From: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne)
Subject: Re: Scorn - Mick Harris
Organization: Einoed Unix & Netzwerke, Berlin (FRG)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:01:59 GMT

meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>>From: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne)
>>Subject: Godflesh/Scorn/Techo Animal
>>
>>I saw Scorn playing here last week. Good concert although the club where
>>they played had a bad sound but that seems to be their trademark.

>I have heard throughout Europe in clubs, the ascoutics and set-up
>leaves alot to be desired, Brent Mclaughlin - Bailter Space (NZ)said
>on tour the band were homesick for their own sound equipment. Lung
>who I think are still in Europe, last sighted in Holland had similar
>complaints. 

I heard Godflesh in a club here named 'Ecstasy' and the sound quality
was quite good. I saw also God Bullies, Cow, Negativland and some other
groups there and always the sound was really a delight. Other clubs here
have different sounds, depending on the group and equipment but i can't
say that the sound is worse in general, depends much on the place.

>>The music sounds like Godflesh but is more bass oriented. This is probably
>>nothing to wonder about since Scorn consists of C. Green and P. Neville (?) 
>>from Godflesh and an additional drummer.

>Sounds like a slightly different line-up, has this changed?
>He is Mick Harris (drums) , Nick Bullen (and guest Justin Broadrick
>who has been replaced with Pat McCahan (also a member of Candooroo)
>due to committments to Godflesh.
I heard this also from other people and i'm probably wrong but since i
saw Godflesh a month before in the same club i'm pretty deaf, er, sure
that at least Green played bass. If Mick Harris converted into a skinhead
lately and has many tattoo's, then it's him ;-) The guitarist looked like
P. Neville (who also converted to a skinhead), also i don't remember that
Justin wears glasses. Funny. Scorn has that typical Godflesh sound on stage.
They even ended the concert like Godflesh. Have to watch my condition on
such concerts more closely %-}

>Here follows a bit of blurb from Metal Forces (it is probably outdated
>by now as magazines take about 2 months to arrive here):
>[...]
>This is what Mick has to say:

>ND album "Harmony Corruption" arguments started to happen between me and 
Which is a nice release, IMHO. (On which ND release is the 'Avalanche 
Master Song', BTW?)

>To me Scorn is a driving unit, three people delivering a powerful, hard
>driving sound with endless ideas available. I'd hope that we have created
>our own little sound, obviously influenced by others - you can't do 
>anything without having roots - but allowing the development of a lot of
>possible directions.

>We don't have samples and I feel there is melody in our songs, even though
>they all go though a lot of changes. And what we do on record we can do
>live."
They don't have samples? Half of the songs were played with a real drummer,
half with drum samples and most songs had a sample track in it.

>Painkiller - Mick with friends Bill Laswell, and John Zorn to issue
>LP "Bury Secrets" their second album. Eight hours of live recording.
>They are planning to play in the US and Japan later this year.
Funny setup, Laswell playing hardcore. I have the first release, and
this group is very influenced by Zorn (who is doing much hardcore in 
the last time).

Adrian
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