The SF shows at the Great American Music Hall will be C93's ONLY dates in the USA this year!!!

Current 93 were formed in 1983 by David Tibet, the late Jhonn Balance (of Coil) and Fritz Haäman of 23 Skidoo, though it soon became solely a vehicle for Tibet's personal obsessions and visions. Over the last 20 years they have become a hugely influential as well as highly unpredictable project, releasing genre-defining albums such as Nature Unveiled, Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, All The Pretty Little Horses, Sleep Has His House and Soft Black Stars, and selling almost half a million records and CDs in the process. Referred to by Devendra Banhart as "simply... the most elegant writer alive", Tibet's Current 93 is called by Will Oldham "the eye of a salutary storm... that yields fear from fear, awe from awe and love from love," and by Marc Almond "a collective that draws moths to a flame, not to be burnt but to be illuminated". Current 93 have collaborated with sister-group Nurse With Wound for almost 20 years, and were also often joined on vocals by Coil's Jhonn Balance (to whom their forthcoming 2CD retrospective on Sanctuary, Judas As Black Moth, is dedicated) over the same period. Their new album, BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY, is released in November 2005 and features guest vocals from Antony, Marc Almond, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Will Oldham, Shirley Collins and many others. David Tibet's Durtro label released the first album and single by Antony and the Johnsons in 2000 and they have played shows together frequently since then. Tibet has also published a large number of books on his Durtro Press, bringing back into print the complete published and unpublished works of notorious English decadent gay poet and suicidal drug addict Count Stenbock (1860-1895) as well as publishing many other writers, living and dead, including the award-winning horror writer Thomas Ligotti. Tibet is also a highly collected painter, represented by leading outsider art specialists the Henry Boxer Gallery.