Coil – Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil – Wave Gotik Treffen 2001 [AUD #1]

Coil Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil Live at Wave Gotik Treffen 2001, Day 3 Agra Hall, Leipzig, Germany June 3, 2001 Feeling: Glowing “Make it fucking LOUDER, IT FUCKING LOUDER!“ AUD #1 Taper: Unknown Quality: 8-/10 Complete: Yes Length: 61 min Lowest Gen: M?, 192 kbps MP3 Comments: Audience noise after “Amethyst Deceivers” cuts right into “What Kind of Animal Are You?”. This was Pierce Wyss’ first show with Coil; Massimo Villani apparently hadn’t entered the picture just yet, according to Claus Laufenburg. He, along with John Contreras, a cellist, were the naked, blood-covered male performers that came out with flowers towards the end of the show. John Contreras remembers: “We were friends[.] I met Geoff and Sleazy through Rose McDowall, as I played in her band in the late 90’s when I lived in London…[Leipzig] was the first time [C]oil had nude people covered in blood on stage. It was Pierce and myself, and we each held giant bouquets of flowers when we walked out on stage towards the end of the show, when the strobe lights were going…I remember Geoff’s instructions for us when we came out on stage was to shake and jerk like electrified newborns, or something along those lines. At one point he took my bouquet and starting smashing it and throwing parts of it out into the audience…I’m sure he put the instructions in much more poetic, esoteric terms, knowing Geoff, but that was the general feeling. He and Sleazy are sorely missed!” He never performed live with Coil again, but he did see most of if not all their London shows and collaborated with John and Rose on the Rosa Mundi track “The Snow Man” (his cello was treated to sound more like a trumpet). Thighpaulsandra continued with an apparently impromptu synth song after the rest of the band left the stage, perhaps to finish the concert at over 60 minutes, as opposed to the usual 55 minutes. It resembles “Beige, “Lowest Common Abominator,” and “Freebase Chakra” off of Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil. LCA Concert Page, containing more info: John Balance – vocals, Alexis AirFX on “Amethyst Deceivers,” Yamaha SPX 1000 pitch-shift effect on “I Am the Green Child,” metal sheet percussion on “Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil” Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson – Ableton sequence, video projections, Clavia Nord Modular Synthesizer, backing vocals on “Blood from the Air” Thighpaulsandra – Fenix Synthesizer, Clavia Nord Modular Synthesizer Simon Norris (Ossian Brown) – Kurzweil Synthesizer Tom Edwards – marimba Pierce Wyss – nude performer on “Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil” John Contreras – nude performer on “Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil” Recordings: AUD #1: AUD #2: AUD #3: AUD #4: