What’s the best thing you can do with £100? I think I’ve said this before, If you spend too much time in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behaviour, or social interaction you might end up working with music. Living life in a completely deluded state, generating massive debt for no apparent reason can prove to be a nonsense. Sometimes I do things for money. Sometimes I do things for free, and sometimes I do things I don’t really understand. As the Cheshire Cat says “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” I like to take my nonsense seriously. You can be sitting…
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The Dark Side Of The Road: Gimpo’s M25 25hr Spin 24th-25th March 2018
I met Gimpo at the Vans For Bands depot at the back of Heathrow. We spent some time cross loading gear before locking up and heading out. I set the padlock code to 2525 before our departure. Gimpo’s M25 25hr Spin was about to begin. Sometimes I do things I don’t fully understand. I like to take my nonsense seriously. Gimpo was in good spirits and had already started unpacking all sorts of paraphernalia in the back. We headed out and joined the M25 heading north at Junction 15. All I could hear was rustling, and Gimpo muttering to himself about HD Cards as he went. The plan was to get…
The Imagine Nation
“Under the present system of mass education by classes too much stress is laid on teaching and too little on active learning. The child is not encouraged to discover things on his own account. He learns to rely on outside help, not on his own powers, thus losing intellectual independence and all capacity to judge for himself. The over-taught child is the father of the newspaper - reading, advertisement - believing, propaganda - swallowing, demagogue - led man – the man who makes modern democracy the farce it is.” – Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies (1927) Culture Industry is a term coined by Theodor Adorno (1903–69) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), who argued…
English Heretic: Gimpo’s M25 25hr Spin 18th-19th March 2017
“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don't much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go." - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I ignore the phone when I'm driving. I was on my way to meet Gimpo at the 24hr TESCO behind Thurrock Services. I was late. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Who am I? What am I doing? How long is forever? Some questions never get an answer. Gimpo was probably stood on the…
Your Insanity Will Do – Become A Patron Of Iron Man Records
I bought a copy of “The Manual” by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond in 1996. I'd been looking for a copy for years. Some of it made sense, some of it didn't. I liked the writing style and the advice given. I sent my receipt as proof of purchase to the PO BOX printed in the book and requested The Guarantee. This is the reply that Bill Drummond sent back on headed paper. By reply Bill Drummond became the first Unaware Patron of Iron Man Records. Blame him for everything. A lot has happened since 1996. Your Insanity will do. Your Insanity could help Iron Man Records to release more music…
John Higgs – “Stranger than we can imagine: Making Sense of The Twentieth Century” Book Launch
Friday 28th Aug 2015 An evening with John Higgs and Guests Heavenly Social presents an evening with John Higgs and Guests To celebrate the publication of his new book Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of The Twentieth Century Friday 28th August 7pm-1am Free The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD Nearest Tube Oxford Circus The Social.com
If it’s not impossible, it’s not worth doing…..Find the others. Go to The Adelphi.
Adelphi is a Greek word meaning "brothers" (a + delphi, literally "of the same womb") Many thoughts pass through your mind when you do enough driving, few of them make any sense. I take a lot of bands to a lot of gigs, it's what I do for money these days. Sometimes it can be hard not to pull the van over, drag everyone out on the motorway hard shoulder and tell them to "Stop living out of the asshole of your belief system and kick out the jams motherfucker!" In other words, shut up and play the music, or stop blaming everyone else and learn to get on with it.…
The square root of the M25: Gimpo’s 25 Hour M25 Spin
A witness statement from Iron Man Records 2014. I didn't get much sleep the night before, I had been working on the release of the new John Sinclair record "Mohawk." By the time I climbed into the car and started the engine it was 10am. I drove to London and dropped the car in Brentford, West London. I picked up the keys. I had a 9 seater VW Splitter van on hire from DYC Touring and headed to Shepherd's Bush. I wasn't due to meet the band until 3pm so I had a bit of time to park up and make phone calls. If I was applying for a job I'd…
