Dear All:

Firstly, please note we are continuing with PayPal as the exclusive method of payment on the shop for the time being.

Secondly, please note that until further notice, David Tibet and Andria Degens are happy to sign all CDs and records by C93 and Pantaleimon respectively, if the purchaser wishes, with the exception of the new C93/Sebastian Horsley CDR. We will only sign to a named person. We will NOT sign items with just our signature alone. Please tell us who to dedicate the item to by sending an email to info at durtro.com after you have placed your order stating “PLEASE SIGN” in the subject field. If we do not receive a request for signing then the item will be shipped out unsigned as normal.

Current 93 with Sebastian Horsley: ‘Black Ship in the Underworld’

A new CDR, limited to 333 copies, has been released to celebrate the opening of a retrospective art exhibition, ‘Hookers, Dealers, Tailors’ at Spectrum Fine Art, 77 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 6RF, and the autobiography, ‘Dandy in the Underworld’ of one of Tibet’s oldest friends, Sebastian Horsley: www.myspace.com/sebastianhorsley

Entitled ‘Black Ship in the Underworld’, and C93 as flowers featuring Baby Dee, Andrew Liles and David Tibet on guitar and vocals and Sebastian Horsley on vocals, this 9:30 song is a Plutonick remix and collage and joyous murder of many elements of C93 by Andrew Liles. In a full colour sleeve with artwork by Sebastian and with a full coloured CDR disc.

PLEASE NOTE: This CDR is also available from the lovely Andrew Liles website at www.andrewliles.com. Very limited numbers available! Please note: I am NOT signing any copies of this CD. The CD costs £6 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.

Baby Dee & Pantaleimon playing Luminaire, London 26 October 2007

We are pleased to announce that Baby Dee and Pantaleimon will perform a show at the Luminaire in London.

Details can be found here.

Berlin Art Exhibition 14 September - 07 October 2007

RISE Berlin is an artist-run space and there’s an exhibition featuring artwork by David Tibet and Andria Degens.

RISE Berlin


Hertzbergstrasse 27


Neukölln


12055 Berlin

Private view: Friday, 14 September 2007, 18.00 - 22.00

More details here, including the other artists featured: www.myspace.com/riseberlin

Andria Degens (Pantaleimon) appears on new record by HoboTalk

Marc Pilley’s Hobotalk have released a new record called ‘Homesick for Nowhere’ through Glitterhouse Records. Andria has contributed vocals and mandola to the track ‘Between the Graveyard and Door’. For details on Hobotalk go here and here.

Michael Cashmore’s ‘The Snow Abides’ review

La Defuncion magazine, in Spanish: www.ladefuncion.com/coment/comentarios1000/1024MCashmore.html

Two new favourite books

Clare Wigfall, The Loudest Sound and Nothing (Faber)

Clare’s first book is a collection of short stories that are as dark, funny, illuminating, confusing as any others I have read, and which all shine as jewels and stars. I have found this book to be continually fascinating and moving, and I recommend it with extreme prejudice to everyone who reads this list. I was introduced to Clare and her work by my friend Tod Wodicka, and both Baby Dee and myself have been taking Clare’s evocative and haunting book everywhere with us. A remarkable author and a remarkable woman. www.myspace.com/clarewigfall

www.faber.co.uk/book_detail.html?bid=50176&clid=2

Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld (Sceptre UK and next year, Harper Perennial USA)

The squalid and redemptory autobiography of one of my oldest and closest friends. I was at school with Sebastian, and have known him for 31 years. His life has been very remarkable and almost equally terrifying: so if you are faint hearted, avoid this tale of heroin, alcohol and crack addiction, encounters with over a thousand prostitutes, being crucified in the Philippines as an art statement, painting sharks whilst in a cage, and many other adventures, all whilst creating some of the most beautiful paintings I have seen.

www.myspace.com/sebastianhorsley

Peace and Love to all,

David +++