Libertines

Good to hear the Libertines are back. I only saw them once, supporting the Sex Pistols at Crystal Palace, that naughty Peter taped johnny rotten moaning about his rider and played it through his mic. No body knew who the Libertines were then, I'd already dropped my pils so loved them.
A lot in common the pistols and the libertines, they both got massive after they had finished.
Both Libertines albums are brilliant as are all the free stuff they gave us.
Neither Carl nor Peter quite did it on their own.
Just play 'Skag and Bone Man' again to remind yourselves how good they were

The Only Ones - Pete Perret

The Best Heroin song ever

Another Girl, Another Planet

I always flirt with death
I look ill but I don't care about it
I can't face your threats and stand up straight and talk about it
oh no, I think I;m on another world with you
I'm on another planet with you

You get under my skin
but I don' find it irritating
you always play to win but I won't need rehabilitaing
oh no, I'm on another planet with you, with you,
I'm on aoher planet with you

Anothergirl
another planet

Space travel is in my blood
There ain't nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out but
I know I can't live without it
oh no

another girl, whos loving you now
another wold, whos holding you down

another planet

English Scheme

Ower grassy dale and lowland scene
I can't see can't hear the English scheme
the lower class
want brass
fat chance
scrounge fags
clever ones tend to emigrate
Like your psychotic big brother who left home
for jobs in holland, munich, rome
he's thick but he's struck it rich,

MES

Skreeworld go to Exmoor

After recent adventures in to Brunel history and the discovery of the whereabouts of the King of the underworld, it seemed time to take a day out to reassess our activities. Jessie, we will find you, we will save you, Jessie, we will reinstate you as King.

Moorlands - Glastonbury

Babycham Bambi - Restored

Bambi - Shepton Mallet

Standing proud at the entrance to Gaymers, feet in the daffodils. She may not be on the roof anymore but she's back where she should be.

Brunel - Clifton Suspension Bridge

Parachute, Shh

Elvis and Jessie

On january 1935 in Tupelo, Missisippi, Gladys Presley gave birth to twin boys. Her bond with Elvis is well documented. hey shared a private language. As Elvis grew from being the King of 'Rock and Roll', sometimes thought to be a quarrying term in to a bloated creature that set an early precedent for the American obesity that Jamie Oliver has recently been on a pilgrimage to stop. Oliver was l;aughed out of town. 'we will live as we like', the people told the Mockney Oliver and in self righteous rage he dressed as a pod of peas to attack he burger culture the King endorsed. It is well documented that after taking up to 70 amphetamine tablets, washed down with a litre of cough syrup, the King would gorge on an endless series of baggets, each packed with a pound of bacon, two jars of peanut butter and a pound [lb] of 'jelly'.
Philip Pullmans recent book tells the story of Marys visitation by an angle and her birth of the twin Jesus and Christ. Though King Elvis only visitted Scotland briefly, during his early paedophile days where he was consorting with to be wife Priscilla, 13 at his time of first entry, lttle is written of Jessies journey here. We have all heard cock and bull stories suggesting that King Elvis didn't die on the porcelain thrown, that the gethsemaie door was not rolled aside to find his bloated corpse amid a heap of pills and burgers with his trousers round his ankles. Clearly he sadly died, aged 42.
However, little is written on the death of twin Jessie. The admirable work chronicled in 'Bad Wisdom' where Bill Drummond and Zodiac Mindwarp set off for the North Pole to install thier icon of Elvis, a sadly failed venture.
Skreeworld has reason to believe, due to sounds heard deep under the earth, far from prying eyes, that Jessie didn't die. Jessie still lives and roams the underworld of the West Country in the Frome Shepton Bath Box area. Many times on our underground adventures have we heard a voice, a voice that has only one parallel, Elvis Presley. Yes, we have heard all those ludicros conspiracy theories claiming Elvis lives. Our more scientific work can prove that these mistakes are made when Jessie chooses to emerge from his vast subterranian empire just to check how his brothers world is getting on. Jessie is the King of the underworld. Though we have only heard the echoes of his voice passing through tunnels there is no mistaking who it is.
Our hopes are to continue our undeground search till we find the Dark King, the ruler of the underworld, Jessie.
Whilst King Elvis was banned from the waist down, poor Jessie, whos girations were banned from the surface entirely, pushed even further under. One can only guess at the sheer sexual cyber power of his girations that caused the authorities to fake is death and force him to live life like a troll. Mankind must have been so fearful of the power that, knowing Elvis could shag anyones bird, God only knows what Jessie could do?
Here at Skreeworld we will not stop, we will not fail, we will find Jessie and bring him back. And I tell you friends, wrongs will be righted. The King will walk the earth again, his brother may have feasted on pills and burgers but King Jessie has fed solely on worm and mole. Yes his skin will be white, yes he may need sun glasses but the war isn't over.
I see a day where the council of Skreeworld carry King Jessie on our shoulders in to town and you better be fucking careful not to step on his blue suede shoes.

