UPDATES

Cut Hands
May 11th 2013 : Vittorio Veneto, Italy + Kevin Drumm, Demdike Stare
May 30th 2013 : New York, USA
June 2nd 2013 : Austin, USA Chaos In Tejas
June 2013 : San Francisco, USA
June 2013 : San Diego, USA
June 2013 : Chicago, USA
June 7th 2013 : Seattle, USA
June 2013 : Los Angeles, USA
June 10th 2013 : Montréal, Canada
June 29th 2013 : Toulouse, France
June 30th 2013 : Hamburg, Germany
July 5th 2013 : Bern, Switzerland + Phill Niblock
July 6th 2013 : Basel, Switzerland
July 26th 2013 : Stockholm, Sweden Norberg Festival
July 27th 2013 : Berlin, Germany Atonal Festival
August 8th 2013 : Edinburgh, UK
August 15th 2013 : London, UK
August 31st 2013 : Cambridge, UK Wysing Arts Festival
September 2013 : Brussels, Belgium
September 2013 : Odense, Denmark
September 2013 : Athens, Greece 
October 19th 2013 : Moscow, Russia

Zeitkratzer + William Bennett
May 15th 2013 : Nancy, France

William Bennett DJ
July 28th 2013 : Berlin, Germany

DJ Benetti
September 2013 : Athens, Greece
October 18th 2013 : Moscow, Russia

more details soon, other shows still to be announced!

new Cut Hands 12" Madwoman on Downwards
track listing:
Madwoman
River Mumma
Eat Them Like Bread
Inchantment

also coming Black Mamba special double vinyl album version with new songs I Know What I Must Do, Immersion, and Damballah 58

Cut Hands Black Mamba CD ($18.99) free exclusive art postcards 

Cut Hands Black Mamba 12" single ($19.99) limited copies

Cut Hands Afro Noise I CD ($18.99)
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP sold out :-(
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP ($29.99) final copies
Cut Hands official T-shirts new Etsy store
Mimsy DeBlois original vévé artwork

all prices in US$ include free worldwide airmail shipping
PayPal to: susanlawly@gmail.com

PARIS

With Jordi Valls in Paris last week.

NEW 12"

Cut Hands - Madwoman 12"
coming soon on Downwards!

Madwoman
I Know What I Must Do
River Mumma
Eat Them Like Bread

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Sadly, there's someone unknown out there using anonymous scare tactics to try and get my shows cancelled, typically with threats made to arts venues that attempts will be made to cut off their funding, which seems to me especially cowardly. They are also trolling YouTube, Wikipedia, Fact Magazine and other sites posting nasty comments. This is all done under the accusation that I have been a covert 'nazi/fascist' for the last 30 years and that Cut Hands etc is some kind of elaborate cover up for that.

I am not, never have been, nor ever will be, a nazi/fascist/racist.
I think and hope that would be without question obvious to most people that know me even just a little bit.

The evidence for the accusation seems to be based on an entirely satirical text I wrote around 1982 for an art magazine, Force Mental. It was written deliberately in a particular linguistic style because their requested theme of that particular issue of the art magazine was 'the New Right'. I had an interest at the time in the stylistic idiom of different political persuasions. It was not supposed to be taken seriously, and looking back, it was stupid of me to think that it wouldn't when taken out of context. My bad.

Likewise, the very name of the music group, Whitehouse, was not coined out of any admiration or respect to nasty moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse, it was also ironic and satirical, as was a hell of a lot of my musical output in the early 80s, in addition to the content in the label fanzine Kata. Like many other industrial and experimental projects of the time, a lot of wildly varying areas of human transgression were explored, there was much artistic immersion in taboo areas of human expression.

Not that I wish to emphasise great weight to my personal beliefs any more than the next person's, but just to clarify matters, these are a few examples of where I've stood and continue to stand since very young, even when they caused me trouble.

I am entirely non-religious.
I am anti-war, anti-military.
I am anti-capital punishment.
I am anti-corporal punishment.
I am anti-racism/xenophobia.
I am anti-nationalist/anti-colonialist.
I am pro-internationalist.
I am pro-animal rights/welfare.
I am pro-gay/lesbian.
I am pro-choice (re. abortion).
I am anti-censorship, pro-freedom of artistic expression.

If you feel you can help in any way, even by just showing support, it'll really mean a lot. Feel free to also ask me any question on anything mentioned, I'll do my best to answer. Huge thanks for reading this.

