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.