Gary Holton RIP

I would like to say that it was Gary Holton who saved my life. I was on the way to destruction when I saw Auf Wiedersehn Pet. Wayne showed me that a carpenter was 'a cut above' and I knew I must learn a trade. Already a fan of his Tennents adverts and The Heavy Metal Kids, a great glam rock band, check out 'Delirious' on you tube or 'She's no Angel' and this shows the logical skree route from glam rock to fine woodwork, albeit that the route was clouded by drugs and punk rock. The untimely death of my hero still brings tears to the eyes.

Baby cham Bambi

The recent Wurzel tax causing strong felings in the area due to its innevitable effect on the small scrumpy makers in the area [I could see riots, though probably in fields far from citizens] has brought to mind an early Skreeworld pojec tht never came o fruition. Showerings owned the cider making buildings in Shepton Mallet, not being a local I may have a few details wrong but our side is fact. The company created Babycham, Mimosa Snowballs and other apple and pear based alcohol products. The Babycham logo, a Bambi refers to the deer abundant in the area. The place was sold to a larger cider company, Babycham fell from popularity as a drink as the drinks market was swamped with new product.
When I moved to the area, the Bambi sculpture, which I believe had been atop the factory lay in a nearby field gathering moss and algie. This struck me as tragic. No one else was doing anything about it so it became apparent that it was up to us to sort this tragedy out. The Skreeworld council gathered and we knew it must be saved. The sculpture stands some 10 feet high and same in length. We made various plans and organised transport to liberate Bambi. One plan involved carrying it to the top of ClayHill and standing it proudly there. Other, crappy ideas involved riding Bambi on a flat bed like a trojan horse in to Glastonbury.
However, I felt I had to put the dampers on all these plans. It would be akin to moving Stonehenge. So Bambi was left, though arguments ran out for weeks within the council. People were accused of lack of bottle, accused of lack of commitment to the cause yet bambi remained mouldering in her grave.
The next I knew she was back. Repainted and at the factory gates, her rightful place. If anyone can fill in the gaps, how Bambi came to be abandoned then years later reinstated, Skreeworld would be very welcome to hear. We were very close to carrying this work out and it very nearly divided the council. Time has proved our decision was right.

Kips truck

Yorkshitre Steves funeral. He wasn't someone I knew. Kip was drunk. He sorted the groups food and beer problems. He was jumped from behind by some big guy. Rebroke his ribs that had only just reformed from his tesco shoplifting incident last year. Kip rose to the challenge. Ignoring the pain he steamed in, punches flew, the fat cunt was on all fours when Kips steel toe capped boot met his face. Hospital stitches and an apology. Brother Kip is back;. Who else woulds I climb or tunnel with? Everone else has grown up. Not me and Kip. What are friends if they won't jump in for you when you are getting youir head kicked in?

