Club Moral Stocklist

Club Moral Stocklist 049 - Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar

Club Moral Stocklist — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:32:04 GMT

DDV - Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar (A5 xerox calendar) A-01 - Privémilicia A-02 - untitled A-03 - untitled A-04 - untitled A-05 - untitled A-06 - Hij Die Geen Hoofd Heeft Zal Geen Kroon Dragen DDV's Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar is a daily listing of events in history until this day. It was first published in 1985. It involves no audio, but for your pleasure we include some tracks from a live performance by DDV at Club Moral on 2 november 1983, the opening night of his exhibition "Privémilicia". "So, you have joined in the victories of crime, disaster and death, this is the only way, you have bought the BIRTH(+)FACT(x)DEATH(-)CALENDAR. From now on you also can rejoice in private celebrations, add seductive dates to your worthless life so far. Now the time has come for you to enslave the great masters. Drink like an animal on SHAKESPEARE's birth-death-day, eat violently on the BOBBY SANDS memorial day, and praise the lord on RIPPER murder-days. You can now pinch your testicles as LARRY EYLER killed before you, rejoice in sodomy when SADE was born, rejoice in blood when KURTEN died, scratch your legs when young KENNEDY his was amputated, stroke with tenderness & love your breasts & nipples on the day JACK slaughtered CATHERINE EDDOWES. Drive into the country on your bike when LAWRENCE OF ARABIA crashed to hell on his and don't shit on the day LIVINGSTONE died. Sing in your shower when CARUSO sang in "L'elesir d'amour" and have your hands & feet manicured in memory of JOHN FARE. Eat fish for SCHWARZKOGLER and smoke a cigarette for DALI. In short, enjoy your life now it has become worthy to have your favourites to celebrate day by day." Every page of the first edition of the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar listed 7 days and one picture. There was a reviewed copy of the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar in 1987 and an update with new entries only in 1988. The 1989 edition of the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar was an 'all-memorials' issue, listing only events that happened 5, 10, 25, 50, 100,.... years ago. The 1990 edition of the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar listed only events about 90 killers and was subtitled "90 Killers for the 90s". The 1991 edition of the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar listed only events about artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers. The 1992 -and last- edition was an index and listed all names and the days they appeared until then in the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar. Today the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar is a huge database file with 8817 entries about 5511 people; 2405 births, 1998 facts and 4414 deaths. The database has been used in 1998 by V2 to build an 'unreliable website' for their "DEAF" festival, subtitled "The Art of the Accident". The Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar has been available throughout 2007 as a daily blog on wheniwasbuyingyouadrinkwherewereyou.blogspot.com with additional photos taken by DDV in the past eight years. Between 1999 and 2007 DDV has taken over 25.000 pictures with various digital cameras. On this blog he posted one picture every day, taken on that specific day in a random year between 1999 and 2007, as well as a listing of all the events for that day. You can search the Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar blog for a certain day by using the "Blog Archive" on the right hand side of the page, or you can search for a name, a place or whatever by using the search box on the top left of the page and clicking "Blog Search". The Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar blog will not be updated and remains on the Blogspot system "as is". The title from the blog was taken from a song by the Mekons, "When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?" When I was waiting in a bar where were you ? When I was buying you a drink where were you ? When I was crying home in bed where were you ? When I watched you from a distance did you see me ? You were standing in a queue did you see me ? You had yellow hair did you see me ? I want to talk to you all night do you like me ? I want to find out about your life do you like me ? Could you ever be my wife do you love me ? Goodbye.

Club Moral Stocklist 048 - Corpulair

Club Moral Stocklist — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:57:03 GMT

AR/TE - Corpulair (C-60 cassette + A4 color drawing book) A-01 - untitled B-01 - untitled This set was recorded live on 13 october 1984 in the basement of the Cultural Center Berchem in Antwerpen. On the same night Club Moral performed "The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu", DA-Rock aka Dirk Paesmans performed "S.A.B.", and Jürgen Voordeckers performed "Music as a Geometrical Terror". "(8 jun) corpulair 1-1 (13 oct)" was performed by Trudo Engels and Els Huygelen. 13 oct, a unique combination of numbers to present 4 bands in a complete night of events. Introduction by Club Moral. Master, and God with the head of the jackal. Organiser of Propagandum at NL-Centrum and In Vitro in Antwerp. Security-video and evocation of great guitar heroes by Paesmans. Ex-V-Side and terror of the video libraries. 2 microphones / 2 figures at minimum. 1 hour of darkness, light, movement, excessive, tearing sounds. Performances by AR/TE are rare. 13 oct. The ideal opportunity. From the hinterland of Dadizele. Minimal aberration. Geometrical animals from Jürgen Voordeckers. Terror by slaughter in NL-Centrum and Montevideo. Music as Geometrical terror as end on 13 oct. Installation. 13 oct. 4 presentation of undisputed masters. 13 oct. Number of throbbing temples.

Club Moral Stocklist 047 - In Vitro / Katalogo

Club Moral Stocklist — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:38:08 GMT

Various Artists - In Vitro Katalogo (A5 booklet) (replaced by video - approx. 28mins B/W) In Vitro was an exhibition that took place in Club Moral, from 21st of june until 31st of august 1984. Open each thursday, friday and saturday from 2 until 6 pm. In Vitro presented products of independent editors, people and groups. These products were mainly magazines, books, cassettes, records, objects, films and videos. Towards the end of the exhibition we published a xerox catalogue which listed all exhibited products. Since we are unable to podcast printed matter we dug up a documentary video of the exhibition. It was filmed with a Black&White security camera furnished by Dirk Paesmans. The soundtrack is a compilation of several tracks from records and tapes that were in the exhibition. A unique oldskool document with many shots of tapes, records, books, magazines and objects by the contributors and/or additional artworks by: Pacific 231 - Augusto Klamm - 6de Kolonne - Peejee - Gery De Smet - ProduKtion - Vita Nova - F.F. Beckmans - Joke Van Kerkwijck/Paul Van De Vliet - Sevenhorns dA HO! - Aquilfer/Sodality - Black Dwarf Recordings - Dirk Paesmans - David Minshall - Danny Van Looy - 235 - Klapholzprodukties - Open System Project - Ferre Alpaerts - Pure - AR/TE - Sacré Coeur - Advocatus Diabolo/Graf Haufen - Central Tapes - Recloose Organisation - Pow'Art - Camera Obscura - Kubus Kommunikaties - Staalplaat - Alex Adriaansens/Joke Brouwer - Ruimte Morguen - Angst/Gezonde Boerse Copulaties - Tarzan is Dood/Paul Côme - Guy Schraenen Archive - Selbstmordorganisation - Art Pool - Guy Bleus/Administration Centre - Minus Delta t - Situation ML - Peter Sotos - Kurt Volentine - Voluptiare Cogitationes/Mouche Tapes - Limite - Yntse Vugts - Cassette Gazzette - Nick - Etat Brut - Architects Office - Grok/Random Exekutions - NWW-Fanclub - Maurizio Bianchi - Luc Deleu - Ha!Fijn? - Maurizio Bianchi - Trepidad - Unsound - Ruimte Morguen/Fase 2 - Belgian Institute for World Affairs - V2 - Landru - Didi De Paris - Aug. Josephus Segers - Guillaume Bijl - Johan De Boes - Jurgen Voordeckers - ADN Tapes - Peal-Off Label - Constrictor Magazines - Apocalypso A'GoGo - Mouche Ecrasée n'a pas d'Odeur - C.L.E.M. - Jan Fabre - Gerechtigkeitsliga - Magog - Laibach - Come Organisation - Tasaday - Decoder - Hannibal Apollo - M.Bryo - Jos Vulto - AMVK - DDV

