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Mingus

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I was the original guitarist in Coum Transmissions 'The Wreckers of Civilisation' when I was 15 and make an appearance on Throbbing Gristles LP '2nd Annual Report'. When the group moved to London I stayed in Hull and started to promote concerts at 'Bestobel House' 'The Block' 'The Wellington Club' and then opened 'The Tower'. Moving to London in 1984 to work as a music agent 'just to find out how it worked' and then worked with Genesis P.Orridge again as a keyboard player with Psychic TV and when Gen was offered a 1/4 million Pound deal to make a house music L.P. I came up with a concept later called 'Acid House'. I released one track on The 'Tekno Acid Beat' L.P. 'Godzilla vs the Space Mutants'. Releasing a single called 'SKIN' I formed a group called 'Safe' and we toured the UK festival circuit including 'Bala' 'Glastonbury' 'Lechlade and 'Castle Morton'. After The 'Castle Morton Festival' we played the first outdoor gig at the 'Anti M11 Road Campaign'. I was then offered a 50' narrowboat to live on and now live in an apartment in London and have started to work with 'The John Gillam Band'. I like John and his Music and would recommend listening to his stuff. John Gillam has his own site on My Space.

My Interests

Guitar, Sound and Light engineering, Gardening, Cooking.

I'd like to meet:

I've met a lot of the people I would like to have met but would love to meet Alvin Toffler the American Futurologist.

Music:

very broad tastes I think, could be wrong lol.

Movies:

Come Away 'Russian' Nikita 'French' Cheech and Chong 'U.S.'

Television:

I haven't got one anymore cause I don't want one...

Books:

Too many to list. Naked Lunch,The Outsider, The Master and Margarita,The Painted Bird, Steps and Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

Heroes:

Ha Ha

My Blog

COUM

Well the dog ran at him snarling and he did the only sensible thing he could in the circumstances and ran back into the house and slammed the door behind him. Next minute the upright letterbox started...
Posted by Mingus on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:06:00 PST

Nosferalgia

The first time I met Genesis P.Orridge I was 14 and out walking the family dog; a Labrador called Taun who was from the Polish airforce, Outside of their house was a 500cc BSA Bike with monkey hanging...
Posted by Mingus on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:31:00 PST