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DEATH IN JUNE / NADA!

“All the photographs for these albums were taken in Brookwood Cemetary which is an old Victorian cemetary situated just outside of London. In fact, it used to have its very own railway station when it was known as the London Necropolis whose entrance was situated almost opposite to where we recorded all of this material near Waterloo Station. It’s a place I’ve frequented since the late 1960s when my parents used to take walks in it."

"Two of the bayonets belonged to Patrick Leagas and the dagger belonged to me. Just the look of them in the photographs is great but they do also have significance. They are both aesthetic and meaningful. The skull belonged to David Tibet and I believe it is Chinese in origin. But, I may be wrong about that as there seemed to be skulls popping up from everyone in those days so it could belong to someone else. Anyway, there are different ones in different photo sessions from that period."

"Patrick and Richard tended to work together at home and bring into the studio the basic backing tracks of some of the more electronically oriented songs and then we would work on the lyrics or I’d add guitar or another keyboard line etc. Tibet’s contribution was really providing me/DEATH IN JUNE with a lot of writings that I/we could use in anyway I pleased. With the exception of ‘She Said Destroy’ nothing he provided was complete. I or, once Pat with ‘The Torture Garden’, would take a title from here or a word or sentence from there. Whatever fitted was used. Tibet came down to Alaska Studios a few times to see how things were going and shouted or growled a bit here or played a thigh bone there but wasn’t involved in any of the production/mixing process. That was really Iain O’Higgins our sound engineer for many years, Pat and myself. All of my material, both acoustic and electronic, was written at home with things being added in the studio as they developed. It wasn’t until we started recording all of these things that we realised that we had something pretty unique on our hands albeit a lot of the writing process for me, at least, was littered with ‘peculiar’ events that were pointing in the right direction.” -Douglas Pearce