Without the mighty Kipper hardly any of our adventures would be possible.when I think of him I think of the Flashing Blade intro

Acrimonious local shit

Political local shit

I never wanted to enter in to politics on the Skreeworld blog however Frome/Somerton seat is a crucial marginal. There has never been a conservative government when the tories failed to win this seat. I am an incomer. Perhaps my opinion is worth shit. I just wish to call to mind the Poll Tax riots, The Battle of the Beanfield, Nostall Priory where, refugees from recession took to the road to form an alternative society. They were crushed by Thatchers evil. The Battle of Orgreave, 8000 miners and families met 5000 coppers who road in like a medievel battle swinging truncheons at honest working men, women and children. It is easy to forget how evil Her era was. Yes times have changed, yes Blair took a coutnry to war that only a minority approved of, Blair rode a wave of global echonomic prosperity based on credit. There is much to hate in New Labour. Brown is a dour man. In our small yet pivoal consituency, the game is tory or lib dem. If you live here, and I know you have lived lives of isolated prosperty throughout all of this so it must appear largely achademic. But if, as I have , seen a woman, who has fought to feed a family on nothing smashed in the face by police baton. A generation grown from this who don't distrust but hate police, as I hate the police. A country that, due to planned constituency changes, may never see an alternative to tory rule, I beg, if you live here, vote lib dem. Brown may be drab yet he has learned his trade over many years. If it were my buisness and I had to choose twixt him and some smiley faced, inexperienced graduae who knew nothing about governance, who wou;ld I choose? This is a big decision. Small business has done well under labour. Under conservative rule it will be very rough.

Shropshire Underworld 2

Ace

Shropshire Underworld

Spotted this tunnel entry in south Shropshire today, No idea about its history, however it led to thisspotted this tunnel entrance whilst driving back through herefordshire/shropshire border. I led to this

Smackheads

They just drain your resources

The Wurzel Tax

Todas budget revealed a secret pocket of alcoholic heritage. This tax is aimed at an area with few labour seats. The many pubs that serve scrumpy at as low as a quid a pint. This last bastion of affordable pub drinking is being attacked under the banner of the war against Frosty Jack and other white ciders. When I moved to Frome I understood the beauty of cheeply produced alcohol, pubs where you could get hammered for a tenner. In the South West this has been dubbed the Wurzel tax and this is what it meens to us. Adge Cutler must be turning in his grave. We are well pissed off about this. All I can do is refer you to Adge Cutler and the Wurzels = Drink up thy cyder. Adge Cutler is a legend to many in my adopted area and I am an incomer who feels rude to tell the legend of Adge Cutler, the bard of Avonmouth. I was a child when he tragically met his untimely death. Though I have studied recordings, followed the Wurzels, met Pete Budd and Tommy Banner and talked about thier history. Briefly, for those who don't know, the Wurzels were Adge Cutlers backing band. The band had a large cult local following, as they still do, in this area. Adge was killed in a car crash after writing all the greats such as drink up thy zyder. The band decided to carry on in tribute to the bard, In some strange anomaly of 70s culture, the wurzels went on to have far greater success, much greater for a provincial band than say The Happy Mondays. Apart from Pete Budds Blackbird and perhaps the line, 'I drove my tractor through your haybarn last night' the Wurzels, and if you talk to them they confer that they are carrying the banner of Adge.
This tax will crush a pocket of english culture. There are pubs here where half the punters sit drinking flat fermented local apple juice. Tax your Magners but let us drink up our cyder and scrumpy.

Get a real job

What really pisses me off is why dont these criminals who seem obsessed with climbing ugly old architecture and get a proper job like, I don't know, furniture making or something.

Frome Tunnel Network

Box Tunnel - a bit of history

They said it was impossible to make a 2 mile rail tunnel under box hill. Isinbard disagreed. 100 men died proving the point. It cost £100 for each yard achieved. The men who survived working on its construction saw the seems of Bath stone and a huge underground quarry network is still there although boarded off. I feel sure we can get in. These tunnels were used for munitions storage and the underground station was the loading bay. This is presumably the reason for the anti aircraft structure we found. This subterrania thing is getting bigger by the day and either needs its own blog or abandoning. The scale is too much to take on and requires full time commitment.

Afterthought

3212 yards is nearly 2 miles. I have heard others have died trying to walk the tunnel so, please, just because you have read this,do not try out our project. Trains travel through there at 100mph and the timetables are not worth the paper they are printed on. Skreeworld in no way would like to encourage the activities we are engaged in. We do it so you don't have to. The prime movers of our explorations take thier life in thier hands and are a small tight body who have made blood oaths regarding our potential fatality yet believe in life as a one off opportunity to embrace activity that raises body chemistry without the use of drugs through our projects. We accept the consequences but always in full knowledge of the stupidity of our work. Death has never been far from our lives. I imagine mountaineers are of the same ilk, we are of urban extraction hence the preoccupation with the hidden manmade. Also, we are far too lazy to climb mountains.

