william_kent
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Wow, amazing lines of thought here.
I really like the stranglers as it goes, particularly peaches and golden brown. They were one of the first punk bands I got into, along with buzzcocks. I remember thinking, this is just good pop music with rude lyrics, brilliant.
JJ Burnel has that same look to him as someone like Kenny Noye. Winstonesque definitely. I know a funny story about Winstone and the guy who played Lovejoy, remind me to tell it you, think it will be up your street.
"The red cow" - I feel like I've heard it somewhere but I'm not sure where. Possibly in the Alan garner novel thursbitch. Hinduism is obviously very full of cows, but they tend to be white.
Kenneth Noye - The Full Story
One of my favourite youtube channels at the moment is Crimescene 2 Courtroom, which is dedicated to finding out the truth of the Essex Boys murders ( aka Rettendon Murders aka the Range Rover Murders ). The guy who runs the channel has an "energy" that comes through - I like his playacting when he reads out the police statements - he starts getting into the roles. His rendition of the Mad Mickey Bowman interview is a personal favourite of mine.
There are theories that Kenny Noye was in the back of the range rover on the night of the murders, maybe luring Tucker, Tate & Rolfe to the lane with the promise of buying a gun off Mad Mickey Bowman.
The "full story" has some entertaining quotes form people who went to school with Noye and none of them are complimentary: "He hit me for no reason!"
A bad seed.
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The Red Cow ritual seems to be an example of "karma swap" - the pure become unclean, the unclean become pure.
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Coincidentally I received an Amazon recommendation for the overpriced DVD of Red Shift, the adaptation of the Alan Garner story, a few minutes after reading your post.