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17/05/25
Up Date Nash the Slash ---- Book --- Cut-Throat: How to get started in the music business – and survive!
CUT-THROAT: How to get started in the
music business – and survive!
Meet Nash The Slash. A real life phantom of the
opera, he haunted Toronto’s Original 99 Cent Roxy
Theatre after debuting with a live soundtrack to Dali/
Buñuel’s visceral short film Un Chien Andalou. Swathed
in surgical bandages and his trademark tuxedo, Nash
The Slash was ahead of his time, creating tape loops
onstage which he accompanied with wild electric violin
phrases and fuzz-crushing mandolin in a complex blend
of punk, prog, classical and performance art.
Nash opened shows for The Who, Iggy Pop, The Tubes,
Devo and The Residents and sustained a successful
independent career for 40 years – all the while keeping
his real identity a closely-guarded secret.
How did he do that?
The clues are in Cut-Throat – a book he wrote in 1997
about surviving the music industry.
Recently discovered by the makers of new feature
length documentary Nash The Slash Rises Again! –and
published here for the first time – Nash peppers its
hard-won revelations with witty asides to create a
music manual like no other.
Boasting brand new interviews with Nash collaborators
Gary Numan, Bill Nelson, Steve Hillage and lifelong
photographer Paul Till, Cut-Throat also pulls back the
curtain on the new documentary in the company of
executive producer Colin Brunton.
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