The Full Cosmic Trigger Experience – Find The Others Conferestival 22-23rd November 2014
The Full Cosmic Trigger Experience 22nd/23rd November 2014 Find The Others Conferestival Performance, Speakers, Art, Music Cinema, Rituals, Workshops, poetry, Quizzes, Stalls, Discordian Papal Ball. Prof. Robert Temple, Robin ince, Nina Conti, Youth, Adam Gorightly, Johnny "Dolphin" Allen, C.J. Stone, John Higgs, Dr. David Luke, Greg Sams, Jeff young, Liverpool Impropriety, TC Lethbridge, DJ Kin, Michael Brunstrom, Dr. david david Bramwell, John Constable, Salena Godden, Jacqueline Genie, Adrian reynolds, Jamie Reid, Jimmy Cauty. Camp and furnace, Liverpool L1 0BY 14:23-02:23 Sat 22nd november 2014 (Play and Ball) 11:23-23:23 Sun 23 Nov 2014 (Conferestival) Tickets £69 (full weekend = play and ball and festival) Phone The Everyman box office: 0151 709 4776…
"The End Point Of A Circle" Trailer for the Odyssey that is GIMPO’S M25 25hr Spin
Never get out of the van..... Since 1997, the M25 has been the subject, canvas and location of a unique and unfolding work of performance art. Gimpo, ex-roadie and factotum of Bill Drummond, has driven round the infamous London Orbital for 25 hours, once a year. He will continue to do so until 2021 on a 25 year mission of discovery. He calls it The M25 Spin. The End Point Of A Circle: Trailer from Rob Wickings on Vimeo. Documentarian Dominic Wade, who has already explored the world of extended filming with his raw and revealing film 24 Hours In London, has been given unprecedented access to Gimpo and his world…
How To Burn Money
From: Iron Man Records To: All Agents Edited transcript of a "Friends of Positive Void Communications" update for dissidents dissemination. An action took place on 23 August 1994, in which the K Foundation burned cash, the amount of one million pounds sterling, on the Scottish island of Jura. The incineration was recorded on a Hi-8 video camera by Gimpo. In August 1995, the film "Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid" was toured around the UK. Thirteen short months from now will be the 20th anniversary of the burning. We have been in discussion with organisers of certain film festivals who are keen to mark this special date by showing…
English Heretic: GIMPO’S M25 25 Hour Spin 23rd – 24th March 2013
Hello Dear Friends We so hope you can forgive us for neglecting you for so long. Due to a combination of commitments and personal circumstances we haven't had any opportunity to post our usual monthly updates. Top of the shop we need to thank everyone who contacted us in the last few weeks asking about the M25 Spin and we are pleased to welcome one and all at the weekend. Gimpo's M25 25 Hour Spin Starts: 12 noon Saturday 23rd March 2013 Ends: 1pm Sunday 24th March 2013 Venue: The M25 London Orbital Motorway If anyone would like to join us then please do come along. If you are coming along…
Burn their money. Tear their world apart…
"We have been following a wild and wounded, glum and glorious, shit but shining path these past five years. The last two of which has led us up onto the commercial high ground --- we are at a point where the path is about to take a sharp turn from these sunny uplands down into a netherworld of we know not what. For the foreseeable future there will be no further record releases from The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords, The KLF & any other past, present & future name attached to our activities. As of now all our past releases are deleted...." A Tin of Condensed Milk Burn…
Ted Chippington – Blues Fan. New 500 Limited edition 10" single on Respect Vinyl
Buy Ted Chippington - Blues Fan. New 500 Limited edition 10" Vinyl here Straight outta Fenton (Stoke On Trent) the young Eddie Chippington began annoying audiences at hippy festivals and pop concerts in the early '80s when opening shows for long haired groups such as Here & Now, The Cardiacs and Dangerous Girls. When maturity and baldness caused the growing Potteries lad to become Ted Chippington and a 'Top Comedian' he also moved in to riling up and calming down excited crowds with his act at gigs by punk rocker bands The Fall, the Nightingales, The Farm, the Higsons and many others. During this period Ted - "The funniest man alive" according…
English Heretic: GIMPO'S M25 25 Hour Spin 20th – 21st March 2010
All Agents: GIMPO's M25 Spin 2010. Sat 20th to Sun 21st March 1pm. Meet at ThurrocK Service Station, off M25 at 11am Sat 20th March. This just in..... As many of you will recall a cache of lost and forgotten material was rediscovered during Jimmy’s house move early last year. Some of the tracks were liberated by The Junior Insurgent Transmitter Ensemble for the soundtrack to the 2009 M25 Spin. We have produced a single track DVD sampler and will be giving it away to all the “spinners” joining us this year. The track featured is a unique version of the Pure Trance classic What Time Is Love and was recorded…
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