Last Few Days - '83-'86 (Split Tour Tape With Laibach, "So The Last..." Tape, "Pure Spirit And Saliva" LP)

 

"To many the band Last Few Days is a complete mystery, simply some group who toured [and collaborated] with Laibach then promptly disappeared soon afterwards. This is not particularly surprising for a band that consciously left little mark during their existence, deliberately avoiding wide release of their material, and keeping a limit on live performances.

Most people attending their concerts had very little idea who they were, simply being enticed by the ambiguous posters and general mystery. The concerts themselves lasted all night (with a mixture of music and movies), often going to 7 in the morning. They made heavy use of megaphones, guitars played with broken bottles, unrelenting and brutal drums, delivering harsh and bewildering but occasionally rhythmic apocalyptic music.

The three main members of L.F.D. were Daniel Landin, Si Joyce, and Keir Wahid. They were regularly helped out by Fritz Haaman who also performed with Laibach during the joint tour, and occasionally by Sam Mills, both members of 23 Skidoo. L.F.D. returned as a pop outfit in 1990, with a core of Keir and Si: "We started listening to Radio One, and just got more into regular music after years of extremism. We had been playing to 300 people, and didn't feel like we'd achieved much. When we did this thing in Eastern Europe, we sometimes played to 3,000 people, and that felt more real."
--Edited From Melody Maker 1-27-90