Set List

1. Anarcadia: All Horned Animals
2. Amethyst Deceivers (Version 2)
3. Slur
4. A Cold Cell
5. Broccoli (Version 1)
6. Paranoid Inlay
7. Sick Mirrors
8. A.Y.O.R.
9. Backwards

Feeling: Reflective

“Anarcadia tour,” “Backwards / The Remote Viewer” phase.

draZen filmed AMT #1, though it’s unclear if Massimo Villani and Pierce Wyss joined him at this show. His footage prominently features musician U.R.S., who seems to have enjoyed the performance.

Anarcadia: All Horned Animals

Amethyst Deceivers

John: “Mr. Crowley and Mr. Ausley welcome you to the spectral health spa.”

Towards the end of the song, he sings lyrics from “Something.” John would sing them in slight variations at all concerts up to and including 2002-04-27 Barbican.

I know why the birdcage sings
Oh, I know why the birdcage sings
It’s wrapped its song ’round everything
He’s wrapped his song ’round everything

I know why the birdcage sings
He’s wrapped its song ’round everything

Slur

John: “A song about sodomy. A song about sodomy in Marrakesh, in North Africa, the source of all knowledge, and I dedicate this to Marc Almond, who’s a good friend of mine, and I’ve haven’t seen him for a long, and I wish I did, and I miss him.”

A Cold Cell

John: “The miraculous sound, the miraculous image, the miraculous image of sound washed ashore. The miraculous image of sound washed ashore. This next song is dedicated to all the prisoners of the world. Prisoners in real prisons, prisoners in virtual prisons, and prisons of their own making.”

Broccoli

John: “This is about ancestor worship. It’s about remembering all your ancestors, the people who came before you in your bloodline on your parents’ side, your mother, and your father, and taking the time each day to just draw on the energy and strength that they’ve given you because that’s why you are here. That you are, you are the tip on the pinnacle of these antlers, these two sides of the family, so ‘Broccoli.’ And of course, antlers, they pull down all known energy from the universe. Everyone knows that, don’t they? For my mother and my father, who I don’t get on with, but for my mother and my father anyway.”

Wise words from the departing
The death of your mother and the death of your father
Is something you prepare for
For all their life
Is something you prepare for
For all your life
For all their lives

Wise words from the departing
Eat your greens, especially broccoli
Always wear sensible shoes
And remember to say “please” and “thank you”
Especially for the things you never had

Wise words from the departing
By cultivating the soil, we cultivate the sky
By working the soil, we cultivate the sky
And enter a vegetable kingdom of our own making
Enter the vegetable kingdom of our own heaven

Wise words from the departing
Eat your greens, especially broccoli
Always wear sensible shoes
And always say “please” and “thank you”
By cultivating the soil, we cultivate good manners
Is to say “please” and “thank you”
Especially for the things you never had
Especially for the things you never had

Especially for the things you never had
Eat your greens, especially broccoli
Eat your greens, eat your greens, especially broccoli

Listen to the voice of your people in our-
In our homes and our communities
For the words bring lightness, the oncoming dark
Listen to your people
Or borrow a book from the Queens of the Circulating Library

Death flows, death grows, death knows
Death throes, death goes, death knows
Death throes, death knows, death throes
Death throes, death knows, death flows like a river
Death throes, death knows, death goes
Death throes, death grows, death throws like a river
Death knows, death grows, death flows like a river
Death grows, death knows, death throws like a river
Death grows, death knows, death flows like a river

The backing audio track cuts out for a brief second just after John references the “Queens of the Circulating Library.”

John (after the song): “Thank you, thank you.”

Paranoid Inlay

Audience member: “Jesus wept.”
John (scoffing): “Who made him cry?”
Audience member: “We all made him cry.”
John: “I didn’t make Jesus cry.”
Audience member: “Your ancestors made him cry.”

