Fields Of The Nephilim: The Guardian

[lashtal]

An interview with Carl McCoy in The Guardian online today:

He struggles to name any influences on their formative sound, offers scant details about his upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness ("you didn't have Christmas and you didn't have birthdays … it was interesting") and declines to elaborate on the interest in the occult that has led him to make regular references to chaos magic in his songs and to perform gigs he calls Ceromonies (sic) on the anniversaries of Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley's deaths. "It's nothing to do with believing, like I believe you," he frowns, when I ask him if he actually believes in magic or is merely using it as interesting imagery. "It's knowing. I know. I've experienced things that are beyond reality. Many things." This sounds fascinating, but McCoy collects himself. "I don't want to go too far on this," he says hurriedly, "because I don't want to make a twat of myself."

-- Alexis Petridis, 'Goth For Life', The Guardian

[Falcon]

Good to see the Neph's getting some coverage in a national newspaper. Looking forward to seeing them play in London in October.

[darkflame]

Thanks for posting this Paul. Seems they will not be playing in Italy, maybe next time! Saw them six times back in the day, and they came at a time when I was just beginning to explore Crowley, Spare, Lovecraft and Chaos Magick etc., a formative influence on my teenage years!