Safely Home

Claire Bear and Tex King of the Wolves have a cuddle after safely returning from our climbing and tunneling. Isimbard, we are grateful for safe passage.

Second World War defence post

An unexpected treat of the Skreeworld Box Tunnel mission was the discovery of this 2nd world war defence post. Hidden in a copse of trees it overlooks the tunnel entrance. Judging by the size of the gun holes it was fitted with anti aircraft guns. The rail supply route for munitions from Bristol would have been a sure target for German bombers.

Inside Second World War defnce post

The size of the gun holes suggests that this was used to shoot down enemy aircraft seeking to destroy Brunels tunnel as it must have been a major munitions supply route.

Second World war anti aircraft defence post

From above the top of Box Tunnel

As we made our escape this detail caught my eye.

According to legend St Andhelm 7th century Abbot of Malmesbury threw down his glove on Hazelbury Hill 'bade men dig here and find great treasure'. He was right, Bath stone is quarried to this day.

Box Tunnel

At the top here. I had woken to a terrible depression so, being a none druggy now, I needed thrills to stimulate brain chemicals. Skreeworld always prides itself on the fact that no structure is too high, no tunnel too deep. Isinbard Kingdom Brunels tunnel fulfilled both. As all Skreeworld followers know, we are more interested in the anonymous architecture of industry. It is, however, living round here hard not to admire Brunels work. Early blog postings sang the praises of Benjamin Baker, Frome boy who designed the Forth bridge, an incredible cantilever structure. 83 men died building it. Seems like these fellas didnt care so long as thier babies were born. Brunels double skin ship, not one of his best, involved rivet hammerers on both sides of thge outer skin meening those working on the inside were in a 2 foot gap a long way from exit. Those who died were left there.

Box Tunnel looking down

Box Tunnel

Over the fences and climbed up to the top to see the architectural details. Hard to judge height but from previous adventures I reckon about 150 feet off the ground here.

Box Tunnel

Here we have made our way over three protective fences, walked down the embankment to get to the tunnel entrance.

Top detail of Box tunnel looking up

Warning sign

We werent sure which would be most dangerous, climbing or going through the tunnel. Having done both, I'd say don't try going through.

Inside the tunnel

Seems to go on forever. We were lucky as a high speed train came out just before we went in and we just made it to the other side before another came. Even with your back tight to the wall it looks like it would scratch your nose. Don't anyone try this.

Box Tunnel

Engineer Isimbard Kingdom Brunel

Constructed 1836-1841

Length 3212 yards

Cruciform

Here the Cruciform arms hold Shepton and the Catholic tunnel network under the right arm of Christ whilst the left arm, lovingly embraces all other routes. Religious iconography pointing Skreeworld in the right direction. All other routes suggests a direction for all other beliefs not registered with Skreeworld and the search for the underworld and the ongoing research in to Demonology. For any new readers, Demon comes from the word Daemon, entities that were neither malevolant nor Angelic. The Demon listings are roughly transcribed on wikipedia though the superior site is under construction.

Sprung

Drainspotting - purists only

Magnificent square peg classic Pre war. One for the purists really, none of your zig zag shenanigans. One of the oldest in Frome. Not even a company signiture though I reckon it's probably an early Stanton made between the wars. This bastard has seen it all. A quiet time traveller.

