NWW PLAYS TNB... RELEASED!

In 1982 The New Blockaders self-released their debut LP Changez Les Blockeurs, in an edition of only 100. Steven Stapleton was the very first person to purchase / hear the album and subsequently distributed copies via United Dairies.
 
The LP has since attained a somewhat mythical / legendary status (Record Collector magazine included it in a list of the rarest, most collectable records ever) and 2017 was the 35th anniversary of its original release. In celebration of this, TNB invited Steven Stapleton to rework the original which is now available in all its glory as NWW Play Changez Les Blockeurs. The LP cover features brand new artworks by Steven (a.k.a Babs Santini) and comes with an insert including a TNB / NWW article by Paul Hegarty (author of the much-acclaimed Noise/Music book.)

Available now in our shop...

SUMMER NEWS FROM NURSE WITH WOUND

Unique Art Edition Test Pressings
Hot on the heels of Steven's highly acclaimed New York City exhibition, we are very pleased to accounce a new series of test pressings available for sale in our shop. Each one is signed and hand made by Steven using a variety of media. These unique items will be available in the 'Bespoke' area of the Nurse With Wound shop at 12 noon UK time on Saturday 2nd June 2018.

Art Prints
We have just 6 Art Prints of Love's Secret Domain left. This beautiful artwork was painted on an old out house door, rescued from a nineteenth century derelict cottage in the west of Ireland and is a quite different treatment to the image used for the Coil record of the same name. Printed at the highest possible resolution on Hahnemuhle 310gsm German Etching Paper using archive standard Epson pigment inks. Numbered, signed, blind embossed and available here.

We also have a very limited stock of The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home at a reduced price. As above this is printed at the highest possible resolution on Hahnemuhle 310gsm German Etching Paper using archive standard Epson pigment inks. Numbered, signed, blind embossed and available here.

Echo Poeme: Sequence N° 2
Steven has created a unique Art Edition of the beautiful Echo Poeme: Sequence N° 2. Signed, numbered and in an edition of just 14 copies. Get yours here!

Absinthe Box
Keep checking back on the Nurse With Wound eBay page where we will soon be listing a numbered hand painted Absinthe Box featuring a bottle of Absinthe with a label designed by Steven and unique music! Search under ebay seller ID, homotopymusic.

Some bureaucracy
Finally, some bureaucracy. As some of you may know new data protection laws have come into force. If you wish to unsubscribe from our newsletter please do so here! 

STEVEN STAPLETON NEW YORK CITY EXHIBITION!

We are very proud to announce Steven Stapleton's first exhibition at May 68 Books and Records in New York City!

From May 68 Books & Records website;

'We are very pleased to present art by Steven Stapleton, the artist's first exhibition in the United States. Stapleton (British, b. 1957), best known for his now 40-year musical project Nurse With Wound, has over this span of time created works that can be seen as a vivid, visual correlation of NWW's most famous designation: "Purveyors of sinister whimsy to the wretched." Stapleton's art, produced under one of his numerous aliases, Babs Santini, has graced the covers of records by Current 93, Shirley Collins, Sol Invictus, Sand, Andrew Liles, The Legendary Pink Dots, and his own releases as NWW.

Stapleton's show with MAY 68 includes seven large framed montage pieces, a term the artist prefers to collage, as montage suggests the sort of filmic dream state he explores within cut-up and reassembled imagery. Though dark, they are also buoyed by irreverent humor and a poetics that the surrealists might identify as navigating the passage between cruelty and tenderness. The great and greatly missed British writer J.G. Ballard would certainly see in Stapleton a kindred re-maker of reality. Stapleton's deftly mischievous sleight-of-hand will recall Dada, Hannah Höch, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Roland Topor and Bruce Conner. In addition, eight rare test pressings will be shown, each with a unique montage cover, among them Current 93's classic, All the Pretty Horses and a highly sought after unreleased collaboration between Nurse With Wound and Faust'.

The exhibition runs from May 9 to June 3rd.

May 68
Books & Records
41 Elizabeth Street
(front room of Martos gallery)
Tuesday to Sunday, 10AM - 6PM

https://www.may68newyork.com/
https://www.instagram.com/may68newyork/

SINISTER WHIMSY

Nurse With Wound release two new CD's this month. The first is a reissue of 'Sinister Whimsy to the Wretched' which combines Sugar Fish Drink and Large Ladies With Cake in the Oven; remastered by Andrew Liles and available for preorder here...

We are also taking preorders for the Edward Ka-Spel/Steven Stapleton/Colin Potter/Quentin Rollet split CD which is available here...

New Nurse With Wound T-shirt
Over at Dirter Promotions you can buy a fabulous new glow in the dark Nurse With Wound T-shirt! Screen printed on Gildan 5000 cotton this exclusive design is limited to just 100 and is available here! 

Other news
In other news we are putting together the final details of a new Steven Stapleton exhibition and a new rarities sale over at homotopymusic on eBay!

ACTS OF SENSELESS BEAUTY

We are pleased to announce a re-issue of the wonderful Nurse With Wound/Aranos collaboration, 'Acts Of Senseless Beauty/Santoor Lena Bicycle'. 

Available as a 2 CD set this release features new artwork by Steven and includes an extra bonus track, ‘Every Bower Builder Aims To Be A Polygamist’.

Limited to just 500 copies and available in our shop!

We also have a very few copies left of 'EXPERIMENTE' here...