Comments on: SPK – GERMANIK

By: GasmaskAvenger

GasmaskAvenger — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:27:26 +0000

so, someone was apparently pretending to be Neil & was the one who commited suicide in 84, then Not-Neil Hill’s girlfriend/wife died of anorexia

in other words, i’m totally confused now…

By: bofflunz

bofflunz — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:01:09 +0000

der track mit der größten antipathie, die ich je mit vorgetsellten tracks erzielt habe. außer slogun. aber egal, 2 referenztracks ausersuchten bügerschrecks. und das beste —– die werden immer funktionieren. ich liebe sie, nach wie vor.

By: SPKoldrecordings

SPKoldrecordings — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:53:18 +0000

He died with his girlfriend , and not as late as 1984, he can not be found on Leichenschrei or Information Overload Unit , he did not play at the Sydney Brickworks 1982, he died before that, ,also you will not see a photo of him or any video after 1980, you will just see Greame and the other guys,., ps he did record under another name (Solipsika) at M squard studio in sydney in 1980 the songs See Saw / Chambermusik

By: ninyae

ninyae — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:12:03 +0000

When you say “the surviving band member, you must mean a surviving member?”

By: SPKoldrecordings

SPKoldrecordings — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:48:30 +0000

Interview part 2, Charlie: How many copies did you make of your first single?
Operator: We did two EP’s in Australia – three tracks on each – and we made 500 copies of the first one and 500 of the second one, and then we had to do a re-release of 500., The second one has three tracks on the original – the third track was a throwaway which was fucked up after I left and re-mixed by the psycho guy, before he killed himself.

By: SPKoldrecordings

SPKoldrecordings — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:30:08 +0000

An old SPK interview with Greame in london feb 1981 , may explain how spk lost it’s way after Neil died and Danny and David left the band. ( Greame is Operator )

Charlie: How long have SPK been going?
Operator: First started in January 1979 I think, but the first time we played together was June l979 and that was with me, a psychiatric nurse, a guy called Nehil who was a mental patient – schizophrenic, and two punk guys we got to help us, who left soon after to become pop stars.

By: SPKoldrecordings

SPKoldrecordings — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:44:50 +0000

Interview part 3
Charlie: He killed himself?
Operator: Yes… and actually recently we had another guitarist who killed himself, so that’s why the group’s so unstable all the time.

Charlie: Why did they kill themselves?
Operator: Don’t know. They didn’t tell me. They didn’t leave me anything in their wills either, which is annoying.

By: mysterymusicdude

mysterymusicdude — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:51:39 +0000

That interview is so funny, Graeme (operator) is so full of shit, everyone knows David and Neil wrote the early songs. This narcisistic attitude of his really helps to explain the gulf between the great early SPK and the embarrasingly crap “Metal Dance” shite.

Long live old SPK.

By: mysterymusicdude

mysterymusicdude — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:04:40 +0000

Cant believe he said Neil was a patient, how arrogant, Neil WAS the psych nurse, Graeme was just an orderly at the hospital. Well at least he admitted here that Neil died before 1981, this must have been before he changed his death to 1984.

What a fuckwit

By: mysterymusicdude

mysterymusicdude — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:24:49 +0000

no one has an excuse to be “confused” anymore.