Coil on 'Hello Culture'

[ri394]

fuckin lol i love how the narrator says "anal staircase"

[dannycheesums]

Can anyone tell me the name of the model of synths they are playing on the rocks?

[captainshitto]

@dannycheesums NO.FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING COCKTWAT

[dannycheesums]

@captainshitto my my, you're pleasant

[captainshitto]

@dannycheesums shut it fanny batter

[hintenphilosophy]

@dannycheesums

Synth A or Synth in a Case. See youtube or google it.

[roryphelan]

'How about some sex.'

cut to black.

[zentopia7]

"nettle tea because they would never abuse them (their bodies)" oh Lord so mega amounts of booze were ok?

[zyniker88]

@zentopia7 I'm pretty sure that it was a tounge in cheek comment.

[screendrem]

I started a band called Love's Secret Domain a few years ago. It doesn't sound like coil but was indeed inspired by the Coil Aesthetic. The band has an Ep called PURE. It's on itunes and amazon. Look it up. It was produced out of a bedroom in Southern California with no budget and mastered to tape.

[ColaberMilk]

The reason it cuts out at the end is because after that point, it was no longer about Coil, it was about a "sex-Dungeon" in New York.

[TheAnalStaircase]

R.I.P. Coil. Yet I still hope that someone (Thighpaulsandra, Simon, Stephen or Massimo & Pierce???) has all the tons of unreleased material Coil had - Album with William S. Burroughs. Album with Diamanda Gallas. Proper release nof their two soundtracks "A Gay Man's Guide" and "Sarah Dale's Sensuous Massage". Coil's Live At Bar Maldoror? An EP with Terence McKenna. And I am sure nthere is much more unreleased and even more unfinished recordings... I hope once it will see the light of the day.

[coalhalo]

@TheAnalStaircase

Coil's "Live At Bar Maldoror" was properly released as an lp back in the early 80's, right around the time Current 93 released their own "Live At Bar Maldoror" lp. Both had identical white sleeves with the only information being on the spines of the lp's.

[stefanizer]

Despite the interviewer being generally disliked...does anybody know where to watch the entire programme??

[sfn6]

well, coil surely deserved a more appropriate interviewer...

[niggative]

"Not very beastly anymore"

He'll regret that

[industrymonkey]

Rest In Peace, Pete.

[88qiflow]

R.I.P. uncle Sleazy...the interviewer is a stupid sheep ; )...

thanks Jhonn and Sleazy for the great "entertainment" to weak up..l in my life...from the begining TG, Psychic TV i loved this guys... peace and big hug to all friends here...

[Noiryaguara]

I don´t like the interviewer either. 

[atoknnim]

R.I.P. Uncle Sleazy

[MithrasAtDusk]

@atoknnim : posting this response 23 hours after you posted.

[kurtpolka]

the program is utter crap, the narrator is retarded and the whole rest is bullshit. makes absolutely no justice and ridicules the incredibly creative artists Coil were.

miss you forever Jhónn and now Peter. your music alone did for me far more many "helping people" ever did.

[Osthropek]

"I shit every morning"

LOOL

[mcdrunkagain]

Rest in Peace Peter. For the last 23 years your music touched my soul.

[JimiLaMort]

Was that SUICIDE playing when the story cut out? Sounded like Cheree?

[karl2393]

RIP Sleazy :(

[drplbiftin]

For all those depressed about Sleazy's death, let this little snippet from Sleazy himself cheer you up: "I take great comfort in knowing, with certainty, that thing that makes us special, able to enrich our own lives and those of others, will not cease when our bodies do but will be just starting a new (and hopefully even better) adventure ... "

RIP

[Vandertop]

@drplbiftin strange but I just read that quote elsewhere before reading it here! I met Peter 3 times (twice at their house in Chiswick) and he seemed like a nice guy. I recall they were good friends with Marc Almond. It's hard to believe that they've both gone.

[thedistortedpoet1]

@drplbiftin Do you know where this quote of Sleazy came from? Thank you kindly.

[drplbiftin]

@thedistortedpoet1 he had an interview with The Quietus culture website and in the comments someone asked about his health, and he replied with that.

[thedistortedpoet1]

@drplbiftin Thanks again. 

[BAGMANNOISE]

terrible time.RIP Sleazy......

[rkwz699]

so sad, sad day

[Lunarwill]

R.I.P Peter Christopherson.

