about nurvuss.

you want to know more about this ol gal? well, shucks.

my name is bobby and i am a midwestern american boy of a certain vintage. i have been living in london, uk since 2001. i feel like i've lived a bunch of lifetimes since then.

i started making noise music as a teenager in my bedroom, but eventually i taught myself the bare minimum of note progression and during the mid-00s i wrote music and performed as part of the synthpop duo no kisses and then later solo under the name nurvuss, making noisier synthpunk. from 2007 to 2012 i hosted the sporadic post-punk club night the liberty snake alongside a revolving roster of guest DJs, hosting many of london's then-up-and-coming alternative musicians, frequently in coordination with fellow impresarios brave exhibitions.

my partner and i hosted a couple of last hurrahs as club jigoku from 2012-2013, but the writing was on the wall by this point, with iconic venues shutting to make way for unaffordable luxury housing.

my true passion has always been video games, and i've been writing/blabbing about them on-line in various guises since 2005. i'm a narrative junkie who's particularly passionate about RPGs and horror games, so you'll probably see me frequently lean into those directions.

some of my other interests include manga & anime (of course), podcasts, alternative comedy, detective fiction, underground theatre, mythology, urban legends, yōkai, city pop & kayōkyoku, industrial & noise, gunpla, cats, cooking and a bunch of other stuff probably.

borscht

borscht is our russian blue/ragdoll mix. we adopted him from my partner's tattooist when he was a kitten many years ago. he's incredible large, a dandy old man, and a good boy.