Didn't think I'd ever see The Fields of the Nephilim mentioned on HN :) I first saw them live at the Glasgow Rooftops club when they released Dawn Razor back in

Didn't think I'd ever see The Fields of the Nephilim mentioned on HN :) I first saw them live at the Glasgow Rooftops club when they released Dawn Razor back in 1987. As you mention the music basically riffed off of the Spaghetti Western genre and took it to a darker place. That first Neph gig was a genuinely unsettling but amazing event...the lighting, the band's sartorial schtick with the long "dusters" coated in flour (I believe), the thumping beat and McCoy's growl. Add to that, the Rooftops was a bit of a shadowy seedy joint littered with shady customers and the gig not starting until after midnight. The first track on the Dawnrazor album is a cover/rework of Morricone's "The Harmonica Man" which sets the album up quite nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkqtb_AVjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkqtb_AVjQ As an aside from the Morricone thing, they were one of the best live bands I've seen in all my gig going history having been to see them aroun 10-12 times over the years.