[Absinthus]

@Lunarwill R.I.P. indeed, so sad.

[theefishlippedone]

rip jhonn.good vid,shame the interviewer is such a tool.plenty of chuckles:)

[sex6cult9revolution]

It's the sound of Satan's hooves in my skull. ha ha

[jocksilver7]

for a splitsecond I imagined he was going to ask Why is there shit on your face in "Scatology"? Sleazy should have smeared old Matthew's face with ... peanut butter, just to be friendly with guests. I suspect that Coil during the interview are sometimes taking the piss, although acting very sincere and caring. Single intelligent question triggered a typical Coil-type of answer : "Why do you think X-tianity is so concerned to washing its hands all the time?"-"...denial of responsability!" POW!

[SubconsciousGatherer]

Is the narrator rubbing his nipples whilst speaking? His voice denotes an air of self-pleasuring while talking about COIL.

[MrPabz9]

One is a VSC , ones the more portable "synth in a suitcase" Putney both by EMS in the U.K. The other is Dutch kit Synton Fenix .Coil maybe defunct what they strove to achieve and what they represented scared some & inspired others. Like anything transgressive (most stuff given the industrial tag was). There has to be something beyond the shock most never bothered to look , sadly

[TheBlellum]

Matthew Collings is a cunt

[krackfoxtube]

please please someone upload Hello Culture!! please, are you listening ... please! ha

[nuriumzzzzzzzz]

what was the song around 3:45?

[miamiwax]

i have tried hard but i just can't get into these dudes

[ZombieDragQueen]

Anybody knows what the symbol they wear around their necks is called? Looks like 8 connected Algiz runes, but I've googled my ass off and the nearest thing I can find is the Helm of Awe which sort of looks like it.

[chaoboy11]

@ZombieDragQueen a chaostar

[Fakefakir]

The last words of Alistair Crowley: 'I am perplexed'. No wisdom there then. Pathetic.

[WHOBYFIRE333]

I love coil. John Balance is one of my no. 1 heroes & inspiration!

[wtmeighan]

Thinking of Autechre! Have you ever listened to Coil: Toshi? I searched thru The ThresholdHouseBoys and ThighPaulSandra's new music but it was too scary! Jhon Balance fell over so Coil is no more! They had a huge influence on Warp. Music for Chod, to invite the demons-to eat your fear. The sound of Satan's hooves in my skull! Only listen to as an antidote.

[gustard33]

Interstingly enough the catalan nativity scene traditionally features a small boy taking a crap behind the measure - to show that "life goes on" even when the son of god is born. They also have the tradition of the "kaga tio" the sh!tting uncle . Before chrismas he gets bigger as he swells with presents , on chriastmas day children beat him with a stick and he Sh!ts out the presents !

[sonor23]

These guys are full of crapola .

[beastatlay]

Attention, Jhonn Balance, attention Jhonn Balance - your stare isn't working. Looking at someone for a while doesn't work. Even if you think they're a Channel 4 twat.

[BicycleSighs]

Someone asked this before, but no one answered.. is this ANYWHERE online? I've been scouring the backwaters of the internet trying to find it.

[OrTheThirdPerson]

interviewer is a complete cunt.

[KADIE3553XXX]

"their bodies are sacred. They never abuse them." lol

[Komatzu]

Was that the music of Suicide begining at 5:30 ? Cheree

[adamjimmypee]

Does anyone know what Thighpaulsandra is playing in this clip? It can be seen clearly at the 0:24 mark.

[CreepyT]

Thighpaulsandra = EMS Synthi A

Jhonn = EMS VCS3

Sleazy = ??? looks familiar but can't place it.

[ColaberMilk]

@CreepyT

it's most likely a home assembled modular synth, or it's some paia gear

[buchla300]

@CreepyT It's a Synton Fenix

[selfobsessionhoney]

Wow, really chuffed to see this. Just getting in to Coil (al be it very slowly, and not very cheaply!) so it's all new to me. Looks like I have lots more amazing work to hear from them, just a pity there won't be more :(

RIP John, your influence will outlive us all

[timmytwotits]

"I was invited to tea with coil at their house. It's only going to be nettle tea because their bodies are sacred and they'd never abuse them!"

Yeah, Jhonn took great care of his body, especially that night he was in such a toxic vodka stupor he fell off the balcony to his death.

