POTTED FAMILY HISTORY
I have been reliably informed that I was unexpectedly conceived somewhere among the rows of trees in Norwood Park and born eight months later in Crystal Palace, South London. My parents were just 16 and 18 at the time and were part of the Rocker sub-culture. They had met at a biker cafe in Norwood High Street. My dad had a Triumph motorbike and our first home was a rented flat next to Christ Church on Gipsy Hill. We then lived at a rented property in Thornlaw Road in West Norwood, before moving to a council tower block on the Studley Estate (directly behind Stockwell tube station) and from there to the Central Hill Estate back at Crystal Palace. When I was six I got knocked down by a car and ended up with a fractured skull. And if that wasn't bad enough, my younger sister and I were driven around in a lime-green Hillman Imp. Such was the rampant child abuse of the 1970s. But some of my happiest memories include the times spent paddling in Norwood Park, walking on Clapham Common, going to the pictures on saturday mornings at the Brixton Astoria, playing on the swings in Sydenham Wells and climbing onto the dinosaur island in Crystal Palace Park. I spent my teenage years in the East Sussex village of Jarvis Brook, near Crowborough, before moving back to South London. My mother's side of the family all originate from the Palace area and are related to Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the famous architect and inventor. My father's side hail from nearby East Dulwich and West Norwood and are proud descendants of the Clan Maclean (Motto: 'Virtue Mine Honour'), who still have their ancient seat at Duart Castle in the Western Isles of Scotland. The Christian mystic, St. Columba, was a Maclean and so were the last two abbesses at the monastery on the island of Iona, where traditional Celtic Christianity once held out against the liturgical imperialism of Papal Rome. Maclean, in the original Gaelic, means 'son of the servant of St. John' and my great-great-grandfather, Hay McLean, lived in Banffshire (Moray) in the very far north of Scotland, where Malcolm II defeated the Danish Vikings in 1014. Prior to that his father and my great-great-great grandfather, Francis McLean (b.1810), was an agricultural scholar who came from the tiny highland village of Rothes beside the River Spey. This is also in Banffshire and home to no less than five whisky distilleries, so obviously a very sensible place to live. My great-great-great grandmother was Isabella McLean (b.1811) from the nearby village of Old Deer near Peterhead (Aberdeenshire). After the sixteenth-century Reformation, the Scots in that area remained Catholic and suffered heavily for their resistance. Isabella McLean (who also had a daughter of the same name) was probably named after Queen Isabella of Catholic Spain. During the bitter struggle against the English in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Banffshire Scots first opposed William of Orange and then went on to become defiant Royalists in the cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie. A great many Macleans died in the ensuing battles, perishing in the English-led massacres at Glencoe (February 1692) and Culloden Moor (April 1746). Others lost their lands in the bitter years of the Highland Clearances. But it was to be Hay McLean and his wife, Elizabeth Gilmour, who eventually moved down to Change Alley (now Dunkirk Street) in Norwood and my family as a whole has lived in the same area for at least eight generations. My grandfather, Francis Southgate (1925-2008) was in the Home Guard and then went on to become an amateur boxer in the Royal Navy. As a boy he used to follow non-league side Dulwich Hamlet and then went on to support Palace's arch-rivals Millwall, so putting up with all the banter that came with it probably helped to sharpen my wits. Finally, my grandfather on my mother's side was Edward Price who, in the 1940s, lived directly opposite the Crystal Palace itself in Farquhar Road and therefore we have some Welsh blood in the family. My mother's line also runs all the way back to the owners of the now-defunct Bull Brewery in New Zealand and, perhaps less glamorously, to the grim confines of St. Luke's workhouse.
