performance Archives - Iron Man Records

Formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom to the people of the European Union regarding Brexit and a gesture of hospitality

23 March 2024Mark

Dear People of the European Union, I am writing this letter for and on behalf of the United Kingdom to extend our heartfelt apologies for the impact of Brexit on the people of the European Union, and for the personal insult, distress and uncertainty it has caused. I didn't vote for Brexit, I voted to remain and I have had to learn to respect and accept the outcome of the referendum and it's consequences. On the day of the results, back in 2016, I was driving a French News crew around London. Pierre the TV News programme producer turned to me at 4am as the crew prepared their equipment for the…

Church of Burn’s ‘Festival of Money’ – London 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th July 2021. Support our crowdfund

23 June 2021Mark

Church of Burn in collaboration with The Cockpit present: CoB's Festival of Money Most money events are as dull as dishwater. There's even one that's actually called 'The Boring Money Conference'. These events are usually sponsored by some corporation, accountancy firm or bank. And they're mostly for folks like venture capitalists, payment gurus, financial advisors and the movers and shakers in Fintech; all big earners who then get to set the agenda for the rest of us. CoB's Festival of Money is different. A whole lot different. If a normal money conference is like karaoke, ours is more Jimi Hendrix at Monterey. First up, there's the venue. The Cockpit is a legendary fringe theatre not a bland conference…

Church of Burn’s ‘Festival of Money’ 22-24th JULY 2021 at The Cockpit, London

4 May 2021Mark

The Company of Church of Burn is staging a three day Festival of Money at The Cockpit, London on 22-24th JULY 2021. Church of Burn's 'Festival of Money' Film, Seminars, Talks, Poetry, Dance, Social Dreaming & more. Church of Burn will conduct a Synod, Service & Ritual each evening. Tickets May. Stay tuned. https://churchofburn.org Alongside seminars, talks, social dreaming matrixes, poetry & movement, art, film, performance and more - around the theme of money and sacrifice - we’ll be staging a Church of Burn event on each of the three evenings. It looks likely we’ll have reduced capacity in order to adhere to social distancing rules. However, the event itself will…

Project to Uncover Ancient Hill Figures – 111 Limited Edition Lithographic Prints by Flinton Chalk

4 November 2020Mark

Iron Man Records is working with the artist Flinton Chalk of the band TC Lethbridge, to produce a series of limited edition 50cm x 70cm Lithographic Prints. Each run of 111 Prints will be signed and numbered and hopes to raise vital funds for the Project to Uncover Ancient Hill Figures on Wandlebury Hill, Cambridgeshire. Flinton’s band TC Lethbridge took their name from Thomas Charles Lethbridge (23 March 1901 – 30 September 1971), better known as T.C. Lethbridge, who was an English archaeologist, parapsychologist, and explorer. TC Lethbridge was a specialist in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, he served as honorary Keeper of Anglo-Saxon Antiquities at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology…

UPDATE: Project to Uncover Ancient Hill Figures on Wandlebury Hill, Cambridgeshire

24 August 2020Mark

Some things I get involved with make no sense to me at all. The Project to Uncover Ancient Hill Figures is one of them. Flinton Chalk is a dangerous optimist and I find it hard to say no. Would you take instruction from a used car salesman? This is the man who got chased across Fyfield Down near Avebury by a spectral Black Dog and used to spend his spare time dressing up as a Transvestite Pirate Nun, driving around in an old police car which was used in one of the Superman films. You may also know him from recent outings as a member of the band Badger Kull. Let…

TC Lethbridge in 2020 – Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On 

3 August 2020Mark

Long, long ago in in the deep forgotten past, three musicians came together in an ancient landscape and made music that drifted away, seemingly lost for all time. This was in Wiltshire around 1992. Would you like a copy of this book to read? You have three options. 1. Become an Iron Man Records Patron and I will send you a copy as an instant reward. You can also request download codes for all three TC Lethbridge releases to date. 2. If you don't want to do the Patron thing, I will put a few copies for Sale at £23.00 each in the Iron Man Shop and also on Bandcamp when…

TC Lethbridge – Project to Uncover Ancient Hill Figures on Wandlebury Hill, Cambridgeshire

23 April 2020Mark

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…

Ritual Midnight Mass Burn – Saturday 3rd November 2018 at The Cockpit, London.

