{"title":"United Diaries","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"rat-tapes-one","title":"Rat Tapes One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An accumulation of discarded musical vermin 1983 - 2006.\" With Mr. Stapleton returning to publishing through his United Dairies imprint, he has collected various studio outtakes from over the years and compiled them into this exceptional body of NWW ephemera. Immediately, Nurse fans will recognize vastly mangled variations of \"Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair\" from She And Me Fall Together Into Free Death, \"Cold\" from Thunder Perfect Mind, and \"Rock 'N Roll Station\" from any number of those sessions. Stapleton has long recycled themes in a kaleidoscope of distortions, permutations, and hallucinations, and hearing such favorites all over again, brings a smile to us all. From Helen Scarsdale\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"United Diaries","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":56170467950923,"sku":"R4001-3012","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/nwwRATTAPES.jpg?v=1766490301"},{"product_id":"contrary-motion","title":"Contrary Motion","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collaboration between Steven Stapleton (Nurse with Wound) and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), exploring the darkest regions of the airwaves and live electronics. It's an ominous trip into radio waves, processed voices, electronics, squeaky guitars and a mysterious labyrinth of echoing sonic disturbances.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"United Diaries","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":56170476962123,"sku":"R0331-1877","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/NWWSCANNERCONTRARYMOTIONCDCOVERPROMOWEB.jpg?v=1766490465"},{"product_id":"1984-a-happening","title":"1984 : A Happening","description":"\u003cp\u003eA document of singular rarity. Issued by United Dairies in 2026 in a hand-made, heavy-gauge black vinyl edition limited to 300 copies, \u003cem\u003e1984 - A Happening\u003c\/em\u003e recovers the second ever public performance of Nurse With Wound, captured on tape in 1984 and held in Steven Stapleton's archive across the four decades since.The history is nearly mythological. Across the years 1984 to 1986, NWW operated briefly and reluctantly as a live band, performing on stage exactly eight times, of which five were public. Stapleton has called these events \"shambolic, chaotic and uneven affairs, sometimes as boring for the performers as the non-plussed audiences but at other times reaching an amazing intensity\". The first of them, an Amsterdam show on the 8th of December 1984 at the NL Centrum, has surfaced over the decades in fragmentary form; the second has remained, until now, almost entirely unheard. It belongs to a moment when Stapleton, working alongside collaborators including David Tibet, Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio, and a rotating cast of percussionists and string players, was carrying NWW briefly out of the studio and into a series of confrontations with audiences who often had no idea what they were watching.The recording itself is described, accurately, as raw but beautifully captured. The performance moves through the territory NWW had been mapping across Homotopy to Marie and Nature Unveiled: long passages of pre-recorded tape collage assembled by Stapleton and McKenzie, ridden over by live electronics, voice, percussion, and the surreal theatrical instinct that has run through every gesture the project has ever made. There is a sense of a collective groping its way through unstable material in real time, an ear turned simultaneously to dada and to musique concrète, to the British post-punk underground and to the krautrock heritage that has always shadowed Stapleton's work. The chaotic edges are intact. So is the intensity Stapleton has spoken of.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"United Diaries","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57444963123531,"sku":"R9117-1288","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/nurewithwound_1984.jpg?v=1779807507"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/united-diaries.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}