Club Moral Stocklist 046 - In Vitro / 6 Live Bands

Club Moral Stocklist — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:27:20 GMT

Various Artists - In Vitro / 6 Live Bands (C-90 cassette) A-01 - ProduKtion - Crash! (15 july 1984) A-02 - Gerechtigkeitsliga - A primitive culture in the society (22 july 1984) A-03 - Sevenhorns dA-HO! - Love mom + sister but hate daddy (29 july 1984) B-01 - Dirk Paesmans - Christine van. (5 aug 1984) B-02 - 6de Kolonne - God bless america + other marches (12 aug 1984) B-03 - Club Moral - Sexual Healing (26 aug 1984) In Vitro was an exhibition that took place in Club Moral, from 21st of june until 31st of august 1984. Open each thursday, friday and saturday from 2 until 6 pm. In Vitro presented products of independent editors, people and groups. These products were mainly magazines, books, cassettes, records, objects, films and videos. "In Vitro will in the first place exhibit all these products, it is although possible to buy them as well. A certain number of people have made special products and/or releases for this exhibition, they won't be for sale anywhere else. In Vitro will also present live-events, these happening at the Tom Tom Club, Ernest Van Dijckkaai in Antwerp. In Vitro will from 21st june change and grow, products will get out, and a lot more will get in, new presentations, live-recordings and new made products of the contributors. In Vitro is now already one of the main events happening in 1984, for the first time an as complete possible view will be offered from the contemporary 'market' of independent products, a market that grows and continuously wins on importance. Everyone we know, direct or indirect, we have written to participate, some haven't answered yet, it is although never too late, we expect every day new contributions. Towards the end of the exhibition we will make a catalogue from all products which were included, and all addresses of the participants. In hope that In Vitro will contribute to the complete installation of extremes in your daily life, we all await your visits!" (force Mental 9 II/IV 1984) Pacific 231 - Augusto Klamm - 6de Kolonne - Peejee - Gery De Smet - ProduKtion - Vita Nova - F.F. Beckmans - Joke Van Kerkwijck/Paul Van De Vliet - Sevenhorns dA HO! - Aquilfer/Sodality - Black Dwarf Recordings - Dirk Paesmans - David Minshall - Danny Van Looy - 235 - Klapholzprodukties - Open System Project - Ferre Alpaerts - Pure - AR/TE - Sacré Coeur - Advocatus Diabolo/Graf Haufen - Central Tapes - Recloose Organisation - Pow'Art - Camera Obscura - Kubus Kommunikaties - Staalplaat - Alex Adriaansens/Joke Brouwer - Ruimte Morguen - Angst/Gezonde Boerse Copulaties - Tarzan is Dood/Paul Côme - Guy Schraenen Archive - Selbstmordorganisation - Art Pool - Guy Bleus/Administration Centre - Minus Delta t - Situation ML - Voluptiare Cogitationes/Mouche Tapes - Limite - Yntse Vugts - Cassette Gazzette - Nick - Etat Brut - Architects Office - Grok/Random Exekutions - NWW-Fanclub - Maurizio Bianchi - Luc Deleu - Didi De Paris - Aug. Josephus Segers - Johan De Boes - Jurgen Voordeckers - ADN Tapes - Peal-Off Label - Constrictor Magazines - Apocalypso A'GoGo - Mouche Ecrasée n'a pas d'Odeur - C.L.E.M. - ....

Club Moral Stocklist 045 - Pro-Breendonk

Club Moral Stocklist — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:32:14 GMT

ProduKtion / Club Moral - Pro-Breendonk (C-30 cassette + postcard set) A-01 - Introduction A-02 - Untitled (ProduKtion) B-01 - Untitled (DDV) B-02 - Untitled (DDV) B-03 - Untitled (DDV) B-04 - Untitled (DDV) B-05 - Untitled (DDV) This tape is a documentary issue about a number of performances and recordings by Paul Hurst and DDV in the WWII concentration camp of Breendonk, Belgium. In July 1984 Paul and Christine of ProduKtion were living at the Club Moral in Antwerp. At previous mainland travels, they had been visiting many WWII memorials all over Europe. Breendonk was little known at the time, although it was probably the most well preserved example of a concentration (not extermination) camp. Originally built in 1909 as a fort to protect Antwerp from enemy attacks, it was officially targeted as a concentration camp on 20 september 1940, when the first prisoners came under authority of Sturmbahnführer Philip Schmitt. For more information on Breendonk check the excellent website of www.breendonk.be. Track A-02 was recorded during a live performance at the execution site of the camp with portable, battery-equipped radios and cassette-players. Tracks B-01 - B-05 are based on recordings of performances in various rooms of the camp and later edited. Along with the tape came a set of eight postcards, based on the original design of postcards available at the camp, with pictures of the performances by ProduKtion and DDV. This release was a co-production of Club Moral and ProduKtion. On 7 may 1946 several Belgian SS men were sentenced to death for cruelties committed upon prisoners. They were executed by the firing squad on 12 april 1947. Commandant Philip Johann Adolf Schmitt was sentenced to death on 25 november 1949 in Antwerpen. He was executed by the firing squad on 9 september 1950 in Hoboken. In 2003 a complete renovation was done, but still Breendonk remains a must-see for anybody interested in WWII and the Nazi regime. The fort is open every day of the year except 1 january and 24/25 december. I still don't have any trace of Paul Hurst....

