The Lights Are On But No-One's Home, by A Bad Diana

The Lights Are On But No-One's Home

by A Bad Diana

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Limited edition pressing of 300 copies, in full colour sleeve re-creating the original CD artwork, with insert and comes in a poly-lined black inner sleeve. 25 copies available in this pre-release edition. Copies will be mailed out on December 11th, 6 weeks ahead of official release. Purchasers will receive full digital download on official release date 19/01/2024. Additional vinyl copies also available then too.

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1.	Behind The Curtain Of The Sun 03:40	buy track
2.	Cupboardie Re-Nude 05:58	buy track
3.	Asphalt Kiss 08:11	buy track
4.	Mirage Man 04:31	buy track
5.	Notes From The Underground To A Crazy Girl 06:07	buy track
6.	Mother 03:36	buy track
7.	Chant D'Amour / Da Mort 13:50	buy track

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A Bad Diana is a project from Diana Rogerson, someone I first became aware of aged 12 when I read about Nurse With Wound and their United Dairies label in Smash Hits magazine. I was confused, mystified and intrigued in equal measure, and a couple of years later as a result I bought my first Nurse With Wound album. This led to an interest in all things NWW related. I guess Diana could be described as the matriarch of the Nurse With Wound world but she also had her own very distinguished pre-history with Fistfuck, an early-80s extreme noise outfit.

She then made two mid 80s cult classic albums as Chrystal Belle Scrodd, both far out there rollercoaster rides of audio wildness, highly recommended to anyone with wide open ears. She then moved to rural Ireland and raised a family. There was the odd collaboration and then in 2007 A Bad Diana's "The Lights Are On But No-One's Home" was released on CD. I feel this is her meisterwerk and it has become something of a cult favourite over the years. Now for the first time, almost two decades later it is available on vinyl on Optimo Music Archiv.

Produced in association with Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter from Nurse With Wound and irr. app. (ext.)'s Matt Waldron this is some seriously beautiful and strange listening. Next level sound design means this is an incredible headphone record but it is also a deeply warm and engaging home listening gem. Beautiful, magical, ultra hypno, soulful reverberations with the deep emotion of Diana's voice tones and bio-vibrations.

A1 Behind The Curtain Of The Sun 3:41
A2 Cupboardie Re-Nude 5:58
A3 Asphalt Kiss 8:12

B1 Mirage Man 4:33
B2 Notes From The Underground To A Crazy Girl 6:09
B3 Mother 3:39
B4 Chant D'Amour/Da Mort 13.51

Produced by Diana Rogerson & Steven Stapleton
Performed by / Music by Diana Rogerson, Matt Waldron, Steven Stapleton
Lyrics By Diana Rogerson except A3, lyrics by Ash Ra Tempel

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released January 19, 2024

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