Hello, I would like to introduce you to an English rock band that has been missing for 23 years. TC Lethbridge are back and include members of Spiritualized, Julian Cope's band, and Brain Donor.
Automatic writing in the sacred landscape. Established 1991.
'Moon Equipped' - Recorded 1992 on board Judith, a Dutch barge on Thames at Battersea Bridge on 4 Track cassette.
'Mina' - Recorded 1993 at John
Stewart Hall, Yatesbury, Melbourne House, Avebury, also on 4 track
cassette and released to mark 100 years since T.C. Lethbridge's birth.
'2000 TC' - Recorded 1994 John Stewart Hall, Melbourne
House, The Henge Shop, Avebury, 4 Track cassette, digitally remastered
by John Davies 2014.
Flinton Chalk - Vocs, Keys, Percussion, Engineer, Producer.
Tony 'Doggen' Foster - Guitars, Keys, Lead Vocs, Digital Remaster Engineer.
Kev Bales - Drums, Percussion, Vocs,
Daniel James - Bass on 1st album.
2000 TC was written by John Higgs to mark The Cosmic Trigger play and festival performance in Liverpool. It is the story of TC Lethbridge,
who played their first gig after the play – 23
years after they formed.
2000 TC is an album recorded by TC Lethbridge in Avebury 20 years ago. It was remastered by the same person who remastered the recent Led Zeppelin reissues.
The voice on the 2000 TC track Bou Saada
is that of Brian Barritt. He makes an appearance in the book Cosmic
Trigger, when Timothy Leary tells Robert Anton Wilson that he needs to
talk to Brian if they are to both understand Aleister Crowley.
John Higgs said “This is a story about people who’ve had some form of
visionary or incomprehensible experience, and about how they can only
move on and process what happened to them through a creative act. It is about the impact an uncompleted artistic project can have on a life. It
also functions as a jigsaw piece, connecting the story in my Timothy
Leary book to the one I tell in The KLF.
So, yeah, it had to be written.
No doubt it will be made more widely
available at some point, in some format, in some way, should the band
keep gigging and putting themselves about. But until then – more about
the band here.”
John Higgs is the author of ' Our Pet Queen,' ' The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned A Million
Pounds' and ' I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary'. John also
writes fiction (as JMR Higgs) including The Brandy of the Damned and
The First Church on the Moon.
TC Lethbridge performed at The Cosmic Trigger Festival, Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, 22nd Nov 2014 around 10pm. The Set was a tribute to Brian Barritt, and started with spoken word by him.
1. BOU SAADA (2000TC)
2. LATE MARCH (New track)
3. SOAR (2000TC)
4. A PLACE FOR US (Moon Equipped)
5. THE COVE (Moon Equipped)
6. GNEISS (2000TC)
7. 4D DREAM (2000TC).
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also available
Steve Fly is a native of Stourbridge UK, now an Amsterdam resident who plays
drums, spins vinyl, writes novels and literary and cultural commentary.
He maintains a flock of websites and works in various other art forms
without visible restraint. His other music projects have included New
Flesh, Garaj Mahal, Temple Dragon band, John Sinclair and The Cosmic
Trigger Stage Play. Buy it on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/they-came-to-starburg/id935832302
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"John
Sinclair - renegade poet, scholar and cultural revolutionary.....an
Archetype of the 1960's art, music and literary synthesis, still kicking
with both feet on his trajectory for cultural transformation. Mohawk
features ten tracks from his book of verse: always know: a book of monk.
Beatnik poems, great odes and personal reflections of the Be-Bop jazz
persuasion, all flowering together."
John Sinclair is best known as the Sixties "marijuana" activist who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman. He was eventually freed when John Lennon and Yoko Ono spoke out on his behalf.
Less understood is his role as the founder and chairman of the radical anti-war group, The White Panther Party, an offshoot of the Black Panthers. The Black Panther Party was a militant political organization formed after the brutal murders of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Robert Kennedy.
The Nixon Administration and the FBI launched a secret program called COINTELPRO to disrupt and ultimately destroy the Black Panthers and the Anti-War movement. As part of this program, John Sinclair was set up and imprisoned on marijuana charges. When the government could no longer justify denying him a bond over two joints, they falsely charged him with a Federal conspiracy to blow up a CIA station, in order to make him disappear. Worth a watch: White Panther - The Legacy of John Sinclair
“The Revolution is totally committed to bringing people out of their shells and into each others arms. The music is the source and effect of our spirit flesh and we demand a free music and a free high energy source that will drive us wild into the streets.....yelling and screaming and tearing down everything that would keep people slaves” – John Sinclair
Police Bastard - "Confined" distributed by Cargo and released through reliable channels from October 6th 2014.
“Thought-provoking
monologues and confrontational lyrics bring you on a cold, doom-laden
journey of perpetual war, psychological mind control and
disillusionment.”
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ok, that's all for now,
cheers
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