The Sound of Progress - Pop Music according to Foetus, Coil, Current 93 & Test Dept

 A Dutch documentary (around '88) originally aired on Dutch television. Includes interviews with JG Thirlwell, John Ballance, David Tibet, and Test Dept, with live performances.

I've always loved the idea of industrial bands better than the reality. There always seemed to be a great air of mystery about them, and of course they existed in black & white. They also always seemed to have the idea of the complete package down - not only did they make records, but they usually had some sort of political agenda, uniforms, the vaguely fascistic logo, the whole thing. The fellows in this film talk a whole lot bollocks about pop music, western music, etc, and its enjoyable for a few minutes...but in the end they're pretty much the same as what they fancied themselves being against.



Websites:
http://www.foetus.org/
http://brainwashed.com/c93/
http://testdept.org.uk/

Before and After: Ghost Rider

Before - Suicide (Suicide (First Album))


After -

Paul Haig (Warp of Pure Fun)


Soft Cell with Jim 'Foetus' Thirlwell

Lydia Lunch - The Gun Is Loaded now available

There's nothing like waking up at 7:00AM on a Saturday morning to a film featuring Lydia Lunch. Directed by Joe Tripician, and former Hurrah club VJ Merrill Aldighieri, The Gun Is Loaded was shot in 1988 and features Ms. Lunch walking & ranting in the streets of NYC intercut with various scenery, news footage, etc. All set to music by Mr. Foetus, aka JG Thirwell (both pictured above). The full 37 minute film is now available for download rental via GoEggIt.com. Now if I could only get my hands on a copy of Vortex. Trailer warning for liberal use of the F-word as one might expect.