Arts and Dark Crafts #1
Beautiful Daze marked the end of The Crooked Family’s Festival Season 2010. Other news, completed album and artwork, as I speak, is now on route to the manufacturer – no thanks to the fucking French who were too pussy to print the artwork due to ‘blah blah blah’ content – what a load of bollocks, but we’ve dealt with that anyway, for after a moment of profound panic someone over this way, with a pair of balls big enough, agreed to take the job on, so all is well in hell and right on target for the 4th October release. Anyhow, my attention has now turned to making a limited amount of special edition boxsets . . . phase one: the material blag.
Wednesday morning Matilda and I fleeced Mornington Cresent station of its last remaining copies of The Metro newspaper. By 9am we were lurking around the recycling bins just outside Sainsbury and managed to pick off a few old dears, relieving them of their soon-to-be-dispensed-with outdated daily rags. Next mission was striking a deal with a ‘not to be named’ takeaway place up Camden High Street. Once done, we dragged our hoard back home, stuck on some Johnny Cash, and made a start on prepping the materials. Come yesterday morning and the real work began. As you can see from these happy snaps taken only moments ago, everything we plundered is being put to good use, though admittedly it looks like a bloody mess at this particular moment. Hopefully, with a bit of luck and hard graft, my front room turned art factory will slowly begin to make more sense. I’ll keep you updated as I go . . .
However, this means that the Market Stall is not gonna be appearing in Camden today. Sorry for anyone who was planning a trip, but I’ll be getting it together for next Friday, I promise – just that I really need to make a aggressive start on these broken arts before their darkened crafts have their wicked way with my daft sod brain.
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Yours SINcerely
CroOK
Excellent stuff. A bit relieved that your absence today means I won’t be tempted to part with money I don’t have after spending a fortune yesterday on D.Gray-man merchandise on ebay. Am curious to know how you managed to strike a deal with a takeaway place in Camden when all I ever got from such places was e.coli. Xxx
The first few places wouldn’t have any of it, were all very concerned with my intentions, as if I was planning to blacken the name of their establishment. So,I changed tactic, decided to bare face lie instead, whilst Matilda bewitched them with her impishness and rose like beauty. It worked a treat. x
Ah good to know having kids comes in handy sometimes x
i love collages. the best paper to cut up is the sun (the cunts that they are make it easy to part with). their headlines are so stupid and ott you can’t help but make great twisted art from it. cutting up englishness and rearranging it into sometime better and more truthfully fucked up is my favourite pasttime/lifestyle choice
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Amen to that. Non Existent God love The Sun
while i’ve got ya ear mr crook, any suggestions as to good medway bands for the new hamlet pow cassette tape. Cheers for the track by the by.
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Check these out . . . The Flowing / My Sick Mind / Theatre Royal / Didi Bergman / Kids Unique / Chimpo / UpCDownC / Needs Must . . . and also Sans Peril who have members from Medway but I think are now spread around London and further afield, we played with these guys the other week and they are fucking wicked. I could give them a shout and pass on your details if it helped. Let me know innit. xxx
Yeah man that would be ace. if you could ask them if they have any tracks knocking about that would be sweet.
i’ve asked the len price 3 coz they’re pretty wicked. god i wished i lived nearer medway! the bands there are so much better. thats why i’m not making a tape of cunterbury bands! (although my band will probably sneak a track on there!)
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Cool. I need a break from sticking anyway, I’ll do it now – what contact shall I give? x
joe9tofkent@googlemail.com
if any one else is reading this send us an email to this address if you want a copy of hamlet pow or the lupen crook special of clipper guts. it will only cost two stamps.
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Job done. Thought of a few more bands whilst I was sending message out, so I’ve put the call out to them also. Be warned, Medway folk can be decidedly slack so don’t expect a response straight away. Hopefully I’ll be proved wrong. Let me know how it goes. x
thanksalot man. i’ll keep you posted mos def
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