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Stiv Bators † June 4, 1990

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Familiar faces who appear in the documentary: B-Movie: Lust and Sound in Berlin (2015)

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Einstürzende Neubauten

From their ‘Trinklied’ segment in Berlin Now, 1985.

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Me when the

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Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, Roxy Music 1973

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Sisters Of Mercy, Danceteria, NYC, ca. 1984.

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Jello Biafra watches Mark E. Smith as The Fall Tours America, 1981, IBeam, San Francisco.

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Blixa Bargeld attends the only concert of Joy Division in (West) Berlin — 4 months before Ian Curtis’ death — at the Kant Kino, 21st January 1980.

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Berlin Atonal 1982

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The Monochrome Set (1982) clockwise from top: Bid (guitar, vocals), Lester Square (guitar, vocals), Morris Windsor (drums), Andy Warren (bass, vocals) .

The Monochrome Set were one of these bands. I first heard them, probably on John Peel’s Radio 1 show. It was one of their early singles, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (in my toppermost ten), that caught the attention of my young ears. A strange sounding song that seemed rather mysterious to me, even the cover with its Eastern European men looking like whirling dervishes gave the record a mysterious feel. Sung by the rather exotic and enigmatic lead singer Bid (born Ganesh Seshadri), suddenly this was a band I was hooked on.

The Monochrome Set were formed at Hornsey Art School in London from the remnants of a previous band The B-Sides. Another member was a certain Stuart Goddard who later became both a dandy highwayman and a swashbuckling pop pirate. The first Monochrome Set line up was Bid, Lester Square on guitar, John D. Haney on drums and Charlie X on bass. Their first single, He’s Frank, was released on Rough Trade in 1979, followed by another single The Monochrome Set,

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B.B.

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Einsturzende Neubauten - Blixa Bargeld: The Problem Solution

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Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth

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