{"id":219784,"date":"2026-07-23T22:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/?p=219784"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:00:13","slug":"the-electronic-sex-pistols-the-quietus-racconta-lanarchia-dei-primi-clock-dva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/blog\/the-electronic-sex-pistols-the-quietus-racconta-lanarchia-dei-primi-clock-dva\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;The electronic Sex Pistols&#8221;: The Quietus on the anarchy of early Clock DVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-219734\" src=\"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-390x390.jpg 390w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1D.jpg 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;The electronic Sex Pistols&#8221;: The Quietus on the anarchy of early Clock DVA<\/h1>\n<p>The Quietus has published a long feature dedicated to the wildest and least documented phase of Clock DVA&#8217;s history: the founding years, in late-Seventies Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smashed Glass, Smack &amp; Dog-Throwing: the Anarchy of early Clock DVA<\/strong> \u2014 the title alone sets the tone (ed. by <strong>Daniel Dylan Wray<\/strong>) \u2014 reconstructs, through the voices of those who were there, the incendiary reputation of the earliest line-up: gigs teetering on the edge of collapse, venue bans piling up one after another, a tension that could either ignite into something memorable or dissolve into chaos. To the point that, as drummer Roger Quail recalls, the band was known around town as &#8220;the electronic Sex Pistols&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A curious theory, the <strong>electronic Sex Pistols<\/strong> \u2014 and like every fortunate formula, it illuminates one half of the truth: the destructive energy, the friction with audiences, the refusal of any compromise. The other half \u2014 the research, the conceptual rigour, the vision that would run through five decades \u2014 is the story we know, and it is the one the <strong>Second Sight<\/strong> project documents today in all its forms: the Clock DVA double LP and <strong>Paolo Bertoni&#8217;s book Adi Newton: Second Sight<\/strong>, both available on the Rizosfera online shop.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on The Quietus:<a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/culture\/books\/clock-dva-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/thequietus.com\/culture\/books\/clock-dva-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second Sight LP: <a href=\"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/shop\/armeuv008\/\">https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/shop\/armeuv008\/<\/a><br \/>\nAdi Newton: Second Sight (book): <a href=\"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/shop\/nukfm026\/\">https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/shop\/nukfm026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-219786\" src=\"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-1024x750.png 1024w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-768x562.png 768w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-171x125.png 171w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-533x390.png 533w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-546x400.png 546w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-180x132.png 180w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-260x190.png 260w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53-125x92.png 125w, https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-alle-23.46.53.png 1942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;The electronic Sex Pistols&#8221;: The Quietus on the anarchy of early Clock DVA The Quietus has published a long feature dedicated to the wildest and least documented phase of Clock DVA&#8217;s history: the founding years, in late-Seventies Sheffield. Smashed Glass, Smack &amp; Dog-Throwing: the Anarchy of early Clock DVA \u2014 the title alone sets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":219734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[311,279,39],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219784"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219793,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219784\/revisions\/219793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}