Fortean Music

Mungoman said:
I do prefer The Saints...in preference to t'other...and...to quote 'The Little Aussie Bleeder' !!GAAN THE MIGHTY BLUES!!!
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One of the first performance's of a Punk or New Wave band on Top of The Pops and they were Australian not English/UK and even The Ramones never did TOTP's :)
 
Sabresonic said:
One of the first performance's of a Punk or New Wave band on Top of The Pops and they were Australian not English/UK and even The Ramones never did TOTP's :)
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It was great coverage Sabresonic -Top of the Pops - but I was very surprised to see them do it, knowing the Punk creed and ethos. I think that Mr Kuepper showed his disdain perfectly in that short fillum.
 
Mungoman said:
It was great coverage Sabresonic -Top of the Pops - but I was very surprised to see them do it, knowing the Punk creed and ethos. I think that Mr Kuepper showed his disdain perfectly in that short fillum.
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I remember from being 5 in 1976 to around 1984 loving Top of The Pops as it was a family tradition and liked of all the new sounds and looks that was on it be it Punk, New Wave, Synth Pop,Reggae and great one hit wonders etc and you would get bands which would have up to 8 members in it alongside a brass section or a Saxophone appearing.So thats why I'm doing a little bit of my own project checking out the good stuff on TOTP and then be the Old Grey Whistle test, John Peel Sessions etc.
 
As a long-term fan, and possessor of the hard-to-get album, I love this song.
It's my own perception that is to blame for my not realising sooner that there's a lot of Fortean minutae to unpack from just this one song/video:
 
OUT NOW: Mombi Yuleman - Hours Lost
dl / Pro Cdr / Tape (very limited edition of 50 copies)

https://bandcamp.us14.list-manage.c...5ab8b37d439065dd02&id=a19993ce93&e=fe1c0b73ce

In September of 1961, an event happened that would become one of the most widely publicized alien abduction cases in history. After having an encounter with a bright light in the sky that appeared to follow them on their late drive home (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US), Betty and Barney Hill pulled over and got out of the car to investigate. The light turned out to be a metallic object as big as a jet and it hovered above them. Gray beings with large eyes could be seen in the windows. Fleeing the scene, they both heard a series of buzzing sounds and lost consciousness. Upon a second series of sounds they found themselves arriving home much later with no recollection of what had happened after their encounter. Only through months of sessions through hypnosis were they able to come to understand what had happened during that missing time.
This album is inspired by these events and what happened during those hours lost.
 
I'm no musician - I couldn't carry a tune with a forklift - but when I thought of this book title, I thought it'd make for a good line in a song ...
James Tilley Matthews and the Air Loom Gang.
(Dah, dah, da-dah, da, da, dah, dah, dah, if you see what I mean.)
 
Just grabbed a copy of The Thetford Beast by Concretism (its on Castles In Space which always sells out instantly). Pretty Fortean concept, have a listen here:
https://concretism-cis.bandcamp.com/album/the-thetford-beast

Not quite equidistant between Norwich and London is Thetford Forest - a woodland tract which runs alongside the the main A11 artery between the two cities. Chris Sharp aka Concretism often stays in the area (perhaps in the nearby Linton Travel Tavern) and got to wonder whether a beast may roam the forest. In fact there has been sightings of a Thetford Beast - some say cat, some say ape - and this EP is a soundtrack to an imagined children's book about the monster. These are going to move as quick as the monster itself (quite quick) so don't miss out.
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I thought I'd mentioned this, but apparently not. Possibly my favourite Bob Marley song:


Supposedly based on an actual ghost rumour that had been doing the rounds in Jamaica.

Spooky reggae - what more could a person possibly want in their life.
 
Just grabbed the cassette (I don't even have a functional player what am I like?) of David Clarksons new 'un "A Pocket Guide to Dream Land: Faded Fairgrounds and Coastal Ghost Towns of the British Isles" - have a listen here.

Also his earlier releases are up as a full bargain price discography, all very fortean themed.

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I do need to get back into making music again, too much other crap going on of late.

Not sure I ever shared this before, mainly notable for containing Swifty's 'wanking ghost' recording.

 
New one from The Night Monitor today (see posts above)

28th November 1980. Todmorden, Yorkshire. Policeman Alan Godfrey encounters a mysterious metallic craft of unknown origin hovering above the road, stopping his ‘panda’ patrol car in its tracks. Later, under hypnosis, he describes being taken aboard the UFO where he meets a mysterious humanoid entity named ‘Yosef’, a group of eight small robots ("Ugh! Them are horrible!") and, perhaps most strangely, a folkloric black dog.

‘Close Encounters of the Pennine Kind’ is The Night Monitor’s musical evocation of one man’s strange and personal experience - a classic case in UK UFO lore, filtered via an early 1980s orchestrated synthesiser soundtrack.

Further reading:

'The Pennine UFO Mystery' by Jenny Randles (Granada 1983)
'Who or What Were They?' by Alan Godfrey (self published 2017)

releases March 3, 2023

https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com/album/close-encounters-of-the-pennine-kind
 
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