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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 and and were generally considered 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 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.
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  • megajosh2

    I like how every time I recognize an artist on the Nurse With Wound list I'm like "yeah, awesome pick!"

    23 days ago

  • sub-v-Ruiner

    Too many of NWW worst pieces on the top tracks list

    24 days ago

  • deathinjunelove

    "The Self Sufficient Sexual Shoe" is probably NWW's weakest, surprised it's on the top..

    28 days ago

  • RapeBrain

    RADION6NZE : WTF?! :D

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  • MossTrumpeter

    It's great how a track from Rock'n'Roll Station is the most played. Not the definitive NWW album, but definitely one of the best.

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  • polymorphous71

    http://www.last.fm/group/Oblique+Satellites

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  • blackbloodvains

    Bloody excelent

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  • RADION6NZE

    MED students asked the authorities permission to experiment with 1 whom had been sentenced to death for a serious crime. The prisoner was turned over to them and they told him they were going to bleed him to death after placing him on an operation table and blindfolding him they scratched a place on his arm and caused blood warm water to flow over the pin scratch into a pan below so that he could hear the sound of the drip dripping, after a certain time they examined his pulse and declared him to B weak and dying, they repeated this process several times in the course of an hour and he soon died without the loss of one drop of blood from the pin wound. His death being the result of suggestion only such is the power of sound and suggestion - smoke and mirrors

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