c)1992 Steven Stapleton, David Tibet, Colin Potter + Chris Wallace, Rose McDowall, Anita Plank, Alan Trench, John Balance, Joolie Wood, Clive Graham, Konori Suzuki This was issued amidst much publicity as the companion to Current 93's album of the same name, though musically it has nothing to do with it. Steve's explaination for this (check the interview in Audion #28) is most intriguing! Steel Dream March of the Metal Men 7" Clawfist 12 "Steel Dream March of the Metal Men" "The Dadda's Intoxication" (c) 4/92 Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter Revenge of the Selfish Shelfish CD Tursa 004 (credited to Tony Wakeford & Steven Stapleton) "Falling from Heaven" "Amoeba" "Amphimixis" "Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish" "Walk the White Ghost" "Lucifer Before Sunrise" "Flower Dream Song" "Our Lady of the Wild Flowers" "The Frightened City" "Melancholy of the Street" (c)1992 Tony Wakeford, Steven Stapleton A unique and haunting work that dramatically bridges from gothic styles (eg: Dead Can Dance) through to almost painfully powerful avant-guarde electronics, with many of those typically Nurse With Wound touches. Alien 7" World Serpent WS7 003 "Alien" "Alien" (c)1992 Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter Sugar Fish Drink CD United Dairies UD 036 "Cooloorta Moon" "Creakiness" Hair, Fur, and Twigs Jameson Delilah's Lap Creakiness Admirals of the Blim Electric Fretum Attachment "I Am the Poison" "Swamp Rat" "A Piece of the Sky Is Missing" "Nil by Mouth" "Brained (Unconscious Mix)" (c)1992 (Recorded 1984-1991) Steven Stapleton + Tony Wakeford, Dik, David Tibet, Douglas P., Chris Wallis, David Jackman, Bradford Steer, Joolie Wood, James Mannox, Diana Rogerson, Tathata Wallis, Babs Santini. Compiled from various vinyl releases: Faith's Favourites, Cooloorta Moon, Soresucker, Creakiness, Alas the Madonna Does Not Function, plus a bonus radical spaced-out remix of Brained by Falling Masonry. Many tracks are slightly different from the original versions. The Ladies Home Tickler CD United Dairies UD 00 "Duelling Banjos" "Registered Nurse Second Coming" (c)1993 (Recorded 1979-1980) Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, Heman Pathak + Jacques Berrocal, William Bennett, Jim Thirlwell This features the two "Registered Nurse" compilation contributions tracks from Second Coming and Hoisting the Black Flag, so compiled as they are variations on the same idea. This CD was originally compiled for inclusion in the Psilotripitaka box set. The LP version has never been released separately. Large Laides with Cake in the Oven CD United Dairies UD 038 "Bearded Lady" "Odd" "Aquarium" "Dirty Fingernails" "Sheila Na Gig" "Red Flipper" "Head Cold" "Scapegoat" "Cranke" "Wisecrack" "Glory Hole" "Brained" (c)1993 Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson, David Tibet, Romann Jugg, Clint Ruin Compiled from various record releases: Gyllensköld Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's, Brained by Falling Masonry, Crank/Wisecrack, the Ptolemaic Terrascope record, and other sources. Many tracks are remixes, or are slightly different from the original versions. Chrystal Belle Scrodd: Beastings CD United Dairies UD 041 "Black Mother Mountain" "Immanence" "Riding the Red Rag" "Unknown" "Dead Roads (a Gothic Western)" "Ideath" "Scapegoat" "Source" "Cradle Your Snatch" "The Little Seed" "Muse" "Reach for Your Gun" "Schizo" (c)1993 (Recorded 1985-1993) Diana Rogerson, Steven Stapleton + Ruby Wallis, Karl Blake, Barry McCann, Trevor Reidy, Peat Bog, Sarah Dawson Compiled from: The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record, and Belle de Jour (omitting six tracks from these albums) plus two new works: "Black Mother Mountain" and "Schizo," also many tracks are remixes. Crumb Duck 10" Clawfist Records 20 (credited to Stereolab & Nurse With Wound) "Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)" "Exploding Head Movie" (c)1993 No musician details are given. This is a recording by Stereolab and Nurse With Wound mixed by Steven Stapleton, the Side A being