Two Pics from Doomage
Mr Khult has kindly provided two pictures for the site in a communique this evening. These come from the later Crawling Chaos period.
They’ve been whacked straight into the galleries for the listener’s dissociative enjoyment.
Hopefully there will be much more like this to accompany Strangely’s current audio conversions.
Tags: Crawling Chaos, dissociative, Doomage, enjoyment, History, Khult, listener, PicsRelated posts
Doomage Speaks!
Below is the complete text of a letter to Strangely Perfect from Doomage Khult received today, 3 April 2008.
As you will read, it’s asked that the letter be published in full or not at all. This wish has of course been accommodated.
Tags: Anth, Berlin, creative partnership, Doomage, factory benelux, gas chair, History, Holly, Homunculus, James Nice, LTM, messiah, Music, remuneration, Sex Machine, StrangelyDear Mr Perfect
I think it’s about time I chucked in my tuppence-worth into the pot.
When I heard that The Gas Chair was about to be re-released on LTM, naturally I became curious. Some elementary detective work led me on the trail of Anth Chester, so I contacted him and he filled me in on the details – James Nice, a former employee of Factory Benelux had found half of the master tapes of said album and had asked for Anth’s permission to rip off one side of an original vinyl for a re-issue. I understand that he was given a £250 advance for this, which I stress he split with Holly 50-50 and in the process acquired the master tape of Homunculus Equinox.
So far so good I thought – after all Anth and Holly did play their parts in those recordings which nobody can deny. What I didn’t know about at that time were the “bonus” tracks, and I was a bit peeved about the inclusion of Sex Machine and Berlin of which you know neither of them had anything to do with. But by the time I found that out, it was a Done Deal in Production and I childishly decided to keep my opinionated trap shut. Be clear though, I’m not dissing Holly – after your departure strangely we didn’t forlornly shamble about in the woods waiting in vain for the return of the messiah, but continued our long and increasingly productive creative partnership.
To resume; not being bothered about getting any remuneration (I don’t need it – just as well as I haven’t received a penny), I thought it would be fun to focus on the reaction to our material some twenty years on. Like yourself I am intensely proud of all our Art and was pretty chuffed to see that it polarized the critics just as much as the first time around and thus hadn’t dated at all.
Anyway opinions are one thing and facts and assumptions are quite distinct beasts altogether. Your colourful tale of a lightning strike inducing some subtle sinister change to my personality (a storyline that surely would have been warmly welcomed by the writers of Murder She Wrote) is absolutely hilarious – in particular the increasing abuse of spirits aspect. I do seem to recall we had a very productive ale micro-brewery in place at Beside(sic) Hall which formed the bulk of our alcohol consumption in situ; but I don’t remember pouring any hard liquor down my throat either there or at any of the public hostelries. Mind you, if you mean communing with spirits – that is a different kettle of fish of which I admit to unreservedly.
It never ceases to amaze me how certain folk project shadows of their own failings onto others: I would put it to you that a more plausible cause for any perceived change of character that someone as thick-skinned as yourself may have picked up on:- was that I’d become utterly pissed off with your habitual indolence. What also rankles is your over-inflated opinion of your personal contributions to Waqqaz – being so important to the process that you are blissfully unaware of who the drummer actually was (no it wasn’t ‘Clinka’ – I’d sacked him by then, no it wasn’t ‘George (?)’ either, or anyone else that you mention for that matter)?
I rest my case m’lud.
For the record, the primary reason why I don’t want to waste my time talking to the likes of yourself (and that doesn’t equate to being a recluse), dates back to the day you paid a little flying visit to Bebside and purloined approximately two-thirds of my album collection – a heinous crime to perpetrate on a music lover, as I’m sure you’ll agree, selective or crap memory notwithstanding.
On a more positive note I am pleased that you intend to get everything out into the public domain, that’s just great – go for it. I can think of no more appropriate place than your website, and I do mean that most sincerely. I’m in possession of the entire Chaos tape archive (including videos) and would be keen to hand it all over to your most worthy cause, but the very thought of meeting up with such a dishonourable chap as yourself makes me feel slightly queasy.
Q: What’s the difference between Strangely Perfect and a bucketful of phlegm?
A: The bucket.
I thank you: Please feel free to publish this communication in its entirety on your website, or print it out and stuff it up your arse; whatever takes your fancy.