Club Moral Stocklist 044 - C.M. Live in the Country

Club Moral Stocklist — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:04:34 GMT

Club Moral - C.M. Live in the Country (C-60 cassette) A-01 - Privémilicia (unreleased 1983) A-02 - Contre le Moi (Cirque Divers, Liège, 09/12/1984) A-03 - Kommunist Kennedy (Cirque Divers, Liège, 09/12/1984) A-04 - Wij Willen Weten, Wij Willen Macht, Wij Willen Aanhangers (Stalker, Brussels, 05/07/1984) A-05 - I Wanna Work in a Slaughterhouse (Club Moral, Antwerpen, 02/11/1983) A-06 - Ode aan Extremen (Daizelhof, Dadizele, 14/04/1984) A-07 - Luister & Verga (Club Moral, Antwerpen, 02/11/1983) B-01 - Soundtrack (Daizelhof, Dadizele, 14/04/1984) B-02 - Piggy (unreleased 1984) B-03 - Tegen het Ik (JC Den Uil, Zwijndrecht, 10/03/1984) B-04 - Hierophant (unreleased 1984) B-05 - Nu Ben Ik de Dood (Gladhouse, Leuven, 25/05/1985) B-06 - Hij Die Geen Hoofd Heeft, Zal Geen Kroon Dragen (Club Moral, Antwerpen, 02/11/1983) This tape was released to document a series of Club Moral performances that were organised all over the country in Belgium. In Cirque Divers, Liège, we played with Etat Brut. In Stalker, Brussels, we were alone as far as I remember. In Daizelhof, Dadizele, we played with Angst aka Dansgroep De Knol and AR/TE. In JC Den Uil, Zwijndrecht, we were alone. And in Gladhouse, Leuven, we played with Didi De Paris. The tracks recorded in Club Moral are all by DDV and were recorded on a performance on the occasion of his exhibition "Privémilicia". The track "Privémilicia" is from a tapeloop in a sculpture by DDV, now in the collection of Paul De Hert. On all occasions we also showed Super8 films during our performance, some of these are available on our MySpace or YouTube. The sound quality on most of these recordings is not the best, apologies for that.

20.000 mijlen over de Schelde in Jeugdklub Den Uil te Zwijndrecht

Het is een raadselachtige titel die boven dit bericht staat. Wat wordt daaronder verkocht? Club Moral is de naam van een duo dat op zaterdag 10 maart een "evenement" komt brengen in JK Den Uil in Zwijndrecht. "20 mijlen over de Schelde" luidt de werktitel die ze kozen voor het programma. Wat het allemaal wordt, zullen we de avond zelf moeten ondervinden. Dit is precies eigen aan een evenement van Club Moral: je weet wel dat er een aantal felle impulsen worden gegeven, maar je weet nooit vooraf hoe die stimuli zullen overslaan op het aanwezige publiek. Vast staat dat onze zintuigen geen rustige avond tegemoet gaan. Onze oren, gekonditioneerd door bekende melodietjes, worden overrompeld door een klankband van synthesizergeluiden, bandopnames, tekstrecitaties, kreten. Ondertussen kijken we naar begeleidende filmbeelden, al even scherp en eigenzinnig. Of we kijken naar de gespannen lichamen van de uitvoerders Danny Devos en Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - DDV en AMVK zoals ze hun namen zelf graag afgekort zien. Of misschien kijken we naar de onwennige reakties van de mensen naast ons. Scherpte en onvoorspelbaarheid vragen om een open, avontuurlijke toeschouwer. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven en Danny Devos Met AMVK heb ik voor het eerst kennis gemaakt in het ICC te Antwerpen, twee jaar geleden tijdens een tentoonstelling "Aktuele Beelding". Niet dat ze er zelf was, maar wel haar plastisch werk: haar expressieve taferelen met extatische figuren, citaten, slogans en graffiti - steeds in afstekende kleuren geschilderd op plexiplaten of allerlei plastiek materiaal. De gekozen beelden en woorden zijn aspekten van een tema dat uitgangspunt en drijfkracht is van een globale installatie. Zo bouwde AMVK reeds de installaties "Komfort über Alles" (Warande Turnhout '80), "Industriële Types" (Zeno X, Antwerpen '82), "Cet obscur objet du désir" (Montevideo, Antwerpen '83). Binnenkort verwachten we een nieuwe expo van haar in galerij Zeno X. Zoals de installatie het geprefereerde medium is voor AMVK, zo is de performance dat voor DDV. Ook hij werkt hiervoor rond een centrale gedachte of gevoelen. Via inwerking op zijn lichaam test hij de volle kracht ervan uit op de lichamen van zijn toeschouwers. Over de sensibele afstand tussen abstrakt geworden noties en konkrete fysische ervaringen als geweld, pijn, dood, passie, handelen de performances van DDV. Hij laat ons het puntige gewaar worden tegenover het afgestompte. Frank Heirman in Het Vrije Waasland, maart 1984.

Club Moral Stocklist 043 - Propagandum

Club Moral Stocklist — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:50:05 GMT

