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Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground

...a virtual Who's Who of people who've done the most in the past decade to drag music out of commercial confinement.

— New Musical Express

Tape Delay by Charles Neal is a unique collection of interviews and exclusive writing featuring over 60 photographs and illustrations. Contributors include: Marc Almond, Dave Ball, Nick Cave, Chris and Cosey, Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Fall, Diamanda Galas, Genesis P. Orridge, Michael Gira, The Hafler Trio, Matt Johnson, Laibach, Lydia Lunch, New Order, Psychic TV, Boyd Rice, Henry Rollins, Clint Ruin, Silverstar Amoeba, Sonic Youth, Stephen Stapleton, Stevo, Mark Stewart, Swans, Test Dept., David Tibet, and Touch.

Tape Delay is by far the most ambitious and comprehensive attempt so far to link together the large number of innovative noise-oriented bands to have emerged from the indie ghetto.

— Sounds Magazine

Tape Delay investigates those rare underground performers who've stuck their forefingers up the butt of commercial (in)sensibility to pursue their own visions. On that level alone it should be welcomed.

— New Musical Express

Overall, this truly superb book which anyone even half-interested in any of the artists covered should invest in.

— Impulse Magazine

Essential reading for the serious-minded listener to the "alternative" underground.

— Beat Scene

Non-fiction
ISBN: 0-9467190-2-0
256 Pages
Paperback
First Published in 1987 by SAF Publishing, Ltd., England
3rd Printing November 2001