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S&Q LIVE at DEAF FOREVER
Leeds, May 28th 2007.
DO IT PIGGY STYLE
"Smell & Quim opening and closing the Deaf Forever festival."
Filmed by George Proctor.
http://youtu.be/sKBzQF-sXQk
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For the attention of the attendees of The Termite Club alldayer.
This blog is directed towards all those who attended or more realistically attempted to attend the Termite Clubs "Deaf Forever" all day event held at the ***** **** ******* on monday the 28th of May.
Firstly a big apology to the punters and bands who wanted to be a part of this event which was unfotunately shut down. It is a huge shame that miscommunication between the venue and the promoter caused allot of people to waste a day (or more for those from accross seas). The reason for the shutting down of the event was a certain act called Smell & Quim.
Within 20 minutes of the doors being opened they decided it would be a good idea to produce a pigs head from a bin liner which they then continully hacked at with a large knife in the middle of the venue floor. Once they had achieved this task they then produced a sledgehammer which was then used to beat the pigs head. Once the sledgehammering was over they then covered the pigs head in parrafin. When they brought out the blowtorch the power got cut and the Landlord turned up.
We appreciate that art is an ever changing thing, we're sure that certain taboos are used in performance to conjour up powerfull feelings in those who witness it, but unfortunately there are certain things that buiseness's such as ours need to take into account.
Firstly in the eyes of the law the public mutilation of any animal dead or alive is illegal.
Secondly the wielding of any blade in a public environment (especially when done by a man wearing a pigs mask thus lacking peripheral vision) is also massively illegal.
Thirdly the weilding of a sledgehammer mere feet away from the public, well by now i should think your seeing the theme here.
Fourthly having an uncontrolled fire in the middle of a room full of people is not only illegal but just plain dangerous.
and finally having any amount of the public trawling pigs blood around a pub that serves food is a health and safety nightmare. allot of things could have gone wrong, all it would have taken is one slip up and there could have been allot more for people to worry about than missing part of a music event.
At the ***** **** ******* we are not for censorship, we will put on any kind of music main stream or otherwise, if you want to play a 45 minute set with no other instrument than a set of cutlery and a biscuit tin while screaming profanities into a mic'd up dustbin then be our guest. However with a room as small as ours we dont have the capacity to hold events that involve such extreme stage antics. Im pretty sure that if you really want to mutilate a pigs head to a backing track of noise then there are places where you can get permits etc for that kind of thing, in a controlled environment where nobody is at risk.
However we cant afford to loose our jobs due to people expressing themselves, not to mention that if the event had continued then there is a distinct possibility that our Landlord could have lost his license which as im sure youll agree is a bit unfair especially when we had no prior warning about this kind of thing happening.
What it all boils down to is that one group of people managed to ruin everything for everyone else, and we will not argue with our Landlord when he has made a decision. And in our opinions that decision was the right one to make. So in future anyone wanting to do something a bit off the cuff performance wise prior notice must be given to the venue, or you risk a repeat performace of the 28th.
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DO IT PIGGY STYLE (KEV TRUNDLEY REACH AROUND)
Alternate Version with different footage, photos, archive material, etc.
http://youtu.be/sbUj8bhdWRY
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S&Q LIVE with MELTED MEN
De Garage, Den Haag, Netherlands. October 26th 2007.
Melted Men perform an amazing fully choreographed set that after much pre-gig gusto takes everyone by surprise and is almost impossible for S&Q to follow. It seems the audience realise this too and less than half stay to watch, but soon begin to trickle out as the set goes along, with only a handful remaining at the end. It's still a decent set under the circumstances, or at least sounded like it at the time, but Stewart's completely ancient portable cassette recorder decided not to work, so all there is to show for this 'Liver Aktion' is one single picture :
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Milovan got really drunk as usual. He'd just fallen over and banged his head moments before this picture was taken. After being blown offstage by extremely camp (but very friendly) Americans performing "theatre", the rest of S&Q now feel totally compelled to redeem themselves, but Milovan, seemingly dejected with all this Noise business, blurts "Y'know, we should just leave it to these gay guys..." and continues to drink himself into a stupor, eventually being unable to walk, so S&Q members lovingly carry their dear leader upstairs to bed whilst listening to him repeat the words "Dear me, oh dear me ... Dear me, oh dear me ..." over and over again like a mantra.
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S&Q LIVE at PENISFEST
De Hondenkoekjesfabriek, Nieuwleusen, Netherlands. October 27th 2007.
Now just about recovered from the previous evening's theatrical dry-humping, everyone is absolutely determined to deliver the goods without fail today and is in good spirits. After being intimidated by a freakishly ginormous horse, we arrive at the venue, De Hondenkoekjesfabriek, an old dog biscuit factory, and of course fit right in straight away with the type of folk you'd find at a penis themed Noise festival, i.e, a bunch of complete fuckin' weirdos! The venue itself, a vibrant monument to 'Noisetrash' and degenerate 'art', is a feast for the eyes and ears of any Noise pervert and truely inspiring. No question, S&Q are back on absolute top form onstage, and offstage too, eventually succeeding in downing every last drop of alcohol in the whole place and drinking themselves sober in the process, but the riotous performance and no doubt extremely irritating antics of the whole group throughout the entire evening (including a 'serious' wedding proposal to the proprietor's wife, who was not at all amused, and clearly didn't like us, or Noise!) seem to contribute to the sudden and permanent closing of the venue soon after the event.
Pt.1 http://youtu.be/QT8_3e2gJ_Y
Pt.2 http://youtu.be/BU1nEcfDkmU
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S&Q LIVE at CURMUDGEON 5
The Common Place, Leeds. December 8th 2007.
"S&Q deserve a mention if only for the amusement of others. I'm sure I saw a microphone put up a blokes ass - he was only wearing an small untied apron covered in blood. The apron guy also had a lighter held under his ass for longer than would have been comfortable. There were 5 of them in total all wearing pig masks. One of them drank mouthwash and handed me the bottle which had an S&Q sticker on it..."
"S&Q virtually had a standing ovation after their set, forgoing the straight up confrontational set they did a few months back, they went for a more psychedelic freak out way of messing with your mind. they were shaking strange maraca type instruments and forcing the audience into twisted congas while the noise was going on. a bit like watching some tripped out morris dancing/wickerman style stuff on a bad acid trip. and that was only half of them. the others were making some sick noise and then digging out angle grinders to destroy cymbals and a guitar. sparks flying everywhere. an incredible sight. ended with a 15/20 minute jam on some kind of 80s detroit techno sample, locking into a total motor groove while the others messed with the audience some more. simulated anal sex. the smell and quim juice bottle being thrust into the audience. ageing hippies going wild in rainbow coloured lycra leggings. audience left feeling uncomfortable but utterly compelled to stay and watch til the end. bang on. oh, and the drum kit was left in a bloody mess..."