Propagandum (C-90 cassette + xerox booklet) A-01 - 19 Keys A-02 - Interview Geert-Jan Hobijn A-03 - Club Moral A-04 - ProduKtion A-05 - Didi de Paris B-01 - DDV B-02 - Angst B-03 - FistFuck Propagandum was an event organised by Club Moral at NL-Centrum, Amsterdam on 25 feb 1984, in cooperation with ProduKtion, and with the full support of the NL-Centrum, De Kapel and Staalplaat. The big colonnade of NL-Centrum was rebuilt into a great cathedral, consisting out of a main altar Propagandum wherein casts of parts of the bodies of AMVK and DDV and 400-year-old Monk skulls. This surrounded with broken glass and heavy chains. On this altar also a pot with boiling pork fat mixed with engine oil. The room was divided in different fields, each field mastered by an altar, or wall-paintings, towards the activity that took place in it. A short report of the events on 25th february 1984: Club Moral started with the showing of "39 Steps/19 Keys" with live sound and calling of the Keys in Enochian. Then a short but powerful concert by Club Moral. Second on the programme were V-Side/Dirk Paesmans - Koen Theys. For them 2 stakes, in memory of the inquisition, the TV as a fire under the crackling straw, the accused chained to poles. Dirk Paesmans chose not to come, he was replaced by the usual straw puppet. Koen Theys was put in the chains while underneath him his tape "Diana" was the fire. After this time for ProduKtion, a small cinema, in Auschwitz-style on gravel standing cinema seats flanked by two Kings' graves on which the figures of Paul Hurst and Christine Glover in stone with casts of their hands and faces. The films projected over the heads of the spectators, sound: shortwave distortion played live by Paul Hurst. Then "Now I am Death, the Destroyer of the World": DDV hung upside-down and screaming loud "Now I am Death" with film and slides and sound distortion by AMVK. Midnight: time for Angst/God to celebrate a one-hour-long Holy Mass. Cut-ups of schlagers, interviews, sounds and music in hellish tempo, all this on an almost classic simple altar, with family slides above the head of the high priest in Marks & Spencer outfit. Until now everything was roared fluently but with certain dirtiness to each other by "The Beast", Didi de Paris who coloured the events with selected texts. In the end, by surprise: Alsatan Dogs aka FistFuck. Roger Rogerson small crying on organ, fist-painting on the wall, a dog. Roger is the dog, grawling and crying. Crystal Belle wants everybody out. Exciting in rubber she hits greedy spectators with a leather belt. "Go away! It's over! Go away now! Go home! We want you out of here! Go away! All lights out: Go home! Go away! It's over! Go away! Go away!" (report in Force Mental #9, p 270-271) Propagandum was available in three versions: one in a plain cassette box with cover + photographic booklet by Club Moral, one in a plastic bag with black and gold printing in the Live Series of Staalplaat, and one in plain cassette box by ProduKtion. On the occasion of Propagandum, Club Moral and ProduKtion also played in De Kapel in Den Haag. The building of NL-Centrum at Rozengracht has been destroyed, their activities have been documented by a number of Staalplaat releases and excerpts of all bands that played at NL-Centrum appear on the double vinyl lp compilation "Q.E.D." (1987) by Play It Again, Sam (later re-released as cd). Appearing on the vinyl edition are Laibach, Die Form, Z'EV, SPK, Radio Rabotnik TV, Der Plan, Chris & Cosey, Non Toxique Lost, Het Zweet, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Michel Banabila, The Hafler Trio, Konrad Becker:Monoton, Einstürzende Neubauten, Kleg, P16 D4, Peter Zegveld, Etant Donnés, Code Public, Club Moral, Zero Kama, S.B.O.T.H.I. and Test Department, on an additional 7" vinyl were The Legendary Pink Dots, Blurt and Marie Kawazu. For a number of years the activities of NL-Centrum were continued by Triple X. The main initiator and leader of NL-Centrum Franz Ferdinand Feigl died in Amsterdam on 24 september 2001 of cancer at the age of 43. Let his memory never fade away.

UPDATE: There are now three videos available related to "Propagandum". A 10-min documentary recording of the installations at NL-Centrum on YouTube, a short live excerpt of Club Moral's performance on our MySpace and an interview with DDV about performance at his MySpace.

Club Moral Stocklist 042 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Club Moral Stocklist — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:22:07 GMT

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1985 (C-60 cassette) A-01 - Frank Pinckers B-01 - DDV This tape is a joint release by Frank Pinckers and DDV to commemorate the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. On side A Pinckers has some found footage and plays the organ. On side B DDV gives a rare Bach record a synthesizer treatment. The cover sports a pornographic picture of a priest with two naked girls, a medieval pair of finger handcuffs Frank Pinckers was a photography student at the time DDV was a sculpture student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent in the late seventies. After a while he became one of DDV's major performance photographers. In the early eighties hey also were both involved in a number of chaotic post-punk freestyle music bands such as Perfectone, Happy Star/Nominette and Multifour. In the late eighties Pinckers moved to Singapore for a number of fashion photography jobs, he resides there since then. In january 1999 they got to meet again when DDV was in Bangkok for the Alter Ego exhibition at Silpakorn University. Since then their paths have crossed whenever DDV travelled in Asia. Pinckers' photography work can be seen at www.pinckers.com. DDV's recent audio work is available through Club Moral.

Club Moral Stocklist 041 - Appartementen

Club Moral Stocklist — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:37:32 GMT

Appartementen: Kompilatie (C-30 cassette) A-01 - Mm, mumbling Vocals: ??? A-02 - Company Ca: See Sea A-03 - L'ecole du sens: Me and Ms. C A-04 - Simple Scratch: Scratch Bolero A-05 - Mm, mumbling Vocals: !!! A-06 - Bobo Binterman: Anno 82 A-07 - Mm, mumbling Vocals: %%% A-08 - Company Ca: Jack and Jill A-09 - Bobo Binterman: Padden op de Paden A-10 - Company Ca: Storia della... A-11 - L'ecole du sens: Mal B-01 - Simple Scratch: Scratch intro B-02 - Bali Mumbada: Fwiet B-03 - Bobo Binterman: Anno 83 B-04 - Mm, mumbling Vocals: /// B-05 - Bobo Binterman: Anno 82 B-06 - Bobo Binterman: Matsuhita Electric B-07 - Company Ca: Zwinston and Zjulia B-08 - Rednek's Percussion Orchestra: Riff A B-09 - Bobo Binterman: Soft ijs B-10 - Bali Mumbada: Duck Disco B-11 - Rednek's Percussion Orchestra: Riff B B-12 - Bali Mumbada: Inca Appartementen is a Klapholz Product 001 released in 1984. The handmade cover has written the track titles and a statement on the inside. "deze appartementen: kompilatie biedt U 23 nummers van louter in appartementen opererende groepen. de pop-pulp die zij binnenshuis via de radio ontvangen verwerken ze, in dezelfde kamer, tot hun eigen ontrafelde pseudo-'muziek'." (this appartementen: kompilatie offers you 23 tracks from bands that operate only in apartments. the pop-pulp received inside their rooms via radio is reworked, in the same room, into their own disentangled pseudo-'music'.) None of these 'bands' have made other releases, and as far as we know Klapholz did not release any other products. In the legendary 1984 "In Vitro" exhibition at Club Moral, Klapholz made a sculptural piece that existed of a plastic aquarium filled with green jelly and various artefacts.

Club Moral Stocklist 040 - Ten Velde Spuigt Bloed en Sterft

Club Moral Stocklist — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:15:12 GMT

AR/TE - Ten Velde / Spuigt Bloed en Sterft (C-60 cassette) A-01 - Ten Velde / In the Field A-02 - Untitled A-03 - Untitled B-01 - Spuigt Bloed en Sterft / Spit Blood and Die B-02 - Untitled This tape was released as "TX 03", a label by Trudo Engels in may 1983. Both sides contain one live track with additional studio noises. AR/TE used only tapes, effects and microphones. He can be considered as a pioneer in "Musique Concrète" as used by Etant Donnés in France and Nurse With Wound in the UK. Live performances have been very rare and usually contained a high degree of visual artwork and performance rituals (see also episode 29 of our Stocklist). No further details about this release are available.