Serenity is a problem when you’ve been this close to heaven
What you really wanted to see was the wonders of the underworld
I caught St. Peter’s disease as he rattled his keys

Now, serenity is a problem, serenity is a problem
Serenity is a problem, serenity is a problem

Such a paranoid inlay
Pain by numbers, just join the dots

Now, serenity is a problem, serenity is a problem
Serenity is a problem

Bloody British bulldozers
These vegetables are suicidal
These vegetables are suicidal

It seems concussion suits you
He said, “It seems concussion suits you”
He said, “It seems concussion suits you”
He said, “It seems concussion suits you”

Now, serenity is a problem when you’ve been this close to heaven
What you really wanted to see was the wonders of the underworld
I caught St. Peter’s disease as he rattled his keys
Now, serenity, serenity, serenity is a problem (problem…)

Dear Diary
Dear Diary, these are the things I have to give up
Crystalline ladders, shiny things
Mirrorballs
I used to believe in mirrorballs
I gotta be afr-
Do you have been ‘fraid of people I have not met yet (?)
I’m gonna destroy my television
I’ve gotta destroy my television before it destroys me

Serenity is a problem, these days, serenity is a problem
Serenity is a problem, serenity is a problem

Bloody British bulldozers
Turn all our vegetables suicidal
HOW DO YOU EXPECT IT TO BE AN UNAWARE EXCEPT a problem [?]
Serenity is a problem, serenity is a problem

Sick Mirrors

John: “This next song is, uh, made up on the spot. Improvised, so expect anything, heh.”

For the first few minutes of this performance, John beatboxes and whistles into the microphone. This is the second shortest performance of the song, clocking in at about 10 minutes; all future versions reach closer to 13-14 minutes. The lyrics drastically differ from the previous version, though a few lines from the previous version would show up in future performances:

The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick [repeated]
Oh, the sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick mirrors

Mirrors, the sick, mirrors, the sick, mirrors, the sick
The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick (repeated)
Oh, the sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick mirrors
Mirrors of the sea

The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick [repeated]

The sea mirrors, the sick, sick mirrors me
Oh, the sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sea, the sea, sees me
And I am sick
The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick [repeated]
The sick mirrors, the sick makes it weak
The world knows it’s sick, makes the world

It makes it sick
The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick
Ah, the sick mirrors, the sick what I see
The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, well, I see
The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sea mirrors me
Me

Sick mirrors, the sick mirrors, the sick
The sick mirrors, the sick mirrors the sea
The sick mirrors the sick, mirrors me
The sick, sick mirrors mirror me
Mirror me

A.Y.O.R.

John: “An infector calls. Spectre versus rector! Spectre versus rector.” This is likely a reference to The Fall song “Spectre vs. Rector,” off of 1979’s Dragnet album.

John (after the song): “So everything you do is at your own risk. Take responsibility, but you do already, I know.”

Backwards

John: “The responsible abuse of pleasure is all we have left, really.”
Audience member: “Yes, we do!”

It’s the world turned upside down [repeated]
Everything’s backwards, backwards, backwards…love, love, love…
Everything’s, world turned upside down
World turned upside down [repeated]
World turned upside-!

It’s backwards
Everything’s backwards, everything’s backwards
It’s the world turned upside down
Eee…
I fell in love! [repeated]
Oh, backwards!
Yeah, backwards!

John screams throughout the song. Towards the end, he drops the mic, then picks up the sleigh bells used during “Anarcadia: All Horned Animals.”

John Balance – vocals, sleigh bells on “Anarcadia: All Horned Animals”
Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson – Ableton sequence, video projections, Clavia Nord Modular Synthesizer
Simon Norris (Ossian Brown) – Clavia Nord Modular Lead Synthesizer, sleigh bells on “Anarcadia: All Horned Animals”
Cliff Stapleton – hurdy-gurdy
Mike York – Border bagpipes, bombarde on “Anarcadia: All Horned Animals,” balalaika on “Broccoli” and “Paranoid Inlay”

Andy Ray – live engineer

Please contact us if you have any ticket stubs from this event: info@live-coil-archive.com

Das Muffatwerk / Muffathalle
Zellstraße 4
81667 München
Germany

The following is a text interview conducted at this venue the same day (original found here):

Peter Kecskés: What are your plans nowadays ?

Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson: Play live. Our plans change all the time. We get bored very quickly, so we’re constantly changing what we do, and seeing new possibilities as a result of things that we learn on stage and things that we learn from different pieces of equipment and things that we learn from figuring out how to do something, like play live . We have a few dates that are scheduled for June and September, going to Russia – we did a few dates in Russia last year and we want to play there again.

John Balance: We played in Moscow.

P.C.: We would very much like to play in Hungary (we were there during Christmas time last year), Czechoslovakia as well. A show of this size is very expensive to bring to a country, so in places like Budapest, Prague or Krakow it would be better to do a different show that could be more mobile and would not be so expensive, because we do not want to be seen to be too expensive for people. We want to see people under all sort of circumstances.

P.K.: It’s interesting that you had so many concerts lately and so many plans, because you said earlier on ,in the eighties that that you don’t like to play live. How did that change?

J.B.: That was the eighties. We were doing different things then. We were doing too many drugs and we were too…

P.C.: …isolated.

J.B.: …isolated, yes. We didn’t do many albums then; we did “Horse Rotorvator” and “Love’s Secret Domain” and then “Stolen and contaminated songs”. Since then we’ve focused our intentions, now all of us are doing Coil not for a living, but this is our life now.

P.C.: The main thing is that technology is changed, which is allowed us to do things that have in our minds, our imagination to bring them to the public. Because even five years ago to make videos like this (shown in the concert) and to make the sounds would have been too expensive. We would have to use professional studios and stuff like that. Now everything can be done on a laptop and it brings a lot more possibilities into them.

P.K.: Are you doing the videos and the visuals?

P.C.: Everything.

P.K.: I would like to ask, how do you relate to Genesis P.Orridge nowadays?

P.C.: We’re not out of communication, we have communication with him and we’re working together on some TG (Throbbing Gristle) re-releases, but people who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

J.C.: What do you mean by that?

P.C.: Which means that it does not interest me to go back into the same situation that we were in twenty years ago. Time has changed, we’ve changed, and I think he’s changed as well…

J.B.: …somewhat.

P.C.: We’re working on TG things, maybe we’ll work on other things, but…

J.B.: These are archive releases. I speak as a fan of TG . Throbbing Gristle were so influential and it’s only now that people are realizing. It’s a good time for Genesis, Peter, Chris and Cosey to be much much more widely known. They’ve influenced so many bands and it’s about time not payback, ’cause the money is not it , but recognition should be made very strong.

P.C.: But in terms of collaborating on new music there are quite a lot of musicians that I already have that we want to work with right now and Genesis is not particularly one of those at the moment.

P.K.: One more question about him: what do you think about his sex changes, is this a sort of gay thing or it’s just another artistic tactic?

J.B.: The best thing would be to ask him, but he always used to say that he was a lesbian.

P.K.: And you don’t want to comment on that.

J.B.: No, no, that’s a good thing. He used to describe his sexuality that he was a lesbian. In COUM Transmission and in Throbbing Gristle he used to dress not in woman’s clothing, but he used to dress cross-dressing. This is a traditional shaman’s role to do this. I spent all my college years wearing dresses. This is just a thing that – I think – everyone should do. Virgin Prunes, another group of mine, friends of mine did the same. It’s a shamanistic thing that people should do. Simon and I talked about: why do women have all the wonderful clothes made with the colors and everything, and when we’ve tried to buy them and even at the shops they say we can’t have that, that’s a women’s thing. I asked would it fit, they said yes, why do you want it, because it feels good and it makes my soul feel better. So everything like that, including Genesis’s new transformations, I think it’s very interesting. It is what he has always done. And again the technology, surgery and everything opens so many possibilities, and he always liked to explore new possibilities, so do we.

P.K.: How does magic relate to your music, live performances, recordings?

J.B.: It’s integral, it’s completely part of it. Magic, music and mayhem. This is the beginning of anarcadia. This is a new concept, place or era for us, which also includes “Moon Music”, so we play “Moon Music” in this place, in this new creation, anarcadia, which is like an anarchic heavenly place we’ve created, and this is magic. We’ve all been involved in magic in some sort. Personally I’ve been involved since I was nine years old.

