Home has been lucky enough to get access to each of the members of the current lineup of Nitzer Ebb, to ask them about reuniting, rehearsing and playing together, as well as their reissues with Mute and Pylon Records. In the final installment of the interview series, Pete caught up with Bon Harris, to discuss his time with NEP, but also to reminisce about supporting DM on the World Violation Tour, side projects with Marilyn Manson, and his "day job", composing music for film and TV.
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Home: It must be pretty exciting to be heading on tour with the full complement of Nitzer Ebb guys....
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The Smashing Pumpkins performed their Depeche Mode cover “Never Let Me Down Again” last night in Madison, WI. This was the first time the band have played it since 1995, so we'll see if it stays in the set list. Aside from some new songs and classics, they also covered "Friday, I'm In Love" from The Cure.
Setlist:
Solara
Zero
Today
Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode cover)
Knights of Malta
Tonight, Tonight
Dross
Friday I’m in Love (The Cure cover)
Disarm
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Travels
Cherub Rock
1979
Ava Adore
Heavy Metal Machine
Encore:
Silvery...
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For Part 3 of Home's exclusive interviews with the recently re-formed Nitzer Ebb, we check in with Simon Granger, the art director behind much of NEP's early creative brand presence, designing album covers, band merchandise, and the overall artistic output. In this interview, Simon speaks to Home's Pete about getting back with the boys in both an artistic and, for the first time, a live musical performance capacity.
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Home: Can you tell us how you first got involved with Nitzer Ebb?
Simon: We all grew up in the same town of Chelmsford, which is now a city. There were very few places...
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This week, HOME's Pete interviewed David Gooday, who was among the earliest members of Nitzer Ebb, and is part of the newly re-formed act. Gooday brings us up to speed on his most recent projects, as well as shedding some light on early NEP history.
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Home: As an original member could you tell us about your earliest recollections of the band?
DG: A wasp, A Jen-SX 1000 and a BOSS DR-55. Then an SH-101 [Roland]. A handful of drums, some lumps of metal and Douglas singing. Well, I say Douglas singing. When we first started out as Nitzer Ebb, we all sang – shouted, in my case – swapping...
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Photo: Hazel Hill McCarthy III
The electronic music fandom was sent into a tizzy recently with a slate of announcements on reformation, reissues and reunion tours from EBM/industrial/Balearic legends Nitzer Ebb, well-known as previous Mute labelmates, collaborators, and friends of Depeche Mode.
Home reached out to all of the boys in the band for q&a's about projects past, present, and future. In the first of the series, we caught up with NEP's workaholic frontman Douglas J. McCarthy.
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Douglas J McCarthy
Home: The recent Pylon release, “1982-2010: The Box Set”, seems...
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