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I am an Anarcho-Socialist who believes that we are in desperate need of a second industrial revolution in order to transfer to environmentally safe methods of propulsion & production. I am an internationalist & a situationist. I am utterly opposed to international warfare & believe no country has the right to occupy another. I believe in every human being's right to migrate around the planet without restriction. I am opposed to factory farming & am a great believer in reforestation.
Now for some verse.
A dragon chewed us up in its mouth
& spat us out of a club.
All we could do was sit in the car
& pass round the ready rub.
A girl had walked outside of her body.
The walls were out of sight.
My head was raised to an upper hell.
It burned extremely bright.
Psylocibin & Salvia.
You can be sure they'll rock you.
Psylocibin & Salvia.
Turn inside out what you do.
My feet turned to liquid
as I looked through the gates of death.
Therein I walked around in heaven
within a single breath.
An orange fragmentation
repeated like a spine.
It coiled & arced & then uncoiled
with a yellow fiery shine.
Psylocibin & Salvia.
You can be sure they'll rock you.
Psylocibin & Salvia.
Turn inside out what you do.
As I looked through the gates of death
it became quite clear.
Disconnection from my body.
The world became unclear.
I felt as though I had been plugged
into the overmind.
I felt responsible & irresponsible
all at the same time.
Psylocibin & Salvia.
You can be sure they'll rock you.
Psylocibin & Salvia.
Turn inside out what you do.
A BUNCH OF THIEVING SQUADDIES SACK
THE OLDEST CITY IN IRAQ.
U.S. TRUCKS LOAD UP THE OIL.
BLACK GOLD'S NOW THE WAR-TIME SPOIL.
U.K. U.S. TORTURE GANGS
HOG-TIE LOCALS BY THE HANDS.
CRIMES WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE
SUPPOSEDLY DEMOCRACY.
WOMEN STRAP THEIR BOMBS ON TIGHT.
PULL A RIP-CORD & IGNITE.
AVENGE THEIR KIDS WHO DIED OF FRIGHT.
DIED OF SHRAPNELL, BOMBS & SHITE.
CORPORATIONS STRIP THE WEALTH.
ENDANGERING A NATION'S HEALTH.
BRITISH TOMMY G.I. JOE
THEY'RE THE FREEDOM LOVER'S FOE!
Set the scene. We are obscene.
We don't like the sensors idea of clean.
We step out without a doubt
about the necessity to scream & shout.
Our love is strong it can't be wrong
to bring on the govern-mental swan song.
Chase 'em hard it's your back yard.
Liberate & generate the food for the starved.
The only way that this is done
is to make sure we've got the free market on the run.
One day I'm sure they'll be no war
& we can all be equal & get down on the floor.
Don't worship your new god & your new god is money.
You worship your new god & your new god is money.
Don't worship your new god & your new god is money.
You worship your new god & your new god is money.
ALL THE DEMONS & THE FIRES OF HELL
COULDN'T PENETRATE A BUREAUCRAT'S SHELL
WHEN THEY'VE GOT THAT SELF-HATRED SMELL
& THEY'RE SUFFERING A DULL-BRAIN SPELL.
SATAN'S HOARDS COULD NEVER HAVE DARNED
A SET OF CRACKS IN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND
IN A SYSTEM THAT IS NEVER ALARMED
BY THE LIST OF PEOPLE IT HARMED.
IT TAKES A DEVIL OF ITS OWN DEGREE
TO DENY THE RIGHT TO BE FREE.
ENSLAVING A GLOBE'S ECONOMY
FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER CUP OF TEA.
THIS DEVIL STOOD ON CAPITAL HILL.
FED OFF OF OIL IN ITS SATANIC MILL.
CLAIMED TO BE THE REALITY PILL
IN ITS DESIRE TO KILL & KILL.
SATAN REARED HIS HEAD & KISSED GEORGE BUSH.
SAID TO GEORGE “GIVE THE BUTTON A PUSHâ€.
GEORGE WAS CAUGHT IN A GENOCIDE RUSH.
POLITICIANS CAUGHT IN A BAY OF PIGS BLUSH.
INSANE HUSSEIN WHO'S TO TELL.
ANOTHER STOOGE THE C.I.A. FORGED IN HELL.
KEEPING UP THE COLD WAR ECONOMY.
PERPETUATING ARMS DEALS INDEFINATELY.
Short printed skirt & all-purpose boots.
She don't wanna flirt & understands her roots.
Make a sexist comment & she'll kick you in the nuts.
Liberte the only way with no ifs & buts.
She's a teenage drug dealing woman
She decides her partners no matter what their sex
She's into multi-media & radical FX
Revolutionary with bosses who she'll vex
If she's a witch I'd willingly be put under a hex
She's a teenage drug dealing woman.
Short printed skirt & pierced body parts.
Dances with a vigour as soon as music starts.
Takes on capital & exploitation.
Interprets the city with a riot education.
Standing in the precinct.
Coloured stone so distinct.
Perception is so succinct.
I got a twisted instinct.
A police van pulls up near.
A siren I did not hear.
“Where you been boy now tell me where?â€
They appear I am not scared.
My friend replies with laughter.
Does she know what they're after?
Do they know what we are after?
Do we know what they are after?
Do we know what we are after?
Do they know what they are after?
A penny farthing cycles by.
I see the owners staring eye.
He cycles on & I turn my head
The law it walks away instead.
My friend & I we run away.
Live to fight another day.
She shouts aloud in liberty.
We swim away in the asphalt sea.