Fuck the media, ignorant backwards wankers, they should all be sacrificed to the great Girugamesh.

[SteamMachine]

@timmytwotits

You do know he was being sarcastic?

[45009234]

R.I.P. John Balance

[realRVAX]

- Where is the end ? Where to find the orignal film ?

- Ou est passée la fin ? Où trouver le film original ?

Thanks / Merci

[executiveE]

what happened to sex ?

[audiograff]

what happened to the last minute?!!!

[souq]

kurva

[SofaKingAbsent]

what coil song did mike tyson use as an intro song?

[CorneliusRose25]

Higher Being Commands

[stoleninfo]

gone back to the VATICAN then?

VATICAN ASSASSINS

[stoleninfo]

Take responsiblity for my own actions?

[TheSkeptikChannel]

kauu to the hauu

[graybrain23]

ur video is blasted without the ending. what a lame ass video.

[deepbluehue3]

sensationalistic interviewer , yes . . .

[Rizimar]

The end of this video, where the narrator says "How 'bout some sex?", the music changes to what sounds like the intro to Suicide's song Dream Baby Dream.

Cool video, though. Really interesting.

[sweepstakes]

Sounds like "Cheree" to me.

[Rizimar]

Yeah, I think you're right, actually

[JANXDPDX]

patronizing almost...nice video,though

[MagnitudePerson]

Video is fucked up (not the vidoe itslef the upload on youtube WTF...) LAG?

[ianh45]

this was a fabulous series.

good to see this bit again.

[armyofmeisbliss]

How is Burroughs evil?

He killed his wife while halucinating, ok.

Evil? No.

Junkie? Guess so.

[beastatlay]

He was not hallucinating. Heroin does not make you hallucinate. He was drunk. Throwing tequila down his neck all that day..."it's time for our William Tell routine"

[armyofmeisbliss]

oh, okay.

[MagnitudePerson]

"Evil" and "Good" dsnt excist, excpet if u belive in that. its all about survivial, espsecially in this fucking Industrial madness whith caatastrophe(capitalism), money(satans toy?), etc.

[gombie]

Thank you for your mallgoth-philosophy.

Evil and good do exist, without them, there would be no culture. Culture does exist and what is good and what is not changes in different cultures.

Most cultures share the same things of what is right etc.. It's natural and... Therefore, if good and evil doesn't exist, we'd be authistic vegetables..

[stoleninfo]

why have your vatican hating lover put under jesuit mass then?

[NJD1967]

When was this shown on TV?-its AMAZING!!-just wish that Coil's albums were not so hard to locate or purchase at sky high prices.Totally original band-always have the feeling they did not crave success&preferred a small but understanding audience for their music.

[madcapoperator]

I see i angered a few people with my last comment. Well, guess what: I was being ironic (hence 'HEIL HITLER!'). Not very good irony at that...sorry.

Yeah coil are alright, I preffer the works of Genesis P personally over these though.

[supersheeppo]

What's the song at 3:34 ?

[berlinsneakerz]

It could be a live version of God please fuck with my mind for good....

[Oedipah]

It's Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil medley, the very finish of their Moscow concert back in 2001. This gig is actually Live Two cd from Live Box.

[EdwardBanda]

I don't really like the sarcastic interviewer :(

Coil are fucking great though

RIP Jhonn

[fcoldheart]

@EdwardBanda agree totally, there is a subtle vein of sarcasm throughout the video which is unjustified. Probably this guy fundamentally doesn't get what Coil are about.

[bogdanaa]

What they're saying is just silly - if they ever encountered real evil in the real world they'd just shit themselves. Nothing wrong with that, I would too - but this 'dark side' stuff is just a pose. They seem like rather nice chaps to me, if a bit unaturally fixated with human waste - hope they wash their hands afterwards.

[LunaSeaSane]

I just want to leave a few words here because there's a lot in COIL I admire.

I don't understand why exploring either the depths of one's subconscious or the absence of lumens or anything else for that matter would have to be necessarily linked to evil when in reality it is only people's perception of good that is dull.

Aren't good and evil primary perceptions of physics? Force, energy, mass, charge, positive, negative, etc...

Now why would these people be dubbed "evil"?