an obvious dedication to Faust. Rock 'n' Roll Station CD United Dairies UD 039 "Rock 'n' Roll Station" "The Self Sufficient Sexual Shoe" "Two Golden Microphones" "A Silhouette and a Thumbtack (Dance in Hyperspace)" "R+B through Collis Browne" "Finsbury Park, May 8th, 1.35 pm (I'll See You in Another World)" (c)1994 Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter + Peat Bog, Sarah Fuller, Sarah Dawson, Dizzy, Ruby Wallis, Chrystal Belle Scrodd For information on possible future projects and planned releases you should read the interview in Audion #28, and also check out the history in this Guide, and don't forget to keep a look out in future issues of Audion magazine! Compilation Appearances The Second Coming LP Come Organization wdc 88.1006 "Registered Nurse Second Coming" (c)1981 Steven Stapleton, Heman Pathak, Jim Thirlwell The actual title to the Nurse With Wound track was originally unknown, being an unreadable jumbled dadaist mass of Letraset letters! Also featured on the LP are tracks by Come, Whitehouse, and The Sodality. Sounds Cosmodel LP Atelier Peyotl APSF 018 "I Gan Noo Wha Ma Organs Gan" (c)1981 Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill Hoisting the Black Flag LP United Dairies UD 06 MC United Dairies UDT 02 "Duelling Banjos" (c)1981 The "Duelling Banjos" featured here (now available on The Ladies Home Tickler) is not the same as that featured on the Automating Vol. 1 compilation. That version is mixed together with Registered Nurse Second Coming, with a military drum rhythm added, and is thus radically different. This album also included tracks by: Lemon Kittens, Truth Club, David Cross, Hamilton & Duarte, Whitehouse, and the Mental Aardvarks. Für Ilse Koch LP Come Organisation wdc 86.1021 "Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree" (c)1982 Typical of the Come Organisation label, this is mostly works of extreme noise, though the Musique Concret track is reasonable, but reall Nurse With Wound's contribution does seem a bit out of place! An Afflicted Man's Musica Box LP United Dairies UD 012 MC United Dairies UDT 028 "I Was No Longer His Dominant" (c)1982 A seriously avant-guarde international compilation, it also included tracks by: Jacques Berrocal, Anima, Foetus In Your Bed, AMM and Operating Theatre. Masse Mensch LP Selecktion SLP 001 "Ciconia" (c)1982 This album also included tracks by: Laughing Hands, P16.D4, The Work, Smegma, and Defecit Des Annees Anterieures. The Elephant Table Album 2LP Extract XX 001 "Nana, or a Thing of Uncommon Nonsense" (c)1983 This album was compiled by Sounds music journalist Dave Henderson to accompany his "Wild Planet" series of articles promoting the industrial and new experimental music scenes. Voices, Notes and Noise MC Recommended Records RM 01 "It Just Ain't So" (c)1983 Three Minute Symphony 2LP Extract XX 002 "Antacid Cocamotive '83" (c)1983 This album was the sequel to The Elephant Table Album also compiled by Sounds music journalist Dave Henderson, featuring a very wide range of post-punk, industrial and noise bands. In Fractured Silence LP United Dairies UD 015 MC United Dairies UDT 029 "The Strange Play of the Mouth" (c)1984 This album, veering close to classical avant-guarde realms, also features: Un Drame Musical Instantané, Hélène Sage, and Sema. Distrukt LP Selection SLP 005 CD Odd Size OS 10 (Album by P16.D4) "Kultstudien Zu Anselm Weinberg" (c)1984 An odd one, this, and not actually a compilation but a kind of mail-art collaboration by P16.D4 with contributions from various other artists from the industrial/avant-guarde scene. Nurse With Wound contribution is only vocals. Born Out of Dreams LP Frux FRLP 1 "Automating (Again)" (c)1984 Steven Stapleton, Ed Kä Spel. Ohrenschrauben LP Dom V 77 01 CD Dragnet 04 (as a double set with Ohrensausen) "The Poo-Poo Song" (c)1984 Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson This industrial music compilation also includes tracks by Nurse With Wound related artists like: Whitehouse, Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, Current 93, P16.D4, and various others. Could