Nurse With Wound

Nurse With Wound or NWW is a British music band, formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak. NWW have released over twenty albums. Early recordings were heavily influ

Nurse With Wound or NWW is a British music band, formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak. NWW have released over twenty albums. Early recordings were heavily influenced by free jazz and are generally considered industrial music.

Stapleton is the only constant member, though others often collaborate. His fondness for dada, surrealism and absurdist humor are demonstrated in much of NWW's output, which, though it draws directly on nearly every musical genre imaginable (from cabaret music to nursery rhymes to John Cage to The Beach Boys to krautrock to pop music to ambient music and Captain Beefheart) retains a distinctive and recognizable aura. Musique concrete may be the most prominent touchstone, due to Stapleton's frequent – and often humorous – use of creative tape loops and editing.