An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric
musical underground--with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and
Nurse With Wound.
This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic
exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes
the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With
Wound, is based on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all
three bands' personal archives. Together, these genre-defying bands and
their circles represent the English underground in all its cultural,
artistic, and sexual variety. Over four decades, the three intertwined
groups have maintained a symbiotic, yet uneasy, relationship with the
mainstream of popular culture, even as their music, beliefs, and
practices have repelled them from it. Theirs was a clandestine scene
whose work accents the many occulted peculiarities of Englishness that
flow through generations of outsiders, channeling personalities as
diverse as Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, Joe Orton, Shirley Collins,
Björk, and Marc Almond. The story of this Hidden Reverse has,
necessarily, remained a secret. Until now.
This new volume contains almost 100 pages of extra material culled from
Furfur, a collection of interviews with musicians and artists whose
careers intersected with the bands', initially published alongside
Strange Attractor's first limited edition of the book.
