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aye, saw nosferatu at the banshee once. a mate's band were support so a few of us went (home town gig, and all that).

nosferatu turned up in a hearse :lol:

and there were only about 10 people at the gig - and most of them had come for the support band :roll:

bloody awful. a cheap drum machine, very weedy guitar sound, no real tunes, dreadful lyrics, and a god awful phantasmagoria-vanian clone (but 2ft shorter :lol:) "singing" the worst attempt at barotone you've ever heard.

i seem to recall they were promoting a single by the name of "vampyre's cry" at the time :o :urff:

"vampyre's spin in coffin" more like :lol:

dreadful band. an utter embarassment, and EXACTLY the reason why goth had such a bad image in mainstream press :roll:
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markfiend wrote: Including once in Sheffield, where I was very drunk, fell off the shoulders of some other loon* onto the stage, and nicked the setlist halfway through the set. :lol:
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Faux Prussian accent my arse - the guy sounds like David Bowie in a bad mood, that's all. Not that a faux prussian accent mightn't be worth trying ('or vill you valk avay?')...
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More Nosferatu silliness: The lead guitarist (who also owned the hearse) was allegedly called Vlad Yanicek or something similar.

If he was given that name by his parents, I'll eat my own arms. :lol:
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*chompy chomp*

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Quiff Boy wrote:aye, saw nosferatu at the banshee once. a mate's band were support so a few of us went (home town gig, and all that).

nosferatu turned up in a hearse :lol:

and there were only about 10 people at the gig - and most of them had come for the support band :roll:

bloody awful. a cheap drum machine, very weedy guitar sound, no real tunes, dreadful lyrics, and a god awful phantasmagoria-vanian clone (but 2ft shorter :lol:) "singing" the worst attempt at barotone you've ever heard.

i seem to recall they were promoting a single by the name of "vampyre's cry" at the time :o :urff:

"vampyre's spin in coffin" more like :lol:

dreadful band. an utter embarassment, and EXACTLY the reason why goth had such a bad image in mainstream press :roll:
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Well, I can do one better than that. I don't know why I'm telling you this, I'm sure if there were black marks to put against peoples names, this would surely warrant one. :urff:

Not only do I still own all the Nosferatu albums, I also joined the Gothic Society, a society run by Nosferatu. They published a quarterly fanzine called the Grimoire, it used to contain Gothic poetry etc etc. :innocent: :urff: :innocent:

On reflection, I have to say I was very bad at being a 'Goff' too much of a rocker :D

All good fun though, wouldn't change a thing :D :lol: :D
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I should add, I actually had to pay to be a memeber of said society...

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Do you people go to meetings where you stand up and say "my name is (name) and I saw Nosferatu once"?

:lol:
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mh wrote:Do you people go to meetings where you stand up and say "my name is (name) and I saw Nosferatu once"?

:lol:
Not yet, I imagine when I'm going through my first nervous breakdown, Nosferatu will be found to have been the cause of at least some of the neurological damage. :urff:

I tell ya though, it was worth it :lol:
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bananacamel wrote:I also joined the Gothic Society, a society run by Nosferatu. They published a quarterly fanzine called the Grimoire, it used to contain Gothic poetry etc etc. :innocent: :urff: :innocent:
I'm saying nuffin. :innocent:
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bananacamel wrote:Not only do I still own all the Nosferatu albums, I also joined the Gothic Society, a society run by Nosferatu. They published a quarterly fanzine called the Grimoire, it used to contain Gothic poetry etc etc. :innocent: :urff: :innocent:
But surely no-one here on Heartland would be so goff as to have had a short story printed in the aforementioned Gothic Society Grimoire...?

:oops: :oops: :oops:

:innocent: :P
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smiscandlon wrote:
bananacamel wrote:Not only do I still own all the Nosferatu albums, I also joined the Gothic Society, a society run by Nosferatu. They published a quarterly fanzine called the Grimoire, it used to contain Gothic poetry etc etc. :innocent: :urff: :innocent:
But surely no-one here on Heartland would be so goff as to have had a short story printed in the aforementioned Gothic Society Grimoire...?

:oops: :oops: :oops:

:innocent: :P
Fair enuff, I've been topped, :eek: I must admit I was never a contributor. :urff:

It's like therapy this, it's good to know others have gone through the same shame. :notworthy:

I feel better already :D
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I feel better knowing you lot have gone through it and I haven't ! :D :D :lol:
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bananacamel wrote:Sounds more like Nosferatu, now they really did miss the joke :)
I have a "Rise" test pressing. I've only listened to Side One so far, but they don't sound too bad.
Their first lp Rise is pretty good, if very SERIOUS - its the follow up, The Prophecy I think, which saw them trip off into laughable gothick faery land, deary deary me....
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Do you have any idea how much the test press would be worth?
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Dark wrote:Do you have any idea how much the test press would be worth?
Generally, or a test press of a Nosferatu album? :twisted:

I only have one test pressing and that's MR013, which is nice. No idea how much that's worth either :D :? :D
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The Nosferatu test press. ;)
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Dark wrote:Do you have any idea how much the test press would be worth?

Two bob

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RobF wrote:about half a monkey's toss :twisted:
I'm not so sure, I think you're both over estimating.... :lol: :innocent: :lol:
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Nice.

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i saw Nosferatu on that supposedly goth/alternative satellite channel the other week.Do they realise they look like a Max Wall tribute act?

Actually they sounded pretty good. :eek:
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