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2013
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October 2013 |
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Spotted in a supermarket... !!!
and no, they didn't send us any free ones - the meanies!
But we did get a packet courtesy of our friend, Lizzie
- thank you to her & to everyone else who sent us pressies!
from Nik and Mrs Fiend
PHOTOS
OF ALIEN SEX FIEND AT AMPHI FESTIVAL, KOLN, GERMANY
Saturday July 20th 2013
Photos, set list, Mrs Fiend writes...
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ALIEN SEX FIEND 20th July 2013
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Nik Fiend at Amphi Festival --- Photo credit : Frank Buttenbender |
Alien Sex Fiend at Amphi Festival : L to R Mrs
Fiend, Mrs Fiend, Mat Pod (behind Nik), Doc Milton
Photo credit : Daniela Vorndran www.black-cat-net.de
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Mrs Fiend writes: |
Mrs Fiend
Nik Fiend |
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Set List
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Photo credit : Frank Buttenbender
With thanks to Daniela Vorndran www.black-cat-net.de
and Frank Buttenbender for the photos
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Alien Sex Fiend Photos at Amphi by Daniela Vorndran
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Frank Buttenbender photos
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October 2013 |
NIK
FIEND'S "HERE CUM GERMS" ARTWORK IN JUDGE DREDD EXHIBITION (U.K.) |
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An exhibition of Judge Dredd (of 2000AD
comic fame) related artwork is being held at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
in Scunthorpe, North Lincs, U.K until December 7th 2013. Lawman of the future Judge Dredd has been patrolling the pages of the 'Galaxy's Greatest Comic' 2000AD since 1977. Policing the ultimate dystopia of Megacity One, Dredd and his colleagues arrest, sentence and dispense justice. Still working as the strong-arm of the law today, Judge Dredd has inspired generations of artists and writers, and has been the subject of two major movies. Half of the exhibition is original work from the comics (Judge Dredd Megazine & 2000AD) from artists such as Brian Bolland. The second section features award-winning painters, illustrators, sculptors, prop makers and film makers who were inspired by characters in the Dredd Universe, including Nik Fiend, whose original artwork for the "Here Cum Germs" album is part of the show. The "Here Cum Germs" artwork is positioned with some Ian Gibson, Leigh Gallagher and David Millgate commissions featuring Mean Machine Angel and Judge Death. There is also a covered plinth display featuring Jill The Ripper's spoof Alien Sex Fiend drawing which has Judge Death wearing a Nik Fiend T-shirt! Plus the "Here Cum Germs" 7 inch single cover showing Nik in his Judge Death T-shirt along with three adverts for ASF records from various 1987 issues of 2000AD . Other info at 20-21
Visual Arts Centre & at Exhibitions Exhibition updates will be posted on the
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NIK FIEND'S FREE ADMISSION Exhibition Dates : 12
October to 7 December 2013 |
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ALIEN SEX FIEND TO PLAY
AT A CELEBRATION OF ALTERNATIVE MUSIC, ART, LIFESTYLES AND CULTURE Venue : Boughton
House FIEND FAN SPECIAL DISCOUNT! Alien Sex Fiend will be headlining the
Gothic Stage Metal, Gothic, Industrial and Steampunk stages plus main stage with more headline acts still to be announced. Clubbing areas. Circus big top, with all day circus, side shows, burlesque and theatre. Plus art, workshops, shopping village, enchanted woodland and many other activities and attractions including a dedicated children's zone. |
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August 2013 |
30
YEARS AGO..... |
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Kin HELL.......... IT's 30 Years Since "Ignore The Machine"
