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Tony Wilson

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.

(originally posted 31/10/2007 – updated for pictures 11/10/2009)

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.

I’ve just read a very informative interview with Stuart at Popcorn Youth. Stuart contacted me about half a year back when I was correcting some fallacies in a Dissensus posting about Crawling Chaos. Since then, we have had a few emails across the water. I never realised how much stuff he’s been into and how many projects he’s instigated and been part of. And yes, he got fucked about by Factory as well.

The depth of his experimentation is impressive. It’s a shame we never got to meet in the Crawling Chaos/early NYC days. He’s due in Paris, London or Glasgow – but not all at once. He steadfastly refuses to contemplate Bridgwater as a venue which is sad as I make a lovely cup of tea. Also, I think given the right publicity and support that they’d go down a storm. Ah well…

Contacted Ian about his posting of Creamo Coyl etc and he’s stuck a link up for me. It’s quite funny really all the Wilson stuff going on. I didn’t know about the coffin though so thanks!