29 October 2018Mark

Produced and presented by Church of the Cosmic Burn This Ritual Mass Money Burning is FREE to attend. You must register on the Events Facebook Page  or text your name to 07497 885115. THE COCKPIT , Gateforth Street, London, NW8 8EH Box Office: 020 7258 2925  (10.30am - 6pm, Monday - Friday,  12 noon - 6pm, Saturday) DOORS OPEN 11.30PM SERVICE COMMENCES AT MIDNIGHT  (Please arrive at least 23 minutes before the service)  SERVICE AND RITUAL LAST ABOUT 90 MINUTES CURFEW 2AM The Service will last about 60 minutes and will consist of scriptural readings, sermons, performance and an associated Ritual from a very special guest. The service concludes with the main…

TC Lethbridge – 2000TC – Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On 

7 March 2016Mark

Long, long ago in in the deep forgotten past, three musicians came together in an ancient landscape and made music that drifted away, seemingly lost for all time. This was in Wiltshire around 1992, to be more precise. The band was TC Lethbridge. It contained Doggen and Kev Bales from Spiritualized/Brain Donor and the artist Flinton Chalk. The band did not last long - they imploded before they had even played their first gig. But something happened to these musicians as they practiced, wrote and recorded in the Neolithic village of Avebury in the early nineties. They were marked by the experience. The album they were recording as they fell apart…

TC Lethbridge – Neo-Psychedelic rock troupe missing for 23 years by Guy Hirst

4 September 2015Mark

Made up of two long standing members of space rock pioneers Spiritualized (Doggen, Bales) and named after the radical archaeologist turned occultist T.C. Lethbridge, the band return with three re-issues of their self-released albums recorded in the early nineties: Moon Equipped, Mina and 2000 TC – released November 23rd 2014 via Iron Man Records. T.C Lethbridge is Kevin Bales, Tony Doggen Foster and Flinton Chalk. The re-issues promoted their first public performance in 23 years last November at Liverpool’s Cosmic Trigger Festival, a theatrical production and continuation of the Illuminatus Trilogy - a satirical story of drugs, sex, magic and conspiracy theories – which was originally adapted to stage by legendary…

The Story of TC Lethbridge – 2000 TC: Standing on the verge of getting it on by John Higgs

8 January 2015Mark

Automatic writing in the sacred landscape. Established 1991. TC Lethbridge - 2000 TC (Released by Iron Man Records - 23rd November 2014) If you spend too much time in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behaviour, or social interaction you might end up running a record label. Living life in a completely deluded state, generating massive debt for no apparent reason can be difficult to keep going for more than 17 years at a time but, it seems by some terrible mistake I've made it look relatively easy. But anyway, enough of that, I want to explain something. I went to a meeting last year year, the back room…

TC Lethbridge – 2000 TC Standing on the verge of getting it on by John Higgs

21 November 2014Mark

Automatic writing in the sacred landscape. Established 1991. TC Lethbridge - 2000 TC (Released by Iron Man Records - 23rd November 2014) If you spend too much time in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behaviour, or social interaction you might end up running a record label. Living life in a completely deluded state, generating massive debt for no apparent reason can be difficult to keep going for more than 17 years at a time but, it seems by some terrible mistake I've made it look relatively easy. But anyway, enough of that, I want to explain something in the hope that you might understand it better than me.…

TC Lethbridge

5 November 2014Mark

TC Lethbridge are Doggen, Kev Bales and Flinton Chalk. Automatic writing in the sacred landscape. Established 1991. T.C. Lethbridge - Band photo. Daniel James, Kev Bales, Tony Doggen Foster, Flinton Chalk at John Stewart Hall, Yatesbury, Wessex, where most of the tracks for Mina and 2000TC were recorded. Flint had a tape with him, rough mixes of 2000TC songs recorded in Avebury which he pulled out of a box of cassettes under the stairs. I was keen to hear it. I was a big fan of the Mina instrumentals. I don’t know what I had been expecting, but it wasn’t the overwhelming sense of purpose that burst out of the speakers.…

The Full Cosmic Trigger Experience 22nd/23rd November 2014

18 October 2014Mark

The Full Cosmic Trigger Experience Find The Others Conferestival If you are interested in finding out more about Robert Anton Wilson, The writing (and living) of Illuminatus, the cult novel which launched a million conspiracy-freaks; Stumbling, via LSD and Aleister Crowley onto a 6500-year-old conversation with the planet Sirius; Dreaming up the formula, with Timothy Leary, of positive human evolution; Co-conspiring to create the Discordian religion, which worships Eris, the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion; Tantric sex, musical sing-alongs and mass initiations; Bob’s fellow Discordian being accused of being “the second Oswald” in JFK’s assassination; Mind-blowing visual effects, extraordinary musical soundscapes, and proper “Ken Campbell style” acting; The journey through Chapel…

The Full Cosmic Trigger Experience – Find The Others Conferestival 22-23rd November 2014

11 October 2014Mark

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…