HELLO GOODBYE
Martin Rev and Suicide
A chance encounter in cold NY bohemia lit the fuse; 45 years later they said so long in London.
Deadly combination: Suicide’s Alan Vega (left) and Martin Rev on their “adventure in nowhere land”, New York, 1976.
Roberta Bayley/Getty, Simon Fernandez
HELLO EARLY 1970
I’d done an audition [with his group Reverend B] for London Records in New York. We didn’t get signed. It was around the corner from Museum [AKA the Project Of Living Artists on Broadway], where I’d played one gig with Reverend B. It was kind of winter out, so I thought, Maybe I’ll see if anybody’s at the Museum. Usually those kind of buildings close and you can’t get in, but I tried and sure enough, the elevator went up and I could hear random feedback noises growing more and more strong.