Nurse with Wound list
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The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands that accompanied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), the first album by Nurse With Wound. The list was expanded with Nurse With Wound's second album, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl.
The list was compiled by the original Nurse With Wound trio of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, and Heman Pathak. It was intended as a homage to the obscure artists which influenced the Nurse With Wound project. It has since become a type of 'shopping list' for collectors of outsider music. The list only included group names, and collectors have speculated on the specific albums which would have influenced Nurse With Wound. In a 1997 interview in UK magazine The Wire, Stapleton boasted that some of the names on the list were invented, a statement absolutely refuted by John Fothergill in David Keenan's book England's Hidden Reverse, published in 2003. Keenan, having researched the matter, declares Fothergill to be correct.
The list
- Agitation Free
- Pekka Airaksinen (Sperm)
- Airway (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Albrecht D
- Alcatraz
- Älgarnas Trädgård
- ALL-7-70 (Alan Sondheim)
- Alternative TV
- Alvaro Peña-Rojas (The 101ers)
- Ame Son
- AMM
- Amon Düül
- Amon Düül II
- Anal Magic and Reverend Dwight Frizzel
- Anima/Anima Sound (Paul and Limpe Fuchs)
- Annexus Quam
- Aqsak Maboul
- Arbete och Fritid
- Arcane V
- Archaïa
- Archimedes Badkar
- Area
- Gilbert Artman (Urban Sax, Lard Free, Operation Rhino)
- Art Bears
- Art Zoyd
- Arzachel
- Robert Ashley
- Ash Ra Tempel
- Association P.C. (Pierre Courbois)
- Il Balletto di Bronzo
- Banten
- Franco Battiato
- Han Bennink
- Steve Beresford
- Jacques Berrocal
- Philippe Besombes
- Biglietto per l'Inferno
- Birgé Gorgé Shiroc (Jean-Jacques Birgé, Un Drame Musical Instantane)
- Blue Sun
- Raymond Boni
- Don Bradshaw Leather
- Brainstorm
- Brainticket
- Brast Burn
- Brave New World
- Anton Bruhin
- Brühwarm Theatre
- Franz de Byl
- Cabaret Voltaire
- John Cage
- Can
- Capsicum Red
- Captain Beefheart
- Chamberpot
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Theatre du Chene Noir
- Chillum
- Henri Chopin
- Chrome
- Cohelmec Ensemble
- Jean Cohen-Solal
- Collegium Musicum
- Roberto Colombo
- Come (later Whitehouse)
- Companyia Elèctrica Dharma
- Comus
- Cornucopia
- Crass
- Creative Rock
- Cromagnon
- David Cunningham
- Cupol (a Wire side project)
- Dadazuzu (only ever made 1 track for a compilation release)
- Wolfgang Dauner
- Debris'
- Decayes
- Dedalus
- The Deep Freeze Mice
- Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
- Dharma Quintet
- Dies Irae
- Dome (Another Wire side project)
- Doo-Dooettes (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Philippe Doray
- Roger Doyle (Operating Theatre)
- Jean Dubuffet
- Dzyan
- Eiliff
- Emtidi
- Eroc (Grobschnitt)
- Etron Fou Leloublan
- Exmagma
- Family Fodder
- Patrizio Fariselli (Area)
- Faust
- Luc Ferrari
- Fille Qui Mousse
- Floh de Cologne
- Flying Lizards
- Food Brain
- Förklädd Gud
- Walter Franco
- Free Agents (Pete Shelley)
- Friendsound
- Fred Frith
- Gash
- Ron Geesin
- Gila
- Jef Gilson
- Glaxo Babies
- Gomorrha
- Gong
- Good Missionaries (Alternative TV)
- Le Grand Magic Circus
- John Greaves and Peter Blegvad (Henry Cow/Slapp Happy)
- Fernando Grillo
- Ragnar Grippe
- Grobschnitt
- Group 1850
- Jean Guérin
- Friedrich Gulda
- Guru Guru
- Hairy Chapter
- Hampton Grease Band
- Henry Cow
- Pierre Henry
- Heratius
- Hero
- Juan Hidalgo
- Hugh Hopper
- Horde Catalytque Pour La Fin
- Horrific Child
- Ibliss
- L'Infonie
- International Harvester
- Iskra
- Island
- Martin Davorin-Jagodic
- Jan Dukes de Grey
- King Crimson
- Basil Kirchin
- Osamu Kitajima
- Kluster
- Frank Köllges
- Komintern (Red Noise)
- Kraftwerk
- Krokodil
- Steve Lacy
- Lard Free (Urban Sax)
- Le Forte Four (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Lemon Kittens
- Lily (band)
- Limbus 3/Limbus 4
- Bernard Lubat
- Alvin Lucier
- Magical Power Mako
- Magma
- Colette Magny
- Mahjun
- Mahogany Brain
- Radu Malfatti and Stephan Wittwer
- Mama Dada 1919
- Michael Mantler
- Albert Marcoeur
- Mars
- Maschine NO 9 (Krautrock supergroup)
- Philippe Mate and Daniel Vallancien
- Costin Miereanu
- Min Bul
- Mnemonists (Biota)
- Modry Efekt
- Moolah
- Anthony Moore
- Mothers of Invention
- Moving Gelatine Plates
- Fritz Müller
- Thierry Müller (Ilitch)
- Musica Elettronica Viva
- Music Improvisation Company
- Mythos
- Napoli Centrale
- Negativland
- Neu!
