Nurse With Wound – 1984: A Happening (United Dairies) documents one of the project’s earliest and rarest live recordings, capturing their second public performance from 1984.
During a brief period between 1984 and 1986, Nurse With Wound performed live just a handful of times. These appearances—described by Steven Stapleton as unpredictable and often chaotic—pushed the project beyond the studio into confrontational, improvised settings.
This recording, long held in Stapleton’s archive, features collaborators including David Tibet and Andrew McKenzie. It draws on the same ground as Homotopy to Marie and Nature Unveiled, combining tape collage with live electronics, voice, and percussion.
Raw but vividly captured, the set unfolds in real time, balancing disorder with moments of striking intensity, and reflecting the project’s roots in dada, musique concrète, and the post-punk underground.
During a brief period between 1984 and 1986, Nurse With Wound performed live just a handful of times. These appearances—described by Steven Stapleton as unpredictable and often chaotic—pushed the project beyond the studio into confrontational, improvised settings.
This recording, long held in Stapleton’s archive, features collaborators including David Tibet and Andrew McKenzie. It draws on the same ground as Homotopy to Marie and Nature Unveiled, combining tape collage with live electronics, voice, and percussion.
Raw but vividly captured, the set unfolds in real time, balancing disorder with moments of striking intensity, and reflecting the project’s roots in dada, musique concrète, and the post-punk underground.
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