Strangely Perfect

Heysel and Beyond Being justifiably upset by the events at the Heysel Stadium many years ago, the recent comments on a video I made about it … … on the 25th anniversary of the awful event made me recall some TV reporting of what was reputedly  to be a Juventus “fan” brandishing a gun on [...]

A quick merge of video and a vinyl rip of some Crawling Chaos music as an experiment. The clicks etc have been emphasised and the equalisation of the track has also been altered to emphasize the monochrome nature of violent history. ‘Enjoy’ is probably an inappropriate word. All pictures taken from the web. (SP) Music: [...]

This is a reprise following some experiments, of an earlier Heysel Stadium post.  It’s a quick merge of video and a vinyl rip of some Crawling Chaos music as an experiment. The clicks etc have been emphasised and the equalisation of the track has also been altered to emphasize the monochrome nature of violent history. [...]

A quick merge of video and a vinyl rip of some Crawling Chaos music as an experiment.  The clicks etc have been emphasised and the equalisation of the track has also been altered to emphasize the monochrome nature of violent history.  ‘Enjoy’ is probably an inappropriate word.  For the full impact, play the lower video [...]

CTC & Guardian [amazon-product align="left" alink="0000FF" bordercolor="FFFFFF" height="240" region="uk"]000728487X[/amazon-product]I’m indebted to this week’s CTC newsletter for pointing out an article by Ben Goldacre in the Guardian last Saturday (a week ago).   I’ve used one of Mr Goldacre’s articles before in some presentations I’ve done at work when pointing out the poor and devious ways [...]

Gary Glitter, former prince of glam-rock; Paul Gadd, convicted paedophile.  They’re one and the same. Now wait, recent events around Gadd-Glitter remind me of happenings a long time ago in Ancient Egypt…. Most folk have heard of King Tutankhamun, the boy-king with the gold death mask. Not so many know that his (probable) dad was [...]

Met Roger again for our discussion meeting, down from Liverpool, the city of culture, for a week. After the meeting, we popped down to the Mansion House and watched a little woman coming on strong, like Brenda Lee. Roger, Roger! This is the tune I was on about in the pub. It’s by John Murphy. [...]

Seen today on the BBC. All the old green goddesses from the fireman’s strikes are apparently going to Nigeria. They don’t get stoned like they do in parts of London, Bradford or Liverpool, but they get cheered and people sing in the streets! I wonder if Jill has seen one? I remember one tipped over [...]