Canada Geese

Distopia

A deep sadness hangs over skreeworld today. Cashflow problems. Too rainy to work on the Towers, too dangerous to climb pylons. Heard a great scheme that I didn't have the bottle to work on. Between each pair of pylons is a huge earth cable. You need two brave men. They climb to the top of the pylons with bolt cutters. In the old days they would nod then cut, in modern times they have the advantage of the mobile phone. The coreography has to be timed to perfection. There is over 28,000 volts to deal with. Timed right, the cable drops, this is a seriously big piece of copper and at current prices has major weigh in value. You can do this miles out, in the moors, far from filth. I am scared of heights and Bath gas silo did my head in. Not only this but I am terrified of electricity, you can't see it and it can kill you. That's enough for me. I'll report how they get on.
Even killing a pigeon didn't raise my mood. He was sat in an Ash tree overlooking the river. I stealthily made my way in range shielded by the corrugated iron fence. Saw my gap, rested the rifle on a young sycamore branch, centred the scope on his armpit and shot. A straight vertical drop often meens you have just broken a wing and I hate struggling through the undergrowth to find the terrified bird to pull its neck, even though this is a quicker end than most animals endure. This bird took the 60 degree flight I have seen a few times now, it usually meens that you have hit the heart lung area and the bird is gone from peace to death in at most 4 seconds, something rare in nature, if I get a choice I would take this option. He sailed in to the river, I dropped the gun and a flurry of feathers  followed by the dead bird came from under the bridge. I ran back to the workshop to get a fishing rod but by the time I got back it had left the eddy and was floating on to private land. Fortubnately, Mag knew them and was able to retrieve the body. I felt guilty all day as the female kept returning to the tree looking for her hopeful mate however, just to give an idea of how over populated they are down here, well, everywhere, there were three suitors seeking her out before thge end of the day. This kind of work is conservation and clean meat. After the rains I saw a few rabbits that also spoil the natural equilibrium. They will be there for another day.

Subterrania update

Did some tunneling today near Shepton Mallet. The disused quarry network which has been mapped by Skreeworld though we were refused official paperwork is an ongoing project using GPS. However, todays discoveries are of a totally different network. It is Reformation era linking up several churches and reigious sites. Priestholes are common in older buidings in the area yet the scale of this labyrinth is impressive, Catholics on the run had thier escape network well sorted. Just walking with our high powered torches fills one with awe at how Catholisism was driven underground and thier candle lit journeys of escapologist terror have left thier emotional imprint in the tunnels. Our map is growing. For me the religious underground network, though smaller in size, holds a far more exciting appeal. The underground world has as much as the overground. We still havnt done the Frome tunnel network nor the Coombe Down area on the edge of Bath. It just keeps growing. We discussed creating a real underground society where we outcasts could live and oprerate, just emerging for supplies. We are under oath not to reveal our discoveries and the core group of coconspirators have sealed our commitment in blood, even when our maps are completed they shall remain closely guarded and any one wanting our maps has to be vetted by at least 2 of the subterrania commitee of 3 and must explain thier reasons for wanting to enter the underworld. The authorities are not only helpful but actively against our work so I cant reveal too much. One aspect is the MOD network where some say 5000 worked underground.
The three primary systems are the MOD network, the Reformation network and the quarry networks, these are split between three companies. There are safety issues, one of our number nearly died falling down one of the many trap pits dug to stop chasing Protestants, should they have found the tunnels. Head torch and hand torch, check floor first, ceiling next for potential cave ins then and only then, check out the walls which are of most interest.

I have also been studying the alphabrtical list of known Demons that can be found on line. The work on the underworld and my personal work on the Demon Boxes leads , innevitably to the priesthood, a body we distrust. The Exorcist who I had planned to work with on the Demon Boxes is shying off. I am looking for another Exorcist with a broad knowledge of demonology and, if possible, some historic understanding of the Catholic necessity for the priest escape network in this area. Many, when questioned, prove to be charlatans, non believers that treat Demons as paranoid fantasy. Finding the right person will be difficult. Someone who can accept our subterranian activities, demonology and the importance of this work.
The funniest moment was being told by a priest that I was living in a dream world. There he stood in ceremonial robes, I stood in steel toe capped boots, hard hat, jeans and high viz jacket. It was clear his understanding of the underworld was non existant.

Workhaus - Tank Museum

Check out tonights One Show to see work made for the Tank Museum on i player

1977

It is quite a thought that the death penalty was only repealed in France in 1981 during Francois Mitterands' first year of presidency. The last man to be guillotined was Hamida Djandoubi in 1977. The year 2000ad comic came out and Sex Pistols 'God save the Queen' reached number 1 in the British singles chart.