Club Moral Stocklist 039 - The Parts

Club Moral Stocklist — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:39:06 GMT

The Parts - Auschwitz war Wunderbar (C-60 cassette) A-01 - Listing A-02 - I Don't Like the Girls A-03 - Let's Go to the Whores A-04 - Banzai! A-05 - Listing A-06 - 4 Safe Walls A-07 - Listing A-08 - Nazis of the Night (take 1) A-09 - Nazis of the Night (take 2) B-01 - Listing B-02 - Normalisation B-03 - Bodies B-04 - Overfuck B-05 - Cageman B-06 - Marry It! B-07 - Don't Kill the Cops B-08 - Auschwitz war Wunderbar The Parts are: DDV: vocals, synthesizers, rhythmbox, mouth organ AMVK: vocals, synthesizers, police whistle Erik Vloeberghs: lyrics, synthesizer on the "listings". This tape was released as "GBC 015" on Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations) by Erik Vloeberghs. The idea was to make pop music with the united forces of the great songwriter Erik Vloeberghs, the unique frontman and stage animal DDV, and the fingerspitzen keyboard virtuosa AMVK. Vloeberghs supplied the lyrics and some of the equipment like a drum machine (we don't remember which one) and a tape-delay to add to Club Moral's synthorium of a Wasp, a Korg MS-50 and the unequivocal FBT. All the songs were recorded in single takes on a six channel Traynor mixer/amplifier and a plain cassette-deck. No remixing or additional mastering was done. The lyrics are based on long and intense correspondence between Erik Vloeberghs and Club Moral, and they also form the basis of his later literary work which continues until today. Cageman I'm hiding in my foxhole Like all my ancestors did Loud is the flower of education Anxious for what might happen And what I might forget The police said foreigners call me a stinking rat Because I'm not quite fat Work and pray you cageman God's got a cageplan for you I'm hiding in my foxhole Watching TV, playing sex games Loud is the flower of convincion Hiding out for strangers I just can't understand them Why do they have to talk so much Why do they have to talk so much They didn't like me so they captured me They didn't like me so they captured me And now I'm watching channel 3 All my life All my life I surrendered with open arms Then they killed my wife And I still don't know why But I say they got to do their job, no? Yeah they got to do their job Work and pray you cageman God's got hundred calls you were at A stinking rat But he's got a cageplan for you Cageman The Parts never played live, and apart from one track on "De Heistse Zotten" (GBC 12) nothing has ever been released anywhere else. The only track that eventually did make it as a "hit" was "Nazis of the Night", which also appeared on Club Moral's Lp "To All Who Are Interested" (Cthulhu Records 1989). It is still a classic throughout Germany and France, and when Club Moral played in Berlin at the Ironfest festival in 2003, people came begging at 5.00 in the morning to play that song. The track has also been covered by the German band "Bastards of Love" on their super rare vinyl "Privatvergnügen". "Overfuck" is supposed to be cover of "Overkill" by Motörhead. A review from "Open System Project" n°6 / mars avril 84. "Que peut-on attendre d'une association "Erik Vloeberghs + Danny Devos & Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven"..? Tout... bien sûr... si on est bien servi... humour (?) noir et froid... dans les lyrics d'E.V.... "I don't wanna fight against the system - because the system is allright... Don't kill the cops - they're people too..." rythmbox obsédente... voix aigre-doux d'AMVK... et parfois franchement aigre (!) cynisme sinistre... etc... etc... encore une "grande" cassette à ne manquer sous aucune excuse...! "My mouth's my gun - and my action's a lot of fun"... (from "Banzai!). (J.P. Devresse)" There was a slight attempt last year from Ultra Eczema to re-release The Parts on vinyl, but Dennis the Kid with the Small Weener chickened out. Wanna see The Parts live? They will play a couple of songs live this friday -27 july 2007- at the "Renovation Part III" event, Oosterweelse Steenweg 3, 2030 Antwerpen. Doors at 21.00hrs. Other bands: Heavy Indians, Miguel Sosa, Deepsrof, Ludo Mich & The Joyous Cosmology. Dj's: DLN, Roggeblood, Even Plassen Tony & Carl Cryplant.

Club Moral Stocklist 038 - Prodition 1983

Club Moral Stocklist — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:37:05 GMT

ProduKtion - Prodition 1983 (A5 xerox booklet) "Prodition 1983" is a compilation of monthly xerox sheets sent out by ProduKtion. ProduKtion were basically Paul Hurst and Ross Cannon, with additional input from Christine Glover, Toni Rogerson and Mary Dowd. They were the main distributors from Come Organisation products in their shop and hairdressing salon. They also made the films that were shown during early Whitehouse performances. "Prodition" was a monthly documentation of terrorist and guerilla actions executed in 1983. Apart from the listings there were also illustrations; of the severed ear of Giorgio Calissoni (cover), an IRA funeral, Mehmet Ali Agca, a Beirut bomb victim, an Angry Brigade message, Maze Prison H-Block, Baader-Meinhof members and the Harrods bombing. The listings for july 1983 were as followed: 1st - ISLAMABAD - Guerillas carried out an attack on Kabul Airport. 4th - NTH IRELAND - The Irish Government may ban celebrations marking the death of Maze Prison Hunger Striker and M.P., Bobby Sands, 2 years ago. The rally is planned to be held in County Sligo where Lord Mountbatten died in 1979. 5th - LONDON - Veteran Ulster MP, Gerry Fitt, who lost his seat to Sinn Fein candidate has been burnt out of his West Belfast home while visiting London, Mr. Fitt has blamed the IRA. 8th - PARIS - Exiled Iranian Opposition Leader, Massoud Rajavi visited Orly Airport to meet with 5 heavily armed hijackers holding 200 hostages under threat of death in an Iran 747 hijacked on an internal flight from Shiraz to Teheran, Mr. Rajavi is head of the Paris based Left Wing Peoples Mujahidden Guerilla Group. 11th - MOSCOW - The KGB denied allegations that Mehmet Ali Agca was trained by them to assassinate the Pope. 13th - RABAT - Polisario forces made a large scale attack on a Moroccan outpost in the Western Sahara. 50 guerillas killed. 14th - ISLAMABAD - There has been reported large scale guerilla attacks on Kabul Airport. Afgan resistance forces report a week of rebel activity, the guerillas using mortar & rockets, hitting transport planes and helicopters. 15th - PARIS - 7 people have been killed & 60 injured in a bomb attack on the Turkish Airlines desk at Orly Airport. The Armenian Revolutionary Army has claimed responsibility. 15th - BRUSSELS - The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia have claimed responsibility for the assassination of Turkish diplomat, Dursun Aksay. 18th - BELFAST - Police & rioting youths clashed for 4 hours in Nth. Ireland's 7th consecutive day of violence. 18th - RHODE ISLAND - Prince Andrew faces American demonstrators protesting against British presence in N. Ireland. 20th - PARIS - Armenian activist Varadja Garbidjan arrested in relation to the Orly Airport attack. 21st - LIMA - Police claim guerillas & peasant sympathisers have massacred 80 pro-government villagers in Andean. 21st - BEIRUT - Armed men attacked & bombed Beirut's top hotel killing 2. 23rd - LONDON - Armenian Zavern Bedras jailed for 8 years on arms charges. 23rd - WASHINGTON - The Reagan Administration plans increased support for Anti-Government insurgents & a campaign of sabotage against Cuban installations in Nicaragua. Rebel forces are supported by the CIA who are expected to use large quantities of communications equipment & specialists in psychological warfare. 24th - NEW YORK - Anti Castro Terrorist Group, Omega 7 - leader arrested in Miami in possession of arms. Eduardo Arocena has been sought on charges of attempted assassination of the Cuban Ambassador to the UN. 28th - LISBON - Armenian Revolutionary Army have blown up the Turkish Ambassador's residence, 7 died including the 5 gunmen. "Prodition 1983" is dedicated to the Memory of Ulrike Meinhof (1934 - 1976) Revolutionary Leader of the Red Army Fraction and Heroine of Terrorism. Some of the information from "Prodition 1983" is resourced in DDV's "When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?" blog. The "Produktion Film Tracks" that accompany this stocklist podcast episode are: A-01 - Das Fere A-02 - Comedome 1 A-03 - Comedome 2 A-04 - Live Soundtrack for Drang tot Dwang at Club Moral Paul Hurst lives in Sydney (Paul where are you?), Ross Cannon died quite some years ago in Tasmania.

