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HI!! We are THE BEAUTY OF WASHING LINES publishers and BEAUTY OF RECORD LABELS music label. Please SOUNDCLICK the symbol to access INTERNET SHOPS.WE WILL PUBLISH IN MULTI MEDIA VARIOUS UP AND COMING CREATIVE PEOPLE AND THINKERS AND MUSICIANS. There will be a quarterly PAMPHLET, yearly best of E BOOK, POCKET BOOKS, SOUND CDS:Our MYSPACE site "www.myspace.com/beautyofrecordlabels" concentrates the music part of what we do:We aim to publish or record a MODERN CLASSIC by an up coming creative person.Please feel free to CONTRIBUTE either via this myspace or emailing me at "[email protected] view POEMS, ART AND WRITING from BEAUTY OF WASHING LINE CONTRIBUTORS and MYSPACEFRIENDS please see BLOGS!WASHING LINES currently being pegged out:WASHING LINE SHORT STORY currently being filmed by BURNT FILMS. Due to be premiered this year at the STAR AND SHADOW.GARETH LILLEY going into the studio in June to record 2 ALBUMS. BEST OF GARRY FRANKS and ANON poems. You can catch Gareth`s voice at the end of the GARDEN OF LOVE. Both to be released by beautyofrecordlabels.We are hoping to publish the artist TUKI subject to our e book mock up meeting his required standards.GARRY FRANKS -"THE BEAUTY OF WASHING LINES" COLLECTION. This will be printed as a signed limited luxury edition with ART WORK to tie in with an AUDIO BOOK of GARRY`S SELECTED POEMS performed by the actor GARETH LILLEY. This is DESCENT INTO HADES from the collection;////Descent Into Hades//“Part One.”//Stares into Lotus-Flower// Seconds, minutes, hours, days// Dragged out months, years, dreadful// The slitting of wrists, descent into Hades.////Red, blue, yellow// Tablets to be taken daily// Only takes a drunken mouthful// Descent into Hades.////National Anthem Flag Dress// Is laid out on Chantilly-Lace// Her doll toes peep out on mortuary slab// Descent into Hades////Screaming ad-jabs, delerium tremens// Rats claw all over you// Lost in the B.O// Of stretched out in days mattress.////Baby magnet Romeos// Where art thou Baby machine Juliets// Soon have to re-enact atmosphere// Of the taper lit, snuffed out, death bed scene////Postnatal Depression// Loved baby// Thrown against sweat damp walls// Granny knits it concrete overshoes.////Test-Tube-Baby looks around// For friends to play with// Decided he is different// Must swim with the fishes in shopping trolley pond.////Pulled by plaited hair// Onto pleated plastic sheet forensic car back seat// Begins her desperate struggle for life// Descends into Hades.////He`s hidden her calendar// Of pills and jellies// Will force another hellish brat// Into her when he staggers in from all day pub////Used to be able to recite// Multiplication tables backwards;// Premature drug-holes in his memory// Descent into Hades.////Stares at dark Satanic Mills// Having to be reclaimed again reclamation hillside// Modern technology banned// Chained to her kitchen sink////Subways “4 evas” told to sink or swim// Thrown out by graffiti wall parents// Barely keep heads above rat alley water// Circled by loan-sharks./////Always had to fall back// On ceremonial swords around here// Always had our names inscribed on them// Descent into Hades.////Joe Public jack-booting outside// Every Englshman`s home is a castle;// Saved Havens used to be able to leave heir front doors open// Descent into Hades.////Hoisted up from jungle// Into this rich in bodies estate// Will live like a Princess for a year// If she accepts missing person statistic.////Captured by movie cameras// From every conceivable angle// Pillar of society replays favourite moments// On his home entertainment system////Especially freeze framed moment// When he spurts man-milk// Through her milk-teeth// Life surpasses eyes, she prays.////“Part Two.*////*As if no spring flower springs// Back again in their pretty// Flapping anorak wings// Drenched in (abandoned all hope) downpour////*Reading anti-depression// Notes on dosage// (Fingers mouthing words)// Their blinking eyes take in no more that day////*He kisses her undernourished// Rib-cage-lips// A little bit then a tiny bit// And they forget all else.////The smallest boy in the Infants begins his fight back// Gobs in your face everything;// She pirouettes on ballet-toes// Under starry-eyed first-prize!////*Dante Inferno Canto V.////////Owned by Garry Franks 2007.////

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Member Since: 4/4/2007
Band Website: soundclick.com/beautyofrecordlabels
Band Members: Writers:Garry Franks, _the blow poet_, apollonia vitelliPerformers: Paul Fisher (Singer, songwriter, writer, photographer) , Adele Evitt (actress) , Gareth Lilley (actor) , Gary Stoodley(singer/artist) , Stephen Bowers (musician) Beccy Owen (singer/songwriter), Claire Gordan (voice), Louisa Jones (singer/musician), John Kearvell (engineer/film maker) , Lee Mountford (writer/fim maker), Mark Shilcock (Web Designer Tutor/Fim Maker/Director/animator):Friends who might join:Tuki (artist) -awaiting mock up before deciding to publish with beautyofwashinglines
Influences: Faber & Faber, Liar Republic, Poems In The Waiting Room, Ivor Russell-Watts, City Lights, Penquin Pocket Books, Red Herring (who first published me) , Tony Wilson, Malcolm McLaren, Jose Padrillo, Joni Mitchell "Blue " Album ("Green" is the saddest most beautiful song ever written), first and last self portraits (Picasso, Michaelangelo, Rembrant), Factory
Sounds Like: Up The Junction, Philip Larkin, Alan Warner-Morvern Callar, Goerge Orwell, Dora Maar, TS Eliott Prufock/Portrait Of a Lady/ Lunar Synthesis, Unedited Waste Land/ Wordsworth Prelude (1st version)/ Keats Odes/ Pound "Canto xx"/Kensington Station, Kind Of Loving Trilogy/Room At The Top/Life At The Top/Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner/Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Jane Austin, Adam Bede/ Far From The Madding Crowd/ Paul Weller, Dylan Thomas short stories, JG Ballard, Hemingway, Valley Of The Dolls, Alley May, Keith Armstrong (Dog Leap Stairs/ The "telescope" poem) Karina Porteous (Team Gut), Andy Croft, Mark Robinson,Tony Harrison film poems and "V", Tobias Hill, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Georg Trakl, Jean Cocteau, George Simeon, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Morden Poetry Tower, Basil Bunting, Tom Pickard, Kathleen Kenny, Julia Darling, Wilfred Owen, Linda France, Ruperb Brooke, Kes, John Le Carre, Andrew Tait, Blow Up/L`Eclipse, Decalog, Straw Dogs, Poor Cow, The Wicker Man, Up The Mulberry Bush, Terence Stamp autobiography, Picasso auto-portraits, Joy Division "closer", TMC, Michelangelo "final drawings"/John Tavener, Dante Inferno canto V, Sartre, Camus "The Fall", Greek Tragedy,Mona Lisait book shop Paris, Shakespeare and Company Bookshop-Paris, Kerouac, Anais Nin, John Steinbeck, Patrick Heron, Jack Low, Alex Katz, Edward Hopper, Jimmy Forsyth, Billy Brandt, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, HE Bates Love For Lydia/Darling Buds Of May, Harold Pinter/ Shakespeare Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet
Record Label: the beauty of record labels
Type of Label: Indie

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