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Liver Aktions suspended whilst S&Q member serves a prison sentence for beating up a lollipop lady.
S&Q LIVE at SWINEFEST 3
The Well, Leeds, December 17th 2011.
DODDY'S COCK
"Live rendition of track from "Powerfuck". Filmed by Paul Harrison."
http://youtu.be/PCn1_xjBy9g
REOPEN AUSCHWITZ
"Cover tribute of the Legendary PE band Hitler Rally"
Pt.2 http://youtu.be/3yQakWIPKRg
Pt.1 http://youtu.be/y7h1KkaeyiE
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S&Q 2007-2012 discography
'Another Whip Of The White Crack' and 'Betley Welcomes A Very Good Stinky Arse Fuck' on Cock E.S.P 'Historia De la Musica Cock' CD
(Little Mafia, USA. 2011)
http://www.discogs.com/Cock-ESP-Historia-De-La-Musica-Cock/release/3025370
'Cuntsocket' on v/a 'Penus Rectus 2010' 7"/CD
(Dead Mind, Netherlands. 2010)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Penus-Rectus-2010/release/2674296
Review : http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/penus-rectus-1997penus-rectus-2010-dead.html
'Dream Fucker - RooH Mix' on v/a 'The Feeding Of The 2,079,211' MC
(Idwal Fisher, UK. 2007)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Feeding-Of-The-2079211-An-Idwal-Fisher-Compilation-Of-West-Yorkshire-Residents/release/1263382
'In-Out' on v/a 'White Eye Of Winter Watching' 2 x MC
(Hospital Productions, USA. 2011)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-White-Eye-Of-Winter-Watching/release/3233053
http://www.discogs.com/Various-White-Eye-Of-Winter-Watching/release/3238268 (special edition)
'More Tea Vicar?' on split MC with Family Battle Snake
(The 7.17 From West Wittering Is Late Again, UK. 2011)
http://www.discogs.com/Smell-Quim-Family-Battle-Snake-You-Are-Playin-Like-A-Fuckin-Pub-Band-Five/release/2832306
Review : http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/you-are-playing-like-fuckin-pub-band.html
'Lavatory' CD
(Smell & Quim + Milovan Srdenovic Appreciation Society / Paleolist Press, Russia. 2011)
http://www.discogs.com/Smell-Quim-Lavatory/release/3226359
Review : http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/smell-quim-lavatory.html
(Kay Ogden Percy Mather / Paddington Magazine, Russia. 2012)
http://www.discogs.com/Smell-Quim-Lavatory/release/3800439 (2nd edition w/ Paddington #7 mag)
Review : http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/paddington-smell-quim.html
'Powerfuck' CD
(L White, Germany. 2009)
http://www.discogs.com/Smell-Quim-Powerfuck/release/1977121
Review : http://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=2259
'Rough Skin' LP pic disc collab. w/ Priest In Shit
(Little Mafia, USA. 2010)
http://www.discogs.com/Priest-In-Shit-Smell-Quim-Rough-Skin/release/2286172
Review : http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/smell-quimpriest-in-shit-rough-skin.html
'Tasting Nuns Blood' on v/a 'Viva Negativa! - A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume 1 : UK' CD
(At War With False Noise, UK. 2010)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Viva-Negativa-A-Tribute-To-The-New-Blockaders-Volume-1-UK/release/2328687
'Untitled' CD-R
(Stinky Horse Fuck, UK. 2007)
http://www.discogs.com/Smell-Quim-Untitled/release/1540004
'Xanadon't/Desperhardon' on v/a 'Must Die Records' CD-R
(Must Die Records, UK. 2012)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Must-Die-Records/release/3446484
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Drawing by Milovan Srdenovic
S&Q website :
http://www.freenoise.org/smellandquim/
S&Q 1991-2002 partial discography free downloads:
http://bleakbliss.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/smell-quim.html
Milovan Srdenovic 2010 interview with Idwal Fisher :
http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/milovan-srdenovic-interview.html
Simon Morris, Stewart Walden aka Stewart Keith, Kate Fear 2011 interview with Idwal Fisher :
http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/smell-quim-interview-with-simon-morris.html
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THERE WILL BE A BRAND NEW ALBUM AND FRESH LIVER AKTIONS IN 2013 AND BEYOND !!!!!
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Smell & Quim & Onomatopoeia CDEP will see the grey of day in 2013...
Is that a new release or a re-release of "Fanny Batter"?
I whole heartedly recommend "Lavatory" album + "Paddington" book. Great release.
A reissue of 2000's obscure and quite brilliantly deranged SPACESHIT album which featured extensive input from Ms Holly Hero, originally put out in an edition of 100 CD-Rs on Mental Guru, will also be unleashed by Must Die Records early in 2013, and with track break markers this time so people don't have to listen all in one go - sample is at https://soundcloud.com/#hollyhero/hawaii-503
Many thanks blackoperations for putting that list together. I was somehow involved with most of it yet the memories have been surgically excised as if by alien abduction and anal probe due to the sheer amount of alcohol imbibed.
Good to know that SPACESHIT is getting another release, this could be the greatest Smell & Quim LP of all time. I find it easy to slip into the madness...no track break markers needed, just a great way to spend an hour or so.....
Big thanks to Black Operations for the S&Q history...great stuff.
of course it's not complete, there was a couple of other gigs too - see 'visual delights' bit of S&Q website.
i believe the S&Q/onomatopoeia on cipher prod is release of live recording at the garage in london in 2002 (was put on by RECTIVE)
who runs that venue? some PETA whackjobs?
That's one of the most hilarious things I've read in quite a while. The video surely isn't nearly as bad as the letter made it out to be. Christ some people are shits.
That venue with our pig/pork themed 2007 'comeback' show - I personally am fairly sure that the landlord of the Royal Park back then was paranoid that we were making some kind of anti-Muslim statement (we weren't, we just wanted to talk about pigs) - a huge and fairly radical Leeds mosque is very near there.
Still feel bad over blowing the whole festival for everyone else esp Phil and Mel from Ash Nav who put it on - yet simultaneously thrilled it was such a notoriously insane show.
