ARTPOP

A conversation with Lisa Blanning about Lady Gaga's ARTPOP.

DAMBALLAH 58

The new Damballah 58 vinyls gently and safely landed!
BEB have once again done a fabulous job of making them look and sound so great, that attention to detail really makes such a difference. There's a full preview of the A-side at Soundcloud. I do have a few here for sale (US$20 Europe/US$25 ROW shipping included, PayPal to the usual susanlawly@gmail.com), and of course if you'd like a signed one please just feel free to ask.

Cut Hands live
November 15th 2013 : Oslo, Norway Bla
November 22nd 2013 : Bristol, UK Arnolfini
November 23rd 2013 : Milan, Italy NUL
February 15th 2014 : Budapest, Hungary Trafó
February 21st 2014 : Helsinki, Finland Muissa Maailmoissa
March 7th 2014 : Adelaide, Australia Unsound Festival
March 29th 2014 : Glasgow, UK Glasgow School Of Art
April 4th 2014 : London, UK Downwards Night
April 10th 2014 : New York, USA Irving Plaza 

April 11th 2104 : Philadelphia, USA TLA 

April 13th 2014 : Boston, USA Royale 

April 15th 2014 : Chicago, USA Metro

April 17th 2014 : Seattle, USA Neumos 

April 18th 2014 : Portland Hawthorne Theatre 

April 20th 2014 : San Francisco DNA Lounge 

April 22nd 2014 : Los Angeles Fonda Theatre
April 24th 2014 : Bucharest, Rumania Rokolektiv Festival
May 3rd 2014 : Bradford, UK
May 17th 2014 : Warsaw, Poland Transwizje 5 Festival
May 24th 2014 : Manchester, UK Fat Out Festival

Cut Hands DJ
14th May 2014 : Berlin, Germany Berghain Kantine
30th May 2014 : London, UK

also still available 
Madwoman 12" single ($20 Europe - $25 ROW) last 1st ed. copies

Black Mamba 12" single ($20 Europe - $25 ROW) 4 copies left

Black Mamba CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW) free exclusive art cards
Afro Noise I CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW)

Cut Hands t-shirts and original Mimsy DeBlois paintings

A COLOURFUL STORM

This is a new mix I did for A Colourful Storm, hope you enjoy.

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Helter-Skelter, 2012 (****)
like the contents of Sweet fashion magazine converted into a disturbing horror film, Japanese photographer-director Mika Ninagawa's eyes-wide-open dazzlingly explicit visual feast of an exquisite idol girl's dark descent to madness

Maniac, 2012 (*)
utterly pointless remake of Joe Spinell's sleaze horror: awkward dialogue, porn quality acting, and horribly self-conscious POV technology

Spring Breakers, 2012 (***)
nice audiovisual aesthetics, girls are great, it all promises so much... and then James fucking Franco appears

The Conjuring, 2013 (*)
the one scary thing about this laughably clichéed Amityville rip-off cum RC propaganda film is its box office success

L'Apollonide, 2011 (*****)
dispassionately dark and beautifully realised anthology of women's life experiences in a 1900s Parisian bordello

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reading
Tribal Rites - David Diebold
Love Saves The Day - Tim Lawrence
It's Time! - Bruce Buffer

listening
7" 8 trk EP - Russell Haswell (7")
Runaway Sailors, Stay At Home Wives - Tailor Birds (CD)
Joey - Vera (LP)
Ten Anthems For Computer - EVOL (12")

viewing
WSOP 2013
TUF 18
 Mouse And Grudge (Dialing In) 

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DAMBALLAH 58

new Cut Hands 12" Damballah 58 on Blackest Ever Black
late October 2013 release, preorders now taken

track listing:
A1 - Damballah 58
B1 - Mamba Muntu
B2 - Belladonna Theme
B3 - Immersion

Cut Hands live
September 14th 2013 : Odense, Denmark Phono Festival
September 20th 2013 : Tilburg, Netherlands Incubate Festival
September 21st 2013 : Athens, Greece
September 26th 2013 : Leeds, UK
September 27th 2013 : Brussels, Belgium Bozar/BEB Showcase
October 19th 2013 : Barcelona, Spain LEM Festival
October 25th 2013 : Graz, Austria Elevate Festival
November 22nd 2013 : Bristol, UK

