{"product_id":"nurse-with-wound-1984-a-happening","title":"Nurse With Wound - 1984 : A Happening","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"325\"\u003eA document of singular rarity. Issued by United Dairies in 2026 in a hand-made, heavy-gauge black vinyl edition limited to 300 copies, \u003cem data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"155\"\u003e1984 - A Happening\u003c\/em\u003e recovers the second ever public performance of \u003cstrong data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"223\"\u003eNurse With Wound\u003c\/strong\u003e, captured on tape in 1984 and held in \u003cstrong data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"282\"\u003eSteven Stapleton\u003c\/strong\u003e's archive across the four decades since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"1246\"\u003eThe history is nearly mythological. Across the years 1984 to 1986, NWW operated briefly and reluctantly as a live band, performing on stage exactly eight times, of which five were public. Stapleton has called these events \"shambolic, chaotic and uneven affairs, sometimes as boring for the performers as the non-plussed audiences but at other times reaching an amazing intensity\". The first of them, an Amsterdam show on the 8th of December 1984 at the NL Centrum, has surfaced over the decades in fragmentary form; the second has remained, until now, almost entirely unheard. It belongs to a moment when Stapleton, working alongside collaborators including \u003cstrong data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1000\"\u003eDavid Tibet\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"1002\" data-end=\"1021\"\u003eAndrew McKenzie\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cstrong data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1044\"\u003eThe Hafler Trio\u003c\/strong\u003e, and a rotating cast of percussionists and string players, was carrying NWW briefly out of the studio and into a series of confrontations with audiences who often had no idea what they were watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"2008\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThe recording itself is described, accurately, as raw but beautifully captured. The performance moves through the territory NWW had been mapping across \u003cem data-start=\"1400\" data-end=\"1419\"\u003eHomotopy to Marie\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1424\" data-end=\"1441\"\u003eNature Unveiled\u003c\/em\u003e: long passages of pre-recorded tape collage assembled by Stapleton and McKenzie, ridden over by live electronics, voice, percussion, and the surreal theatrical instinct that has run through every gesture the project has ever made. There is a sense of a collective groping its way through unstable material in real time, an ear turned simultaneously to dada and to musique concrète, to the British post-punk underground and to the krautrock heritage that has always shadowed Stapleton's work. The chaotic edges are intact. So is the intensity Stapleton has spoken of.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"United Dairies","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":58142359388505,"sku":"SDZ-46461","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/CAR_20260525_1201_111444_449_p_nure_with_wound_1984_16_009.jpg?v=1779813004","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/nurse-with-wound-1984-a-happening","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}