NOW UPDATED WITH MORE INFO ON THE OTHER GIGS, ETC, so it is more complete basically. simon if there's anything else you think should be added, let me know soon.
the cipher prod release is 2004 Kirkstall Lites Termite Club gig recording
Quote from: blackoperations on December 28, 2012, 03:17:46 AM
simon if there's anything else you think should be added
I remember sitting around a kitchen table at Hondenkoekjesfabriek picking at any food in the room at dawn, and realising with horror that we had entered the semi-mythical condition DRINK MYSELF SOBER for real. Apologies to the very wonderful Marc E from Fkn Bstrds and his lovely and understanding wife I guess. I had no idea before that night that you could drink yourself sober. I think it should be added to the official record of S&Q that we DRANK OURSELVES SOBER that night. Next night in Amsterdam was so great and funny too, and it wasn't even a show.
yes, it must've been seen as an anti-muslim thing too, but it hadn't even entered my mind it could be prior to the gig.
the gig was right in the middle of that spate of beheadings in iraq, alot of which had made the news, so standing there with the machete and holding up the pig's head, like would be done with the unfortunate beheading victim's head, was 'inspired' by that, but there was no intended statement.
to get the whole thing shutdown was the last thing anyone wanted/expected to happen. there'd been plenty other nutty gigs there, the room was downstairs out of the way, no problems were expected. the only intention was to set the standard of nutty sets for that day.
it was an over-reaction from the 'straight out of college' soundman (well, boy!). he was already being a crank in the soundcheck about volume, and what he thought it should all sound like, so i thought there'd be problems with him as the day went on, but i didn't forsee him taking it upon himself to end the set not even 12mins into it, no matter what we did, and going running to the landlord. termite clearly made a mistake not getting their own soundman that day, but we should've obviously told them what 'props' (!) we were bringing, and what could happen.
yes, the venue's statement (a blog on their myspace page) was exaggerated. it wasn't paraffin, it was mouthwash, and there was no blowtorch. the blog was up for about a week until they probably realised it was just good 'promo' for S&Q more than anything!
Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on December 28, 2012, 07:05:34 AM
DRINK MYSELF SOBER
It's certainly possible, despite what we think we know about biochemistry.
Who was it who said: I find as I get older, I can drink myself sober ?
It is the only way Putrefier, Dieter Muh + Harbinger Sound survived the Scando-Euro Tour of 2000.
it sounds like your thinking a fall lyric from Spector vs. Rector off dragnet
"It's like I've drunk myself sober
I get better as I get older"
thats a great story, sounds like a hell of a festival, even if it just lasted 12 minutes
Smell & Quim should come to North America, specifically, Canada. Or, I should figure out a way of making it over to Europe. One of the two.
A blast from the distant S&Q past, before blackoperations became involved -
"HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A CONCERT OF SMELL + QUIM WITH A SHOW? I DID LAST WEEKEND! IT WAS TOTALLY INSANE, WITH WITH TWO ASIAN GIRLS ACTING LIKE LESBIANS AND ANAL FIST FUCKING ON STAGE! THEY HAD A KIND OF CIRCUS GROUP ALL DRESSED UP VERY COLOURFUL, INCLUDING WOMEN IN THEIR FIFTIES DRESSED UP LIKE WHORES AND AN OLD MAN WITH A BEARD WEARING A KIND OF DIAPER AND STOCKINGS. THEY MINGLED AMONG THE AUDIENCE IN ORDER TO FRENCH KISS AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. THE MEMBERS OF SMELL + QUIM DESTROYED ALL GUITARS, MICROPHONES, MONITORS AND EQUIPMENT THAT WAS ON STAGE. STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM, ALL OF THIS SOUNDED PRETTY GOOD! THE SHOW ENDED AFTER 20 MINUTES AND THEN CARSTEN "JAPANESE NOISE IS POP MUSIC TO ME" VOLLMER, WHO CALLS HIMSELFROPES MOST EXTREME NOISER JUMPED ON STAGE AND STARTED BEATING WITH HIS BARE HANDS ON A BARREL, WHICH HE HAD THHROWN 3 MINUTES BEFORE ONTO THE OLD MAN, SCREAMING HIHEE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. ONE OF THE TWO (I SUPPOSE SMELL) CONTINUED ON A GUITAR HE HADNT SMASHED YET WHILE QUIM WAS WATCHING THE STAGE FROM A DISTANCE BETWEEN THE AUDIENCE. THE BEATING BY CARSTEN CONTINUED FOR ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF AN HOUR AND THEN SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE STARTED SCREAMING FASCIST SLOGANS, WHICH TROUBLED SMELL AND THE ATMOSPHERE GOT REALLY REALLY BAD. FORTUNATELY FOR YOU IT WASNT THE TWO ASIAN GIRLS WHO DID THE FIST FUCKING. THIS WAS DONE BY A THIRTY YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH PIERCINGS ALL OVER HER MOUTH ONTO A MAN WHO WAS WEARING A PAIR OF TROUSERS THAT WAS TOO LARGE FOR HIM, SO MOST OF THE TIME IT WAS HANGING SOMEWHERE UNDER HIS KNEES. THE TWO ASIAN GIRLS (ACTUALLY THERE WAS ONLY ONE ASIAN GIRL, BUT THERE WERE TWO WHO FIT THE DESCRIPTION I GAVE) WERE DRESSED IN A RED BIKINI WITH SORT OF TRANSPARENT MADONNA LIKE A VIRGIN ALIKE OUTFIT ON TOP OF IT. BEFORE THE SHOW STARTED, WE WERE SITTING COSILY BEHIND JEROEN'S (KIM'S FRIEND) RECORD STAND AND THEN AN OLD MAN WITH A BEARD CAME TO SIT NEXT TO US AND STARTED TO UNDRESS HIMSELF UNTIL HE WAS COMPLETELY NAKED AND THEN HE PUT ON SOME RED AND BLUE STRIPED "PANTIES" WITH A DIAPER AND SOME KIND OF SPRAY SYSTEM IN HIS DIAPER (SO WE ALL THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO PISS ONTO THE FIRST ROWS, BUT EVENTUALLY HE DID NOT). APART FROM THE TWO MEMBERS OF SMELL + QUIM THEY HAD BROUGHT ALONG ABOUT FIFTEEN FREAKS, WHO WERE ALL VERY DRUNK (THE FESTIVAL HAD A THREE HOUR DELAY, SO THEY HAD THREE HOURS EXTRA TO DRINK - PORTO WAS REALLY CHEAP YOU SEE: ABOUT 2DM FOR THE SAME AMOUNT AS IN A COCA COLA BOTTLE) AND ACTED ACCORDINGLY. LAURA WAS ALSO PRESENT: SHE LIKED THE FIRST NOISESCAPE (THIS MEANS BEFORE CARSTEN JUMPED ON STAGE), BUT SHE FAINTED TWICE BECAUSE OF THE FATAL COMBINATION HEAT - DISTORTED MUSIC - CRAZY MEN AND WOMEN ON AND OFF STAGE. BEFORE THEY DID THEIR SHOW, THE "SINGERS" OF THE BAND SUCCEEDED IN SEDUCING THE TWO MOST DISGUSTING CHICKS IN THE AUDIENCE, WHO DISTURBED ALL PERFORMANCES BY JUMPING AGAINST EACH OTHER AND MAKING A LOT OF NOISE (NOT IN THE CONVENIENT SENSE OF THE WORD) - THEY CERTAINLY THOUGHT THEY WERE VERY SEXY AND FUNNY, BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN MORE SLUT-LIKE UGLY WOMEN IN MY ALREADY TWENTY YEARS LASTING LIFE. SOMEONE FILMED THE OTHER CONCERTS, BUT NOT THE LAST ONE, BECAUSE WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE PORN AND URINATING ON STAGE (BECAUSE OF THE STRANGE ENSEMBLE), SO I SUPPOSE YOU REALLY DID MISS SOMETHING!