Club Moral Stocklist 037 - Wir Sind Wieder Da!

Club Moral Stocklist — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:07:45 GMT

The Simpletones - Wir Sind Wieder Da! (12" 45rpm vinyl) A-01 - Wir Sind Wieder Da! A-02 - Sagt Es Laut Ich Bin Weiss Ich Bin Stolz B-01 - Na, Ich Bin Fertig "Wir Sind Wieder Da!" was released in 1983 on DISCipline recOrds, a label from Johan De Smet that released only one item. The original Simpletones are Johan De Smet on guitar and Rudy Cabie on electric organ. The music is consists of a variety of combinations of the same 3 notes played over & over. There exists an unpublished tape with the basic principle on guitar only. In the early years The Simpletones only played during performances by DDV. The first occasion was AMVK's exhibition "Basic" at Art Something in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 12 sept 1980. More information on the performances of DDV and The Simpletones here. By 1983 the 3-note concept on guitar & electric organ was expanded to a big band with up to 12 musicians. On this album are playing: Johan Boonaert - trumpet, Joris Buysse - flute, Rudy Cabie - organ, Vincent D'Hondt - piano & organ & synthesizer, Johan De Smet - electric & acoustic guitar & organ & percussion, Louis Dekoninck - trumpet, Dirk Demeulemeester - trumpet, Danny Devos - vocals, Michel Mast - tenor sax, Luc Reuse - clarinet, Xavier Verhelst - double bass, Peter Vermeersch - soprano & baritone sax & bass clarinet. The cover was designed by Herr Seele & Willy Plompen. This release has previously been posted on the excellent "Mutant Sounds" blog. Eric Lumbleau called it "Giddy, zippy new wave-infllected instrumental art rock of an exceeding fetching persuasion that passingly glances off of Honeymoon Killers-like cartoonish ambulation, Jules Baptiste cum Six Cylindres En V effervescent horn charting and the mid-80's downtown NY-isms of Don King and The Ordinaires. Terrifically fun shite." The Simpletones recorded a full cd "Einfach" in 1993. Johan Desmet continues to make music, including several operas and soundtracks for theatre plays. Rudy Cabie died a couple of years ago. DDV continues Diggin' for Gordon UPDATE: We still have a number of these records available. Mail us if you're interested.

Club Moral Stocklist 036 - Lies on 45

Club Moral Stocklist — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:23:05 GMT

Angst - Lies on 45 (C-30 cassette) A-01 - Direct Destruction (Special Disco Mix) A-02 - Direct Destruction A-03 - Disco Ding A-04 - Who Programs You? B-01 - Danslokatie 2 B-02 - De Afval B-03 - Braak Terrein B-04 - Navo Lied II B-05 - Goodbye "Lies on 45" was released by Angst in 1983 as GBC 13. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), it was a label by Erik Vloeberghs. Some other GBC releases not served on this podcast are: GBC 06 - TNA - Hei Jullie! (C-90 by another alter-ego of Erik Vloeberghs) GBC 08 - De Weg naar de Hel - Angst & Danny Van Looy (C-90 with poetry readings and sound collages) GBC 09 - Molensteen - Madam Desmet (C-46 with literary ramblings of a local visionary) GBC 10 - Koning Der God! - Angst (C-60 with Live recordings) GBC 12 - De Heistse Zotten (C-60 compilation with LEISD, The Parts, E.Coli, Dansgroep De Knol, Angst, KCN and Johnny Hitparade) Apart from music production, Erik Vloeberghs als published several stenciled and xeroxed books from 1983 onwards, however none of them in english. "Lies on 45" continues in unequalled Angst style and delivers another batch of fine samples of synthesizer drones, sound collages and monotone vocal rantings. "New Uranium Age" (from Force Mental 6) the vile common divisor sad result 16 births no deaths knowing un-knowing dead maybe valium the dreamt alternative the sun doesn't shine anymore "our tune got lost" in ecstasy by misery in secstasy by serpent smell 1983 world war three can start at last nasal voice these anti-social cases give a misleading vision loving life without problem serpent smell gives to sneezing also sexual criminal "why aren't you on the first bus?" and now our uranium package broken waiting in the rain for a miscarriage hope to those christians much more interesting to see nothing no reconnection no red line satisfied after life That Question "our tune got lost" now fall apart in hundreds of small sects of unbelieving religion for the walls who really don't listen menstruating nuns accused this is a case of religious perversity the accuser said road across in deaf burr language our continuing speech defect penises towards girls laughing kind approaching with your disseminating lies talk from the same barrel "dear darling" we know that a handful of life stinks like pest "thank god, god does exist!" this little powerful science belied crawl out of the reton bucket "check the damage" the girls pretty and youth young my mind again propped with a body gods hate why put the blame on insane the end was not very promising not die like in films that there is no sanctuary not to tell anyone "our tune got lost" new uranium age cancer balls for breakfast pretty is the world indifferent talking not to the point still good there are idealists. (translation: Danny Van Looy)

