Nurse With Wound

See all 16 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Nurse With Wound Radio, featuring artists like Stereolab & Nurse With Wound, Andrew Liles, Current 93 & Nurse With Wound, Coil and more…

• 
  Search on Spotify

  Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more

971,213 plays (66,139 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Nurse With Wound Ringtones to Cell

More options

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

London, United Kingdom (1978 – present)

Nurse With Wound or NWW is a London, UK based music band, formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak. Their early recordings, all made quickly, were heavily influenced by free jazz and krautrock and were generally considered industrial music, despite the objections of the group.

By 1981, only Stapleton was left from the original trio and he now regards 1982’s “Homotopy to Marie”, as being the first proper Nurse With Wound release. There are now over 30 full length NWW titles.

Stapleton’s fondness for dada, surrealism and absurdist humor are demonstrated in much of NWW’s output, which, though it draws directly on nearly every musical genre imaginable (from cabaret music to nursery rhymes to John Cage to The Beach Boys to krautrock to pop music to ambient music and Captain Beefheart) retains a distinctive and recognizable aura.

Musique concrete may be the most prominent touchstone, due to Stapleton’s frequent – and often humorous – use of creative tape loops and editing. Athough NWW has a long and illustrious list of collaborators (most notably David Tibet of Current 93), at time of writing, NWW is effectively a duo of Stapleton and Colin Potter, the latter having first worked with NWW on 1992’s “Thunder Perfect Mind” when it was recorded at Potter’s ICR studio.

Those interested in learning more should research the infamous “Nurse With Wound List” (see also the nurse with wound list on last.fm). It is a list of band names of NWW’s obscure influences and it has become a kind of guide for those seeking fringe music of all kinds.

Read more… Edit

Popular tags: experimental, industrial, noise, avant-garde, dark ambient  See more

Shouts: 589 shouts

Share this artist:

• Send
• Tweet

Top Albums

• Homotopy to Marie
  Nurse With Wound

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.99
  • 7digital $7.77
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $30.71
  • eBay Search
• Rock N Roll Station
  Nurse With Wound

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital Search
  • Juno $8.29
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $39.98
  • eBay Search
• Huffin’ Rag Blues
  Nurse With Wound

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.99
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $12.25
  • eBay Search
• A Sucked Orange
  Nurse With Wound

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		The Self Sufficient Sexual Shoe			72
2		Two Mock Projections			43
2		Two Golden Microphones			43
4		Homotopy to Marie			39
5		Astral Dustbin Dirge			36
5		Rock 'n Roll Station			36
7		I Cannot Feel You As The Dogs Are Laughing And I Am Blind			27
7		Funeral Music For Perez Prado			27
9		Yagga Blues			26
10		Willy The Weeper			24
10		The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal			24
10		Ketamineaphonia			24
10		It's All Gone Weird			24
14		Spiral Theme			23
15		Pleasant Banjo Intro with Irritating Squeak			22

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more