Nurse with Wound list

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The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands which accompianied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, 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 NWW trio of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak as a homage to the obscure music which influenced the Nurse With Wound project. It has since become a type of 'shopping list' for collectors of obscure outsider music. Because the list only listed group names, collectors have speculated on the specific albums which would have influenced them. 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.

[edit] The List

[edit] Trivia

  • "Words strain, crack and sometimes break,..." is a quote by T. S. Eliot from Four Quartets
  • There are 293 artists on the list. If LIMBUS 3/LIMBUS 4 and XHOL/XHOL CARAVAN are counted as the same there are 291 artists.
  • The subtitle of Fille Qui Mousse's album Trixie Stapelton 291 is sort of an injoke about the NWW List (note Stapleton's name is misspelled).
  • HELDON isn't on the original lists.
  • 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.

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