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The Second Coming.
London: Come Organisation, January 1981. LP record (WDC 881006). Limited to 1500 copies on red vinyl, with black ‘Cara’ labels. Black sleeve with xeroxed image glued to front cover, as issued, with one loose insert (a side 2 label from another pressing).
Compilation album with Nurse With Wound (featuring Jim Thirlwell), Come, Whitehouse, and The Sodality (“in fact ersatz Whitehouse inspired by the sound heard sitting at the back of a passenger aircraft on one of our regular trips to Amsterdam”).
Vinyl excellent in slightly edge-worn sleeve (short split to upper seam).
Together with:
i) an autograph letter signed from William Bennett (founder of the Come Organisation label), written in blue ink on Come Organisation printed stationery, to a British customer in the US, beginning “it is truly amazing you grew up 4 miles from Rampton - the one in England?”, and promising to keep a copy of Come’s “Rampton” LP aside should he obtain one;
ii) copies of Kata #10 and #12 (both dated 1982) by Bennett (more ‘zines than mail order catalogues, not unlike TG’s Industrial News, they include texts on Gilbert & George, the St. Albans Poisoner, and La Monte Young; an Angry Brigade chronology; extracts from an interview with Charles Manson; reproductions of gig flyers; photos of Whitehouse’s fourth ‘Live Aktion’ + the Neo-Naturists; and record and book reviews).
Inspired by the Sex Pistols' first single, Bennett came to London from Edinburgh in early 1978 at the age of 17 and found a gig as guitarist for Essential Logic. In September 1979, influenced by Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire but aiming for something more radical (“the most extreme music ever made”), he released “Come Sunday”, his first single (“I was fascinated by creating a sound that would bludgeon an entire audience into submission”).