Simon Norris: It is our belief that it breathes into everything, into every single element of our life. Obviously it is very important. It’s not something that you necessarily need to inject into what you do musically, it’s there.

J.B.: It’s like if you take vitamins from the age of eight, then they build up your bones and make you stronger. I’ve had magic in my bones ever since I was tiny, small. My parents recognized it, and at school they tried to stop it, which only made it stronger.

P.K.: Do you think that your music is a very special magical creation? Is it different, than traditional forms of magic?

P.C.: It’s different than traditional forms of music.

S.N.: It’s unique in a sense that we’ve created it.

J.B.: It’s a new synthetic conjunction, a joining up of everything we know between us. So, yes it is obviously new magical music.

P.C.: Most people think of magic as something that’s outside their lives or separate from their normal life, separate from the music industry, separate from independent music makers like us, and that’s a false idea. Everything is joined, everything is one continuous existence.

J.B.: Churning, swirling chaos. None of us are fixed in one position. The person who can control magic is able to understand this, and is able to slip like a fluid between each state. This is why our music changes, this is why we recreate, regenerate all the time. This is our magic. We’re shape-changers and sound-changers.

S.N.: We’re always looking for new paths.

P.K.: I noticed this, because I was in Leipzig, last year at your concert and it was completely different than what I heard tonight. It’s amazing.

J.B.: It’s like a sound photograph. Yesterday it would have been different again. This is again the fluidity and the changing. I believe that people can shape change, if they have contact with magic they can become whatever. Some people we see as absolute shape-changer, it’s one of our categories. We are all animals, this also comes up with what we do.

P.K.: What do you think of your independence inside the music industry?

P.C.: We try to maintain independence, and it’s for that reason that I’m actually not doing so much work for other people. All the work we do now is for Coil and for Coil-related projects. The only way that you can be strong is by being completely honest, and the only way you can be honest is by working totally for yourself. Personally, I think that’s permanent and complete.

J.B.: What’s live?

P.C.: Live is when we try and manifest our experience and make it visible for other people.

J.B.: I feel when we play live we’re offering back what we’ve learnt and what we’ve been given by the people, giving it back again.

P.C.: We don’t moderate what we do live in order to please people or to achieve a particular result, we do it for ourselves. The artistic creation is motivated purely by our own instinct and desire.

J.B.: We’ve met new friends, and suddenly I feel real strong, not just doing what I do, alone in a room for the people and doing it with a total awareness with this circle of friends and the strength and the magic that they create for me.

P.C.: Working together in a room that’s covered with stones and earth and has a fire in a middle of it, and you get twenty guys naked sweating in order to produce a particular psychic result is a properly viable group activity. Playing live for me is a group activity, but it’s not a compromise.

J.B.: No, I never said it was, but we’re trying to trigger a psychic revolution or something inside people. This is what we do. This is all I can do. This is my mission.

P.K.: Thank you for the interview.

J.B.+P.C.: You’re welcome.

Archival link to Coil interview here.

Angakok Thoth attended this gig. When asked about the AMT recording, he said: “yes, i think that i seen myself and my friend few moments. (we were in the middle of the front row, right below jhonn 🙂 and i am afraid that only 10% could be captured by recording the sound. perhaps 20% with recording the video too… experiencing it there was something else. I enjoy only very few of the recordings of shows i haven’t been to. I love the ones i’ve been to as it gives me flashbacks but it was really incredibly intense. right after muffatshalle we got out of the hall and spent 20-30 minutes just staring into a river completely speechless, before we got back to normal state mind and was able to come back and buy some cd’s and have them signed…I was around 20 back then and still a student. It was not so easy. I was born in Slovakia, which is not a very rich country. My pocket money was an equivalent of 10eur per month. Just the train ticket to Munchen was 100eur. Coil ticket 20eur. And coil was not as famous as they are today. Most of my friends (and my parents too) thought that I am crazy to travel 15 hours by train to see a concert and then 15 hours back home and spend all saved money on it.”