woz released!!!!!!!!! Then we started playing new tune Ignore at gigs on the Batcave Tour in the UK, and did IT at our gig at Heaven (June 1983)... Unbeknown to us, Youth woz present... when the gig woz over and we were in the dressing room he came bursting in - along wiv Kris Needs - saying, I'll produce ya, the cross rhythms are great, ....and.. and!!!! I'm ready when u r maaaan! So after Youth (& Kris) ranted enthusiastically at us for a while - Mrs.Fiend managed to work out wot tune he woz raving about & it was Ignore The Machine.... it had been going down well at the gigs n all so we decided we woz gonna record that instead of Wish I Woz A Dog.... only problem was we forgot to tell Youth about changing our minds and it was a complete surprise to him when we got to the studio to record!! |
Ignore The Machine Advert from 1983 |
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Nik Fiend's sketch for cover |
Mrs F reminded him about the Heaven gig and it being his favourite
song that night so he was all fired up about it then.... We didn't have a choice of which studio to book, we were told by the record company that IT had to be at Pineapple Studios in Southall, but we were so over the moon to be doing our 1st single, that we just went along wiv IT... I always woz a big fan of Youth's, and the chance to work together woz a dream come true... he was asking wot sort of sound we were after, and I mentioned about Dub and Echo, and he was well up for that! During the playback of Ignore, i actually felt like i woz levitating!!! It sounded unbelievable, i woz lying on the floor of the studio... and felt like I woz floating... Anagram (the record company) hadn't agreed to pay Pineapple the extra money for the big 24 track master tape - a reel of 24 master tape in those days was about £90 (a lot back then!) - only the money for the mixdown tape had been agreed.. I always used to make sure I got all of the master tapes after a recording session & so I argued about it & even got me credit card out to hold onto the master but they wouldn't have it .... |
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were only allowed to leave with copies of the mixes on cassette... Eventually the mixdown tape went to the cutting room to create the vinyl masters but by the time the studio bill was settled Pineapple - in their infinite wisdom - had recorded over the top of the Ignore The Machine 24 track master!!!!! erasing a bit of history in the process. We were just setting out as a recording band, and we were just one of a string of bands making singles, so the studio didn't care about erasing a master... it was fairly common practice back then - such masters were "hired" & then re-used.... When Sanny X remixed Ignore for the 1985 Electrode Mix, he had to use 2 copies of the Ignore 12 inch to do his mix, cos there was no master available.... Sanny X managed to do an awesome job anyway! Youth i'm sure would still be remixing Ignore to this day, if there was a master to work from, he has often said it's his favourite tune - something well magical happened that day for sure. The bosses at Anagram/Cherry Red record company had wanted to edit Ignore saying It was toooo long, cos music was still punky back then and anyfing over 3 mins was considered too long... it was still pre-dance clubs and all that... but Youth was on our side (thank gawd!) & so it remained as we'd recorded it - full length - at 6 mins plus.. |
Original photo for cover by Linda Rowell (aka Lugosi) |
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Alien Sex Fiend band photo by Linda Rowell (aka
Lugosi) |
Mrs.Fiend and I stayed up playing the test pressing, and
remember the sun coming up at dawn as IT opened wiv "Sunarise come
every morning....."
The cover to Ignore was next... |
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| Ignore steamed up the Indie charts, gaining more momentum and popularity
as the weeks rolled on... Ending up at No.1... which is unbelievable... What was funny later was that as Ignore proved to be more and more popular, and getting a USA release into the bargain, and hitting all the top New York/LA clubs, Cherry Red/Anagram then wanted us to go back in the studio and make an Ignore The Machine No 2 as a follow up!! fuck me... A! Did You Know? Fiend Fact |
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July 2013 |
AMPHI
FESTIVAL SAMPLER 2103 CD |
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annual Amphi Festival in Cologne, Germany, features a line-up that reads
like a "who's who� of the international Gothic and Electro scene.
