Livros sobre música que vale a pena ler - Cromo #87: Bendle - "Permanent Transience"

autor: Bendle

título: Permanent Transience
editora: Not On Label - Sel Released - Edição de Autor
nº de páginas: 164
isbn: 9781976779855
data: 2020 (ou 2021)

A história da banda punk / post-punk The Door And The Window, contada em jeito de memórias, por um dos seus dois principais membros: Bendle.

Permanent Transience

London, 1979.

At the end of the Winter of Discontent, just prior to Thatcher coming to power, two Young men form a band and a record label. They are musically inept and have no idea how to run a business. But they have an urge to make a noise, so they record what becomes their first single. And then they contemplate their first rehearsal…

An insider’s story of post-punk band The Door And The Window and of a brief moment in musical history when anything was possible.

 

ISBN: 9781976779855

Made in the USA

Middletown, DE

30 January 2021

164 páginas

Not on label

Self released

Edição de autor

 

Preface

In writing my version of the story of The Door And The Window I have focused mainly upon the first phase of the band’s existence, because it reflects a unique point in the history of (un)popular music. For a brief couple of years after the commercialisation (and subsequent redundancy) of punk music it was possible to produce and market all sorts of weird music and noise. Nag and I had a keen interest in playing music and in running our own record company. Despite having no business sense and no musical competence we managed to make and sell records – to an underground audience that was small, but which was widely (internationally) scattered. I felt myself to be one of a tangible community of musicians supporting each other with equipment and information, and of a wider community of people putting out their own music on small labels. Rather than a sense of competition, or envy at other bands having bigger audiences or sales there was a spirit of one of the gang doing well. We were constantly bemused at our own success and that people kept offering us work and exposure.

I have written more briefly of later incarnations of the band, because our gigs got less frequent, and to put them fully into context would have meant a book several times longer. The importance of the later versions of TDATW for me is that we continued to demonstrate the Permanent Transience that we had initially claimed as our modus operandi.

I have tried to be as true as I can to my experience of the story of The Door and The Window, although this has been written many years after the events. I have used old diaries as sources of information, but realize that I didn’t bother to record many things that were familiar enough to be taken granted at the time. I have chosen to leave out details that I cannot date or corroborate and have aimed to avoid retrospective analysis in an attempt at recapturing some of the spirit of that time.

Thanks everyone mentioned in the story, and apologies to those missed out.

Please get in touch if you think I’ve got any parts of the story wrong!