FROM emails BY ANN DENEVE TO JOACHIM (TESCO ORG)" Discussing Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, 1997 show. I think this is my favourite review ever. It sounds so great. Completely exaggerated of course.
Quote from: blackoperations on December 24, 2012, 11:34:47 AM
Milovan got really drunk as usual ...
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This reminds me ov meeting him in Brighton, England on the first date ov the TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. tour ov England.
I was there to turn a surrealist harsh noise trio into a surrealist harsh noiseCORE assault unit by playing hyperblasting killdrums and rushing the audience inbetween bursts.
In Brighton that night there was NO ONE, except, once i collected myself form the floor, this gentleman, the sole audience member who gave me his approval.
Quote from: Jordan on December 29, 2012, 09:07:53 PM
Smell & Quim should come to North America, specifically, Canada. Or, I should figure out a way of making it over to Europe. One of the two.
I'll book em in Youngstown, me and Greenlander can open up the show.
talk about s&q playing the states has always been on cards, long before my time, open invitation from cock esp i believe, and another time s&q/putrefier and another uk act (maybe dieter muh, steve?) were gonna go over as a harbinger sound tour, or something? someone from sonic circuits fest in washington dc asked me about s&q playing it about 4yrs ago, and seemed really keen, but soon as they realised it wasn't actually a duo, it was off ...
Quote from: NN on January 08, 2013, 03:52:27 AM
This reminds me ov meeting him in Brighton, England on the first date ov the TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. tour ov England.
I was there to turn a surrealist harsh noise trio into a surrealist harsh noiseCORE assault unit by playing hyperblasting killdrums and rushing the audience inbetween bursts.
In Brighton that night there was NO ONE, except, once i collected myself form the floor, this gentleman, the sole audience member who gave me his approval.
Our glorious leader does not engage in social networking or message board shenanigans, but has informed me that he has in fact NEVER visited Brighton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger
simon sez ...
'SPACESHIT' reissued
Blackoperations has covered the post-2007 incarnation of Smell & Quim with his own major involvement and the releases with exemplary completeness in his thread at this forum. But Smell & Quim first appeared as a more-or-less musical group at some point during the late 1980s. The duo incarnation of Milovan Srdenovic and Paul Nonnen recorded two classic and now sought-after albums "Jesus Christ" and "The Jissom Killers" as well as some classic tape releases which were reissued in recent years on Industrial Recollections.
After the breakup of that lineup Srdenovic's main musical partner between about 1994 and 1998 was d.foist (aka well-known experimental/drone musician Neil Campbell) and Smell & Quim truly flooded the market with a bewildering array of albums, tape packages, collaborations and singles. At this time the band became a more frequent live act and known for trouble-making shows involving nudity, assaults on the audience, dangerous behaviour of every imaginable kind and a large and varied troupe of live performers.
Aside from a couple of impossible-to-locate lathe-cut singles, the only major release from the 'missing years' between the late 90s and 2007 was the rare album SPACESHIT, released as a CD-R limited to just 100 on obscure experimental label Mental Guru - the final release on that label before its owner permanently entered the institutional psychiatric system during 2000.
For this album, the ever-present and omnipresent Grand Master Milovan Srdenovic worked closely with one of the young female members of the exhibitionistic live troupe Holly Hero (whose other interests and concerns have included fetish modelling and ufology) to create a recording which is not only unlike any other Smell & Quim album but a truly unique and bizarre listening experience. As well as noise sequences there are interludes of chill-out electronica, Hawaiian pedal steel guitar, a plethora of perverted and obscure samples (including rare recordings of Stewart Home making prank calls to prostitutes) and some of the final recordings of legendary painter and performance artist Diz Willis before his death. The album is highly thought of by those lucky enough to have heard it - I remember William Bennett DJing at Hinoeuma and playing excerpts from this alongside Yoko One and the Langley Schools Project.
Must Die Records have reissued this as a pro-copied CD-R with printed labels, all original artwork and a nice embossed Smell & Quim cardboard envelope outer sleeve. The original recordings were remastered by Holly Hero during 2012 and now show 40 tracks over 52 minutes (to match the tracklist) rather than a single piece. I'm not sure how limited this edition is but it certainly won't be around forever. Visit http://mustdierecords.co.uk/ to obtain a copy once they have updated their site within the next few days to include it. I know it exists as I have a copy in front of me!
"WHEN WE MAKE NOISE, WE ENTER INTO A REALM
THAT IS INTRINSICALLY ALREADY PART OF US.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY NOISE IS SUCH AN INVIGORATING
AND UPLIFTING MEDIUM. BOYS AND GIRLS,
DEVOID YOUR SCROTAL BAGGAGE OR
FALLOPIAN/OVARIAN TWINSET AND PEARLS.
YOUR EYES ARE IN FRONT OF YOUR FUCKING FACE!
DON'T LET THAT FOOL YOU!"
SOME HISTORICAL EDITS:
Campbell in fact left mid-97. Hard to actually remember all this. The Fiend CD-R release (also available as a cassette on Monopolka of St Petersburg RU) SMELL & QUIM GO DOWN FOR THE GRAVY included much entertaining live material from the later 'missing years' as well as some stuff from the d. foist years. Also: one side of STEPHEN HAWKING'S BUTTPLUG (Giardia) contained remixes of the obscure lathe releases referred to above.
S&Q interview from a couple of years ago or so recently published on Idwal Fishger blog :
http://idwalfisher.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/smell-quim-interview-with-simon-morris.html
About three or four years ago Steve Underwood asked me to interview every past and present member of Smell & Quim with an eye to a future article for As Loud As Possible. I readily agreed, with hindsight not realising the enormity of the task ahead of me. After I'd attempted to interview Neil Campbell and Paul Walsh in a busy Friday night pub in Mirfield I realised my task was even more futile. What I did manage to get down was a few questions thrown at the following people who happened to be in the Duck & Drake on the afternoon of a gig at the WC by Ramleh.