Regards, Doomsie.
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Added Extra Pictures and Posters
I’ve added some more pictures and posters that I’ve scanned and photographed today, to the pictures page. Highlights, if you like, include the poster for the last ever Crawling Chaos gig in the Low Countries, some Blonde Ethiopian stuff, some Ernest Kakas incarnations and a late era Crawling Chaos gig.
The last one is notable as Jeff has assembled tights and my old white leather jacket (to which he always had an attachment) into a fashion statement. The key motif is “the painting of the faces with felt pens” in the gangster style of the “Ant Hill Mob” from Wacky Races.
This (and other gig dandiness), pre-dates the recent gig silliness of Gnarls Barkley by two decades, proving yet again that Crawling Chaos were ahead of the times by a chasm.
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Early Meeting - Final Parting
Please see this post for some Strangely of Crawling Chaos recollections regarding Doomage and the rest, early beginnings and later disintegration away from the main narrative that’s too big to fit on the myths page.
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Three Zombies Dancing with Mary Whitehouse
There are now three different Zombie Dance mixes which has to be some kind of a record. Strangely has cleaned them up but because of the state of the tapes the quality is getting worse and it’s harder to do. It’d be easier and quicker to hire a few drunk dudes and record everything from scratch. 
Apart from getting someone to play like Harry that is.
All the versions are found here, http://crawlingchaos.co.uk/music/. One runs straight into “Mary Whitehouse” which Strangely made up when he worked in a fibreglass factory in Welshpool (see Myths page, http://crawlingchaos.co.uk/myths. Not surprisingly it’s about the woman of that name who stood astride her festival of light pontificating about the moral decline of the nation - this being the same nation that from it’s economic policies had previously started two world wars, engineered the Suez crisis and ditched all responsibilities to the “citizens” it’d made across the globe when it decided they cost too much. These same economic policies exist today and are strangling those same peoples in Africa et al by limiting their markets, imposing import tariffs or preferential treatment to others and meanwhile, as is the case in Burkina Faso or Nigeria say, extracting all their mineral wealth and just leaving them with 5% of the dosh.
Fuck the nation state, fuck their rulers and fuck their patriotic self-serving greedy inhabitants. They’re all dancing like zombies into a world bereft of food, energy and freedom.
Tags: Africa, Artistic, Factory, History, Miner, Music, Music, Nigeria, Riot, Strangely Perfect, TapeRelated posts
Google Advertising
I’ve added a bit of advertising to the Crawling Chaos site and other linked and relevant sites to see what happens. I was in two minds about this but after some investigations I’ve decided to give it a go as I can easily pull it if it’s too crap 
.
I’ve only set it up for adsense so far. The Yahoo bit can wait for now.
Because it’s a niche I don’t expect too much of it, but that is why it’s important to try the process and see what happens. Scalability is easily achieved by creating more sites tailored to whatever. If it works here, it’ll work anywhere.
Strangely Perfect
Tags: adsense, advertising, Crap, Crawling Chaos, Explanations, google, History, Music, niche, Scalability, Site, Strangely Perfect, Website, YahooRelated posts
Comments & Photos Re-instated
Yep. It’s in the title really.
I’ve re-set the comments to appear on (virtually) every page to add a bit more spontaneity. I initially locked stuff down quite brutally after the twit muslims had hacked my site and duffed up some pix. I fixed this almost straight away with heaps of extra security that I’ve now discovered (so thanks for that chaps, and you are chaps, I can tell), but have only got round to re-implementing the functionality now. Why? Dunno. So there.
A contact page is on the way. The host supplied script doesn’t work in the blog so I’ll find another way.
The photo page has been re-jigged a bit. I’ve lost some of the stuff from Holly. I may have to ask again if I can’t find it as I lost the email with a bit of dodgy computer upgrading…
Strangely Perfect
Tags: Blog, Crawling Chaos, Hacking, History, Holly, Photos, Site, Strangely Perfect, Technical, Twit, Web, WebsiteRelated posts
What is E.F.S
*E.F.S.
Krautrock supremos CAN had a numbered series of compositions called the
This moniker is a reminder or homage to Holger et al, highlighting the instances when Crawling Chaos are ee-eff-ess-ing
about.
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Hamilton Hotel - Whitley Bay
I’ve updated the anecdotes page to include my memories of the aborted gig at the above venue.
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