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Coil

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Coil: Scatology (K422)

Review by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 9 February 1985

MINED LIKE A SEWER ...

Coil: The Soil And Spoil Tactics Of Coil

Interview by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 20 April 1985

WHEN YOU'RE up to your nose in shit, goes the Spaghetti wisdom, keep your mouth shut. ...

Coil: The Darker Side Of Sampling

Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, July 1987

LONG BEFORE the verb was coined, Coil keyboardist Peter Christopherson started sampling. ...

Coil: Love's Secret Domain (Torso)

Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 25 May 1991

FROM THE provocative cover which displays a severed penis ejaculating capsules of Ecstasy to the way the title track wryly quotes Roy Orbison's 'In Dreams', ...

Coil: England's Dreaming

Profile and Interview by Ian Penman, The Wire, April 2000

Now living by the sea, Coil tap the tidal flows and lunar tugs shaping England's occult history for their visionary nocturnal music. ...

Julian Cope's Cornucopea: South Bank Centre, London

Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000

BILLED AS "a festival of plenty" by its curator Julian Cope, the two nights spent in the company of his various label mates, old mates ...

Mouse on Mars, Plaid and Coil: Barbican, London

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 29 April 2002

THE FINAL CONCERT in the Barbican's Only Connect series sought to explore "the inspiration of the computer game on electronic music", or so it said ...

This Mortal Coil: A Final Report on Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson

Retrospective by Mark Dery, Thought Catalog, 29 November 2010

Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, who in the '80s pioneered the industrial aesthetic with the band Throbbing Gristle, died in his sleep at his home in Bangkok ...

see also Psychic TV

see also Throbbing Gristle

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