[suburbandrone]

no, good and evil are not related to physics at all. if anything they are perceptions of morality; which is more or less associated with things like religion. "morality" (along with good and evil) does not exist outside of our minds.

why are they called 'evil'? because labeling someone you don't know personally is lazy. that sort of laziness is what coil was against.

[LunaSeaSane]

I understand what are notions of morality but that's not what I asked:

"Aren't good and evil primary perceptions of physics? Force, energy, mass, charge, positive, negative, etc...".

Because societies develop. And so does their perception of what is around them.

[pulsating123]

yep, and for some reason thinking the way you do means you must be all for murder in the streets, sacrificing living people, and blah blah blah. WHen I was in high school me and a few people were experimenting a bit with magick, but mostly we were just taking acid, drinking capuccinos, and playing hacky sack, doing whatever other drugs we could get our hands on. Anyway, something came out in the paper one day, that in our town there were vampires suck old peoples blood. It was a REAL ARTICLE. :P

[suburbandrone]

"you must be all for murder in the streets, sacrificing living people"

no, good and evil may not exist but we can still choose to be good or evil with our lives. personally, I find murder and sacrificing humans or animals to be in poor taste. but that's just me. I see no benefit in doing "evil" other than to feed one's pathetically childish ego. otherwise, I'll have some acid with my cappuccino to please!

[brainwashedsickness]

John balance knew who eminem is! haha awesmomeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[drplbiftin]

"how about some sex?" - how about the rest of this documentary?

[GlowStormLion]

ok so that's not just mee that wondered what the hell happened lol

[LunaSeaSane]

SUICIDE happened. That track was "Cheree". Thus, "How about some sex?".

[natesot]

I find it funny that they say "how about some sex" and it gose black lol. Society is SOOO afaird of Homosexuality that that is theone aspecet that they didnt post on this interview. "oh no these guys are gay' I love how scared people are of gays, because we are after all after your children lol.

[drplbiftin]

the rest of the documentary can be found on Youtube, just search for 'Hello Culture - Badness'

[ZEFFMETAL]

@drplbiftin no shit people cant evolve

[closertogod80]

aliens on the beach...forever coil

[neonwind]

Thank god thats there is people with Synths as old as mine!

[NitrousMcBread]

Sleazy here looks big around the hips; roomy.

[fraterwolf]

They really hit it on the target when speaking about folks too scared to be evil buy little bit of evil instead.

[diablo22900]

Right they'd never abuse they're bodies. That's why John wasted his life on alcohol.

[hobartia]

I think that's the joke.

[Lunarwill]

There was a period of "healthy" time where they both tried to kick the habit.

[bjstratford]

I Love You Uncle SleaZ

[globalnywiesniak]

Czyli co? Ten koleś którego "zaatakowałem" to był polski Peter Christopherson? Zabawne, nie przejawiał żadnych cech interesującej osoby, więc stawiam na to, że to tylko aktor (to chyba ten projekt apple ;P )

Co do tego zdjęcia z okładki soisong, to mam jedno pytanie: Skoro wiedzieliście, że tak to wyglądało (no przynajmniej, jak Mendoza mi smoki pokazywał, bo reszta się działa poza "monitorem" ), to pewnie przy okazji chodziło, że Kaśka jest tym drugim smokiem.

[globalnywiesniak]

To czemu ona, jak u niej bylem, pokazywała mi takie obrazki, które sugerowały, że ona jest z nimi i takie które w sposób negatywny mogły(miały) wyzwolić to co mi już do głowy nałożyli?

[skimtheflesh]

"their bodies are sacred and they'd never abuse them".

...funny story about that one....errrrr

[wykydsyx]

is this the entire section on coil? dont jump to the wrong conclusion but i was kinda hooked when he said "sex" then it ended....

[nrejack]

The opening of this, with them synthesizing on the beach, is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Time Machines + several grams of psylocibin = initiation into other worlds.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

When's this from? They'd already heard of Marilyn Manson...enormous fans no doubt *ahem*

[iameddiehearmeroar]

UK TV 2001, prog called 'Hello Culture'. The show was themed around evil in culture, and featured pieces on Burroughs, de Sade, Byron, and both of them Mansons.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Mmm, a good few years before I'd got into industrial, let alone early industrial then. I'd have loved to watch it otherwise.

[gustard33]

Coild were making music when Marilyn Manson was still wearing nappies.