DJ Benetti
September 22nd 2013 : Athens, Greec
October 11th 2013 : Vittorio Veneto, Italy Coda Lunga
October 18th 2013 : Glasgow, UK Nice N Sleazy

more details soon and other shows still to be announced!

also still available 
Madwoman 12" single ($18 Europe - $24 ROW) last 1st ed. copies

Black Mamba 12" single ($18 Europe - $24 ROW) 5 copies left

Black Mamba CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW) free exclusive art cards
Afro Noise I CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW)

Cut Hands t-shirts and original Mimsy DeBlois paintings

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Fillmore Discos reviews are back with the recent 7-day series of overlooked rare vintage gems posted from my Twitter (hence their pitifully brief 140-character length). The scores, as always, are no more than a measure of how much I got off on watching them. If you've seen any of these, would love to hear your thoughts too.

Toys Are Not For Children, 1972 (*****)
I love sleazy Pinteresque psychosexual mindfuckery and just like 70s classic The Baby, Toys is amazing

Femina Ridens, 1969 (*****)
gloriously twisted misandrist Italian masterpiece featuring the exquisite Dagmar Lassander, modern cinema can't compare

Road To Salina, 1971 (*****)
eyes wide open mindblowing incest psychodrama, movingly intense performances from Rita Hayworth and Mimsy Farmer

So Sweet, So Dead, 1972 (****)
vintage giallo whose wanton sleaze is matched only by its sartorial elegance and a truly sumptuous soundtrack

Il Caso Mattei, 1972 (*****)
Rosi's fascinating Italian political biopic with an amazing proto-industrial techno soundtrack (yes, in 1972!)

Red Desert, 1964 (*****) 

Antonioni's extraordinary visionary traumatic film about alienation exacts a heavy emotional toll, you must see it

Frustration, 1971 (*****)
elegant erotic often disturbing study of female sexual frustration, daring to go where Polanski's Repulsion wouldn't

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MADWOMAN

I have some of the new Cut Hands 12" Madwoman on Downwards here, 180g vinyl, beautiful printed inner sleeve
($20 shipping inclusive to Europe - $26 rest of world)
if you'd like a signed copy, please just ask!

track listing:
Madwoman - River Mumma - Eat Them Like Bread - Inchantment

Cut Hands Volume 3 and Volume 4 vinyl albums in preparation
(replacing Black Mamba previously announced 2xLP version)

still available

Black Mamba 12" single ($20 Europe - $26 ROW) 4 copies left

Black Mamba CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW) free exclusive art cards
Afro Noise I CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW)

also
Cut Hands official T-shirts new Etsy store
Mimsy DeBlois original vévé artwork

please send PayPal payment to: susanlawly@gmail.com

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reading
House Of Psychotic Women - Kier-la Janisse
Waiting To Be Heard - Amanda Knox
The Soccer Tribe - Desmond Morris
How Not To Run A Club - Peter Hook

listening
Beatnadel - AGF (CD)
Live At Golden Pudel Club - Benjamin Brunn (CD)
White Car - s/t (12") 
Xenon - New (LP)

viewing
City/Ruins (Aaron Vilk) 
La Casa Muda (Gustavo Hernández)
UFC 162

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INSTAGRAM

Here is my shiny new Instagram account.
http://instagram.com/cuthands

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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 5th 2013 : San Diego, USA
June 6th 2013 : San Francisco, USA
June 7th 2013 : Seattle, USA
June 8th 2013 : Los Angeles, USA
June 10th 2013 : Montréal, Canada
June 18th 2013 : Madrid, Spain
June 23rd 2013 : Lithuania Supynes Festival
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 7th : London, UK + Hieroglyphic Being
September 14th 2013 : Odense, Denmark
September 20th 2013 : Tilburg, Netherlands Incubate Festival
September 21st 2013 : Athens, Greece
September 26th 2013 : Leeds, UK 
September 27th 2013 : Brussels, Belgium
October 25th 2013 : Graz, Austria
November 22nd 2013 : Bristol, UK

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

DJ Benetti
May 31st : New York, USA
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
released July 29th 2013
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 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

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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

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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

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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)

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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