Join Strange Attractor Press in celebrating the launch of Ruth Bayer’s latest book COIL: Camera, Light, Oblivion, documenting Coil’s first live performances as a band between 2000 and 2002.
Doors: 7:00pm
Free entry
With music, original prints and limited edition books for sale.
The last few remaining copies of Camera, Light, Oblivion (signed by Ruth Bayer) will be available to buy on the night, limited to one copy per person. Limited edition colour and BW prints of some of Bayer’s photographs will also be available to order.
Ruth’s images capture both the method, and the madness, of Coil’s now-legendary live performances, and provide a unique window into this critical, final phase of Coil’s existence.
“I first met John Balance in 1988 at the photo session for the Current 93 album Earth Covers Earth, which I shot on Hampstead Heath in London. He was known to everyone as Geff (his birth name), and he wore a fabulous Hawaiian shirt to the session. That was the first time I photographed him, and the book you are now holding contains the last photos I took of him – and the only photos I took of his partner Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson.”
- Ruth Bayer
[ID: image shows a black oval between two panels of blue-ish, kind of pearlescent light. Around the edges of this, on all four sides, are four words. Due North is the word COIL. Due East is OBLIVION. Due South is the word LIGHT. Due West is the word CAMERA.]