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The latest Wire has an interview with Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel where he says he always felt that 'God' had intended for him to do what he's doing. I also seem to recall another suggestion of this elsewhere (maybe??).

It's not specific if he's just referring to yr run-of-the-mill higher-level doo-dah in the more agnostic tradition, but I'd be pretty suprised to dscover that he was a devout Christian. Just doesn't fit, no?? I woulda taken him for more of a free-thinker...

Regardless, as I'm struggling to think of any right now, but who are some other examples of underground-type musicians/noisemakers who are known for their perhaps-surpising faiths???

MB going Jehovah springs to mind....

(And is CK a Christian or what??? Not that it matters. Still dig his shit.)

― davidcorp ltd (davidcorp), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I'd be pretty suprised to dscover that he was a devout Christian. Just doesn't fit, no?? I woulda taken him for more of a free-thinker...

duuuuuuuuuuuude - thats the awesome THING about free-thinking! you can be whatever you want! im serious!

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I figured I was in for it......

― davidcorp ltd (davidcorp), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I think he met his wife at church.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Prince.

Low.

Robin Lane.

None of whom qualify as underground noisemakers.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 26 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Tons of cash-in christian psych bands in the sixties/seventies! many of which were kinda "out there."

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

didn't the dude from arcane device drop out of noise for a while because he was born again? or was that maurizio bianchi?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 26 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

MB going Jehovah springs to mind....

(And is CK a Christian or what??? Not that it matters. Still dig his shit.)

ok i'll bite. who are MB and CK?

― amon (eman), Monday, 26 September 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

ALL CHRISTIANS IN NOT BEING TOTAL RETARD FUNDAMENTALISTS SHOCKAH!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

don't you mean birchfield christ motel

― a, Monday, 26 September 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

CK is Campbell Kneale AKA Birchville Cat Motel. dunno 'bout MB..

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

MB = maurizio bianchi. one of the earlier purveyors of proto-power electronics atrocity-fixated post-TG noise. then he went christian at some point and didn't release anything until the 2000s...

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

he's a really nice family guy! he teaches at a catholic girls high school! though he's not catholic himself. what petesmith said, etc etc.

― etc, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I love the idea that he's some lucky kids' teacher. Woodshop though, not music. Building crazy sound contraptions.

OK, I might well be on shakey ground here, but I'm gonna try this anyhow....

Is that really freethinking? Or simply being allowed to think freely? I wouldn't really consider organised religion to be free-thinking. You can choose to follow someone else's ideas, or choose to have your own?? It's the having your own ideas that I'd consider 'freethinking'. Dunno if that's the conventional definition, but that's what I meant, anyhow. I get petesmith's point though....

― davidcorp ltd (davidcorp), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I saw him play in an old church in Chicago.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Yamataka Eye is in some weird water-worshipping cult isn't he? Or did The Wire just make that up?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

He used to play in christian bands in wellington with a mate of mine - Stephen McCarthy from top-notch NZ pop group Pine (who aren't at all Christian, at least not lyrically).

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

the interview that you cited has him saying that he feels he's doing what god intended him to do. it doesn't say anything about organized religion, or about following anyone else's ideas. he may have his own conception of god rooted in his own experience.

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

oh btw, in an interview i did with him a few years back he basically related environment as an influence on him - describing his music as 'antarctish' and being evocative of places in a visual context (like roy montgomery... i guess)

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

mr. kneale is really nice and put on a great live show when i saw him

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there's anything organised about his religion, david.

― etc, Thursday, 29 September 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

OK. I just wondered.

― davidcorp ltd (davidcorp), Thursday, 29 September 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

On one of his many sideprojects called 'Ming' he has a track called "I fought the lord (and the lord won)"
Who cares what religion he is when he makes such great music.
I have the OHM cdr with the OHM logo like the Who logo.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I dig this photo
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5346/angel5dv2.jpg

― W4LTER, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

Black Boned Angel were good when I saw them a month or so ago, but much of what he achieves solo as BCM sorta makes BBA redundant.

― S-, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 07:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, for sure. But I have a coupla BBA albums and I think they're great for what they are.

― W4LTER, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Anyone heard the new album on Conspiracy? Wondered if it was worth buying.

― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

i've heard it's great, but haven't heard it myself.

― rizzx, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

You're the only one I thought who would've heard it TBH. There's another one out on Important Records too I think.

― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

i have that, reviewed it for foxy digi as well. it's a good one but hardly great. i'm kind of good with BCM stuff since I got that triple album. i'm really wondering if i actually need more

that's why i didn't buy it and instead bought the graveyards lp on qbico, which is awesome

― rizzx, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

There's another one out on Important Records too I think

see rolling drone/psych thread

― am0n, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

or do you mean newer than that one?

― am0n, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh it was probably that one. I havent read that thread for a while

― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

r.i.p. ?

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=91875120&blogID=428903443

― eman, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

that new name is terrible imo

― eman, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:52 (seventeen years ago)

he said a while back BCM was no more

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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