Warm regards, William

ACQUISITIONS 24

reading
Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono - Lisa Carver
Mercury And Me - Jim Hutton
On The Art Of The Noh Drama - Rimer and Yamazaki

listening
The Conet Project - Various (4CD)

viewing
The Pierced Heart & The Machete (Olivia Wyatt) 
The Divine River (Hisham Mayet)
UFC 157

ACQUISITIONS 23
ACQUISITIONS 22
ACQUISITIONS 21

2013 UPDATES

Cut Hands
March 2nd 2013 : Cork, Ireland (Triskel)
March 21st 2013 : London, UK (Café OTO) + Dalhous
March 24th 2013 : Rome, Italy (Swiss Institute)
April 13th 2013 : Dublin, Ireland (Twisted Pepper) + Andy Stott
April 14th 2013 : Dijon, France (Kill Your Pop 2013 at Le Consortium)
April 15th 2013 : Lyon, France (Sonic Protest 2013) + Torturing Nurse
April 16th 2013 : Paris, France (Sonic Protest 2013)
April 19th 2013 : Tours, France (Sonic Protest 2013 at Le Temps Machine)
April 21st 2013 : Bourogne, France (Impetus Festival) + Pied Gauche
May 11th 2013 : Vittorio Veneto, Italy + Kevin Drumm, Demdike Stare
May 29th-June 9th 2013 : NYC/SF/LA/Austin/Chicago/Seattle, USA
June 2013 : Montréal, Canada
June 2013 : Toulouse, France
June 30th 2013 : Hamburg, Germany
July 5th 2013 : Bern, Switzerland + Phill Niblock
July 6th 2013 : Basel, Switzerland
July 26th 2013 : Stockholm, Sweden
July 27th 2013 : Berlin, Germany
August 15th 2013 : London, UK
August 31st 2013 : Cambridge, UK 
October 19th 2013 : Moscow, Russia

Zeitkratzer + William Bennett
May 15th 2013 : Nancy, France

DJ Benetti
February 22nd 2013 : London, UK (CUM)
March 3rd 2013 : Cork, Ireland
October 18th 2013 : Moscow, Russia

more details soon, other shows still to be announced!

a new Cut Hands 12" Madwoman on its way
also coming Black Mamba special double vinyl album version with new material 

Cut Hands Black Mamba CD ($18.99) free exclusive art postcards 

Cut Hands Black Mamba 12" single ($19.99) limited copies

Cut Hands Afro Noise I CD ($18.99)
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP sold out :-(
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP ($29.99) final copies
Cut Hands official T-shirts new Etsy store
Mimsy DeBlois original vévé artwork

all prices in US$ include free worldwide airmail shipping
PayPal to: susanlawly@gmail.com

ACQUISITIONS 23

reading
Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money - Erik Markus
African Rhythm And African Sensibility - John Miller Chernoff
Gestalt Therapy Integrated - Erving & Miriam Polster

listening
Vision Quest - Maria & The Mirrors (CD)
Squireboy Punishments - Skull Disco (CD)
Running Times - Gulls (12")

viewing
The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman) 
Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman)
Into The Abyss (Werner Herzog)

ACQUISITIONS 22
ACQUISITIONS 21
ACQUISITIONS 20

UNCLE WILLIAM COLLECTION

Nothing new here; for pedantry's sake, the links for all sixteen episodes collated in the right order.

UNCLE WILLIAM 1
UNCLE WILLIAM 2
UNCLE WILLIAM 3
UNCLE WILLIAM 4
UNCLE WILLIAM 5
UNCLE WILLIAM 6
UNCLE WILLIAM 7
UNCLE WILLIAM 8
UNCLE WILLIAM 9
UNCLE WILLIAM 10
UNCLE WILLIAM 11
UNCLE WILLIAM 12
UNCLE WILLIAM 13
UNCLE WILLIAM 14
UNCLE WILLIAM 15
UNCLE WILLIAM 16

PINTEREST

My shiny new Pinterest account, sucked in primarily because I fortuitously got to have my full name.

UPDATES

confirmed forthcoming Cut Hands shows:
March 2nd 2013 : Cork, Ireland (Triskel)
March 21st 2013 : London, UK (Café OTO)
March 24th 2013 : Rome, Italy (Swiss Institute)
April 14th 2013 : Dijon, France (Le Consortium)
April 16th, 2013 : Paris, France (Sonic Protest 2013)
April 19th, 2013 : Tours, France (Sonic Protest at Le Temps Machine)
April 21st 2013 : Nantes, France (Impetus)
July 5th 2013 : Bern, Switzerland
July 25-27th 2013 : Stockholm, Sweden

more details soon, other shows still to be announced!

a new Cut Hands 12" Madwoman on its way

Cut Hands Black Mamba CD ($18.99) free exclusive art postcards 

Cut Hands Black Mamba 12" single ($19.99) limited copies

Cut Hands Afro Noise I CD ($18.99)
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP sold out :-(
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP ($29.99) final copies
Cut Hands official T-shirts new Etsy store
Mimsy DeBlois original vévé artwork

all prices in US$ include free worldwide airmail shipping
PayPal to: susanlawly@gmail.com