You Walk on the Waters LP Third Mind TMLP 09 "The Dance of Fools" (c)1985 Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson This also featured Legendary Pink Dots, and Konstruktivits. Necropolis, Amphibians and Reptiles LP Musique Brut BRV 002 "Lea Tantaaria" "Great-God-Father-Nieces" (c)1985 Steven Stapleton, David Tibet This is an album of interpretations of Adolf Wölfli's graphic compositions, a project coordinated by Graeme Revell of SPK, and also featuring Defecit Des Annees Anterieures. The Fight Is On LP L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 10 "Stick That Chick and You'll Feel My Steel through Your Last Meal" (c)1985 Steven Stapleton This is a sampler of unique material to promote artists on the L.A.Y.L.A.H. label. Devastate to Liberate LP Yankji 01 MC United Dairies UDT 025 "Elderly Man River" Steven Stapleton, Sinan This was a special release in aid of Amnesty International. It also featured tracks by Current 93, Coil, Sema, Crass, Legendary Pink Dots, and many more commercial artists. Ohrensausen LP Dom V 77 03 CD Dragnet 04 (as a double set with Ohrenschrauben) "The Cockroach of Del Monte" "Split and Well Hung" (Chrystal Belle Scrodd) (c)1986 Steven Stapleton, Peter McGee, Diana Rogerson This excellent industrial and experimental music compilation includes tracks by Nurse With Wound related artists: Chrystal Belle Scrodd, Sema, Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, Asmus Tietches, P16.D4, Smegma, Mieses Gegonge, and Duka Bass Band. Drastic Perversion LP XXX LP-2 "I've Plumbed this Whole Neighbourhood" (c)1986 Steven Stapleton European Square Vol. 1 MC Bande Blanche BB 006 "Our Passions Are Inclined" (c)1986 Steven Stapleton, William Bennett An international compilation of mostly extreme music also featuring: Tasaday, Die Form, and various others. F/EAR THIS 2LP P.E.A.C.E. 4/5 "The Ship of the Dead" (c)1986 Steven Stapleton This German double was a special release in aid of Amnesty International. It featured a very wide range of musical styles. Mauro Teho Teardo LP Minus Habens 006 (features a track by Nurse With Wound & Ramleh) "Caught from Behind" (c)198? Freedom in a Vacuum LP Freedom in a Vacuum VAC LP 01 "Lonely Poisonous Mushroom" (c)1987 Steven Stapleton This Canadian release includes tracks by: Asmus Tietchens, Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, Lorelei N. Schmidt, and others. Directions 2 MC Direction Music DMC 02 "Smooching with the Sacred Cow of Om" (c)1989 Steven Stapleton, Oimels This is an early version of "Cooloorta Moon." A compilation of original experimental musics, included were Muslimgauze, Alto Stratus, David Prescott, Plant Bach Ofnus, and various others. A Bead to a Small Mouth LP, CD Barooni BAR 001 "A New Dress" (c)1989 Steven Stapleton, Barry McCarrus A sound-text project also featuring: Graeme Revell & Anthony Mannix, Mother Tongue, and Zoviet France. Due to long delays in production, Nurse With Wound's original contribution "Rockette Morton" instead found its way onto A Sucked Orange. The Portable Altamont CD Shock SX 012 "Human Human Human" "Psychedelic Underground (In Memory of Lüüd Noma)" "Scapegoat" (c)1991 Steven Stapleton, David Jackman, Chris Wallis Ptolemaic Terrascope 7" Ptolemaic Terrascope POT 8 "Red Flipper" (c)1991 Steven Stapleton Record given away free with Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine. Includes other tracks by The Underworlde and Caravan of Dreams. Fatal Encounters CD Disques du Soleil et l'Acier C-DSA 54026 "Tibet" (c)1993 This is a compilation of recordings by various Jac Berrocal bands, as well as sessions and other collaborations. The 1'43" track "Tibet" is actually and extract from Nurse With Wound's Ostranenie 1913. Other Bands Coil Steven Stapleton has long been friends with the musicians from Coil, and seized the oportunity to handle the remix of one track on... How to Destroy Angels CD Threshold House LOCI CD5 (c)1993 This recording is used in the soundtrack to "Lumbs Sister" Current 93 Steven Stapleton has worked extensively with David Tibet's band Current 93. His influence