SM = Simon Morris
SW = Stewart Walden
KF = Kate Fear
IF = Idwal Fisher
SM: Stewart do you remember the list of twenty things you were given to do?
SW: I was given a list of twenty things to do and a twenty sided dice.
SM: 'Kiss the girls and make them cry' was one of them. You picked me up and forcibly removed my clothes at the front of the crowd next to Cath O'Connor and I was really insisting on keeping my pants on and I suddenly realised hang on I'm being stripped I suppose this means I'm in the band now?
SW: A few of those twenty things I didn't do ... waltz with Diz I didn't do, masturbate into blancmange I didn't do and call the police I didn't do. I did go to the upstairs bar, and remember I was dressed in a leotard with a banana down the front, and there were all these people there who didn't give a shit about the music and the gig I shouted 'Call the police'.
IF: Simon, where did you meet Dave?
SM: I'd met Neil Campbell already, at a gig, we were both on Pumf Records and I'd had some contact with Stewart when he was doing Swank. I remember getting the first A Band single, we were swapping tapes, I was sending Stewart, Neil and Mike Con-Dom tapes. I remember having Dave pointed out to me 'thats the guy from Smell & Quim'. There was a Skullflower gig, an amazing gig with only about 30 people there, the Termite Club about 1994/95, it was a wonderful night and lots of people seemed to meet each other.
SW: That's where I remember meeting you for the first time ... at that gig.
SM: We were talking on the way over ... the era of 90's Smell & Quim very much had an overlap with the end of the A Band ... so there was a number of people involved in the A Band who ended up in Smell & Quim, Sticky Foster was involved in a number of 90's Smell & Quim performances. There's the one with the rectal thermometer.
SW: It was a turkey thermometer. I tried to stick it up his arse but I think I missed and he yelped.
SM: I remember you handing it to Shack and Shack licked it. Shack wasn't in Smell & Quim at the time, Stewart pulled out this rectal thermometer ... Shack was dressed as a dentist ... he was just in the audience, not a member of the band and he licked it. it was kind of gross.
IF: It was a big social thing as well around that time wasn't it? Especially around Sowerby Bridge. Were you there at Sowerby Bridge? I suppose there was lots of drinking going on?
SM: Yeah, Diz and Sandy were there.
SW: Lots of ideas that came to nothing.
SM: Paul [Harrison] remembered you [SW] knocking on the door at Sowerby Bridge after a row with your ex and saying you'd been sleeping in bushes. Paul was like 'oh bloody hell'. The Sowerby Bridge scene ... Ivy Cottage where Shack and Holly lived. They were very interesting flats those where Diz, Sandy, Paul and Nandi lived. It was like a William Burroughs Interzone thing with these tunnels, weird architecture and staircases.
SW: The flats were at the top of the street and you walked between these tunnels between the houses and suddenly it falls off and you have to walk down these stairs.
SM: Strange houses and the amount of drink and substances around, insane art.
SW: Sandy and Diz between them ... amazing people. Didn't Shack have a recording studio in Sandy's basement?
SM: Yeah, yeah.
SW: I only went down there once but to find these people who were doing this kind of thing was amazing. Supremely generous people too.
SM: Your last gig was the Citizen Fish gig wasn't it?
SW: Yes, Neil gave me a ten pound budget for props so I went to the fish market and bought three fish with it. For that gig we were all meant to dress up as rock stars.
SM: I was Jim Morrison but I didn't have any leather trouser so I used black bin liners.
SW: This was the one where Neil was Jimi Hendrix with the black curly wig and sun glasses and he injured his back and couldn't move at the time so he's just sat in a chair in front of a table with a tape deck. I took a fish and put it down the front of his shirt knowing that he couldn't get away or get out of it ... so Neil's sat there with a black curly wig, dark glasses, tape deck turntable with this fish tail sticking out the top of his shirt.
SM: My memory of that gig is the reaction of the anarchist vegan guy who was shouting 'fish is murder' and he actually came up to me outside the gig and said to me 'I know you're going to call me a fucking hypocrite cause I'm wearing leather shoes but I've had these shoes a long time. Sorry mate but a fish is just the same as a cow'.
SW: I threw one of the fish into the audience and all these hardcore vegans were jumping out of the way and this one guy picked it up and he said 'Its OK I used to be a fishmonger, I can handle it'. After the gig I hid the largest fish inside Citizen Fish's bass drum and I hope they didn't find it until they were in the van on the way home.
IF: Those 1 in 12 [Bradford] gigs were truly inspiring.
SM: Do you remember the one where we had a break dancer? Sandy had met him in the mental hospital. He was called Paddy. He had no idea what he was doing he was just break dancing in the middle of the floor to noise music. That was also the night of the mystery electrician. He was in the upstairs bar and we became paranoid because we thought there's no way he can be here just to mend the fuse boxes all night and we became convinced that he was involved in surveillance. Which years later might have been true because they had a lot of trouble with fascists there. There's something on Stephen Hawkins Butt Plug where you can hear 'Hello mystery electrician'. People still talk about the mystery electrician.
IF: Tell me about the Belgian gig
SM: The Belgian gig was wonderful. The promoter thought Smell & Quim were a duo and he had fifteen people turning up on his doorstep. We were all over his house, in the kitchen, in the attic, everywhere. He was very nice but he made the mistake of giving us free drinks, too many it seemed, unlimited, and it was all this ridiculous 8% dark beer and we were playing at three in the morning. Paul Harrison had made all these preparations, oh I'm going to do a bit of synth or tape noise or whatever, it was about an hour before we were due to come on and the red mist came down and by the time we got on stage he could barely stand up and he just threw bottles at the crowd. Because it was a day trip to Belgium there was lots of other people doing one off performances. Andy Bolus from Evil Moisture, he got Lisa from Prick Decay to fist him with a rubber glove on, she got a couple of fingers in. Eva Revox and Julian Bercourt from this French label were there and his girlfriend was Japanese and she spoke very little English ... she was just talking about Smell & Quim over the top of it. And there was the Shite Girls which was sort of a Smell & Quim spin off. There was Holly, Kirsty, and Sandy and Nandi, they were in potato sacks. Diz had this sprinkler attached to his trousers as if piss was spurting out. I had some potatoes down my underpants, I'd had these potatoes in the dark for about six weeks and they had long tubers growing out of them and I'd pull these tubers off one by one and then throw the potato at some poor Belgian ... some noise guy got on stage and started trashing everything. Dave got a telling off from the venue people and they were saying 'we've had skinhead bands here, we've had punk bands here but never this'. It was a bit pathetic because there wasn't really any damage. It was just a bit wild.