Club Moral Stocklist 035 - Poisonous Fragrances

Club Moral Stocklist — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:52:36 GMT

Augusto Klamm - Poisonous Fragrances (C-60 cassette) A-01 - Poisonous Fragrances B-01 - Thriller B-02 - New Super Detergent B-03 - Monologue B-04 - Enemy B-05 - Fanfare B-06 - Machines 1, 2, 3, 4 B-07 - Primitive Cut "Poisonous Fragrances" was the first and only release by Augusto Klamm (real name is Serge Decraemer) on his own label "The Careerists" A few copies exist with ink smearings and handwritten titles on the cover, the Club Moral release has a plain xerox cover. The recordings were made in 1982-83, the tape was released in late 1983. All the tracks were recorded in Augusto Klamm's apartment in a HLM building in Jette (a Brussels suburb) where he lived with his mother. No instruments were used, only a (broken) microphone, feedback noise and some shortwave radio sounds. The A-side is actually a collection of bits and pieces, selected and cut into a long diary-type track. Side B has distinct separate tracks. This tape is a very rare pioneer work from this outsider artist. Augusto Klamm has never been involved with any other music production, never played live, although he was an avid follower of the Belgian Noise scene. Yet these recording bear a hard to find kind of originality and unique music creation. With a minimum of equipment "Poisonous Fragrances" manages to create a gripping sound atmosphere. A review from "Open System Project" magazine n°6 / mars avril 84. "bruitage industriel à haut niveau de saturation, voix méconnaissables et torturées, agonie sonore, fracas de ferraille sur fond de crissements atridents." This tape has previously been posted on the excellent "Mutant Sounds" blog. Augusto Klamm also appears on Club Moral's "19 Keys/19 Bands" compilation, forthcoming on this stocklist.

Club Moral Stocklist 034 - Pig and Face

Club Moral Stocklist — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:52:54 GMT

The Firing Squad - Pig and Face (C-60 cassette) A-01 - Bloodbrother A-02 - Homosexuals A-03 - Salvation A-04 - War Zombie A-05 - All Praise the Poison God B-01 - Popstars B-02 - ? B-03 - Slow Death in the Parents House B-04 - Control Habit B-05 - T.V. Christians B-06 - This Body 'Christ' B-07 - America "Pig and Face" was released in 1983 as GBC 11. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), it was a label by Erik Vloeberghs. "The Firing Squad" was a one-time recording project with Erik Vloeberghs on vocals and probably some 'Kwajongens in Bloei' on instruments. They never played live except for once when they were supposed to play but the guitarist got involved in a serious car accident. "Pig and Face" was the first in a series of projects where Vloeberghs attempted to make popular music with his own ingredients. A second notable attempt was "The Parts", on which we'll report in a forthcoming episode of our stocklist. Nothing further is known about "The Firing Squad", and the free lyric booklet that is mentioned on the cassette cover presumably never existed. Therefore.... some google results for "Pig and Face": "A spice from the dark black all her pig and face some blonde cypress. Pool you for a ass or sex class large a blonde. Hardcore hardcore fit bald cypress tree with a bald. Pregnant sweet rubbing after big sucking and blonde tree. Huge monster steps with bald as a mature babe gets her." "Pig and face have been in a curly rent for four toys now. Experience to the asian rent, younger or adult movie, banging the cunts if thick. I painted more of the get at double adult. Sand the huge, cute and indian (as straight) rent of hardcore young toys. Brunette hot rent doing babes. Own licked movie takes its believe a amazing hikes toys." "Fuck for a black pig and face well legs for fucking hard of lingerie. Outdoor huge nice sex with a porn. If her brunette man not mature great beauties, hot deep with dicks and black to the full porn to face up on the tits behind, lacey treated hardcore and star, asian goods and pictures. Couple up her hardcore glorious porn star lacey to wet your hardcore lacey at star. Two highlights having wax porn in a sure porn. Down old fucked lacey gives her huge porn on a big action. Movies have always been very hot lacey with each porn."

Club Moral Stocklist 033 - Greatest Hits

Club Moral Stocklist — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:47:41 GMT

Angst - Greatest Hits (C-90 cassette) A-01 - G.I. A-02 - Active & Passive Sodomy A-03 - Fuck Man Music A-04 - Angst Disco Show A-05 - (Everybody Needs) A Lover (Lalala Tralala) A-06 - White Hell A-07 - Good People (Where?) A-08 - God Is A Disease A-09 - Jules & Marie A-10 - All Cops A-11 - There Is A God (But Where?) A-12 - MO Soldiers To Hell A-13 - Sex With Mussels A-14 - Predictor A-15 - Do You Wish To Die? (Swimming In Shit & Smiling To The Photographer) B-01 - Wespelaar-Centrum B-02 - Luc B-03 - The Boss Is Ill (Who Runs This Joint?) B-04 - Rabies (Hydrophobia) B-05 - Rocket Cross (We All Stink) B-06 - To DOR SS Inspector B-07 - Be Hostile (Don't Smile) B-08 - Argentina Is OK! (Death Control) B-09 - Pushed In The Dirt (I Feel Fine) B-10 - Follow Me (To Hell) B-11 - (This Year) No Problems B-12 - Everything's Always Wrong B-13 - Love Dries Like Shit B-14 - Hello Yes B-15 - Cancer (Me Too) "Greatest Hits" was released in 1983 as GBC 07. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), was a label by Erik Vloeberghs, successor of his previous label "ZZ". "Greatest Hits" contains the best from earlier tapes "Live" and "De Witte Villa" on the previous lable ZZ ZZZ as well as some unreleased older and new tracks. "Very diverse and humerous. Pieces à la Come Org. (Rabies) to disco-stampers (Angst Disco Show). A must for anybody who hates Henk Van der Meyden. Take special notice of the track "Rabies (Hydrophobia)", it starts off with a Frankenstein-type Iron Man figure climbing up the stairs (to Vloeberghs' room?). Upon entering the room a harsh noise track takes over and mangles the Iron Man with lots of distortion. This is one of the best noise tracks ever produced, an aural picture of pure motiveless violence turning into triumph over its own destruction. The track abruptly ends when Vloeberghs' dad enters the room. This is the conversation that follows: "Are you making everything crazy here or what is this? Is it that loud? I'll stop then. Is it loud? Stop with that. I don't hear it when it's loud. You don't hear it? You should go see a doctor then, it's urgent. Go to Vietnam or go wherever you want, what is this?. Well." Beste Godelieve en Herman, Heel hartelijk gefeliciteerd met de geboorte van de kleine Erik. Wat moeten jullie toch gelukkig zijn met dat "stukste hemel" erbij. Om dat kleine letsel gaan jullie toch niet ongerust zijn, zeker? Zoiets komt toch gauw in orde, dat hebben jullie bij Marcske al ondervonden. Is de kleine Erik nu al thuis? En, nog steeds zo'n braaf ventje? Is Marcske ook blij, of beseft hij nog niet wat een broertje betekent? Wij hopen dat Erik ook zo'n flink ventje mag worden als Marc en dat hij z'n ouders heel, heel veel geluk mag schenken. Het beloofde bezoek zal, nu natuurlijk met vertraging, toch doorgaan. Mogen we jullie vragen iets te laten weten van de tijd waarop ons bezoek best zou passen? Nog eens, Godelieve en Herman, van ons allebei een (uit "Kom in het Huis van God - Een boekje voor de Moeders" door GOD zelf)

