A great image and a great quote - from a great poem and poet! One of Blake’s more political/prophetic/apocalyptic works. From William Blake’s “The Grey Monk,” ca. 1804. Unsure of the artist or who made this meme.
—0liver Sheppard
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Brecht quote from the back of a shirt I have of Texas hardcore band WORLD BURNS TO DEATH. Quote’s probably more relevant now than when the shirt design came out in 2005 or so. Came out around the time of the Austin band’s “Cease to Exist” DVD on Prank Records.
—0liver Sheppard
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The new episode of the CEREMONY audio podcast is up!
In the spirit of the moment, the new episode is all about anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBTQ, anti-war, and anti-capitalist songs that have been made by Gothic Rock and Dark Postpunk bands. There are newer dark bands (Tears for the Dying, Christ vs Warhol, Final Rites, Shadow Age) alongside foundational bands (Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Killing Joke), and others. 🦇
There’ll be some "liner notes" (or article) about the rationale / methodology behind choosing these particular songs, and that article will be published on a separate website some time soon.
This is not an exhaustive song list, and in fact there may be a Part 2. 🖤
CEREMONY is a monthly club night at The Nines in Deep Ellum in Dallas, Texas. The next event is Wednesday, June 10th, 2020.
Details, subscribe, download: http://ceremonydallas.com
CEREMONY Episode 4
THE POLITICS OF GOTH:
A POLITICAL GOTHIC ROCK & DARK POSTPUNK PRIMER
Track List:
1. NEW MODEL ARMY - "Vengeance" (1984)
2. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE - "Buried Alive" (1983)
3. JOY DIVISION (Warsaw) - "They Walked in Line" (1978)
4. KILLING JOKE - "Pssyche" (1980)
5. THE CURE - "Us or Them" (2004)
6. FINAL RITES - "Terrorist Fairy Tale" (2012)
7. VIRGIN PRUNES - "Caucasian Walk" (1982)
8. LENINGRAD SANDWICH - "We Will Rise" (1984)
9. THE MOB - "Rise Up" (2011)
10. SOUTHERN DEATH CULT - "The Fatman" (1983)
11. UK DECAY - "For My Country" (1980)
12. PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED - "Religion II" (1978)
13. THE SOUND - "Resistance" (1980)
14. LOST CHERREES - "Sexism's Sick (Part I)" (1982)
15. TEARS FOR THE DYING - "A.C.A.B." (2020)
16. PENETRATION - "The Silent Community" (1978)
17. CHRIST VS WARHOL - "Paper Dolls" (2010)
18. ARCTIC FLOWERS - "Dreamer" (2019)
19. SIEBEN - "Rite Against the Right" (2007)
20. THE MOB - "Another Day, Another Death" (1983)
21. SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - "Skin" (1981)
22. THEATRE OF HATE - "Propaganda (Peel Session)" (1982)
23. SHADOW AGE - "Forbears" (2018)
24. THE DAMNED - "Generals" (1982)
25. ADVERTS - "Male Assault" (1979)
26. BELLICOSE MINDS - "Call to Graves" (2013)
27. DIAMANDA GALAS - "Judgment Day" (excerpt) (1992)
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Amebix
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Mephisto Walz, 1986
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The Sibyl, Otterbein College, 1905
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Emily Dickinson’s verse weighed heavily on my mind when writing a few of the individual thirteen nocturnes that form the second section of Thirteen Nocturnes (my book & second collection of verse). The above untitled poem by Dickinson is one my favorites by her; two lines from it form a prefatory quote at the beginning of my poem “Nocturne No. 13.” (Specifically: “And so of larger – Darknesses – / Those Evenings of the Brain –”) – 0liver
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DALLAS, TX. - Thurs, Jan 31, 2019 at the Nines. Free. 9pm-2am.
Event page with details:https://www.facebook.com/events/448883455644730/
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Rudimentary Peni // Love Is Not
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William S Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
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An excellent new, comprehensive collection of dark verse, Oliver Sheppard’s THIRTEEN NOCTURNES. Available on Amazon here: https://is.gd/wrCGeZ
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