WANTED
Rumours of the death of Swans have been exaggerated.
I can vouch for this having experienced their ear-bruising concert at Bologna’s Locomotiv club.
The volume alone is loud enough to waken corpses and should lay to rest any notion that Michael Gira has reconvened the band as a cosy nostalgia act. These six guys may no longer be in the full flush of youth but they put any snot-nosed noise bands to shame.
Gira, at the tender age of 56 , has the look of someone rejuvenated, a fact already placed on record by the September release of the stunning new Swans album My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky.
He is clearly not kidding when he says that in performance he seeks to achieve a state of “simultaneous self negation and rebirth”. Continue reading
