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Tony Compulsion

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About Me

About me:
I'm a 36 year old widowed parent of two wee children. They keep me busy during the day, and in the evening I listen to music, read books and watch the occasional film. I live in a small village not too far from Glasgow, Scotland.
About Compulsion online:
Compulsion primarily focuses on post-industrial and related musics covering folk, noise and experimental music with various sojourns into other areas. Compulsion online features interviews, live reviews, and articles. The site is updated monthly with reviews, and details of new releases and live dates.
Compulsion online features reviews/interviews/images of music, art and unpopular culture. Artists featured include: Antony & The Johnsons, Coil, Chris & Cosey, Michael Cashmore, Carter Tutti, Current 93, Death In June, Futon, Matt Howden, KnifeLadder, Matmos, Rose Mcdowall, Ostara, Sol Invictus, Thighpaulsandra, David E. Williams, Wire, Joe Coleman, Coop, Aleister Crowley, Gilbert & George, Frank Kozik, Austin Osman Spare. There’s also material on the films: Performance and The Wicker Man.
Compulsion online can be found at: www.compulsiononline.com
Compulsion online grew out of the respected printed magazine Compulsion. Three issues were published during the nineteen-nineties before the publication moved online. Compulsion featured extensive and informative interviews with Coil, Death In June, Blood Axis, Changes, Foetus, Scorn, Mother Destruction, Lemonheads, Jim Rose, Nine Inch Nails, Boredoms, David Tibet on Tiny Tim, Sol Invictus, Somewhere In Europe, Whitehouse, Jim and Debbie Goad of Answer Me!, Manson archivist and film-maker John Aes-Nihil, label spotlights on Charnel House, The Grey Area of Mute Records.
Back issues of Compulsion can be purchased from the editorial section of our website at www.compulsiononline.com
Items for review can be posted to:
Compulsion, PO Box 19577, Kilbarchan, Johnstone, PA10 2WX, Scotland, UK

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Lost loved ones...failing that a rich benefactor would be nice.

Music:

Adam and the Ants, Allerseelen, Marc Almond, Angels of Light, Antony & the Johnsons, The Archies, Associates, Backworld, Beach Boys, Bobby Beausoleil, Belle and Sebastian, Big Black, Black Sun Productions, Blood Axis, BMX Bandits, David Bowie, Butthole Surfers, Isobel Campbell, Carter Tutti, Michael Cashmore, Nick Cave, Changes, Chris & Cosey, Coil, Julian Cope, Crash Worship ADRV, Crisis, The Crystals, Current 93, Cyclobe, Death In June, De Salvo, Alex Fergusson, Fire and Ice, Foetus, Foresta Di Ferro, Gavin Friday, Futon, Serge Gainsbourg, Getting the Fear, God, Godflesh, Lesley Gore, IANVA, Into A Circle, The Jam, Jesu, Joy Division, Andrew King, KnifeLadder, Labradford, Larsen, Legendary Pink Dots, Lemonheads, Liars, Loop, Love, Billy Mackenzie, Charles Manson, Matmos, Joe Meek, Mekon, Minty, Momus, Mother Destruction, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Naevus, Nancy and Lee, Nature and Organisation, Jack Nitzsche, NON, Pan Sonic, Pantaleimon, The Paris Sisters, The Pop Group, Psychic TV, Boyd Rice, The Ronettes, Scritti Politti, The Shangri Las, Shellac, Sigur Ros, Six Comm, Soft Cell, Sol Invictus, Sorrow, Phil Spector, Mark Stewart, Strawberry Switchblade, Sugarcubes, Suicide, Swans, Sword Volcano Complex, Tactile, Terminal Cheesecake, Thighpaulsandra, Throbbing Gristle, Velvet Underground, Virgin Prunes, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Waldteufel, Scott Walker, Werkraum, While Angels Watch, David E. Williams, Wire, Zos Kia, various post-industrial and experimental type things, and lots of sixties girl groups, Northern Soul stuff...