This year�s sampler puts a stronger focus on the electronic side of things
and features an impressive selection of the most important bands. The diversity
of other musical genres within the scene, from Gothic Rock, via Batcave
to Medieval, are also well represented. An ideal companion and souvenir
for this year�s spectacle, it is also an interesting overview of what today�s
scene has to offer� The Alien Sex Fiend track
is "Oops! Wrong Planet" (taken from
the Death Trip album). (Extract - with
thanks to Out Of Line)
Released by Out Of Line, Germany. Out now. |
Amphi Festival Sampler 2013
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April 2013 |
CHERRY
RED RELEASE NEW ALIEN SEX FIEND CD COMPILATION |
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GOOD AND EVIL (THE COLLECTION)" Release Date: 6th May 2013 via Cherry Red Records Cat No: PRESS3CD This release has been designed as a "starting point" or "introductory" compilation to the music of the iconic band, Alien Sex Fiend. Offered at a low retail price, this CD's 16 tracks cover ASF's music from their first single "Ignore The Machine", classics like "I Walk the Line" & "Now I�m Feeling Zombiefied" through to 1994's "Inferno". (Note: No 13th Moon Records tracks are included, this is a Cherry Red/Anagram based collection only)
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PRE-ORDER NOW Cherry Red say "PressPlay is a brand new Cherry Red label which offers the perfect introduction to the music of its most popular artists at a competitive price. From 70s prog to punk, vintage ska to rock�n�roll, 60s beat to 80s indie, PressPlay�s "The Collection� range will complement the existing Cherry Red labels by combining great value-for-money with the best music from a wide range of iconic cult bands /artists. Each compilation offers the ideal starting place for the general music fan." |
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April 2013 |
FOOTAGE
OF ALIEN SEX FIEND AT THE BATCAVE IN 1983 |
| Dangerous Minds web site has a feature by Rod Connolly entitled "Children
Of The Night" which includes 3 films about early 1980s goth clubs.
Extracts from the feature : Photo credit : Tony Mottram |
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April 2013 |
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February 2013 |
ALIEN
SEX FIEND TO PLAY AMPHI FESTIVAL, KOLN, GERMANY |
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View of Tanzbrunnen, the festival site (without all the people!).
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ALIEN SEX FIEND Saturday 20th July 2013 Venue : Amphi
Festival, Tanzbrunnen Lots more helpful info including travel info for airports, rail & car. More info
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February 2013 |
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Above photos : Per-Ake Warn |
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Extracts from Frequency
Review Thirty years ago, thirty years ago to the very day, the original power couple of electro-goth, Nik Fiend and his wife, erm, Mrs Fiend, unveiled their psychedelic horror show for the first, and for what they admit they believed would also be the last, time. And somehow they�re still here, thirty years on. And it�s time for a party. The years drop away like the limbs of a zombie who�s just had Bruce Campbell show up unannounced with a chainsaw... within the first couple of songs it�s like a particularly weird episode of Dr Who, where we�ve all been sent back in time and it�s the golden age of Fiendishness again... A swirling morass of psychobilly guitars, electro beats, horror visuals and punk attitude. And it�s only when you hear them all back to back again that you remember just how many great songs Alien Sex Fiend have. �Smells Like��, �Dead And Buried,� �Now I�m Feeling Zombiefied�� and it seems like they play them ALL in an insane three-hour marathon.... and it�s PRETTY FUCKING SWEET. By the end, when there are thank-you speeches and the offer of cake (yeah, cake! Remember, kids, it�s a made-up drug�), Nik�s a king celebrating his jubilee bedecked in razor wire and drowning in stage blood, and it�s all just about as awesome as you could possibly want it to be. I know you never went away, but welcome back anyway, Nik. And the Mrs. |
Nik Fiend, Mrs Fiend (background), Doc Milton (silhouette)
Nik Fiend & the famous "IT" book |
Nik and Mrs Fiend write about the 30th Anniversary show...
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SET LIST
Nik Fiend's actual set list, which he decorated post-show We tried to include something from every album - |
Mrs Fiend writes :
I think we've all only just got over quite what a monumental night the 1st December 2012 was! The original plan - although admittedly it was a bit vague (!) - was that we'd play 2 sets of around 90 minutes each, with an intermission (30 mins or so?) about half way through.... BUT on the night there was news that there was some sort of breakdown on the Underground / Tube trains.... bugger! Everyone was concerned that if we kicked off our first set at the planned time a lot of people were going to miss a lot of IT... SO it was decided to delay proceedings & instead of us getting a "lie down" during the 30 minutes intermission we were gonna hafta keep rocking for a full 3 hours.... could we do it?? OF COURSE! It's The Fiends you're talking about here!! We ain't wimps! We can pass out afterwards instead!... Eventually we got the word that the trains were back in action - wahey! - & off we went stage-wards....
