20-551: NWW may refer to: Nurse with Wound , a British band the ICAO airline code for North West Airlines (Australia), in List of airline codes (N) the station code for North Woolwich railway station , a former railway station in England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
40-686: A 21-year absence. Stapleton, Potter, Waldron, Rogerson and Andrew Liles played three concerts at the Narrenturm in Vienna , where they performed improvisations on the album Salt Marie Celeste . These concerts were not billed as NWW appearances. The first official NWW appearances since 1984 were at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in June 2006. In December of the same year, the group played at
60-399: A distinctive and recognizable aura. Musique concrète may be the most prominent touchstone due to Stapleton's frequent, and often humorous, use of creative tape loops and editing. This aesthetic is fully represented in the artwork on the album covers, virtually all of which are created by Stapleton, mostly under the pseudonym "Babs Santini". Although Stapleton has sole curatorship of NWW,
80-455: A vinyl edition carrying additional mixes following in 2008. Nurse recently joined Faust for the encores during the concert at St. John in Hackney. A NWW album entitled Huffin' Rag Blues , primarily a collaboration with British sound artist Andrew Liles, was issued in 2008 with a companion mini-LP entitled The Bacteria Magnet . A remix of Sunn O))) 's ØØ Void entitled The Iron Soul of Nothing
100-432: Is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton . Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. The band's work has explored genres such as industrial , noise , dark ambient , and drone . Their early recordings, all made quickly, were heavily influenced by free improvisation and krautrock and were generally considered industrial music , despite
120-576: The All Tomorrow's Parties festival organized by Thurston Moore . During 2007, Stapleton gigged and DJed with much greater regularity, including a set at experimental music night Stress!! in Galway City, Ireland and full live NWW sets is in Austria, Belgium, France, Barcelona, London, Moscow, Berlin and Venice. A collaborative work with krautrock band Faust was released on CD in 2007 as Disconnected with
140-498: The Threshold House website, and provided details surrounding the accident. Balance's memorial service was held near Bristol on 23 November, and was attended by approximately 100 people. November 2014 saw the publication of a retrospective volume of his art called "Bright Lights and Cats with no Mouths" by Edition Timeless. Balance first recorded using the alias "Murderwerkers". The Murderwerkers track, "Blue Funk (Scars for E)",
160-411: The moniker "The Sickness of Snakes". Balance subsequently joined Psychic TV and performed alongside Christopherson; however in 1984, Balance and Christopherson left the group to develop Coil . A short collaboration with Zos Kia produced the split tape Transparent . Credit for the album was shared, and marked Coil's first release. The original Coil / Zos Kia tape, Transparent , was released as
180-544: The Bangor Swimming Pool, North Wales, in January 2011. Both were admirers of each other's past works and felt that a collaboration on a new piece of work could be an interesting and exciting prospect; consequently Rupture was the first full-length work, and was released as a double vinyl album/LP, a CD and download. The vinyl album and CD have been released through Dirter. They followed up to Rupture with Parade , which
200-544: The Deadly Dreams . The compilations are today collector's items and fetch high prices. Also from his youth, Balance was an avid occultist, maintaining a lifelong interest in the likes of Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare . On 13 November 2004, during a period of heavy drinking, Balance fell from a two-storey balcony at his home and died that evening in the hospital. Peter Christopherson announced Balance's death on
220-553: The beginning of the 1980s), Nurse with Wound , Death in June , Psychic TV , Current 93 , Chris & Cosey , Thighpaulsandra , and produced several Nine Inch Nails remixes. Balance was born Geoffrey Laurence Burton . He took the surname 'Rushton' from his stepfather. During his teens, Balance became acquainted with Christopherson as a fan of the latter's group Throbbing Gristle . The duo were both members of Psychic TV , Christopherson's next project after Throbbing Gristle. They eventually quit Psychic TV to form Coil. Balance
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#1732908832760240-472: The group has a long list of collaborators including Diana Rogerson , James Thirlwell of Foetus , Tony Wakeford , David Jackman of Organum, Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio , Stereolab , Jim O'Rourke , Christoph Heemann , William Bennett of Whitehouse , Robert Haigh , Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade , Annie Anxiety , John Balance of Coil , Matt Waldron of Irr. App (Ext), and most regularly David Tibet of Current 93 . For some time, NWW
260-544: The objections of the group. By 1981, only Stapleton was left from the original trio and he now regards 1982's Homotopy to Marie as being the first proper Nurse with Wound release. There are now over 40 full length NWW titles. Stapleton's fondness for dada , surrealism and absurdist humor are demonstrated in much of NWW's output, which, though it draws directly on a wide assortment of genres (including cabaret music, nursery rhymes , John Cage , The Beach Boys , krautrock, ambient music , and easy listening ), retains
280-539: The pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance , was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. He was best known as a co-founder of the experimental music group Coil , in collaboration with his partner Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson . Coil was active from 1982 to Balance's death in 2004. He was responsible for the majority of Coil's vocals, lyrics and chants, along with synthesizers and various other instruments both commonplace and esoteric. Outside Coil he collaborated with Cultural Amnesia (at
300-479: The title NWW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NWW&oldid=821498870 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nurse with Wound Nurse with Wound (abbreviated NWW )
320-483: Was a core duo of Stapleton and Colin Potter, the latter having first worked with NWW on 1992's "Thunder Perfect Mind" when it was recorded at Potter's ICR studio. Potter has appeared on almost every NWW release since 1992. In 2009, a CD titled "Ød Lot" was released (credited to Nurse With Wound) which contained solo recordings by Stapleton, Potter, Waldron and Andrew Liles . In 2005, the band returned to live performance after
340-498: Was extremely active as a youth and in his early twenties. Apart from his early musical releases and involvement in bands before Coil, he published seven issues of a fanzine, Stabmental , and was a tireless correspondent with members of the alternative musical and cultural scene in the UK and also abroad. He also released three compilation albums of music by bands and artists about which he was enthusiastic: Endzeit , Bethel and The Men with
360-638: Was given a limited release with an expanded reissue of the out-of-print studio album The Man with the Woman Face following. An album of new material entitled The Surveillance Lounge was then released as a CD with a limited triple CD called The Memory Surface . A CD of new material entitled Space Music will be released on 17 November 2009. A recent collaboration was a result of the chance meeting of Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton and Graham Bowers, both artists were appearing at Bangor Sound City's first art/sound event 'Wet Sounds' curated by Joel Cahen located at
380-562: Was included on the Sterile Records cassette compilation Standard Response . Balance also published an underground zine , Stabmental , and released a track, "A Thin Veil of Blood", also using the nom de guerre Stabmental. "A Thin Veil of Blood" was included on the cassette compilation Deleted Funtime – Various Tunes for Various Loons . Balance then joined up with Peter Christopherson and Boyd Rice to record Nightmare Culture under
400-494: Was released on the interdisciplinary arts group/record label Red Wharf and distributed by Cargo. The third collaboration, ExcitoToxicity , was released July 2014, and the fourth, Mutation released in March 2015 all through Red Wharf and distributed by Cargo. All records released on United Dairies, except where indicated. John Balance Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton (16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), better known under
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