People
Crawling Chaos & Foetus Products Personnel, Helpers & Liggers, including those on Parallel Projects and Others Mentioned in the Text.
| Nom de Son | Common Name | Instruments | Other Info | Key Phrase, Act or other noteworthy thing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strangely Perfect | Martin Rees | Keyboards, vox, sax, washboard, engineering, composition, electronics, construction, producer |
Beer and mushrooms. Produced home-brew which was “quite drinkable” | Chose the name “Crawling Chaos”. On the green tape. |
| Doomage Khult (Vex Drongo in Thee Earnest Kakas) |
Jeff Crowe | guitars, keyboards, vox, sax, cellophane, engineering, composition, electronics, construction, producer |
Beer and mushrooms
TEK |
Drank 1 litre of warm, stale chip fat. Agreed “Crawling Chaos” was a good thing and we should do it. On the green tape. |
| Davenport Haltonberry or Holly | David Halton | guitars, composition, mixage, vox, additional sounds | Beer and stuff. Arrived from “Nothin’”
TEK |
Hairy mole on neck (still!). Famously berated “A Certain Ratio” as “A Certain Pair of Tights” to shut them up. |
| Mister Excess Clinka, or Gazza | Garry Clennell | drums, composition | Beer and cider. | Clinked a lot due to habit of staggering fully loaded up stairs with cider bottles. His mother had their dead pet dog in restaurant freezer for a time (Alice’s Restaurant in Whitley Bay). Under the frozen chips. |
| Gordon Douglas Smith | TEK | TEK | In Thee Earnest Kakas | |
| Macky | Robert Macdonald | vox on Mummy’s Tummy | Argumentative nazi type | designed cover for “The Big C” and early artworks and photography and cover for Homunculus Equinox cassette |
| Straight Dave (Cookie) | Dave Cook | Bass | Left before output to public domain | got one neat riff right off that I taught him. Too straight for words |
| Steve Smooth | Steve Smith | Bass | Left before output to public domain | Knew when to leave. Too smooth for words |
| ***** | Anth Chester | Vox, guitar,synth and jamming | gets annoyed when he’s not called “Anth” or if you mention plasterering. | Lent out house for second major studio location. Is “suck” voice |
| Ligger (Curly) John | John Smith | Is the self immoliator on the Homunculus Equinox cassette sleeve (Foetus cover up sticker censors area) |
More Beer! | nae scran! Sucked in by key phrase “I feel, like a suicide’s death-bed” on Urbane Encounter at first gig at Bridge Hotel. Famously berated Joy Division calling them Joyce repetitively till Curtis cracked. Fan and devilled kidneys supplier |
| Errol Dynamic | Eddie Fenn | Drums, composition | beer and pile ointment | Shagged my sister. Enabled flat for first studio (“Sex Machine” recorded there.) Said “are you tonkin’ Caroline now?”. Pretty obvious really. |
| Billy Connolly | Howard Titchmarsh | Accidental drinker of piss. | Narrator of “The Baseball Bat Battle of North Tyneside” | |
| George | George Linton | Drums, composition | came from Freak Electrik to help out | |
| Bingo | Gareth Kingsley Marshall | bass and finger snips | Bingo’s dad, Alec Bedlington Marshall, did the Waqqaz artwork | cracked his head falling off his bike |
| Macho Johnson | Mark Johnson | Hung around a bit in the early days. Keeps appearing on photos. | ||
| Hippy Mick | Mick Paterson | Driver and dope fiend. Still probably hasn’t had his sacks emptied by Chrissie. |
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| Haircut | Paul Shields | vox, scrumpled cellophane on “One More Peso” | Sniffed a lot. Immaculate powers of observation. | When asked why he was puking, he replied “I thought everyone was doing it”. |
| Sally | Sally Wilson | occasional vox. Performance. | ||
| Trube | Susan Truby | occasional backing vox | ||
| Keef | Keith Wear | drums on early efforts. Drums used by Errol Dynamic until they were “nicked” | Left before output to public domain (basically not a very good drummer) | Cycles. On the green tape. |
| Hippy Jeff | Geoff Kennedy | Drove van quite a bit, usually smashed. | Set up infamous all-night biker gig at deserted abbey on banks of River Wear. Ended up nicking all our mushrooms and then getting locked up in Durham Jail for a long time for dealing, man. | |
| Bryan Sowerby | Bryan Sowerby | Drums,composition | Even bigger nose than Holly (says Holly) | ex “The Noise Toys” & The Hostages. Drums on Waqqaz. |
| Dave (Weirdbeard/Pipsqueak) | Dave Pipkin | Drums,composition | Supported Brian May as part of STAN at Newcastle City Hall | |
| Rob Pybus | Rob Joiner | Guest Sax | Solicitor for Inglejew, Bottrel, Roache and Pybus. | Sax addict. Called to the bar. |
| Spug | Andy Douglass | bass | Played bass at last gig (Belgium). Talented fucker who could play anything. | Last heard of driving at 50mph in a lorry |
| Yeti | Darren Yates | drums | TEK | He’s a great artist. In Thee Earnest Kakas |
* Nothin’ – Nothin’
** TEK – Thee Earnest Kakas
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Holly’s Cat…
Holly and Christina sent me a picture of their cat, and assuming that it hasn’t been photoshop-ed, looks like it belongs in the Guinness Book of Records, or something. Evelyn mentioned something about it but it just thought she was yabbering o…