#Nick Soulsby

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ENFIN, bordel

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We were there [in West Berlin] a couple of days when Lydia, out wandering the streets, met Blixa Bargeld and was somewhat fascinated by this stick insect of a bloke in a rubber suit with animal hair stapled to it. She came back to the studio having told this bloke to get his band into the studio, and a couple of hours later, Einstürzende Neubauten turn up with this old truck and start dragging all these rusty steel springs and other metal junk in over this perfectly polished wooden floor. The engineer was having a meltdown!

Murray Mitchell in Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over: A Companion To The Film By Beth B by Nick Soulsby

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I got mail "Everything Keeps Dissolving, Conversations with Coil" compiled by Nick Soulsby.

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“'Rotor' is the motion of wheels, cogs, the mechanics of time, cyclic events, history repeating itself, the spiral, seasons, re-emergence, history, the return of the evil past, crop rotation, religions, ecstasies, etc. All circular wheels in motion, perpetual motion... The horse symbolizes the dark night of the soul, the all-powerful, fundamental, unbridled nature. Sensual and forceful, the powerful unconscious depths. The all-devouring mother. Magna Mater, maybe seen as Fenrir, the all-devouring wolf in Norse mythology. The 'horse power' as D.H. Lawrence wrote 'splintering hooves that kick down the walls of the world.'”

— John Balance in a letter dated 28th April 1987, quoted in Everything Keeps Dissolving

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Now reading....

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Sue Hanel playing guitar at an early SWANS gig, NYC 1982.

Bob Bert, drummer of Sonic Youth, said of Sue: “Lee Ranaldo used to compare her guitar sound to brontosauruses fucking. She just kept getting weirder and weirder. […] We got together to rehearse and she was just going nuts on guitar, then she invited me over to her place on 2nd Avenue. She'd been there seven, eight years, and I've never seen anything so bizarre. She had not a stick of furniture, nothing-there was one folding metal chair, a boom box, and a poster of Motörhead. I asked her, 'Sue, where do you sleep?' She opened a closet and showed me a sleeping bag. Even when we did the gig, she was drinking cough syrup. She got really skinny; she only ever wore black pants and a black cut-off T-shirt; black makeup circles under her eyes; and she was a bike messenger, so I'd see her haring round the streets at a hundred miles an hour. Then all of a sudden she disappeared, and no one ever heard another word about her. She's pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth.”

(Quote from Nick Soulsby’s SWANS Sacrifice and Transcendence: An Oral History)

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From Everything Keeps Dissolving by Nick Soulsby

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Tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better. I was tagged by @ahalal-uralma @celtos and @nullheaven to do this... thank you for thinking of me, as always!

Last song listened to:

Currently reading: A Primer of Higher Space by Claude Bragdon and Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil by Nick Soulsby

Current obsession: Laying out in the fields and letting bugs land on me and crawl on me as I admire their intricate beauty.

Currently watching: Nothing, at least in terms of shows, as I don't really watch shows much anymore (except if I already own them on disc). However, the last film I watched was actually one of my favourites; Onibaba (1964).

It's always difficult to know who to tag for these things, but I tag: @altzchmerz, @arsanimarum, @cloudswamp, @congsecond, @eaux-fortes, @gematria, @milk-wood, @storyoftheye, @thewomanwithmissingfingers

No obligation to participate, as always 🖤

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PC in a 1994 interview with Convulsion zine, reprinted in Everything Keeps Dissolving (ed. Nick Soulsby, Strange Attractor Press 2023)

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WK 12 - Connect CTS A to your learning and professional journey.

A collaboration I would love is to create brandings for a brewing company. Ever since I got into drinking beer I have always admired every beer can by its design and the elements that make the product very eye-catching and charming. Another reason I chose this is because every beer I have tried so far has a unique taste whether it’s bitter, strong, or smooth. Not only taste is part of the experience but looking at the branding of the beer cans collides the beer’s taste. For example I had the Melon Haze Pale Ale. It’s smooth taste and its simple branding emphasises what the product is. So therefore that’s something I want to tackle in my career.

My final project would focus on a poster / banner about the time and era we are currently living in. With politics twisting the minds of the innocents around the globe. The increasingly growing conflicts in the middle east where we have people telling each other to pick sides in the Israel & Palestine conflict like it’s a game. the controversies on the internet involving Influencers or Youtubers, etc. It seems the world is falling apart, not literally, but the connection of humanity is what’s falling apart. That is something I want to tackle. To create a banner focusing on “Is this the world we live in now?”, “Did everyone in WW1 and 2 sacrifice their lives for the people in future generations?”, “Have we failed each other to become good?”, or “Can’t we all live in peace together?”. In conclusion, I would like to create a banner that depicts today’s era to spread a message. 

The inspiration of this idea is from an album cover by the members of This Heat. I strongly want the design to be chaotic. The album cover shows confusion, cut outs from Protect And Survive pamphlets that are placed over the mask to create tension and fear. It gives a dystopian side to human society. (Nick Soulsby)

I would like to design banners for nearby community centres to elevate and represent the community as a design element itself. For example a banner for a local hawker food court or perhaps a local park in that community. But to do that I would have to analyse the area and what the vibe is about, then I would start engaging with the community to have permission to put my banner out.

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References -

The Ginger Beerd, https://thegingerbeerd.com/blog/melon-haze-pale-ale November 23, 2023

Soulsby, Nick. "1981’s Deceit’ Is This Heat’s Defining Statement and a Chilling Document of the Nuclear Age." "Pop Matters." August 21, 2020

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I just received my copy of the beautiful Swans book, Sacrifice and Transcendence by Nick Soulsby, for which I was interviewed extensively. Swans are one of the most important groups of the last thirty years, and I have had a long friendship with the brilliant and driven Michael Gira. There has been a lot of cross-fertilization between the Swans and the Foetus live bands, with many musicians being members of both, including Norman Westberg, Algis Kizys, Ted Parsons and Vinnie Signorelli, In addition, I started the Wiseblood project with former Swans drummer Roli Mosimann and the Swans song “Jim” from the album My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky is about me. This book looks like a fascinating slice of musical history. You can buy it now at Amazon or wherever good books are sold, as they say!

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BLOW UP

Dans le livre de Nick Soulsby Thurston Moore, We Sing A New Language, pages 71 à 74, Jean-Marc Montera évoque ce qui fut à l’origine des disques MMMR, coproduction entre Xeric (sous-label de Table Of The Elements) et Numéro Zéro Audio, et Les Anges du péché, édité par Dysmusie et dont une face utilise la suite des bandes de MMMR fournie par Numéro Zéro Audio.

( Numéro Zéro, par là )

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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN contribute to the first book entirely focused on THURSTON MOORE:

“Thurston Moore - We Sing A New Language” by NICK SOULSBY Omnibus Press (UK/ USA) OUT MARCH 13, 2017

LONDON BOOK FAIR 2017: “Entering the London Book Fair 2017 and realising that the Omnibus Press stand was dominated by a 9 foot tall Thurston Moore was pretty wicked.” - NICK SOULSBY  

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NICK SOULSBY: https://nirvana-legacy.com/

OMNIBUS PRESS: http://www.omnibuspress.com/Product.aspx?ProductId=1127389