Do they know what we are after?
Do we know what they are after?
Do we know what we are after?
Do they know what they are after?
At present, apart from High Cigar, I am playing music with The Druid's Revenge Collective and Not The Only Clown In The Village."The Druid’s Revenge Collective" is a jamming beatnik orchestra with a fluctuating line-up from week to week. Anywhere from between 10 and 20 poets and musicians gather every Tuesday at various locations to play and record 21st Century hybrid music with instruments ranging from guitars, bass guitars, Djembi drums, clarinets, saxophones, tin whistles, recorders, Jew’s Harps, Keyboards, harmonicas, clackamores, trombones, trumpets, flutes, aguiras, octave flutes, and more vocal styles than you could shake a stick at. Members often include myself on percussion, clarinet, whistles, tenor recorder, harmonica and vocals, Bertie on trumpet, Nik Turner on clarinet, saxophone and flute, Betty on clarinet, Steve Pyatt on octave flute, harmonica, percussion, Jew’s Harp, Nohj on guitar, Andrew Kitchen on Bass, Gentleman Jim ..boards, Dai Wyn Jones on guitar and trombone, Jan on sax, Gareth on sax, Tuesday on trumpet, Cliff the Riff on electric guitar and the stringmeister Mr Pete Wey on guitars plus, and not forgetting Ervine the Bard on Space Poetry.
Craig's inaugural gig with The Clowns was at The Queen's Hall in Narberth, West Wales in Dec 2007 in front of a couple of hundred punters, largely of the teenage variety. Sendelica, Order 66, Regime and The Monty Pirates were also on the line-up. Craig compered the event and gave away chocolate Santas on sticks, Hawkwind and Devo DVDs, clown masks and tangerines as big big prizes.. "Not The Only Clown in The Village" have been through a few line-up changes over the two years since their creation at the beginning of 2007. Jonsky out of the band Leggofingers played bass for a while and Jason out of Johnny Action Finger and The Monty Pirates has guested on bass and guitar. Nik Turner has also guested on saxophone and flute. At the start of 2008 a new line-up reared its head. Robin Benson {anchor man of TidyLike Records and The Narberth Rock School} on guitar and vocals, Tess {formerly the singer with Brother Vegetable} on drums, melodica, accordian and vocals, Bowen {guitarist of Order 66} on bass and Craig High {State 53, Psycho's Mum, Dangerous Bend Mirrors, Weird Happenings, Fuzznation, Whip The Minister, Revoltage, Sunsnake, High Cigar, The Missing Puddings and Pnevma amongst others} on vocals, clarinet, tin whistle, tenor recorder, percussion and harmonica. Our first gig with the 08 line-up was at Letterston Memorial Hall in West Wales on Match 8th. Robin on guitar, bass, vocals and kazoo, Tess on melodica, accordian and drums, Craig on vocals, clarinet, tin whistle and percussion, Bowen from Order 66 on guitar and bass, Nik Thunder Rider Turner of Hawkwind and Inner City Unit fame on sax and flute and Ervine The Bard reciting space poetry. 2008 saw this Dubfolk Punk ensemble play a plethora of interesting events. Some included The Blue Rock Festival in The Preseli Mountains of West Wales, The Triple C Classic Truck Traveller's Free Festival in Camarthenshire, The Queen's Hall in Narberth, on the same line-up as such local luminaries as Sessionhead, Supergene and Johnny Action Finger, The Cardigan Castle Cafe Cellar Bar with the Surf-Punk band The Ray Guns and a sustainable energy traveller's conference in the town hall in Newport near Fishgaurd. The Clowns also played Bonkersfest in and around Camberwell Green in London as part of The Mad Pride organisation. Other bands on the bill included Gertrude, Powersteppers {ex Zion Train}, Unity and Devision, Fuck Off Batman and the inimitable Maggie Nichols. In 2009 we have yet another line-up. Craig and Robin are still in Not The Only Clown. Raggin Charlie {from Raggin Richard and the same family as Ollie from OK, Monty Pirates and Johnny Action Finger, Alice from Johnny Action Finger and The Monty Pirates and Glen from the Psych band Sendelica} is now on drums and Catagramma Zelphante is now on Bass. Catagramma also plays bass with Craig in The Druid's Revenge Collective. The Clowns have one cd released featuring Robin, Craig and Jason Action Finger. The LP {"Smilin Yer Cancer"} was released as a tribute to Robin's brother Ben who has died of cancer. His attitude and resilience was an inspiration to us all. The Clowns are poised and ready to graduate into a squeaky nose wearing, long shoed, flashing bow tied bunch of bedlamite Anarchists exploding their clown car at a venue near you! The last couple of years concluding this, the first decade of the twenty first century, will see the rise of the clown as an antidote to CCTV surveilance if we have anything to do with it. Uncle Yuk Yuk has been hatched! www.myspace.com/ntocitv
I am writing copius amounts of autobiographical, semi-autobiographical & Fictional literature. Along with other writers and artists I am at present about to publish a compilation of stories involving the transgenderational assassin Jerry Cornelius who is the creation of the godfather of multiverse fiction Mr Michael Moorcock. Michael has provided us with an introduction and this project is almost complete thanks to his encouragement and support. For some of the stories in this mammoth exploration into the twisted head-spaces of various time-streams visit the blog section of this site. Take a Cornelius trip! Turn on, tune in and freeeeeek out! A Craig High Production
The above two films featuring the music of Not The Only Clown In The Village were made by Dave Eyre http://www.myspace.com/vjflickeringlight