SW: And then four years ago when we went back to Holland with the new Smell & Quim line up this guy turned up and he said 'I was at the Belgium gig!'
SM: What are your memories of Paris?
SW: The Paris gig was October '95 and a friend of ours called Sue wanted to go to the gig and she didn't want to go on her own so she paid for me to fly over and we didn't tell anyone. The Paris gig was great. Nobody was expecting us of course. Neil was there, Sticky was there the whole entourage as Smell & Quim was in those days and we turned up unannounced and it was terrific fun. I wore a stripy skirt with a strobe light inside the skirt.
IF: Its important to know what you're wearing in Smell & Quim.
SW: Well you had to have a costume. A costume was everything. The Elvis suits, the Leiderhosen.
IF: Didn't you turn up for the aborted Smell & Quim gig at No Trend wearing a silver lamé suit?
SW: It was a gold lamé suit actually. Dave couldn't make it. Steve [Underwood] who organised the gig said I could do a solo set if I wanted so I set up to prepare to do it and all I had was the props I'd brought with me which was an ironing board and twenty wooden spoons.
IF: You must have cut rather a dash walking through London looking like that.
SW: I was relying on other stuff being there but I did put the wooden spoons in the ironing board frame in the toilet as a sound check and Carl, one of the A Band people who'd arrived during this time ... his first experience of me at all is of a bloke in a gold suit making a load of banging noise and saying 'OK I've done the sound check'. As it happened the venue was flooded and there was a lot of delays and I didn't get to play so I said let the people who've come from afar play instead of me. That was in 2006 so the Smell & Quim comeback proper didn't happen until a year later which was the time when we got the entire festival thrown out because they'd chosen to put us on first.
IF: The Deaf Forever festival in Leeds.
SW: Thats the one. Phil and Mel put a lot of work into that, they got people coming from all over, one person was coming from Belgium and hadn't even arrived by the time it was all over. This was pretty much all the fault of Mr Gillham who'd brought along a pigs head and a machete. A bad combination.
IF: And lets not forget this was at a venue not 200 yards away from a mosque.
SW: Yeah, yeah. But it was fun. It was a brilliant set.
IF: I was there and I saw the two people who complained about the performance. They were sat next to me and they shot back upstairs, two minutes later the landlord came down and that was that.
SW: All I did was go round with the mouthwash. I'd got given five bottles of mouthwash so I got some labels made with Smell & Quim pigs on them, stuck em on and people wouldn't believe it really wasn't mouthwash. And there was some raw sausages. It was very much a pork theme that night. And people didn't want to touch them so I put one on somebodies knee ... 'have a raw sausage'. In the meantime, behind my back Gillham was doing somersaults with a machete and attacking this pigs head.
SM: I had a pigs mask on and couldn't see a damned thing and narrowly avoided the machete on a couple of occasions. It was quite scary.
IF: He was pushing the pigs eyeballs back into its head which was quite gruesome.
SW: The landlord complained about people trying to set fire to the pigs head and it was just two matches in its nostrils. I was pouring mouthwash on it just for weirdness sake. But that was a great gig too especially afterwards when we sat around a table in the bar upstairs being glared at by everyone else in the room.
SM: Kate, tell us how you first met Dave.
KF: I first met Dave at a gig and he was crashed out. Volcano The Bear were playing and I'd fallen asleep pissed ...
IF: That was the Termite gig in that mill complex on the outskirts of Leeds that nobody could find. There was a solo French artist on that night 'Nocturne' ...
SM: Who Dave didn't take too kindly to.
IF: About halfway through this hour long synth barrage which was like Jean Michelle Jarre only ten times more boring, Dave went up to him and shouted in his face 'You're dying a fucking death mate'.
SM: The thing with Smell & Quim is that Dave's a catalyst that makes things happen for a lot of people. I remember one gig where I didn't even see Dave ... this is the last time Sticky played. The one with the breakdancer. Dave would have been around there somewhere but I didn't see him for the whole gig. The whole craziness of Smell & Quim, it whips your brain in to a frenzy. Shack and Holly they got hold of this rave DJ ... we got this gig in Middlesborough and it just turned in to dance music basically, Dave and Shack and Holly were all on cocaine and this rave DJ's just going bump, bump, bump. It was basically a rave gig. Dave had been drinking all weekend and he said 'for our next gig we all have to learn martial arts and karate and what we're going to do is go out and mug all the crowd and leave the venue with the music playing and all the punters on the floor' ... I think he was worried we weren't going to get paid.
SW: I think the main strength of Dave is that he assembles all these nutters around him for them to do the crazy stuff. Whether it be dealing with haircuts or me screaming into someones groin, as I did in Holland.
SM: That was great. Groin shouting in Holland.
SW: If you can imagine this ... there was about thirty people there and I approached each one of them, who were ninety percent blokes, grabbed them by the hips, I was on my knees, face into the groin and shout. So you've got this vibration, this feeling of it, the vibration and the heat, with the noise. You'd probably not hear the shouting.
SM: Its almost like aural pleasure in a way isn't it? You gave aural pleasure to a number of men.
SW: The important thing to remember is that it was a penis festival. I might have been the only person at the festival who did something penis related.
SM: They all got naked.
SW: Getting naked is normal for the likes of us.
SM: That was the last gig at Hondenkoekjes. His missus had had enough ... Marc from the FCKN BSTRDS ... we drank the place dry and I think it was the last straw for his missus.
KF: I had a mallet and people were throwing things and I was knocking them back and one of them was a bottle and I just whacked it and they were saying that could have gone in my eye...
SM: And they were saying oh its not too bad we had Whitehouse here and they were throwing glasses too.
IF: Do you think its just as well Smell & Quim have never toured America.
SW: Still might happen.
SM: We've still not seen this new album [Lavatory]. Have you seen the pictures? Me and Dave are naked and Kate's naked, Gillham and Stewart didn't get their photos in.
SM: I've no idea how Dave puts Smell & Quim records together. I'm just a bit part player really.
SW: I haven't contributed recently. I haven't physically, actively done stuff since four years ago here in Leeds where we did 'In The Brown Girls Ring'. In Holland we had about thirty people all doing the ring-a-ring-a-rosie thing and here in Leeds they weren't up for it.
SM: Gillham was off his fucking bonce on speed and ecstasy.
IF: He cut his hand didn't he?
SM: He cut his hand and wrote 'Smell & Quim' in the blood on the drum. The guy who owned the drums wasn't happy.
