History Music / NurseWithWound

** ''Soliloquy for Lilith'' was created by what was most likely a faulty setup--he'd wired up a no-input feedback loop consisting of various effects pedals, then found out mid-session that he could play this rig like a theremin.
* FakeGuestStar: David Tibet, Colin Potter and others.
* LastNoteNightmare: Even in already frightening works.

Nurse with Wound (Real name: Steven Stapleton) is an experimentalist musician who has been actively recording since 1979. The band originally included Heman Pathak and John Fothergill, though Pathak left within a few months to work with David Vorhaus of White Noise, while Fothergill eventually fell out with Stapleton a few months after that. From the third album, 1980's ''Merzbild Schwet'' onward, Stapleton has helmed Nurse with Wound himself, bringing on a variety of collaborators to create post-industrial music, steeped heavily in musique concrète and dadaism.

Nurse with Wound (Real name: Steven Stapleton) is an experimentalist musician who has been actively recording since 1979. The band originally included Heman Pathak and John Fothergill, though Pathak left within a few months to work with David Vorhaus of White Noise, while Fothergill eventually fell out with Stapleton a few months after that. From the third album, 1980's ''Merzbild schwet'' onward, Stapleton has helmed Nurse with Wound himself, bringing on a variety of collaborators to create post-industrial music, steeped heavily in musique concrète and dadaism.

** ''Soliloquy for Lilith'' was created by what was most likely a faulty setup--he'd wired up a no-input feedback loop consisting of various effects pedals, then found out mid-session that he could play this rig like a theremin.

** ''Soliloquy for Lilith'' was created by what was most likely a faulty setup--he'd wired up a no-input feedback loop consisting of various effects pedals, then found out mid-session he could play this rig like a theremin.

** ''Soliloquy for Lilith'' was created by what was most likely a faulty electronics setup--he'd set up a bunch of pedals to operate in a feedback loop and found he could change the sound they made by simply moving his hands about in their general area.

* BasedOnADream: ''Thunder Perfect Mind'' arose out of a dream David Tibet had in which he and Stapleton presented copies of a new album to each other with the shared title.

* ProductionPosse: producers and artists David Tibet (aka Current 93), Matthew Waldron (aka irr. app. (ext.)), Colin Potter, Andrew Liles and Peat Bog of The Inflatable Sideshow are Stapleton's main cohorts.

Nurse with Wound (Real name: Steven Stapleton) is an experimentalist musician who has been actively recording since 1979. The band originally included Heman Pathak and John Fothergill, though Pathak left within a few months to work with David Vorhaus of Whitehouse, while Fothergill eventually fell out with Stapleton a few months after that. From the third album, 1980's ''Merzbild schwet'' onward, Stapleton has helmed Nurse with Wound himself, bringing on a variety of collaborators to create post-industrial music, steeped heavily in musique concrète and dadaism.

** ''Soliloquy for Lilith'' was created by a faulty electronics setup, in which Stapleton simply had to move his body and arms around the keyboard to create the drums.

* LastNoteNightmare: And First Note, and Whole Piece Note. Several of them were entirely deliberately placed.

* ProductionPosse: producers and artists David Tibet (aka Current 93), Matthew Waldron (aka irr. app. (ext.), Colin Potter, Andrew Liles and Peat Bog of The Inflatable Sideshow are Stapleton's main cohorts.

** ''A Sucked Orange'' and ''Scrag'' were assembled from the same master tapes. Several pieces appear in both but are blended in a different way on each one.

* Sampling: A good chunk of Nurse with Wound's work in the 80s and 90s involved re-sampling himself a lot. He also sampled a few things for its dadaist qualities, such as Bobby Pickett's "Monster Mash" finding its way into "It Just Ain't So"; and a chunk of surf rock guitar showing up out of nowhere during "Two Golden Microphones".

--> '''David Tibet:''' "Melons with foul goats. Steve, I want that as a Nurse with Wound title, I think that's brilliant."

* DroneOfDread: Present in a lot of his work.
* EverythingIsAnInstrument[=/=]BizarreInstrument: Even back in the early days of tape manipulation, people are still scratching their heads over how certain pieces were ever made.

* GenreRoulette
* LastNoteNightmare: And First Note, and Whole Piece Note.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Shows up in a sizable portion of his output.
* LongRunner: Stapleton has never stopped releasing music since 1979.

** ''An Awkward Pause'' made several nods to progressive rock.

* PissTakeRap: David Tibet, of all people, delivers one of "Two Shaves and a Shine".

* SpokenWordInMusic: If it's not sampled from a conversation, it will be someone reading text.
* SurrealHorror

** ''A Sucked Orange'' and '"Scrag'' were assembled from the same master tapes. Several pieces appear in both but are blended in a different way on each one.