Skreeworld

Swindon Drain Covers

On tonights local South West news Police are confused over the theft of man hole covers in Swindon. 40 in one street alone. Skreeworld wishes to distance itself from this irresponsible activity. Previous postings have expressed our concern for the dangers of removing the plugs twixt over and underworld. This barrier must be maintained for few realise the danger from the portals opened. If you know the location of the Church of Skreeworld, best keep quiet.

Demon Box - available

Demon Box in presentation, orders now can be made. Bog Oak and Stainless Steel. Finely crafted box, guarunteed to hold all demons. Lock mechanism is a sophisticated device engineered to specific secret design ordained and garunteed by geuine exorcis of high standing, certificate of autheticity with each Demon Box. Warning; each Demon Box can only contain one Demon, any attempt by user to cram in more than one is covered by Exorcist and Skreeworld disclaimer. Order now. Limited edition 13.

Gallows Tree

For many this was the last thing they ever saw. It would do for me.

Church of Skreeworld 2

The hunt for a home for the church of Skreeworld goes on. The northern water towers proved location preclusive, the arches with long barrow innaccessable, the Derbyshire nuclear bunker was perfect until radio stations picked up the story that the bunker was going bfor a meer £500, within hours it was over £25,000. The search goes on. We feel thje answer lies underground. The tunnel networks we have been exploring are vast. Largely disused quarry rail networks. Within the year the Church of Skreeworld will have a home to practice our dark arts, forbidden sciences and lawless parties

Wooton Basset bike run

Today 10,000 bikes rode through Wooton Basset in support of the troups in Afghanistan. 5000 pilyon passengers raising well over £100,000 for families of soldiers killed in what many regard as a dubious campaign. Regardless of ones politics on the war, few could dispute the bravery nor the heartfelt loss of young lives. Seems that the bikers, often considered outlaws took time and paid money, many travelling a long way to pay thier respects, are amongst the few that recognise the suffering.

British Water Tower Appreciation Society

It has to be said the British Water Tower Appreciation society, though noble in intent arent up to much. Check out there site. Since thier last posting Skreeworld has brought you a campaign to save two towers that Yorkshire Water were selling. We tried, though failed to save these towers. Since then, we have brought you Garforth Water Tower and Connisborough water tower. I wont hark back  to past glories regarding Moortown Water Tower nor Limpley Stoke tower. In fact, there is more Water Tower action here than thier site. Skreeworld brings you more water tower action not to mention our Drainspotting campaign, our current secret work on subterrania, { we are unable to post material on this until the project is complete for legal reasons} and all sorts of other news. Water Tower Appreciation Society, pull your socks up.

Julian Temples' Detroit

Ace film. If you missed it, get on i player. And for all doubters or those who fell for the myth that the stooges invented the sound, chaeck out The MC 5 Kick Out the Jams motherfuckers. Stooges were ace but Kramers band did it first.
I want to move to Detroit and help rebuild, the end sequences of the film with the ex cons growing thier own food swhows how capitalist society just dont work, back 6to basics.
Kick out the Jams motherfuckers

The Green Mistake

Since my cooling towers project began and it was before we saw photos each day of cooling towers in the broad sheets placed there by lazy picture editors on any article regarding global warming or climate change things have changed. Though my piece was about aesthetics, nostalgia and a perception of the northern skyline, the cooling tower has become no more than the pictures of stranded polar bears on floating ice begs. This caused me to hold the work back to see how the political or nbmore accurately the medias visual presentation of the political climate changed regarding global warming. I have felt that the work would have slipped in to the green debate and been overlooked as some green statement. This isnt where I am coming from. Jeremy Rifkins recent book The Empathic Civilization takes its fundamental premise that our history is one of a struggle between empathy and entropy as polarities. His argument falls down in thinking that human empathy can defeat the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The drive toward our destruction lies not in inter government policy agreements but in the fact that, as a people we will not abandon our energy intensive civlization aligned with our innabillit to hypocritically deprive emerging nations the standard of living we have come to expect. My refusal to exhibit my cooling towers poece, a work about a piece of unused industrial architecture and its symbolism can no longer be expected to be interpreted as anything other than the lazy visual imaginations of broadsheet picture editors. I hope a day comes when this baggage is no longer there and I can show the work free of contemporary assumption. 

