The Crawling ChaosOfficial Website

The page of twisted memories that don’t conveniently fit elsewhere has been cleaned up and expanded. (SP) see also Updated Anecdotes.

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)

Uprated WP code to v2.8.

18 plugins upgraded also!

Some content de-pompous-ified… (SP)

The website has had a bit of a going over, visually.  Hope you like it.

BTW.  Please send duff links informatio to the webmaster on the contact page.  Thanks.

This site has had a bit of a twiddle.  I’ve decided I like creamy beige and red for the autumn…  The new theme renders beautifully in Opera and IE7, less so in Firefox 3, which is annoying.  However, I’m also using it for my personal space here, so obviously it’s something I’m prepared to put up with  :lol:

Also, some expansion will be occuring integrating purchase facilities of old and new stuff into the site.  It’s started already.  SP

db & files ok

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.

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