SW: Me and Kate were going round the audience body searching people ... simultaneously .. each person had four hands on them at the same time.
SM: I suppose I must have done a maximum of ten Smell & Quim gigs since the one where you started off by stripping me. For a while in the mid nineties it was whoever turned up and now Dave says that this line up is the classic line up.
SW: The reason this lineup is so great is Michael Gillham
SM: Michael is wonderful.
SW: Michael is 'it'.
IF: You haven't told us how you mate Dave
SW: I met Dave because in 1992 ... in 1992 me and Neil had been making music with various bands and Neil had the Jesus Christ LP and he played it to me and I looked at him and said whats this weird shit? So one day Neil says to me you know that band with the Jesus Christ album well they're playing a gig. So we went along to the gig. It was at the Duchess of York [now defunct Leeds pub/venue]. We went along and we were in the audience with a couple of mates and we taped the gig. Who are these weird guys? Both of them fell on their backs drunk several times during the set. I mean literally on their back with their legs in the air, off their faces, a lot of vodka drunk, even then they had the bucket shaker thing, fabulous stuff with the vibrating going on. They were great. On the 'Christmas Album' they released the recording of that, their first gig and its the recording that me and Neil made and you can hear me and Dave and Jimmy and Sue talking all over it. Neil had been writing to Dave and he went up afterwards and he said 'Hi I'm Neil from Sheffield I wrote to you' and Dave was so drunk he just went 'uuuuuur' and Neil's trying to make conversation and Dave's so drunk all he can do is go 'uuuuuur'. After the gig they were just sat on the edge of the stage looking like a morose Laurel and Hardy.
IF: I'm trying to find out some further information on this gig. I believe Mike Dando was on the bill. There was Smell & Quim, Con-Dom, Haters and Techno Animal.
SW: Thats right yeah. The next Smell & Quim involvement for me was in 94 with 'Whats Your Health Problem'.
SM: Oh, the phone box.
SW: That's right the phone box. Paul had left by then so it was just Dave and he was trying to get people to contribute and we had some lyrics that Stream Angel had written ...
SM: ... Manchester Woman.
SW: Manchester Woman, yeah, that's right. So we're in this phone box in Sheffield shouting our heads off down the phone and Dave recorded the whole thing and I think its track five on the album.
SM: It sounds like some loonies shouting.
SW: But we were some loonies shouting. In fact that's all we've ever been. Some Loonies shouting. A good way to get a recording is to go in to a launderette, preferably a 24 hour one so you can go when nobody else is using it, put a load of money in all the machines but also stack on top of the machines a load of bottles, glasses and stuff so that when the machines go in to the spin cycle you don't just get the sound of the bottles but of the machines too.
IF: Didn't Diz collect sardine tins?
SW: Jeff Nuttall wrote a book about performance art and there's a picture of Diz in it wearing the sardine tin necklace.
SM: Its on the cover isn't it?
SW: There's a whole history of Diz that none of us knows about.
SM: He once got Lol Coxhill to play at a Smell & Quim gig in London.
SW: Holly got Smell & Quim to play her 21st Birthday party. She booked this room at this really posh hotel in Halifax.
IF: Didn't she book them in as a jazz band?
SW: Smell & Quim were still Dave and Paul Harrison at this time and they were wearing the Elvis suits with the robot heads. I made myself a costume out of a fishnet curtain and wore nothing else. I used to go into the audience at that time and I'd made some blue popcorn that was brown sauce and garlic flavored which I was offering out. I don't know what they did but Dave and Paul managed to set off the smoke alarms. I think there was smoke coming out of the robot heads. And the fire alarm went off and the place had to be evacuated but Paul and Dave hadn't realised because they couldn't hear the alarm. The manager called the fire brigade and the building was evacuated. So we're all out in the street including me in my fishnet thingy and the fire brigade arrive and Holly knew one of them so she's having a chat ... meanwhile back in the room Dave and Paul are still playing, they've got these robot heads on and cant see a fucking thing, they had light bulbs where the eyes are. All the noise and the smoke machine's going and the first they knew was when the manager pulled the power and everything stopped. They wonder what the fuck was happening so they take off the robot heads and the rooms empty except for the manager and the chief of the fire brigade.
IF: Who where the two who played in Smell & Quim at the first Vibracathedral Orchestra gig at the Yazen-I-Kylo [Leeds].
SM: That was Steve Massey from the Hobs [Ceramic Hobs], who's spent 11 years in nuthouses now, on guitar, Paul Harrison on bass and I think I had a tape player going 'one, two, three, four', and it was a really bad gig in that we were all dispirited thinking this is terrible. Apart from when Dave was doing stuff with Steve Fricker ... there were a couple of gigs that were billed as Smell & Quim and Onomatopoeia [Fricker's project].
IF: One of those was the Scruffy Murphy gig in Birmingham wasn't it? That involved a fish too.
SM: Yeah, the landlord refused to sell any more beer. Fricker wrapped the audience up in string. Those were the quite years of Smell & Quim.
SW: Simon, were you at the gig where I had a roll of industrial strength cling film?
IF: Was that the one where you wrapped the audience up with it?
SW: Yes, all of the audience.
IF: Except for me. I was stood at the back. I could see you coming.
SM: Cath O'Connor and Pauline were sirens at the 120 Rats gig.
SW: I was the compere. The whole event was organised by Phil Smith. It was Blackpool bands versus Leeds band.
IF: The Rats was a squat venue wasn't it?
SM: Yes, on Meanwood Road in Leeds. It was a just a few houses knocked into one.
SW: The Hobs played, Bilge Pump played, Smell & Quim played, Sticky was there, James Barnes ... Pauline and Cath wore silver foil and bubble wrap.
SM: Diz had a starting pistol at that gig and he shot it into the air which was a shock for some people. Crank Sturgeon guested with Smell & Quim in London one night. Andy Bolus was there ... that was another one where we ended up with fifteen people on stage .. Jim Plaistow from the A Band ...
SW: There's a big cross over from A Band to Smell & Quim. In Fact of the current line up Dave is the only one who isn't connected with the A Band ...
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Quote from: blackoperations on February 07, 2014, 10:11:07 PMSW: ... After the gig I hid the largest fish inside Citizen Fish's bass drum and I hope they didn't find it until they were in the van on the way home.
Can't say I'm a big S&Q fan but that deed alone get's fucking ten points out of ten from me.
is Neil Cambell still active?
