Tough love gets it done…
Well, its time we told you some stories. Not just the ‘we released that’ and ‘we played there’ but the true life trials and tribulations of the group Knifeladder. Be still my pounding heart eh?
We’ve been working on the latest album ‘wire spine’ for ever. The process we use is so laborious, you would lose the will to live were I to describe it. It sorta goes like this.
John comes over to me with a Tesco bag full of crumbling cassettes, CDRs and an assortment of ethnic noise devices, that look like they were bought from the world music shop equivilent of Poundstretcher.
We then go to the basement room containing more cigarette smoke than ‘last gasper’ night at The Angel. We then plug in our loop machines and I duly record every scratch, rasp and wobble and the neighbours kids start to cry ‘Please Mummy, make it stop’
Then with a cheap sampler I like steal all the best bits, plunder John Murphy’s entire musical heritage, and wonder how the hell I am going to filter the tape hiss from the recording of bowed and scraped agricultural machinery, recorded in Dubbo 1978.
I can see you are fading already – part 2 of the exciting creative force which is Knifeladder to follow shortly. BTW the last album that disappeared without trace, ‘The Spectacle’ is finally actually available from Rough Trade, Cold Spring and Cryonica. So all you people who downloaded for free (and , since you couldn’t find it, who can blame you?) could get an actual object with loverly artwork and a picture of us lounging sardonically, like Victorian doctors after a hard night slicing stolen corpses.
With that beautific image, I leave you for now.
Andrew Trail
Hello, how charming to hear such intimate details of the desparate goings on in the unveiled lives of Knifeladder. I’m glad to hear that you are all well and functioning. Hellenxx Special regs to John.