Nash The Slash - "Cut-Throat" book

Nash The Slash - Cut-Throat: How to get started in the music business - and survive!"

“Nash The Slash was so unusual and so brilliant. I was fascinated by how he made music” – Gary Numan

A real life phantom of the opera, Nash The Slash 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 to conjure a complex blend of punk, prog, electronica, 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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