Album artwork for England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition) by David Keenan

An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground - with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.

This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' personal archives. Together, these genre-defying bands and their circles represent the English underground in all its cultural, artistic, and sexual variety. Over four decades, the three intertwined groups have maintained a symbiotic, yet uneasy, relationship with the mainstream of popular culture, even as their music, beliefs, and practices have repelled them from it. Theirs was a clandestine scene whose work accents the many occulted peculiarities of Englishness that flow through generations of outsiders, channeling personalities as diverse as Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, Joe Orton, Shirley Collins, Björk, and Marc Almond.

The story of this Hidden Reverse has, necessarily, remained a secret. Until now. This new volume contains almost 100 pages of extra material culled from Furfur, a collection of interviews with musicians and artists whose careers intersected with the bands', initially published alongside Strange Attractor's first limited edition of the book.

David Keenan

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Strange Attractor
Album artwork for England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition) by David Keenan
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£31.00

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Released 13/06/2023Catalogue Number

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David Keenan

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Strange Attractor
Album artwork for England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition) by David Keenan
Paperback +

£31.00

exclusivesigned

 Includes exclusive postcard signed by David Keenan

Rough Trade Exclusive
Signed Copy
Released 13/06/2023Catalogue Number

9781913689452

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An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground - with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.

This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' personal archives. Together, these genre-defying bands and their circles represent the English underground in all its cultural, artistic, and sexual variety. Over four decades, the three intertwined groups have maintained a symbiotic, yet uneasy, relationship with the mainstream of popular culture, even as their music, beliefs, and practices have repelled them from it. Theirs was a clandestine scene whose work accents the many occulted peculiarities of Englishness that flow through generations of outsiders, channeling personalities as diverse as Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, Joe Orton, Shirley Collins, Björk, and Marc Almond.

The story of this Hidden Reverse has, necessarily, remained a secret. Until now. This new volume contains almost 100 pages of extra material culled from Furfur, a collection of interviews with musicians and artists whose careers intersected with the bands', initially published alongside Strange Attractor's first limited edition of the book.