Monthly Archives:July 2010

Sounds Waqqaz Review

Strangely post on July 28th, 2010
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Crawling Chaos Waqqaz Sounds Review

Crawling Chaos Waqqaz Sounds Review

Waqqaz…and following on from the previous post, here’s a recently provided scan from Holly of a (now defunct) Sounds magazine (four star!) review of the vinyl LP, Waqqaz, by Crawling Chaos, back in June 1986, when I was in France.

Quoting Dave Henderson;

THE CRAWLING CHAOS ‘Waqqaz’ (Foetus Products F4) ****

AND CHAOS came back again.  Former Factory workers ex-eccentrics from the wild North East, The Crawling Chaos are still alive, being driven barmy by the ineptitude of their drum machine and turning in classic songs.

It’s a bumpy unpredictable road between the simple worlds of Der Plan, Throbbing Gristle, the Dr Who theme and the primal Factory sound, but all and sundry were fed into the Chaos cut price computer.  The result coughs and splutters with a truly odd musical catarrh.

Of course, in this case, the worst possible thing for me, is being on the same page as a Genesis review…

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Smash Hits’ Sex Machine Review

Strangely post on July 26th, 2010
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Smash Hits Review of Sex Machine by Red Starr

Smash Hits on Sex Machine release

I’ve just found a website that scans all Smash Hits magazines and puts them online in their entirety!

Digging through, I found this review notice of the original release of Sex Machine back in 1980…

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Red Starr (sic) states:

…is Crawling Chaos, whose “Sex Machine” is quite the fastest single I’ve heard in a while.  A close cousin is Fad Gadget with it’s ear for sharp lyrics, this hurtles along at breakneck pace with the main keyboard/synthesiser wraparound sound giving way to an excellent biting guitar break.  It’s also quite melodic despite the speed and is altogether recommended.

The highlight for me of all this, of course, is appearing on the same page as Wire….

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The Return of the Wanderer

Strangely post on July 25th, 2010
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Alpes de Haute-Provence, FranceOkay.

I’m back from a foreign holiday followed immediately by a Buddhist course during which I’ve had absolutely no internet access…

It was lovely!

The freedom, peace and heat.  Lovely.

Thanks for everyone’s input in my absence.  I’ve now got a stack of comments to moderate and will very soon be back in action!

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