War Against Sleep

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Versus Time

Duncan Fleming is currently recording a fifth War Against Sleep album titled 'Versus Time'. Recent live solo performances have been incorporating synth/guitar/loops instead of piano - catch them while you can.

Pleasure Complex

'Pleasure Complex' - the fourth War Against Sleep LP was released on Silent Age Records July 2008. It is available as a limited edition CD at live shows and as an MP3/Flac Download from Bleep.com.

Chamber Music

Various Artists - Chamber Music (James Joyce) Fire Records - 2008
36 track take on the 36 parts to the 1907 James Joyce poem. Includes contributions from War Against Sleep, Gravenhurst, Peter Buck (REM), Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Mike Watt, Jessica Bailiff, Willy Mason, Bardo Pond, Mary Lorson, Jeff Kelly. Double CD, Double Vinyl.
shall surely be remembered a hundred years hence - Culture
should be heralded as one of the great interpretative works - PLAYLOUDER

What is the War Against Sleep?

"The Casio-psychosis of a moral dyslexic squeezing out songs like glue to hold himself together. The act of picking cigarette ends off the floor because you like the taste of cheap lipstick. Love crafted from a night in with Teletext and Benylin. A suit, stained with the amphetamine sweat-beads of your worst porno nightmare. A stolen suit, a borrowed suit, a dead man's suit, a dead-skin mask. Dance with me, you syphilitic tramp. I love you. A silk cravat, a painted rope. Hysterical, literate, blackened by the sun. Pop svengalis pissing blood into bronze buckets. The very idea of a Masterpiece. Ancient orders, first religions, Old Gods. Tascam Porta-7. Sex for small change. Thrillingly lo-fi, absurdly ambitious. Man as blind abacus. Man as performer; touched by the hand of Thoth. Man versus the world; woman as insect. An enormous insect that you want to be eaten by. Eat me: keep me warm. Keep dancing. Did I tell you to stop dancing? Locked in the cellar: We have always been here. Bontempi nights: the moon is in control. Pulling to the sea pulling violently like a green disease from within ever-living divine but violated, blind more to come tonight. In the War Against Sleep winning is not even the issue. It's the cheating that counts. Now dance, damn you. Dance until you are on fire." Derek Ultraskull

“Sexy psychedelia” NME
“Gloriously ridiculous stuff” The Wire
“Classic songwriting” Record Collector
“He performs complete wonders” The Big Issue
“War Against Sleep are the audio version of the
programmes that used to scare me witless as a child” Rough Trade