Neil Campbell is alive and well and can be found here : http://astralsocialclub.wordpress.com
I tried to write a historical album discography:
SMELL & QUIM have to my reckoning made just eight full length albums in around 25 years of sporadic existence, ignoring CD-Rs and cassettes, split and collaborative stuff, reissues. I do appear on the last four of these but can maintain impartiality as (i) I have always considered this to be 100% Srdenovic's baby (ii) it's not as if I actually listen to this material anyway, what kinda pervert do you think I am? From memory:
JESUS CHRIST (Stinky Horse Fuck LP, 1990) - noise/power electronics/industrial were dead in the late 80s/early 90s, it all seemed to disappear. The likes of Genocide Organ appeared to resurrect things as some kind of depressive ultra-cliched MOR electronics outfit, while S&Q spewed a peculiarly Northern British kind of whirlwind filth in isolation. Clanging, tape loops, feedback, drunken gargling and yodelling and yelped quotes from the 120 Days. Classic weirdo record and what a lovely and charming subtle sleeve too, suitable for framing on your wall before hosting your local neighbourhood watch meeting.
THE JISSOM KILLERS (Tesco LP, 1992) - uncharacteristic brooding dark ambient album with crashes and bangs sounding very unlike most other S&Q releases. Actually perfectly listenable, nothing special, could have been any other act on Tesco at the time.
WHAT'S YOUR HEALTH PROBLEM/YOUR ENEMY'S BALLS (Red Stream CD 1994) - the 'classic lineup' and the only version which was a true duo had splintered and half of this release is patched together with guests, half from earlier cassette only things - it's actually great and very funny with some good use of sampling, dark Discordian attitude, lurches into synthesised chill-out beats and wild HM soloing - very amusing CD.
DIAMETER OF ELVIS' COLON (RRR/Pure CD 1995) - for this great budget noise label series S&Q (now featuring d.foist, more recently seen reviewing things for Record Collector in 2015) provided a pointless and genuinely unlistenable disc of harsh sounds sourced almost entirely from wooden records cut on a lathe while screaming.
MEAT/PREGNANT ASIAN SPECIAL (Old Europa Cafe CD, 1997) - horribly packaged CD and cassette thing of some lazy and disappointing material. I appear singing a James Bond theme at one point for some reason I can't remember. Islam Uber Alles was a fine title and one I had to steal but the actual track from what I remember was about twenty minutes of a note on an organ - fucking drone music! The worst genre in the world! Even S&Q weren't immune from this plague on the ears. With seemingly a single a month being released at this point ideas were being spread too thin.
STEPHEN HAWKING'S BUTTPLUG (Giardia LP 1998) - a better and varied collection of slingshot ideas from what was by now a fifteen strong collective of crazies - some wild noises on this, one side remixed from a series of rare lathe-cut releases. Good reflection of what felt like a kind of cult or commune at this point before things wound down for a time.
POWERFUCK (L-White CD 2008) - darkly psychedelic and aggressive noise and electronics - S&Q returned bitter at a world of cleverly marketed fake music, social networkers, sellouts - the old dog turned nastier. Vicious and fierce with a mean yet hilarious vocal track from Gillham talking about his filthy fuckseed as a standout. The label insisted on doing their own artwork. It's comically horrible.
LAVATORY (Kay Ogden Percy Mather/Paddington CD 2011) - came in two different versions, the one with a smaller standalone booklet rather than a full magazine being the rarer. Amazing and considered conceptual album dealing with the underbelly of the north of England and hidden crime, hidden histories. If I had to listen to any S&Q it would be this one - nice sound palette too including an unlikely psaltery solo.
http://www.freenoise.org/smellandquim/ - not been updated for a few years, maintained by Emil from Cock ESP, good information source.
Quote from Milovan Srdenovic supplied for book on history of PE to be edited by J Wallis and published by Headpress: "PE is a fantastic form. I think it's also so important to realise and enjoy the ludicrous absurdity of guys screaming filth and hatespeak over a wash of electronic Shite. Fucking brilliant really. There has to be fun in there. Amazing. We fucking love it to bits. The major players are all quite interesting people in my experience. The ones that don't understand their own absurdity are fucking nuts. I think there is a strand of pseudo alpha-male sub goth sub metal wank serious bullshit cuntery out there. They know who they are, and so do we. I piss into their coke."
Watch most of best ever S&Q show at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcozCNIIo8
Not much info found on covers of SMELL & QUIM / ONOMATOPOEIA "Live At Kirkstall Lites - Brutalist mix" CD. When? By whom exactly? Don't know. What is the brutalist mix? What I guess, simply by seeing this cardbard sleeve mCD and listening to it, is that they have performed live show and recording has been overtly distorted in mix before putting out. There is no way it sounded like THIS in audience. And I'm not complaining. This just goes way beyond what "live noise" generally can be. Clearly all-on-red, most likely digital boost, what results simple yet effective harsh noise assault. It lacks all the playful humor found on each of the two bands, but substitutes it with sheer harsh noise intensity. Totality of the wall is drastic, yet there is certainly "live action" below all the rumbling harshness. It's not mere texture study and crackles, but something happens below. Especially buried screams.
It is probably quite dull to compare this to works of Gelsomina, since there is not that much in common, but there is something in this brutalist mixing style (hehe..). I know pretty much exactly how this sound is achieved, but very rarely do it these days myself. Not sure what kind of economical suicide Cipher productions had in their mind when they though that this 18 minutes recording is great to release as CD, hah, but I can personally appreciate it greatly!
Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on February 17, 2015, 08:48:39 PM
POWERFUCK (L-White CD 2008) - darkly psychedelic and aggressive noise and electronics - S&Q returned bitter at a world of cleverly marketed fake music, social networkers, sellouts - the old dog turned nastier. Vicious and fierce with a mean yet hilarious vocal track from Gillham talking about his filthy fuckseed as a standout. The label insisted on doing their own artwork. It's comically horrible.
I love that artwork and how awful it is, it paints the material in an even more absurd light for me. Imagine never having heard S&Q before and being handed this CD.
Urgent question
can anybody on this forum provide me quickly with scans or very good photographies of the cover of Jesus Christ (at least the girl), back cover and all other images?I need them in 300 dpi, tif
thanks
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Smell & Quim + Dachise
https://nostalgiedelaboue.bandcamp.com/album/deep-greek
Footage from Lisbon shows, October 2016
Traditional Homosexual Power Electronics English Country Dancing And Wrestling Night at the Lounge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtmX4k3N5Go
So Drunk It Was Hard To Stand Up Night at the Zaratan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55vOGP1tWM
Authorised cassette reissues of The English Method and Cosmic Bondage due out on Vis A Vis Audio Arts soon.
Possibly final ever Smell & Quim album ATOM HEART MOTHERFUCKER close to completion, to be accompanied by a 10" single Hitler Rally c/w Eva Braun's Brown Knickers http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-37897103