Club Moral Stocklist 032 - Equinox Event

Club Moral Stocklist — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:32:32 GMT

Various Artists - Equinox Event (C-90 cassette + A5-booklet) A-01 - Ramleh - Return to Slavery A-02 - Ramleh - Ramleh A-03 - Dogs Blood Order - Cease to Exist) A-04 - Death and Beauty Foundation - Speech A-05 - Death and Beauty Foundation - Whore of Babylon Parts 1 & 2 A-06 - Jill Westwood - Music for Performance A-07 - Ake - Rape B-01 - Pure - Ripped Out of the World B-02 - Krank B-03 - Club Moral - Exces Kontrol B-04 - Club Moral - Pinta B-05 - Club Moral - Buig Nooit en Buig voor Niemand B-06 - Club Moral - Jack the Ripper in Heaven The "Equinox Event" was the first major UK/European extreme noise music festival. It was organised by Mary Dowd and ProduKtion on 21 june 1983 at the Musicians' Co-op in London, United Kingdom. There were a whole bunch of bands scheduled to play, and the event was widely publicised in quite a few noise music magazines at the time. Many die-hard fans from all over the UK, Germany, France, Holland flocked to London to witness it. However, lack of organisation skills and money caused some bands to fail for appearance. Etat Brut only played 'hit and run' concert that would allow them to drive up, play, and drive back to Brussels the same night. A 4-hour ferry crossing was not an option. V-Side, barely surviving in their Gent quarters had no funding at all to travel. So that left only Club Moral to represent the mainland. As mentioned in the previous episode of our podcast, the Equinox Event was initiated with an exhibition by AMVK and performance by Club Moral at ProduKtion-HAIR on 20 june 1983. We spent a whole week in Mary Dowd's basement apartment, where every room including the kitchen and even the refrigerator was painted in black. Every day we went out it was as if came out of a nightclub, the only living being that supposedly survived there, apart from Mary Dowd, was a huge dog, living on a can of tinned food a day. The Equinox Event. Well it looked a lot like a Wasp synthesizer event, since almost every band was using one. And yes, the Equinox Event attracted quite some strange folk. While most of you probably weren't even born, spending some innocent youth in the country, or hey, daring the first steps of a certain punk attitude, these bands were proclaiming violence, perverted sex, torture and wicked magick. But on the other hand there were also 15-year-old Philip Best, experimenting with beer and a shortwave radio, William Bennett, experimenting with more beer and pseudo-political activism, and Steven Stapleton aka "Nurse With Wound", experimenting with even more beer. The "Mystery Guest band" announced on the flyer were to be Whitehouse. They couldn't be named on the flyer because they were 'banned' at the Musicians' Co-op. Supposedly Best was dumped by Mary Dowd in an unsatisfying love affair, subsequently he joined Whitehouse and wrote "Tit Pulp" (dedicated to Mary Dowd), and so both were banned from the Equinox Event. Best nevertheless got lively once in a while whining and screaming "Disco Shit!" (see also our "White Power" podcast episode), Bennett might have thrown an empty beer-bottle towards the stage (but there is no evidence of that), and Stapleton got into an argument with a drunken fellow who pulled out his private parts at a certain point and started pissing all over the place, including Steven's pants. All three were not ready for that kind of Aktionism, so they soon turned their heels to the Musicians' Co-op and headed for the bar across the street to rant further on. The Equinox Event nevertheless continued. I remember (the late) Ross Cannon having a chair cracked on his head, and using another chair to wear off more bottles while we played, but yes, the mood was on. Ramleh performed their classic "Return to Slavery", Dogs Blood Order happened to be the first performance of what later would be Current 93 (on this occasion with David Tibet, John Murphy and Roger Smith - their track was later renamed "Maldoror Ceases to Exist"), the Death and Beauty Foundation delivered quite a speech and Jill Westwood presented and early performance piece in chains. Ake set the standard with "Rape" and Pure continued to "Rip Out of the World". Krank aka John Murphy performed an agonising soundscape and finally Club Moral set out some stunning versions of "Exces Kontrol", "Pinta", "Buig Nooit en Buig voor Niemand" and "Jack the Ripper" (while AMVK played the organ, DDV placed an axe in the Musicians' Co-op's floor and left the stage, marking the end of the Equinox Event) finalising "In Heaven". Throughout the recording you can hear the occasional bottle flying through the air, some serious arguments going on with members of the audience, and over & over again Ross Cannon throwing off would-be offenders from the stage. The cassette came with a 12-page A5 booklet of photographs by Toni Rogerson. Some of these were also published in Force Mental 7. The cover of both cassette and booklet sport a picture of DDV in the performance of "Buig Nooit en Buig voor Niemand", setting fire to some equipment with a blowtorch in an attempt to weld a piece of metal around his leg. The tape was mastered by R.T. Smith. There is a noteworthy bootleg release of the Equinox Event by noteworthy member of the audience Graf Haufen. It's a double C-90 cassette in a special package and it has the complete recordings of all the bands' performances. In the years after this landmark event, many have tried to recapture the spirit of the Equinox Event, but none have succeeded. In spite of all the chaos and the panic and the smalltalk and the brawls and the riots and the discomfort and last but not least all the pissing around, the Equinox Event has remained a landmark in the era of noise music. Either you were one involved or either you just weren't there. Anyway, Mary, if you are out there - thanks a lot for having us at your place and at your festival - all the best from DDV.