The Brian Turner Show
Order and disorder, a freeform haze of garbage guitars, shorted electronics, found detritus, collage, linear songs, sounds from strange lands. Every other week. Full playlists can be found at www.brianturnershow.com. Shows also now at eastvillageradio.com with live episodes Wednesdays 4pm ET. I can be contacted at btradio85@gmail.com.
The Brian Turner Show
Brian Turner Show (on East Village Radio), Nurse With Wound Special w/Steven Stapleton Interview, April 16, 2025
Today: In 1979, Nurse With Wound entered a UK recording studio with no musical training whatsoever and created an album called Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, which promptly was awarded a rating of five question marks from Sounds Magazine. Since then, NWW has confounded critics and listeners alike, both pioneering and mining the areas of improvisation, Krautrock-influence, electroacoustic experiments and more, with unparalleled sense of invention and quite often humor. Today, Brian Turner reflects back on the massive body of work by this shifting ensemble, digging out a rare interview he did with its central figure, Steven Stapleton, from his Irish goat farm.
NURSE WITH WOUND - Rock N' Roll Station - Rock N' Roll Station (United Dairies, 1994)
NURSE WITH WOUND - Fragments I - Who Can I Turn To Stereo Etc. (Jnana, 2011)
NURSE WITH WOUND - Yagga Blues - Funeral Music For Perez Prado (United Dairies, 2001)
NURSE WITH WOUND - Homotopy For Marie - Homotopy For Marie (United Dairies, 1982)
NURSE WITH WOUND - June 3 - Shipwreck Radio Volume One (Seven Sonic Structures From Utvær) (ICR, 2004)
NURSE WITH WOUND / FOETUS - Brained By Falling Masonry - The Swinging Reflective (Favourite Moments Of Mutual Ecstasy) (United Dairies, 1999)
BT INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN STAPLETON (PART ONE)
NURSE WITH WOUND - Strain Crack Break (w/David Tibet) - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella (1979, Re: United Dirter, 2009)
NURSE WITH WOUND - (I Don't Want To Have) Easy Listening Nightmares - Alice The Goon (White Noise, 1995)
NURSE WITH WOUND - You Walrus Hurt the One You Love - The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion (United Dairies, 1987)
NURSE WITH WOUND - Soliloquy For Lilith 7 - Soliloquy For Lilith (Idle Hole/Mirror One, 1988)
BT INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN STAPLETON (PART TWO)
NURSE WITH WOUND - Thrill of Romance...? - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Dairies/Jnana, 2008)
COLIN POTTER - Power - The Scythe (ICR, 1981)
ANDREW LILES / GROUNDHOGS - Split 5 - Split - Up (Dirter Promotions, 2016)
NURSE WITH WOUND / STEREOLAB - Simple Headphone Mind (Duophonic, 1997)