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About Me

Though he's dabbled in neo-Weimar cabaret, abrasive electronics and even film scores, David E. Williams is best known for electro-symphonic pop and a lyrical humor so dark that it's not really funny. Some might call it gallows humor, but "gas chamber humor" is a bit more accurate for his love songs rife with murder, abuse and obscure references to eating. Williams has been described as "Barry Manilow's evil twin" (Jim Knipfel, NY Press), "Liberace with a brain tumor" (Michael Moynihan, Blood Axis) and "Andrew Lloyd Webber in the final stages of cerebral cancer" (Headpress, U.K.). In 2007, Old Europa Cafe Records released THE APPEAL OF DISCARDED ORTHODOXY, a double CD of 38 artists covering Williams' songs. Beyond his solo work, he has collaborated with a diverse spectrum of underground luminaries that includes Bleiburg (martial ambient), Deathpile (power electronics), Naevus (post punk folk noir), Nazi UFO Commander (Neuschwabender trance), Thomas Nola (decadent music hall) and, most famously, Rozz Williams, the former Christian Death lead singer for whom Williams arranged and produced the posthumous live CD ACCEPT THE GIFT OF SIN. PAYPAL purchase of all releases available at www.davidewilliams.com.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/2/2006
Band Website: davidewilliams.com
Band Members: David E. Williams with others (most significantly, Jerome Deppe on guitar)
Influences: As a child: Mel Brooks, Monty Python, World War II, the Roman Catholic Church, Planet of the Apes and piano lessons.........As a tortured teenager and beyond: Rush, Pink Floyd, Beatles, King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed (especially BERLIN), Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel, John Lydon (especially FLOWERS OF ROMANCE), Al Stewart, The Smiths, Bob Ezrin, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene Ionesco, T.S. Eliot, Russell Edson, W.D. Snodgrass, Edward Gorey, Diane Arbus, David Lynch, Leni Riefenstahl, Liliana Cavani, Martin Scorsese.........Post 1990: Swans, Nick Cave, Arvo Part, Henryk Gorecki, Scott Walker, Jimmy Webb, Lee Hazelwood, The Carpenters, Michael Murphey's "Wildfire", the concepts of noise and minimalism, Lucifer, Prometheus, Patton, the epiphany that is cultural pessimism and the delicate majesty of ducks and geese.
Sounds Like: Check out this rocket pioneer and collector of D.E.W. performance DVD's:http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=WernherVonBraun
Record Label: Old Europa Cafe
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

JUDAS KISS goes dredging up the past!

Ha! I knew that provocative headline would ensnare you. No... the online zine isn't revisiting Halloween 1996 (again?!) or the rumors surrounding the female voice in "Restraining Orde...
Posted by David E. Williams on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:32:00 PST

DAY OF BLOOD: New book on Michael Moynihan/ Blood Axis/ Storm/ Dominion, et al.

Max Ribaric of Occidental Congress has just written and published Day of Blood, a chronicle of the life and times of Mr. Michael Moynihan. As the book is written in Italian...
Posted by David E. Williams on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:30:00 PST

PHOTOS, SET LIST, GIG REPORT: Alexanders German Delicatessen, Fleetwood PA, May 31 2008

1. Bad Day Anyway 2. My God And My Dog 3. Here Comes the Cold Narrator 4. Strike Down Your Fellow Man ...
Posted by David E. Williams on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:14:00 PST

PHOTOS, SET LIST, GIG REPORT: Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, May 24, 2008

1. Ich Hatte' Einen Kameraden 2. Sandra Lindsey 3. In sickness and in sickness 4.&nb...
Posted by David E. Williams on Wed, 28 May 2008 04:34:00 PST

I love you.

And wherever you are, I wish I was there with you. In loving memory of Jennifer Bates, who died one year ago on May 17, 2007....
Posted by David E. Williams on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:55:00 PST

Upcoming D.E.W. concerts in May 2008

UPCOMING CONCERTS (or, why you should move to Pennsylvania, schmuck) Saturday, May 24, 2008 Highwire Art Gallery 2040 Frankford Avenue Fishtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA &...
Posted by David E. Williams on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:10:00 PST

great new HEATHEN HARVEST review of PSEUDO EROTICA AND BEYOND: 1986-1998

An exceedingly well-written and praiseworthy review that may have even given me a title for my eventual autobiography. The Crucial Fig Leaf of Irony... I like the sound of that. Thank you, Mr. D...
Posted by David E. Williams on Thu, 01 May 2008 10:02:00 PST

APRIL 27 ERIS TEMPLE SHOW: Set list and links to other blog reports

Set List: 1. Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden 2. Sandra Lindsey 3. Me and My Girl and the Cold Grey World 4. Hello Columbus 5. Sarah's Booted Boy 6. Hymn to the Genius of Idi Amin 7. Bad Day Anyway 8. ...
Posted by David E. Williams on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:59:00 PST

Gig in West Philadelphia on Sunday April 27 w/Arbeit, As All Die, Oneiric Imperium & others...

Posted by David E. Williams on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:28:00 PST

Audacity of Hope? Williams Does a Classical Cover!

DAVID E. WILLIAMS PERFORMS "Erlkonig" by Franz Schubert (with lyric by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe) on OLD EUROPA CAFE'S OEC100! A man of frequently-criticized vocal skills, David audaciously ...
Posted by David E. Williams on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:48:00 PST