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In the Nursery are an English
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and martial industrial band, characterized by their cinematic sound. The duo has provided
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s to a variety of TV programmes and films, and is known for its rescoring of silent films.


History

Twin brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone were brought up in a small village west of London. After completing secondary school, the twins relocated to
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where they went to separate college campuses. By 1981 they had joined with guitar player Anthony Bennett to form In the Nursery. Influenced by
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, the trio emerged alongside the UK's industrial music scene. In June 1983 the band released the six-track ''When Cherished Dreams Come True'' followed by the "Witness (To a Scream)" single, both on Paragon Records, and the ''Sonority'' EP on New European Recordings. In 1985 the band moved to the Sweatbox label, releasing the ''Temper'' EP. ''Temper'' displayed a heavily industrial influenced sound, replete with screamed and shouted lyrics, grinding metal sounds, and metal percussion. The full-length ''Twins'' was recorded at Bradford's Flexible Response Studio without Bennett, who left the band in 1985. Multi-lingual vocalist Dolores Marguerite C made her debut on the ''Trinity'' EP adding French narration to "Elegy'. The piece took as its subject torture that occurred during the
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which the band thought was most appropriately treated in French. Dolores and marching-styled percussionist Q — a college friend of Klive's — were added to the line-up on the subsequent ''Stormhorse'', the soundtrack to an imaginary film that provided the cinematic blueprint for all their future recordings. The quartet's final recording for Sweatbox, 1988's ''Köda'', completed the transition to a classical instrumental sound and utilised computer sequencing in the recording process for the first time. ''Köda'' was the band's first licensed work with
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in the US which lead to greater exposure and an increased fan base. Following the collapse of Sweatbox, the band moved to Third Mind Records to complete the album '' L'Esprit''. The album was recorded with engineer Steve Harris who had contributed to ''Köda'' and would feature on all the band's subsequent releases. ''Sense'' and ''Duality'' were followed by a logical progression to real soundtrack work on 1993's psychological drama ''An Ambush of Ghosts''. Their music has also featured in ''
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'', '' Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie'', and '' The Rainmaker''. In the mid 90s the band was commissioned, as part of the Optical Music Series, to provide new scores for the silent classics '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'', ''
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'', and '' Man with a Movie Camera''. '' Anatomy of a Poet'', a concept album about the creative psyche, featured author
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reciting romantic poetry against a lush backdrop of strings, and also included a cover version of Scott Walker's "Seventh Seal". A retrospective compilation (''Scatter'') of their work was the first release on their own ITN Corporation label. Further concept albums have included ''Deco'' (inspired by the
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movement) and the ambitious ''Lingua'', an exploration of language featuring vocal contributions from around the world. The Humberstones also record more dance-oriented material under the ''Les Jumeaux'' moniker, and as such were involved in pre-production work on Sabres of Paradise's classic techno anthem "Smokebelch". The 2011 release ''Blind Sound'' was a more consistently dark album from the Humberstone brothers and featured more real percussion than previous releases. In 2011, "White Robe" from ''An Ambush of Ghosts'' was used on a trailer for ''
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''. In 2011, head of Radio 1 Christopher Price stated the In the Nursery remix of '' Haunted Dancehall'' as the style of music that would be played on pop radio to prepare audiences before cutting to an announcement of tragic news such as the death of the Queen. However the Haunted Dancehall remix as well this style of music was never played on British radio stations when
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died on September 8, 2022. There was no obit music leading up to the announcement as it takes just seconds to announce. Instead normal broadcasting was suddenly interrupted by the message "We interrupt this program for an important announcement" and then a news reporter (very often BBC's Huw Edwards) announcing that the Queen had died. After the announcement most stations played popular sad and non-sad ballads and occasionally some played classical music.
However
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did play the Haunted Dancefloor remix when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash on August 31, 1997.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITbFN9p2OhI https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/operation-london-bridge-death-queen-42518/page-7 In 2014, members of In the Nursery and fellow Sheffield band
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joined former Cabaret Voltaire vocalist Stephen Mallinder in a performance under the name IBBERSON. The performance took place at the newly built John Pemberton Lecture Theatres in the School of Health and Related Research at the
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, which was constructed in the approximate location of the original Western Works studio which was a central hub for the bands in the early eighties. The name "IBBERSON" is a reference to a sign which used to hang outside the studio building.


Discography


Albums

*''When Cherished Dreams Come True'' (1983, mini-album) *''Sonority'' (1985, EP) *''Temper'' (1985, EP) *''
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'' (1986) *''Trinity'' (1987, EP) *'' Stormhorse'' (1987) *''Compulsion'' (1988, EP) *'' Prelude 1983–1985'' (1988) *'' Köda'' (1988) *''
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'' (1989) *'' L'esprit'' (1990) *''Sesudient'' (1990, EP) *''
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'' (1991) *''Duality'' (1992) *''An Ambush of Ghosts'' (1993, soundtrack) *'' Anatomy of a Poet'' (1994) *''Scatter'' (1995) *''Deco'' (1996) *''The Cabinet of Dr Caligari'' (1996, soundtrack) *''Asphalt'' (1997, soundtrack) *''Lingua'' (1998) *''Man with a Movie Camera'' (1999, soundtrack) *''Groundloop'' (2000) *''Exhibit'' (2000) *''Hindle Wakes'' (2001, soundtrack) *''Engel'' (2001) *''Praxis'' (2003) *''A Page of Madness'' (2004, soundtrack) *''Electric Edwardians'' (2005, soundtrack) *''Era'' (2007) *''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (2008, soundtrack) *''Aubade'' (2010, a collection of recordings from 1983 to 1985) *''Blind Sound'' (2011) *''The Calling'' (2013) *''The Fall of the House of Usher'' (2015, soundtrack) *''1961'' (2017) *''The Seashell and the Clergyman'' (2019, soundtrack) *''H U M B E R S T O N E'' (2022)


References


External links


In The Nursery
Official website

*In The Nurser
Bandcamp site
{{DEFAULTSORT:In The Nursery TVT Records artists Neoclassical dark wave musical groups English industrial music groups English electronic music groups British dark wave musical groups Musical groups from Sheffield Third Mind Records artists Wax Trax! Records artists Twin musical duos