Movies:

The Wicker Man, Performance, The Servant, The Night Porter, Death In Venice, A Girl On A Motorcycle, Psychomania, Lucifer Rising, Jubilee, The Last of England, Deliverance, Witchfinder General, Don’t Look Now, Kes, A Taste of Honey, Quadrophenia, Scum, Walt Disney films...

Television:

Six Feet Under, Our Friends In The North, Blackpool...

Books:

J.G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, James Ellroy, Alasdair Gray, Brion Gysin, Stewart Home, Chuck Palahnuik, Iain Sinclair, Colin Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson...

Heroes:

Not so much heroes but people who I never tire of include:
Art:
Joe Coleman, Frank Kozik, Coop, Gilbert & George, Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, Savage Pencil, Mark Ryden, Franko B., Henry Darger, Norbert H. Kox, Vonn Stropp, William Blake

General:
Adam Ant, Joe Orton, Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Boyd Rice, Nick Bougas, Adam Parfrey, Jim Goad, Anton LaVey, John Aes-Nihil, Peter Gilmore, Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth Williams, Donald Cammell, Andrew Loog Oldham, Marianne Faithfull, Austin Osman Spare, Grant Morrison, Bill Drummond, John Waters, David Tibet, Douglas P., Michael Moynihan, Bee, Rose McDowall

My Blog

compulsion online march update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Fire + Ice - BirdkingLittle Annie and Paul Wallfisch - When Good Things Happen To Bad PianosMariae Nascenti - Raise Your Paws To The Sky And Break The TruceSouth Satu...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:59:00 PST

compulsion online february update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: A Challenge of Honour / Der Feuerkreiner - Iberia 2007 Acolytes Action Squad - Winkle TimeC.C.C.C. - Chaos Is The Cosmos Futon - Painkiller IANVA - L'Occidente Rose M...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:25:00 PST

compulsion online january update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Carter Tutti - Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether Grimbergen - A Lonely PlaceRose Rovine E Amanti - Early and Unreleased Songs TenHornedBeast - The Sacred Truth Wire -...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:10:00 PST

2007: Oh, Ill remember that

What a year that was. I started as a widowed parent and thanks to an old Scot's law, some wonderful family, friends and acquaintances and kind-spirited professionals, and a day in the highest court of...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:01:00 PST

compulsion online october update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Current 93 with Sebastian Horsley - Dandy In The Underworld Konstruktivists - Dark OdysseyKonstruktivists - Back To Black Shinjuku Thief - The Scribbler Waldteufel - ...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:27:00 PST

compulsion online september update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Angels of Light - We Are HimThe Fields of Hay - Songs For Nine LadiesInanna - Day Ov TormentLux Interna - God Is Not Dead For The Birds Shellac - Excellent Italian Gr...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:22:00 PST

compulsion online update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Bisclaveret - Psyche Nomine Foetus - DampJesu - ConquerorLes Sentiers Conflictuels & Andrew King - 1888 Teatro Satanico - Muzakiller   FEATURED ALBUM AND IN...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:33:00 PST

compulsion online march update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Changes - A Ripple In Time Formication - The Untitled Wasdale RecordingsLady Morphia - Essence and Infinity Purest Spiritual Pigs - Purest Spiritual Pigs Alasdair Rob...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:27:00 PST

compulsion online february update

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Death In June - The World That Summer, 20th Anniversary Edition 1986-2006Michael Gira - Songs For A DogHERR - Vondel's LuciferMerzbow - F.I.D. Z'ev / Francisco López ...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:44:00 PST

compulsion online january 2007

NEW REVIEWS ON COMPULSION ONLINE: Allerseelen / Sangre Cavallum - Barco Do VinhoSally Doherty and the Sumacs - Edge of SpringSilence & Strength - Opus ParacelsumSol Invictus, Rose Rovine E Amanti,...
Posted by Tony Compulsion on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:26:00 PST