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.

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

The site was cracked by someone purporting to represent the poor down-trodden muslims in the world. Whether this was true or not is irrelevant. Fifth columnists are not a new invention…. I haven’t put up the image that was put in place of my main page as it would add fuel to the person’s hell-state in which they exist.

• I had a problem and I’m fixing it.
• Extra stuff is now being done!
• Unfortunately, all the pics were dumped so I’ve a bit of a job putting them all back. Fortunately the backend database and user details weren’t compromised.
• Some pix are gone for good as I intend to change the back-end system (again). Apologies if anyone refers to any non-textual items and they don’t work. I may or may not get them fixed - it depends, as my main purpose for this endeavour is a reporting of the history of Crawling Chaos. And that is basically text - which is okay.

*E.F.S.

Krautrock supremos CAN had a numbered series of compositions called the

“Ethnological Forgery Series“.

This moniker is a reminder or homage to Holger et al, highlighting the instances when Crawling Chaos are ee-eff-ess-ing
about.

Jack Throb has worked Harry over a bit for this reprise. The piece is properly tuned (the original was mistakenly recorded with the Tascam varispeed set to minimum so that when mastered at proper speed it played fast). This is (roughly) how it would’ve sounded in the room, and if Strangely’d managed to get some extra overdubs on. Better late than never. Jack is sorry for any offence to the purists but hey, I can do it. I left the bit in where a guitar bashed the mike stand.

This picture courtesy of no-one

I’ve received some extra information from Holly today with some extra photos that should be a bit interesting for those of a historical bent! Any descriptions are left to right.

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Van to nowhere. Strangely, Sue,Haircut, Clinka, Doomage

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In the back of a Manchester club (Electric Ballroom I think), waiting to find out which one.Holly and Eddie Fenn (Fatso) in photogenic mode, one of his finer poses.

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Typical Holly pose (mmm, nice top.) Foetus drape behind.

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Doomage & Chrissie. Angst. Something’s gonna happen soon here…

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Strangely and Doomage. This was a New Years gig down near Lampeter/Tregaron. Some guy from Hawkwind was there passing the joints around, which was nice. We slept in a farmhouse and I think this is us going for a walk in the morning.

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Newcastle University outdoor lunchtime gig. This is not long after Holly joined as I can spy a Wem Copycat. Hence the twiddling.
People are Holly, Billy Connolly (Gordon)(famous for drinking the warm piss in a beer can and not noticing), Strangely, ?, ? , Curly (Ligger) Jhon, ? .

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Pub liggers, let me know who you are..
I’ve got ?, Sally(prob), ?, ?, Bingo (Gareth), ? ,Maxine, ?

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Strangely Perfect pretending to be a tree. Hard to bear, hard to bear.

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I’ve added a couple of widget things to see what they feel like. One pops up a little page preview and the other is a chat facility. Currently I’m just talking amongst myself, are you? No I’m not.

But you know… It may be of value somehow. I’m of the opinion that everything is a benefit. If there’re any problems they’re easy enough to take off and if the chat gets abused or my bandwidth suffers then I can easily allow it for registerees only. Speaking of which, the numbers are going up. I like this way of doing things; people have to make a genuine positive effort to get involved. Not like myspace (my pet hate - hey! that’s a good name) which is just a bit like click here to vote - like der..

However, I think I need a different wordpress theme, a nice 3-4 column job. I’ll still do it in green and gold because I like it, but I’ve too much stuff to get out and the layout is a bit restricting whilst not providing all the functionality I require. I know there are ways to get the major posts centrally while allowing a non-interactive front page, so I’ll look into it.

The words of Loofahs finally don’t make sense any more! This is a message from Ian Hope, Customer Service Manager for Arriva transport.

Thank you for your enquiry.The 442 service has been rerouted and curtailed so as to operate between North Shields and New Hartley. It has also been renumbered 12.
To view the timetable, go to www.lovethebus.co.uk (click on your buses then North Tyneside).I hope this is helpful.

Ian Hope
Customer Service Manager