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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

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

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 ) "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

"vampyre's spin in coffin" more like

dreadful band. an utter embarassment, and EXACTLY the reason why goth had such a bad image in mainstream press

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.

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?')...

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.

*chompy chomp*

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

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

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 ) "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

"vampyre's spin in coffin" more like

dreadful band. an utter embarassment, and EXACTLY the reason why goth had such a bad image in mainstream press

Right QB..........off the fence

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.

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.

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

All good fun though, wouldn't change a thing

I should add, I actually had to pay to be a memeber of said society...

You're right, I'll get me cloak

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

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

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.

I tell ya though, it was worth it

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.

I'm saying nuffin.

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.

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...?

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.

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...?

Fair enuff, I've been topped, I must admit I was never a contributor.

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

I feel better already

I feel better knowing you lot have gone through it and I haven't !

Dark wrote:

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....

Do you have any idea how much the test press would be worth?

Dark wrote:Do you have any idea how much the test press would be worth?

Generally, or a test press of a Nosferatu album?

I only have one test pressing and that's MR013, which is nice. No idea how much that's worth either

The Nosferatu test press.

Dark wrote:Do you have any idea how much the test press would be worth?

Two bob

about half a monkey's toss

RobF wrote:about half a monkey's toss

I'm not so sure, I think you're both over estimating....

Nice.

And the real answer?

monkey spunk

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.

James Blast wrote:monkey spunk