How do you tell one song from the next? Never really got into this sort of stuff.
why have i never heard whitehouse??
Genesis P-orridge is a hypocrite,
Haven't seen the Wire but I have heard the album. How is it touting shock exactly? I can believe that it might be meant to surprise... But appall? Can you clarify please?...stuff like this which touts the same worn out "shocking" nonsense... if only it DID appall or surprise in any way, but it remains merely utterly, bafflingly banal.
The Wire is hilarious this month as regards Whitehouse. A long ring-licker of a puff piece, but also a total take-down review of the tired peurility of their newest album in the reviews section... Whitehouse just seems really really tiresome to me, the few bits I've heard. The Simon Reynolds' criticism of noise music (that it never functions as "noise"- as only the kind of people who are unoffended will ever bother to listen to it) stands- specifically with reference to stuff like this which touts the same worn out "shocking" nonsense... if only it DID appall or surprise in any way, but it remains merely utterly, bafflingly banal.
Well, we might as well put it here - after all, if Wavis O' Shave could find this forum after a few google searches, I'm sure anyone can - William Bennett uses an alias, 'William Benedict', co-ordinating a 'personal skills training' institute called the Relationship Academy. The Susan Lawly secretary, Florence Detaille, will fix you up with a personal makeover for some miniscule sum like £100, while 'Benedict' coaches you on subjects like 'How To Never Get Rejected!'
http://www.relacademy.freeuk.com/
http://www.relacademy.freeuk.com/metrofeature.htm
Damn, I thought someone was going to say he was Burial or The Tuss or something..
Throbbing Gristle were certainly the main inspiration for me at first. But it was more to do with what they didn't do, what they didn't achieve, than what they actually did. It was like, why are they trying to move into the mainstream? Why are they trying to make music? It was because they finally learned how to play their instruments that they got to that stage. But I was moving in the opposite direction. I could already play. I was a classically trained guitarist but I was deliberately moving away from that.