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We are never serious – which makes us the most serious of all
– James Williamson, Creation Books
Creation Books was formed in 1989 by Creation Records with a brief to prise open cans of worms and guillotine sacred cows but they were unaffiliated by the time this came out. This was the first release on CodeX, part of a spoken word deal that included a Rapid Eye compilation by Simon Dwyer, but that never eventuated. This volume was curated by James Williamson except for the Mick Norman interview, that was my (Simon’s) idea!
- James Havoc‘s mocking voice weaves in and out of a hungry, looping synth track provided by Robert Young of Primal Scream…
- Geraldine Monk reads an arresting selection of poems from her book, Interregnum — an incorrigible individual and sardonic complainer…
- Exuberant, fanciful, sinsister, Hair of the Snake that Bit Me is Alan Moore and Tim Perkins’s words-and-music tribute to the macabre demi-monde of the circus, and an invite to Moore’s mysterious cabal…
- Novelists Mick Norman and Stewart Home are caught in conversation about Hell’s Angels, violence, and the Police…
- Symbolist poet Jeremy Reed reads a series of short, speculative narratives swimming in melancholy, rubbing up coldly against Tim Mitchell’s whimsical guitar…
- Profoundly deaf writer and performer Aaron Williamson works-out a torrent of sheer rage through drumming and recitation…
