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Gods and Aliens and Assassins of Youth.
In late 2019 the late, great, dearly missed Professor John Hyatt and I were talking about making some music with the soulful feel of the late 60s, early 70s proto punk bands, with socially aware protest lyrics, particularly aimed at the looming disasters of Brexit and the climate crisis. The influences were the MC5, The… Continue reading
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Revisiting this-island, a sour time regained.
Can we sidestep dangerous billionaires? Continue reading
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The Holy Mountain
For Beaker. I’ve got this friend called Kath who I’ve known since September 1984. Ours was a momentous meeting in a year of spectacular happenings. We met at Stockport College where we were both scratching around trying to get some post O Level qualifications, whilst also launching into some happy, socially hedonistic adventures that would… Continue reading
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Come on Ken!
In June 1984, on the eve of the Summer Solstice, Hawkwind played a legendary set at Stonehenge free festival. Druids were gathered at the stones awaiting the sunrise. Among their number there was rumoured to be one William Roache, Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow. Hawkwind’s saxaphone player, Nik Turner, who was a singer and frontman in… Continue reading
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Gerrunder
1988. There was a man who had a dog and he didn’t like the dog that much, the dog didn’t like the man at all but they were stuck with each other, a dog-man fusion. We saw them down the pub in the Langdale Valley where the man shouted at the dog, ‘Gerrunder!’ A rage… Continue reading
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Deirdre of the sorrows.
So it came to pass as the prophecy told, cast in the seeds of Cathbad’s toil, that three heroes would be shamed and exiled, the land and it’s people sundered and riven as warriors fought for the hand of our Deirdre of the sorrows. Of those three warriors, known as Ken, Mike and Samir, only… Continue reading
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Wonderbar!
Wonderbar! is Professor John Hyatt and his AI voice Processor Hyatt, in mystical, musical, missive collaboration with D-Moss. The videos use AI generated video imagery made by reseeding images and footage from our older collaborative works from 2011, including still images of some of John’s Watercolours, germinating them with prompts derived from emailed conversations, creating… Continue reading
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a Dream that dreams us.
‘when some thing flows in one direction, some thing else sneaks in the other direction’ John Hyatt. ‘There is no past, there is no future, there is only the Now‘ The Pilot of Bee Patrol. John Hyatt left his body and left a heartbroken world and a book full of songs. My first encounter with… Continue reading
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