- New Phonic Art
- Nico
- Night Sun
- Nihilist Spasm Band
- Nine Days Wonder (band)
- Nosferatu
- Nu Creative Methods
- Oktober
- Yoko Ono
- Operation Rhino
- Opus Avantra
- Orchid Spangiafora
- Out of Focus
- Ovary Lodge (Keith Tippett)
- Tony Oxley
- Evan Parker and Paul Lytton
- Pataphonie
- Jean-François Pauvros and Gaby Bizien
- Pere Ubu
- Pierrot Lunaire
- Der Plan
- Plastic Ono Band
- Plastic People of the Universe
- Poison Girls
- Pôle (Philippe Besombes and Jean Louis Rizet)
- Pop Group
- Michel Portal
- Bomis Prendin
- Public Image Ltd
- Red Krayola
- Red Noise
- Reform Art Unit
- Steve Reich
- Achim Reichel
- The Residents
- Catherine Ribeiro and Alpes
- Boyd Rice (NON)
- Terry Riley
- Claudio Rocchi
- Rocky's Filj
- Ron 'Pate's Debonairs
- Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, & Oswald Wiener
- Ray Russell (musician)
- Terje Rypdal
- Martin Saint Pierre
- Samla Mammas Manna
- Gunter Schickert
- Second Hand
- Secret Oyster
- Seeselberg
- Semool
- Sonny Sharrock
- Silberbart
- Siloah
- Soft Machine
- Smegma (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
- Sally Smmitt (Sally Timms/Mekons)
- Alan Sondheim
- Snatch (Judy Nylon)
- Sperm (Pekka Airaksinen)
- Sphinx Tush (Only made two tracks)
- Stooges
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Demetrio Stratos (Area)
- Supersister
- Taj Mahal Travellers
- Tamia
- Tangerine Dream
- Ghédalia Tazartès
- Technical Space Composers Crew
- Mama Béa Tekielski
- Third Ear Band
- Thirsty Moon
- This Heat
- Jacques Thollot
- Thrice Mice
- Throbbing Gristle
- Paolo Tofani (Area)
- Tokyo Kid Brothers
- Tolerance
- Tomorrow's Gift
- Ton Steine Scherben
- TransMuseq
- Uli Trepte (Guru Guru)
- Twenty Sixty Six and Then
- Univers Zero
- Christian Vander (musician) (Magma (band))
- Velvet Underground
- Vertø
- Patrick Vian (Red Noise)
- L. Voag (The Homosexuals)
- Michel Waisvisz
- Igor Wakhevitch
- Lawrence Weiner
- Trevor Wishart
- James White and the Contortions
- Whitehouse
- Wired
- Woorden
- Robert Wyatt
- Xhol Caravan/Xhol
- Iannis Xenakis
- Ya Ho Wha 13
- La Monte Young
- Frank Zappa
- Zweistein
- ZNR
Facts
- There are 294 artists on the list. If LIMBUS 3/LIMBUS 4 and XHOL/XHOL CARAVAN are counted as the same there are 292 artists.
- The 2001 reissue of Nurse With Wound's Chance Meeting album contains a bonus track, "Strain, Crack, Break". which consists of David Tibet reading the list. The track concludes with the words "All of these bands are completely shit." A shorter version of this track is included on the Rat Tapes One album.
- "Words strain, crack and sometimes break,..." is a quote by T. S. Eliot, from "Burnt Norton", the first of his Four Quartets.