I first encountered His Name Is Alive through watching the extraordinary work of the Brothers Quay. https://youtube/watch?v=pG_Npxq0kU8 I can understand why people might find HNIA a bit odd - even a little disconcerting - but Ive always found this stuff, particularly the earlier records, both beautiful and quite delightful. My heart has saved you Saved you from a beating... Devil breaks both your hands Takes your stuff and runs away... Lovely - not forgetting that great opening line, Maybe it was an artery... Having seen the Quay Brothers film for Are We Still Married? in the early 90s, I went looking for some records by HNIA and eventually managed to find a cassette of the album Home Is in Your Head. I subsequently spent hours lying in the dark listening to it on headphones until I became convinced that somebody was living in my wardrobe. What - looking back now with the benefit of hindsight - I like to think of as the good times. https://youtube/watch?v=vWyXW_bHBCY This was in the days before anyone had the internet - unless you were a scientist or something - so, desperate to find out more about the band, I actually wrote a letter to go on Ceefax (it might have been Oracle now I think about it) asking for any information. I got two replies - one from a bloke in, I think, the Isle of Man, which just said. Yeah, theyre good arent they? If you like them you should listen to Corpses as Bedmates, and another from someone offering to sell me HNIAs The Dirt Eaters EP. Obviously, I snapped his hand off but - to this day - Ive never heard anything by Corpses as Bedmates. Now that I have the internet, of course, I could always Google them but... Im not at all sure I want to.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:29:47 +0000
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