New weird britain

PeteUM

It's all grist
local scenes used to be quite shit on the whole - a bunch of people in rock bands trying to “make it”. They would then gravitate to London.

Now that people can’t make it or move to London there is space to bed in and do weird stuff. Paul STN and I went to a great mini festival in Yeovil which was a showcase for West Country strangeness and there was a proper sense of community.

There seem to be similar things happening in the North West etc.

It is all hype and people will remember the big Wire stories about Cambridge (including our own Pete Um) and the West Country (with our own Hacker Farm and IX Tab). I don’t think that sort of exposure ends up making any difference in the long term, but that is good from my perspective. These people are going to keep doing weird stuff because they can’t do anything else.


Damn straight.
 

catalog

Well-known member
I got creepshots BTW, very enjoyable read. Loads of people in it I know about, he's basically doing a documentary. I like how he does the cut ups with brochure material. It's very assured writing actually, more so than I thought it would be. Letting it hang out in a good way. I'm gonna buy another next month
 

john eden

male pale and stale
apparently a rare simon morris novel here http://www.mediafire.com/download/755gzirm83we6ds/OB1_PRINT.pdf via https://markreeveother.blogspot.com/p/mr-text.html i've not read it yet, but i found this guy off amp sulphs twitter and ended up reading almost all of his zine/comp magazine thing, it's pretty good http://www.mediafire.com/file/e462g2wpffhk62i/Oddments.pdf especially the interview with the woman who set up the commune in ireland

Yeah the OKOK lot are really quite strange (mainly in a good way) and that from Simon is great too - I think it came out around the same time as that Bang Out of Order power electronics one.
 

catalog

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good short interview dug out by headpress:


"There are liars in Lancashire Care with black hearts and bloated bank accounts from corrupt deals made behind closed doors with local councils, care home scams and the pharmaceutical industry."

Thomas McGrath, interviewer, has an interesting comment: "What’s your personal understanding of so-called ‘mental illness’? Does it tend to unveil a higher reality, an alternative reality, what? One of the reasons this topic interests me is that a friend of mine was sectioned years ago, and he was very struck how all the other patients there experienced the same archetypal, religious reality, which is increasingly finding a degree of wider credibility through the ‘conspiracy’ movement"

Morris reply: "I’ve had four episodes of full-blown and out of control psychosis in my life to date: 1988, 1989, 1996 and 2010. Each time I entered a different plane to what we usually recognise as reality and I feel quite privileged to have experienced the veils pulled away so dramatically. Time seems to kaleidoscope and its appearance as linear is revealed to be illusion. Intelligent entities which I am fairly sure are non-human have shown themselves and communicated, as I have to them. Being labelled nuts gives both me and the normals a nice get-out clause, I don’t really care what people think. The average working Jill and Joe in 2012 have to medicate themselves into alcoholic stupor more and more often to cope with their lives resembling PKD novels. Yes, the wards in mental hospitals are rife with precog, telepathy, archetypes, echoes, wonder and horror, and there is a swift burn-out rate among those psych nurses who are over-susceptible to picking up the vibrations. I will say that the designers of the newer atypical anti-psychotic drugs deserve thanks despite the corruption of the business they work in: no-one can physically survive for long in the state I’m talking about and short-term use of atypicals can be invaluable for survival. With regard to conspiracy theory I am doubtful about the self-fulfilling sense of paranoia and doom which lies behind it. The future is not pre-written by hidden cabals, we all have a chance to write it. The CIA, the Queen and the Pope don’t necessarily have more information about what’s really happening. I’m reading David Morehouse’s book Psychic Warrior on US military remote viewing projects at the moment, to be quite honest I know many underground artists and musicians working without funding who have as much knowledge of the area and do better, not to mention the hive minds of the net. So, yes, consensus reality certainly has fallen apart increasingly over the last decade. These are very exciting times to live in."
 

catalog

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i've got 'black pool legacy' on now and it's really good tbh. surprisingly so. the fall comparison is probably apt, but it's also quite different
 

catalog

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definitely more weird than the fall, less groove. thats the thing with the fall innit, solid rhythm section at all times, no one really sez that about em, but it's true. same for all manc bands really. groove is in the blood cos of the docks i suppose.
 

luka

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I'm not going to listen to this music obviously I'm going to avoid it like the plague but that's a very good quote and is true in every way
 

catalog

Well-known member
yes simon morris is definitely real the zines are good, im gonna get that consumer guide i think when its out.
 

catalog

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i've just bought it as preorder. i keep meaning to type out some quotes from 'creepshots' but keep forgetting. it's really good, the cut up technique os some of the best i've seen. as good as genet.
 
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