NEWS: Zagava to issue David Tibet (Current 93) 'The Night Is Eating Us All' stamps and postcards

Publishing house Zagava are set to issue a sheet of stamps and a set of postcards featuring David Tibet's 'The Night Is Eating Us All' artwork.

Musician and artist David Tibet is a key figure in the UK post-industrial music scene with links to musicians such as Psychic TV, Nurse With Wound, and Coil. Over the past 40 years he has formed and run various record labels and publishing houses such as Durtro, Jnana, and Ghost Story Press through which he has released his own work - mostly under the Current 93 guise - as well as music and writings by, amongst others, Antony and the Johnsons, Tiny Tim, Sand, Robert Aickman, Count Eric Stenbock, Ron Weighell and Thomas Ligotti.

The 15 stamps are presented on a single 24x18cm perforated sheet of stamp paper.

The 13 16x11cm postcards will be printed on finest card stock and presented in a semi-transparent envelope.

Pre-orders are being accepted now at the Zagava website here.

You can find a short documentary on Tibet and his artwork here.

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Who is David Tibet?

Today I'd like to share with you this lovely little film made in the run up to the opening of musician, poet, publisher and painter David Tibet's first US art exhibition at the California State University, Fullerton, Begovich Gallery titled 'Invocation of Almost'.

The film, made by Reypak Creative and commissioned by the university to, I assume introduce Tibet to a wider audience likely unfamiliar with him and his work in all it's many forms, features contributions from Tibet himself along with exhibition curators Jacqueline Bunge and Shaun Richards along with various fans of Tibet's work and provides a tantalising glimpse of what looked to have been a fantastic and lovingly assembled exhibition of his work.

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Psychic TV / Current 93 / Coil - Christian Documentary Expose

This is a small clip from a US Christian documentary from 1989 that took issue with the prevalence of 'rock' music in US culture. It's called 'Hell's Bells - The Dangers Of Rock & Roll' and if you're interested you can watch it here, but be warned at three and half hours it's very long and often both very dull and very dumb but enjoyable for all manner of unintended reasons.  

This small 6 minute extract focuses primarily on Genesis P-Orridge formerly of Throbbing Gristle and, at that time, of Psychic TV, talking about his belief in music as a transcendent medium, but also gives passing mention to both Coil and Current 93. The longer doc features all the usual suspects that were enraging the so-called moral majority of the time along with the likes of Diamanda Galas, Patti Smith, Crass, Lydia Lunch and The Birthday Party and apparently it did manage to unintentionally introduce many kids in Christian households, youth groups and schools across the US to musicians they'd otherwise have missed so we'll call it a success although not in the same way the makers would probably claim it to be.

 

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Wyrd Britain Mix 2

The second Wyrd Britain mix and one that launches us into a slightly more psychedelic and experimental direction than the first. 

hope you enjoy.

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - You Done My Brain In - 00:00
Syd Barrett - Dark Globe - 01:39
John Cale - Thoughtless Kind - 03:36
Hawkwind - The Forge of Vulkan - 06:02
The British Space Group - The Last of Time - 08:52
Adrian Corker - Springtide V2 - 16:15
Kemper Norton - 821.914 - 18:54
Peter Christopherson - In My Head a Crystal Sphere of Heavy Fluid - 25:14
Fresh Maggots - Rosemary Hill - 30:50
Michael Cashmore - Snow No Longer - 34:21

Wyrd Britain 2 by Quiet World on Mixcloud

Wyrd Britain Mix 1

Uploaded today is the first in a very irregular series of mixes featuring some of the music that soundtracks my days here at Wyrd Britain towers.

I have pretty eclectic music tastes ranging from the dark and noisy to the perky and twee and this first mix, I think, reflects this.

Hope you enjoy.

Tracklist (with start times)
Sapphire and Steel - theme [00:00]
Coil - Going Up [00:50]
Paddy Kingsland - Tamariu [09:11]
Matt Berry - Gather Up [11:44]
White Noise - Firebird [14:04]
Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney [16:57]
The Barbara Moore Singers - Singing Low [20:58]
Current 93 - The Magical Bird in the Magical Woods [23:26]
Jim Williams, Martin Pavey, Blanck Mass - Baloo My Boy (feat Richard Glover) [32:04]
Lindisfarne - Winter Song [34:43]

Wyrd Britain 1 by Quiet World on Mixcloud