A FORK LIFT IN THE ROAD

Back again. Back in The Florrie. Back from the dead. Fifty five days previously, Toxteth Day Of The Dead was read its last rites by K2 Plant Hire Ltd and a rebranding, to Get Laid Day was proposed. Thirty two days later, with just twenty three days to go, a screeching, handbrake enhanced U-turn was […]

CAPSTONE

Five years is enough. It should be. Five years to process five days in August. That’s all this blog has ever been about. Finding a way through. Finding a way out. Finding a way back in. 26/8/17. That was a weird day. Reintegration with reality. Reinstallation of the operating system. Reignition of a fire. There […]

THE CAKE, THE ELDER F AND THE POT OF TEA aka THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN

Corby exists. Corby gets its name from the same Latin root as the Corvidae family of birds. Magpies. Ravens. Crows. Corby’s population of over 60000 includes over 10000 inhabitants of Scottish heritage. There’s a crater on Mars called ‘Corby’, in reference to a famous transcript of a conversation in June 1969 between the crew of […]

ONE NIGHT ONLY

“Don’t ask me If this party’s real or not Whatever I said Would just be proved wrong” Kylie Said To Jason 1988 I never win things. Not raffles. Not meat draws. Not tickets to Burn The Shard*. *my attendance was entirely due to speculative blagging and some supernaturally good mates. I win on the lottery […]

ACCEPTING THE CONTRADICTIONS: A REVIEW OF WHO KILLED THE KLF?

Twelve years is a mighty long time. Post-pandemic it feels like twenty three. Twelve years in the world of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu seems like a lifetime. In 2010, Bill Drummond was closing The Foundry, re-releasing How To Be An Artist as $20,000 and ending No Music Day. He was on the Coast […]

ILLUMINATING THE HEART OF DARKNESS

The Via Gellia exists. It was constructed in the early 18th century for the purpose of transporting quarried stone to the sites of the villages that were rising up across the High Peak area of Derbyshire. It remains the epicentre of the greatest concentration of Victorian brickworks in the country. The Via Gellia exists. It […]

A SUMMER OF MU

Time for a catch-up. 2020 was a quiet one. For all sorts of reasons. But mainly that one. Still, amid the chaotic bleakness of it all, I completed a trilogy, created an Anglo-Venezuelan ambient audiobook, guested on a few podcasts, gave an offering to the Penkiln Burn, visited a shipping container, made a virtual contribution […]

BLAKE RADIO: INTO THE NINETIES AND BEYOND

Originally presented at #BlameBlake on Monday 30th August 2021 <THIS PRESENTATION REJECTS COINCIDENCE AND EMBRACES SYNCHRONICITY AND APOPHENIA> Blake Radio: Into The Nineties and Beyond As a mathematician I like to look for patterns. As a fan of Robert Anton Wilson, being a mathematician probably isn’t healthy. But John’s big book about Blake sent me […]

GIMPERTZ/CAUTY

Will Gimpertz is a made-up journalist. His most famous piece of made up journalism concerned the artist Jack Dawes and his almost certainly unintentional burning of a billion pounds of The Ontological Agnostics money. That article is reproduced at the end of this post, with no one’s kind permission. Will Gimpertz is a made-up journalist […]

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