[intarwebzz]

i'm sure they were recording at his studio at the time of this filming.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

So he's not the philistine I thought he was. Assuming he knew they were in there, of course. He could have just turned up one day and said "Oh fuck, did I get high and invite some Englishmen in here again?".

Or something.

[vongeisterhand]

No, they weren't. They had recorded material for an album at Trent Reznor's studio a few years before. That album ("Backwards") never had an official release, though some of the material does turn up of sorts in "The Ape of Naples" and "The new Backwards".

There is a photo of Trent in a Coil-shirt somewhere on the net.

[phrenological]

Yeah, they were going to release an album on the Nothing imprint before it went kaput.

[Takje]

Damn, the sex part isn't here :( Just when Suicide starts in...

[ChandlerN]

lol "I shit every morning" :)

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I thought that imagery was a pretty neat move when you consider that in this day & age it's more shocking than seeing someone splattered with blood.

[totenhosen1234567]

Last night I dreamt that I was dragging large pillowcases full of wet dynamite from one room to another. When they started to heat up I became intensely concerned and took cover...

[ErikJoeNoise]

Christianity - the Denial of Responsability

[rankanddefiled]

R.I.P., Jhonn;

Woof, Sleazy.

[aranhapreta]

...i see so many reasons to keep the mouth shoot...my respect to the death of coil

[DPTG23]

try washing all that horse shit out of your cloth ears and have another listen.

[DiarrheaDan1]

Just because they've got British accents doesn't mean they're pretentious. They're clearly very friendly and charming, if eccentric.

And they were immensely successful, btw.

[Dezemberman]

I love this clip but can't find which album of theirs I can find this music on. I'd be really grateful if someone could point me toward which album or video may contain the intro, or especially the concert audio. Thanks!

[iameddiehearmeroar]

It's on 'Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil', and very fine it is. It's out of print, so try eBay...

[Dezemberman]

I very much appreciate it. I downloaded their discography once but I don't think it included that album. Don't you just wish you could have all those synthis!?!

[ChandlerN]

Yeah, for 'Constant Shallowness' and 'Time Machines' both.

[soulsonic1978]

I have 'Constant Shallowness', it's a great album... the sound of pure energy.

[11spasmodica11]

I am not big on the narration on this but the visual and other auditory aspects of this are awesome... especially that intro.

[leet512]

ya calling them crowley followers is a bit of a stretch i think, since they simply had an interest in him, but not really the relationship of a disciple.

the same goes for the accumulation of male energy as being their motto, since that was simply one phase of their long stretch... what was it, 23 years of magical output or so i think since 1984?

oh well not a big deal :p

[ThePrisoner6]

I think calling them "Crowley followers" really doesn't do them justice.

Anyway...I miss John.

[Priemgetal]

how about the sex???  Blanc after 5.35 min ...

[planetdada]

Great to see this, especially as when the camera pans across Jhonn's bookcase, the very last book you see (green spined, Crowley diaries) are now a part of my own collection ! And just to prove its totemic link, last night I dreamnt Sleazy moved in across the road - bizarre!

[evergrain]

Genius minds at work, no doubt about it. And me a Catholic! .. well, i may disagree with some of thier beliefs, but i certainly don't disagree with thier tireless pursuit of originality and creativity. A shame it was cut short. R.i.P Jhonn Balance.

[ccvane1]

Everyone should receive a Coil record in the mail.Beautiful.

[pulsating123]

I love coil. I started downoading there stuff when i was 14. Im not ashamed of it, though i did just ORDER sleazys new project which i hear is amazing. I wish i had all the toys hes got. My dreams inspire me to live up to them through musick.

[owlontheroof]

how 'bout some sex...?

well...?

[owlontheroof]

i had an orgasm when i discovered this.

THANK YOU.

[shizzterrorjizzm]

this is great coil are one of my fave bands i never got to see them live its good to see all the cool stuff like this and all the other stuff i have the ans dvd i will post sections on here in the future r.i.p. john balance

[grief23]

Ahh, great to see Jhonn and Sleazy (and Thighpaulsandra). I'd heard this interview before, but never seen the video. What is "Hello Culture"?

I can't say I was very impressed with the interviewer, but it's always good to see any new Coil stuff so thanks for uploading.

[Pighood]

Three truly fucked up human beings making gorgeous music.

[simulacreant]

brilliant! miss you coil & jhon...

[nashimiron]

Holy Shit!