Mat "Pod", Nik Fiend, & Doc Milton
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The 3 foot high 30th Anniversary Cake As presented to Alien Sex Fiend in Whitby By our reckoning our anniversary cake weighed |
Nik Fiend writes :
We can only feel humbled by all the support Alien Sex Fiend has had over all these years! Fiend fans came from far & wide for this final gig of 2012 A.D. & our 30th Anniversary Show, they had travelled from South Africa, the U.S.A., Germany, France, Holland, Ireland.... & that's just the ones that we heard of, or managed to say hi to post show. And wot a nite IT woz! A right ol' knees-up. FINALLY we got to play freely without hitting a curfew & runnin' outta time... we ended up playing for 3 hours 20 minutes, which for us flew past as quick as anyfing... Mrs Fiend even managed to get her geetar strapped on & fuzz us out of existence wiv "My Brain Is In The Cupboard" from 1987 followed by the very first ASF tune "Boneshaker Baby" from 1982 (!) which turned the Dome into a full-on mosh pit - pulsating psychobilly reverberations a go-go... The gig elevated us to new heights, beyond anyfing I could have thought... or expected... - a huge THANK YOU goes to our crew "The Space Cadets" (both old & new) who all came together from across the UK & Europe to help put on such an amazing & memorable gig . It was fantastic to meet up / work with all sorts of people that we've known since our early days... some were at that very first Batcave gig! During the after show party we got to do a bit of a meet n greet - thanks to everyone who brought us various presents, cheers (hic!) to Alec & Tina for the back-stage champagne, to Debbie, Phil, Porl & Gail, to Tez for "being there", & to the audience who joined in the night's celebrations.
Cos she is "off on one" & looking
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Extracts from Ave Noctem Review "Gig of the year" 30 years of The Fiend, wow doesn�t time fly, like a bat! I have loved this band for a very long time myself and had been looking forward to this somewhat rare performance from the Fiend, one that was going to be a celebration and one that was going to be host to many of their great songs from the past as well as no doubt a smattering of newer ones. The stage looked absolutely fantastic, dressed to the hilt with the accoutrements of the Fiend�s stage show. It was littered with webs and bones and bins and dolls and all manner of ghastly things that were no doubt going to be put to use later. I have fond memories of being almost brained by a plastic bone launched off the stage at the Whitby Dracfest back in (apparently) 1997. The sound it has to be said was fantastic, the clarity of it all brilliant. Things were bouncing us about like a spring loaded, booby trapped trampoline and it did not take much to get the crowd dancing away to the songs that we all knew and loved. Strobes and lights mesmerised us and massive bursts of pulsating energy blew out the speakers and to cap it all the singer decided to roll around the stage, not acting his age in the slightest. For every up there is a down but �Manic Depression� - yep some of us do get it every day - had me grinning like a loon. We had been told to expect some numbers that had not been played in many a moon and one I cannot even remember if I have ever heard live was �In And Out Of My Mind� wow, was really not expecting that and indeed it is still there, working its way around what little mind I have left. The depressive, repetitive beats backed up the ghostly pulsating atmosphere nicely. Nik took brief time out to thank us all for coming and as ever acted with a noticeable humble demeanour as chuffed as we were that they were still doing this after three decades. White noise and full on epilepsy inducing strobes took us to another dimension, no other word can sum it up better that �wow!�. �Bats In The Belfry, meet me at the altar, like a little lamb lead me to the slaughter.� Did anyone here not know the words to Attack? Doubtful by the sound of it and if the band had an anthem would it possibly be their Bela Lugosi? I think it is very likely and judging by the reaction it was a song we expected and the one that ASF probably could not have got away leaving out their set. We seriously did the bossanova! Gig of the year! Written by Pete Woods |
Mat "Pod" in background with a blood splattered
Doc Milton |
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Crazier still... |
Big thanks to Doc Milton (guitar) & Mat "Pod"
We are indebted to the "regular" space cadets - JB,
Paul, Fiendish blessings to you all... |
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