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Industrial Newsletters 1978 + 9

Industrial Newsletters 1978 + 9

'We got a letter from Garry in Grimsby who has been trying to form an experimental group but has had difficulty finding people to work with. He expresses interest in....

"Ideas like playing in bright blue light, playing an exact time, i.e. 45 minutes, and leaving the stage as soon as time is up, regardless [sounds familiar]. Monotonous rhythms appeal to me, experimentation in Sound fascinates me.

NON-MUSICIANS WANTED. SOUND = NOISE. NOISE - SOUND. Perfection is a fault" '

TG kept fans up to date with news and inside info with a series of newsletters that sat well with the developing fanzine scene of the day. This one is from 1978, TG just establishing themselves beyond a live circuit with, now with an album and a single out but plenty more news, recommendations and of course collages. 16 pages.

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'No further discussion of Charles Manson will be answered.'

Another from 1979, 24 pages of news, 'tapes received', interview, lyrics and collages by each of the band.

These newsletters / zines now go for around £120+ but I'm offering here for £70 + £80 for a quick sale (UK). Or search 'em on eBay where I am also selling them, more inner pages shown, but for more £££!

u/WearSensibleShoes — 4 days ago
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the art of the sixth sense (book by M Fish and D Hallbery)

Hopefully this is easy enough to zoom in and read on various devices. A very enjoyable and slim book. 130 pages including all front material and end discography and filmography.

  1. SAF (Serious Art Form) Publishing Ltd.

Mentions here of WS Burroughs, TG, Can, Mark E Smith, Stockhausen, Kraftwerk, Neu.

A small excerpt:

Artistically, paranoia is the condition that Richard Kirk inhabits most effectively. The paranoic state is not only one of suspicion, but of confusion and deception. Kirk's clipped imagery, whether in the form of a video, or as a backdrop to their live performance, can appear at first glance as a video jigsaw. On closer inspection of the early videos there seeps through a paranoic subconscious. Politics is bevelled from footage of oppression, sex from the neon pornographia of the Reeperbahn, and religion from self-doubt and fear.

u/PAXM73 — 8 days ago