is most notable on their more experimental albums and he's featured either as a musician or with production and mixing credits on the majority of their albums, as listed below... Nature Unveiled LP L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 004 CD Durtro 009CD (c)1984 Dogs Blood Rising LP L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 008 (c)1984 Live at Bar Maldoror LP Mi Mort MM I CD Durtro 001CD Nightmare Culture MLP L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 14 (b/w Sickness of Snakes) "Killy Kill Killy (A Fire Sermon)" (c)1985 In Menstral Night LP United Dairies UD 002/M (c)1985 Happy Birthday Pigface Christus 12" L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 018 (c)1986 Swastikas for Noddy 12, CD L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 020 (c)1986 Dawn LP Maldoror MAL 093 CD Durtro 002CD (c)1986 Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow LP, CD Maldoror MAL 666 (c)1987 Earth Covers Earth MLP ?? (c)198? [album info unreadable on my copy] The Red Face of God 12" Maldoror MAL 088 (c)1988 Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God CD United Dairies UD 033CD (c)1990 Looney Runes MLP, CDS Durtro 004 (c)1992 Steven Stapleton is featured on the studio tracks only, which are some of the most radical remixes he's ever done. Thunder Perfect Mind 2LP, CD Durtro 011 (c)1992 Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre LP, CD Durtro 018 (c)1993 Lucifer Over London MLP, CDS Durtro 019 (c)1994 Hastings of Malawi The project of early Nurse With Wound member Heman Pathak. A curious but very crudely put together album, it's fun if nothing else! Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth LP Papal 003 (Red vinyl) (c)1981 Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa Steven Stapleton has often worked with Ed Kä Spel and cohorts, and has also provided covers for a few of their releases. On the sequel to Shadow Weaver Steve was invited to give his unique touch with the mix and effects on the following... Malachai LP, CD Play It Again Sam BIAS 236 (c)1993 Colin Potter Colin has released many cassette albums, in the late 70's he made electro-pop. Then in the 90's synth and a ambient styles. He's worked as engineer at his ICR Studio with Organum, Andrew Chalk, etc. Eddie Prévost/Organum Apart from the production of an Organum release on United Dairies, Steven Stapleton plays metal chair and helps with production on... Flayed/Crux LP ??? (c)198? [album info unreadable on my copy] Label Discographies UNITED DAIRIES LP/CD Series UD 01 Nurse With Wound: Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (LP, CD) UD 02 Lemon Kittens: We Buy a Hammer for Daddy (LP) UD 03 Nurse With Wound: To the Quiet Met from a Tiny Girl (LP, CD) UD 04 Nurse With Wound: Merzbild Schwet (LP, CD) UD 05 The Bombay Ducks: Dance Music (LP) UD 06 Various: Hoisting the Black Flag (LP) UD 07 Lemon Kittens: Cake Beast (LP) UD 08 Nurse With Wound: Insect and Individual Silenced (LP) UD 09 Nurse With Wound/Whitehouse: The 150 Murderous Passions (LP, CD) UD 010 Musique Concret: Bringing up Baby (LP) UD 011 Operating Theatre: Rapid Eye Movements (LP) UD 012 Various: An Afflicted Man's Musica Box (LP) UD 013 Nurse With Wound: Homotopy to Marie (LP) UD 014 Asmus Tietchens: Formen Letzer Hausmusik (LP) UD 015 Various: In Fractured Silence (LP) UD 016 Nihilist Spasm Band: 1x-x=x (LP) UD 017 Diana Rogerson: The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record (LP) UD 018 Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa: Melchior (LP) UD 019 Nurse With Wound: Automating, Volume One (LP) UD 020 Nurse With Wound/Organum: A Missing Sense/Rasa (LP) UD 021 Chrystal Belle Scrodd: Belle De Jour (LP) UD 022 Current 93: In Menstral Night (LP) UD 023 Organum: Submission (LP) UD 024 Guru Guru/Uli Trepte: Hot on Spot/Inbetween (LP) UD 025 Nurse With Wound: Drunk with the Old Man of the Mountains (LP) UD 026 Robert Haigh: Valentine Out of Season (LP) UD 027 Nurse With Wound: Alas the Madonna Does not Function (12" EP) UD 028 Masstishaddhu: Shekinah (LP) UD 029 