Charlie Nash is Dead
Charlie Nash—intransigent anarchist, respected artist, and prolific maker of noise—is dead. In his 70-some years, the transient instigator forced a circus of creativity on Lansing, MI. Among his many disruptive contributions to culture, he was influential in the no wave scene (Arsenal), he was the publisher of Queer Magnolia (zine); he was a motor force of the noise scene; and he was central to the Snake Rodeo, Hum House, and basement414.
Charlie was outspoken in his opposition to war and gentrification. He rejected rules, telephones, and the Internet. He embraced ghosts, glitter, and genitals. His art, music, poetry, performances, and collaboration made us all even more strange.
Crippled Hippo - Don't Worry Be Hippo 29 October 1988
Alpha Jtango / Charlie Nash @ 517noisefest4 25 January 2008
Charlie Nash @ basement414 9 April 2008
Waterwheel • Windmill 21 December 2011
7k Ratz + Red Monkey Green | Live at The Robin Theatre 22 August 2019
"Art is a matter of life and death—most people don't really know this"
"In the time ov change we will become even more strange"
"Nostalgia is Death"