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.

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.

As part of the work on the new (old) release of Crawling Chaos music, the art of Alistair Campbell has popped into Strangely’s head as an ideal candidate for the artwork. Strangely knew Alistair some time ago and commissioned a painting from him which hangs proudly above his bed. Unfortunately, contact was lost some time ago.

There will be previously unheard tracks, both live and studio. H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath” was an initial title musing. But not now. It will be original.

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.

Strangely describes how the Crawling Chaos site was cracked by a dirty hacker and some of the measures taken. The original comment on the attacks is here.

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

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

The Crawling Chaos can be contacted directly here:

Cerysmatic has pointed out someone else’s alternative viewpoint to the normal heroic rhetoric being bandied around about the sometime record mogul. This relates to the freedom of Manchester thing, e.g. here. Fair play to John Cooper for publishing the info on his site which, it must be said, normally throws a wholly positive light onto the whole Factory thing.

Code: FAC 17

Sex Machine

1 hr jamming, 30 mins lyrics brainstorm and 3 months gestation created the “Factory” favourite, pop-pickers. Basic drive created by Strangely during a jam one night using fuzzed LFO-controlled VCA‘d keyboards. After a few minutes Doomage had generated the killer guitar tune to go with it - a work of genius as it lends itself very well to multiple overdubs. The tune stayed like this for a little while when it was decided to add some words and do it properly. On the final released version, this involved a serious amount of guitar overdubbing and a few extra keyboard bleeps. Words added by Strangely, Doomage and Errol. Fatso thought of the first line “I’ve got a brand new pair of genes”. The lyrics “pinch” heavily from the “My Mum” song by Dudley Moore on the “Derek and Clive Come Again” record. They started off as a prediction based on scientific progress and the natural human proclivities towards sexual enhancement(s). Our initial idea was that amputees and the like could “grow” new limbs or organs to replace damaged ones in the same way that a cell, containing all the info needed for a person, changes into a foetus and then a human being. There must be something that stops human cells doing this as salamanders can grow new tails and the liver can regenerate when only a third is left. In the pub this soon degenerated into the words as they are and what would probably happen. The words are now becoming true as scientific fact, first as gene therapy and very soon now, as gene modifications and designer babies become commonplace, as a “natural” way to enhance the sex organs. After all, all men want bigger cocks and all women want bigger tits and smaller bums. It’s what we are..  However, it was a close run thing that the tune could’ve been based on Joan Crawford as we were quite fond of that track at the time as well.

Berlin

Live recording. I’m not sure if it’s an early one done at The Bridge, Newcastle or a later one there or somewhere else. I remember a tape getting accidentally erased so that some plans had to be revised and decent stuff had to be done again. I’m 100% sure that beer was involved…

It’s a very simple piece that demonstrates the kind of jamming that was done live within a basic structure that could go on for any amount of time. For live recordings, most of the studio equipment would go on stage with the tape decks being used in innovative ways, different to their normal studio usage.

One thing IS for sure though - Ian Curtis of Joyce Division would never have volunteered his services to sing with Crawling Chaos.  It was indeed Strangely Perfect wot done it, guv.