Circus Mort live at Hurrah

[artisyn]

wow, michael in action ;) my earlier boston band V; and circus mort were acquainted thru mutual gigs..hurrahs was a memorable part of the ny scene

[VJnumber1]

@artisyn I also have a full concert filmed of "V"dated February 1, 1980.

[bojadinnnnnnnnnn]

Does anybody have their first 2 demo songs: "Require Require" and "Working for Pleasure"?

[bojadinnnnnnnnnn]

is dvd progressing? can't wait to see it!!!

[davsanthony]

The people demand more Circus Mort live!

[eyelesslife]

I never thought i'd see Circus Mort footage. Miraculous! You don't have any Swans footage by chance?

[VJnumber1]

@eyelesslife ---sorry, no. The Swans did not form til after this club closed. Except for a few months running the video lounge at Danceteria after Hurrah closed, I stopped shooting live gigs unless it was part of a planned production. Hurrah was a unique chance for me as a full time club employee to organise regular shooting no matter if I knew and liked the band or not. Otherwise I would have missed capturing many great bands who were below the radar and disappeared as fast as they formed.

[kissabooglue]

I know its been said BUT PLEASE POST MORE OF THIS!

[nasalscarecrow]

Wow, very surprised this even exists!

[rcisco]

porco dio

[rcisco]

credevo non li ricordasse nessuno

[shallowbox]

I love this fucked up band! Are there more live vids?

[VJnumber1]

there is a full set but needs tons of editing. will do it one day. meanwhile, hope to make a musical essay including a few cuts with an interesting counterpoint of other bands and new interviews with members of this group and others. working title is "7 Deadly Synths".

[posthumanhero]

ooohhhhhhhhhhhhh...........put the whole thing up there...........this is good and so is the very first swans ep that nobody exceot me's ever heard

[VJnumber1]

I will make a DVD. Needs a lot of editing! Stay tuned.

[autosuggestionband]

@posthumanhero I've heard the first Swans EP!

Better than Gira made them out to be, these ones, but still less impressive than Swans.

[posthumanhero]

the first swans ep isn't very comparable to what followed.......it's, in fact, rather spacey.....hint: listen to under headphones -- the guitarist (jonothan kane) and horn player swirl around your head and gira just pounds relentless bass lines out and chants.......it quite outshines any of the 'no new york' stuff happening at the time, in my opinion.....speak!!!!!!!!

[Brock2097]

gotta love late 70s/early 80s guitar flanging

[VJnumber1]

This unique mix of disparate talents is pulled together with great intensity. Each original song in their show draws one into a zone that is pleasure, pain, fear, revelry, defiance, unbounded animal drive. The vocal taunts a near-musicality that is not like a reed instrument., more like a tympanny drum.

Watching this clip I get the feeling that suddenly any one of them may propell into orbit. The lyrics are at once "down-to-earth" and necromanntic. Pretty wierd stuff.

[greedholymoney]

Sounds like most early new wave, post-punk...

By the way, anyone else notice how he appears awkward and a little shy on stage? Nothing like the taunting screaming shirtless monster.

[GBStuff]

I never thought I would see footage of this band playing...THANK YOU!

[6taninacan9]

more please! XD

thanks for posting

[dsklexx]

прикольно жира жжот

[steinber]

wow! thanks for posting!

[VJnumber1]

Hi All, excuse me for misspelling the name, I am in France and got used to adding an E to Mort. Will change that in the next excerpt I make.

[nobukowski]

woah! Thanks a lot, much appreciated.

[Putyourknifinme]

WOW! gira looks young!

this sounds quite cool cant believe gira hates it

[nobukowski]

About how old would he be here? I'm not even sure how old he is now, or he old he was when SWANS started, so I can't figure it out...

[Putyourknifinme]

well he was about 26 when he started swans, so about 25/26 here...he's most likely in his early 60s now....still going strong though!!

[nobukowski]

yeah :)

[rxsecretplot]

he's 56 in two weeks.

[andreasapaandersson]

@Putyourknifinme

I think he´s born 1954

[fridaythe14th]

Very cool! Who do I have to sleep with to get the whole thing?

[VJnumber1]

That would be me, do you have LayPal?

[fridaythe14th]

No, but I'm totally signing up now!

[byrnecobain]

Great band, great club. Thanks SO much for posting this. More please!!!

[theboywhospokeclouds]

Holy shit! This is great footage! And it sounds so much better than Gira always leads on! I want to hear more!

[giantgorillastudios]

Yeah, Circus Mort sounds a lot better than Gira says it does. I personally think he's a bit too hard on himself.

[girlsgonewilde13]

oh my god

Old GIRA?!

This is too good to be true