Current 93: Earth Covers Earth (LP) UD 030 Nurse With Wound: Automating, Volume Two (LP) UD 031 Nurse With Wound: Soresucker (12" EP) UD 032 Nurse With Wound: A Sucked Orange (LP, CD) UD 033 Current 93: Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God (CD) UD 034 Nurse With Wound: Live at Bar Maldoror (CD) UD 035 Nurse With Wound/Spasm: Creakiness/Firemoon (LP) UD 036 Nurse With Wound: Sugar Fish Drink (CD) UD 037 Steven Stapleton/David Tibet: The Sadness of Things (CD) UD 038 Nurse With Wound: Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven (CD) UD 039 Nurse With Wound: Rock 'N' Roll Station (CD) UD 040 Nurse With Wound: Thunder Perfect Mind (CD) UD 041 Chrystal Belle Scrodd: Beastings (CD) UD 00 Nurse With Wound: The Ladies Home Tickler (CD) UD 0123 Nurse With Wound: Psilotripitaka (4LP, 4CD) Cassette Series UDT 001 Nurse With Wound: Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella UDT 002 Various: Hoisting the Black Flag UDT 003 Nurse With Wound: To the Quiet Met from a Tiny Girl UDT 004 Nurse With Wound: Merzbild Schwet UDT 005 Nurse With Wound: Ostranenie 1913 UDT 007 Guru Guru/Uli Trepte: Live '72/Session '74 UDT 008 Nurse With Wound: Insect and Individual Silenced (remix) UDT 009 Nurse With Wound/Organum: A Missing Sense/Rasa UDT 010 Musique Concret: Bringing up Baby (remix) UDT 011 Nurse With Wound: Automating, Volume One UDT 012 Nurse With Wound: The Sylvie & Babs Hi-Fi Companion UDT 013 Nurse With Wound: Homotopy to Marie UDT 014 Nurse With Wound/Current 93: Mi-Mort UDT 015 Operating Theatre: Rapid Eye Movements UDT 016 Nurse With Wound: Brained/Gyllensköld UDT 017 Diana Rogerson: The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record UDT 018 Various: United Dairies Tape Only Sampler UDT 019 Chrystal Belle Scrodd: Belle De Jour UDT 020 Nurse With Wound/Current 93: Nylon Coverin' Body Smotherin' UDT 021 Nihilist Spasm Band: 1x-x=x UDT 022 Nurse With Wound: Spiral Insana UDT 023 The Bombay Ducks: Dance Music UDT 024 Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa: Melchior UDT 025 Various: Devastate to Liberate UDT 026 Two Daughters: Gloria/Kiss the Cloth UDT 027 Gyllenskold, Geijerstam & Friends: Live at Bar Maldoror UDT 028 Various: An Afflicted Man's Musica Box UDT 029 Uli Trepte: Phenotype UDT 030 Various: In Fractured Silence UDT 031 Nurse With Wound: Scrag UDT 032 Nurse With Wound: Automating, Volume Two (remixed) UDT 032 Nurse With Wound: Automating, Volume Two (LP version) IDLE HOLE MIRROR 1 Nurse With Wound: Soliloquy for Lilith (3LP) MIRROR 2 Nurse With Wound: Presents the Sisters of Pataphysics (LP) MIRROR 3 Nurse With Wound: Cooloorta Moon (12" EP) L.A.Y.L.A.H. LAY 001 Current 93: Lashtal (12" EP) LAY 002 Laibach: BOJI (12" EP) LAY 003 Nurse With Wound: Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's (MLP) LAY 004 Current 93: Nature Unveiled (LP) LAY 005 Coil: How to Destroy Angels (LP) LAY 006 Current 93/Nurse With Wound: No Hiding from the Black Bird/The Burial of the Stoned Sardine (7" single) LAY 007 Nurse With Wound: Brained by Falling Masonry (LP) LAY 008 Current 93: Dogs Blood Rising (LP) LAY 010 Various: The Fight Is On (LP) LAY 012 Organum: Tower of Silence (12" EP) LAY 013 The Hafler Trio: Alternation, Perception, Resistance (12" EP) LAY 014 Various: Nightmare Culture (MLP) LAY 015 Nurse With Wound: The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion (LP, CD) LAY 015 Nurse With Wound: The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion - remixed version (LP, CD) LAY 018 Current 93: Happy Birthday Pigface Jesus (EP) LAY 020 Current 93: Swastikas for Noddy (LP, CD) LAY 021 Robert Haigh: Valentine Out of Season (12" EP) LAY 023 23 Skidoo: Culling is Coming (LP, CD) LAY 024 Sol Invictus: Against the Modern (LP) LAY 029 Aquarian Arians: Meet Their Waterloo (LP) LAY 030 Nurse With Wound: Brained/Gyllensköld (LP, CD) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ Next, and probably what everone is waiting for, is the annotated "list". When I get a chance. If there are any errors, etc., feel free to let me know. -Jeff Wrench, noisy@i.am ] |