Green

Hadriens Wall

Tonight a series of 500 gas powered illuminations at 250 metre intervals will form a line of light across the broken length of Hadriens Wall.

Cheese run

Sadly the annual cheese roll and downhill race chace has been cancelled. Gloucestershires famous event has outgrown its home. Organisers said ' the attendance of the event has outgrown the location where it has been heald for several hundred years, last year more than 15000 people tried to attend  which is more than 3 times the sites capacity. It seems sad that this historic and peculiarly English event should be  stopped, not because of the regular casualties but brcause of the ammount who want to watch. The site is , of course sacred so moving the ewvent is out of the question but surely there must be a way , with modern technology to big screen it live as it happens as is often the case at England football games where demand foor tickets is greater than ticket allocation.

The Fall

I have had the opportunity to download leaked new Fall album but I respect his livelyhood so will wait. Getting by on 'Glitter Freeze' from the Plastic Beach Gorillaz album Featuring Mark e Smith, shoplifted from Asda. Ace track but I will pay for The Fall, you have to have a moral code or what are you? After all, Damons' got a bob or 2 where as Mark is a working lad, like me.

The Stranglers

I travelled up to Leeds to see The Stranglers. The last time I saw them was 28 years ago. They looked tired, Hugh was gouching and couldnt keep pace on his guitar. I fell from the fold.
Last night I was treated to seeing a band at the height of thier powers. They played a blinder. I saw the Stranglers 3 or 4 times back in the day, Black and White tour, Raven tour and they were excellent. Martin came with me. The Stranglers were the 2nd band I saw. As a teenager, 14, 15, they were my band. I heald them up there with Black Sabbath.
So what a joy to see that in thier 40th year they are as strong as ever.
Seeing JJ Burnel shake hands with Baz, thier new front man you could see they knew they had played a very special gig.
They play Frome in a warm up gig for Glastonbury, from which theyy were banned for years. Why? I dont know. Heroin has always dogged them. Golden Brown, a love song to the drug. Don't bring Harry, a more considered song about the drug. The history of being the hardest band, JJ Burnel still looks fucking hard. I wouldnt fight him. Dave Greenfield always elevated them to a level above thier contemporaries. Jet Black, still drumming in time at over 70 years old.
They.ve never been cool but always been brilliant.

Ferrybridge

My journey yesterday up to see The Stranglers was punctuated by beauty.

Approaching Ferrybridge

Ferrybridge as the sun goes down

There is a tragic feel to these pictures. All the pits that provided the coal in years gone buy are gone. The miners who fought the battle of Orgreave are gone. The surrounding ex mining towns nests of unemployment and serious drug abuse. A people, a culture was allowed to grow, like beehives the towns had purpose but when cheaper coal came in they were thrown on the slag heap. Now the country pays their benefits.

Full power station - Ferrybridge

Pure beauty as the setting sun plays on the cooling towers. Show me an Art Work its equal?

OK, Stonehenge, Pyramids, they're fucking powerful too but this monster of industrial experimentation of human endeavour, though man maybe took the wrong step years ago the sheer majesty is awesome.

Raw Power

Cooling Towers in the setting sun

Check out how puny the pylons look

Cooling Towers in the setting sun

We are fucking back

For all water tower fans that thought skreeworld had abandoned you just check ou these two beauties. Absolute fucking class. Grew up in Leeds but no one told me about this monster. The war of the worlds. The worlds of architectural fanct shite and the world of tue architectural glory. Fucking Come On!

Looking up Garforth Tower

Garforth Water Tower

a fucking beauty. For all Water Tower maniacs, this classic is godlike

Top of Garforth Water Tower

Between Rotherham and Doncaster

Ace water tower. So good to be back. All water tower blog followers must have been so hungry after all tge drainspotting and now 2 beauties

Conisborough Water Tower

Crown of Thorns

In carved, scrubbed and bleached oak. Sea washed look, with cast aluminium spikes. 4 foot diameter

Somebodys tears, not mine

Demon Box 1 - Sculpted, scrubbed, bleached oak with cast aluminium spikes

Demon Box 2 - Extrovert. Sculpted, scrubbed and bleached oak with Stainless steel spikes

Demon Box 3 - Sculpted, scrubbed, bleached oak with stainless spikes