SOUTH LONDON
http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk
http://www.norwoodsociety.co.uk/
http://www.dulwichsociety.org.uk/
SCOTS ANCESTRY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacLean
http://www.maclean.org/
http://www.gillean.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Deer
VOCALIST/GUITARIST/PERCUSSIONIST WITH H.E.R.R. (UK/NL)
http://herr.tegendemuur.nl
http://www.myspace.com/herrenliga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.E.R.R.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/h-e-r-r/
VOCALIST WITH SEELENLICHT (UK/GERMANY)
http://www.myspace.com/seelenlichtmusic
VOCALIST WITH HOROLOGIUM (UK/POLAND)
http://machtmuzik.blogspot.com/
GUEST VOCALS FOR VON THRONSTAHL (GERMANY)
http://www.vonthronstahl.de/
GUEST VOCALS FOR DAYS OF THE TRUMPET CALL (GERMANY)
http://www.myspace.com/thedaysofthetrumpetcall
GUEST VOCALS FOR SAGITTARIUS (GERMANY)
http://www.myspace.com/marblecliff
GUEST VOCALS FOR SURVIVAL UNIT (SWEDEN)
http://somrec.com/survivalunit/
GUEST VOCALS FOR ERICH ZAHN (HOLLAND)
http://http://www.myspace.com/erichzahn
GUEST VOCALS FOR SISTRENATUS (CANADA)
http://www.myspace.com/54212349
GUEST VOCALS FOR ACROSS THE RUBICON (POLAND)
http://www.myspace.com/acrosstherubiconatr
GUEST VOCALS FOR BONEBOUND (ITALY)
http://www.myspace.com/interumtape
GUEST VOCALS FOR OUROBOROS (ITALY)
http://www.myspace.com/marcogrosso
GUEST VOCALS FOR DESERT DIVINITY (ITALY)
website forthcoming
GUEST VOCALS FOR OLLIN (POLAND/US)
http://www.myspace.com/ollinband
GUEST VOCALS FOR ELVATORIUM (Poland/US)
http://www.myspace.com/elvatorium
FORMER VOCALIST, THE DISTORTIONS (1982-83)
FORMER VOCALIST, THE BANANA SKINS (1983-84) FORMER VOCALIST, THE TOOT 'N' SKA MEN (1989-90)
FORMER BACKING VOCALIST, BUGSY MALONE (1990-1991)
HISTORY/THEOLOGY GRADUATE, UNIVERSITY OF KENT (1994-1997)
http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/where/canterbury/
EDITOR, SYNTHESIS WEBZINE
http://www.rosenoire.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rose-Noire/
MEMBER, WODEN'S FOLK
http://www.wodensfolk.org.uk/
BOOKS PUBLISHED
'Tradition & Revolution' (Integral Tradition Publishing, 2007)
MAINSTREAM ARTICLES PUBLISHED
Oxford University Press, Routledge, Arnold
HOME-EDUCATOR
http://www.education-otherwise.org/
REAL ALE DRINKER
http://www.camra.org.uk/
LIFELONG SUPPORTER OF CRYSTAL PALACE F.C.
http://www.cpfc.co.uk
DISLIKES: Fascism, capitalism, communism, liberal democracy, Americanisation, internationalism, globalisation, Zionism, statism, bureaucracy, centralisation, humanism, vivisection, ecological devastation, the myth of egalitarianism, materialism, dogmatism, ignorance, Coca Cola/MuckDonalds junk culture, the work ethic, busybodies and jobsworths, pub misers, the cult of celebrity, horrible little chavs and other nite-klub fashion victims who can't think for themselves, Brighton & Hove Albion, Charlton Athletic.
You scored as Friedrich Nietzsche. Well you're an egotistical maniac, and you are so very iconoclastic that you probably are currently lost in a post-modern Jupiter, I mean jungle of self-definition.Don't let it get you down though, someday, through a willful onslaught of reinterpretation of dated forms and ideas, you will strike on something that passes as remotely new, and people WILL be into it on the basis of how hip it is alone. Also, the average espresso drinker looks up to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
83%
Miyamoto Musashi
67%
C.G. Jung
67%
Adolf Hitler
58%
O.J. Simpson
33%
Steven Morrissey
33%
Jesus Christ
33%
Dante Alighieri
33%
Elvis Presley
0%
Charles Manson
0%
Mother Teresa
0%
Hugh Hefner
0%
Sigmund Freud
0%
Stephen Hawking
0%
What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?
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You scored as Martin Heidegger. You are Martin Heidegger. You are a very wordy person that believes we classify objects by their function, and that community is essential. Once we are in a community, then it is possible for us to differentiate ourselves.
Martin Heidegger
79%
Friedrich Nietzsche
57%
Not An Existentialist
57%
Albert Camus
43%
Soren Kierkegaard
43%
Jean-Paul Sartre
29%
Which Existentialist Philosopher Are You?
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You scored as Anarchism,
Anarchism
100%
Fascism
83%
Communism
67%
Nazi
67%
Socialist
67%
Green
67%
Republican
50%
Democrat
33%
What Political Party Do Your Beliefs Put You In?
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.. You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
Cultural Creative
88%
Romanticist
75%
Fundamentalist
63%
Idealist
50%
Modernist
44%
Existentialist
38%
Postmodernist
25%
Materialist
13%
What is Your World View?
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What Greek God or Goddess Are You Your Result: Zeus Zeus- Greek God and Ruler of the Olympian Pantheon the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder, in Greek mythology. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull and the oak.
Ares
Hades
Hera
Dionysus
Athena
Aphrodite
Tara
What Greek God or Goddess Are You
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You are The Sun
Happiness, Content, Joy.
The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.
Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.
The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the long dark night, Apollo to the Moon's Diana. A positive card, it promises you your day in the sun. Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. As the moon symbolized inspiration from the unconscious, from dreams, this card symbolizes discoveries made fully consciousness and wide awake. You have an understanding and enjoyment of science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.
What Tarot Card are You?
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Oh Lord, I pray thee do not let me die
In a bed with sheets and blankets piled upon
And with dripping noses about me.
Nay, smite me someday without warning,
That headlong I fall into the forest some place
Where no one will come around nosing.
I well know the forest, I am its son,
It will not deny my humble request
To die on its cranberry bog.
Thus will I give back without word of complaint
My mighty cadaver to its creatures all,
To the crows, the rats and the flies.
- Knut Hamsun