The duo’s 1977 self-titled debut album – a wildly original concoction of malevolent ambience, pulsating electronics, distorted doo-wop and howling vocals – had been relatively well-received by the UK press, but the band were still ostensibly unknown and stood as a seething, sneering antithesis to conventional guitar-based punk.
Suicide went to Europe for the first time to support Elvis Costello and the Clash. One live show that teemed with such intensity took place in 1978. The recent single DTM shows that even in his final moments, Vega’s commitment to creating uncompromising throbs of industrially charged electronic noise remained potent, and recalls, too, the often brutal intensity of some of Suicide’s earlier work and live shows. He was right about not retiring, making music right up to his death IT, a posthumous album, has just been released. The levels of animosity, rage and violence that he faced while performing would have finished off lesser artists decades earlier. Vega, one half, with Martin Rev, of pioneering electronic proto-punk duo Suicide, may not have died on stage, but came close over the years. I’ll die right on stage,” Alan Vega, who passed away in his sleep a year ago this week, defiantly told me in 2015.
The two men believed to be the suicide attackers apparently were wearing dark gloves on their left hands, possibly to hide detonators.‘I ’ll never retire, it’s not in my blood.
They urged the public to reach out to police if they recognized him. About 40 minutes later, another rush-hour blast ripped through a subway car in central Brussels as it left the Maelbeek station, in the heart of the European Union's capital city.Īuthorities released a photo taken from closed-circuit TV footage of three men pushing luggage carts in the airport, saying two of them apparently were suicide bombers and that the third - dressed in a light-colored coat, black hat and glasses - was at large.
Islamic extremists struck Tuesday in the heart of Europe, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores of others in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway that again laid bare the continent's vulnerability to suicide squads.īloodied and dazed travelers staggered from the airport after two explosions - at least one blamed on a suicide attacker and another apparently on a suitcase bomb - tore through crowds checking in for morning flights.
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