Manchester Bib & Braces Theatre production of Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" filmed in 1984 - written and directed by Gavin Richards who also plays the "madman"
One year passed since John Murphy's death and Notes From
Chaos takes a look at some of his works, associations and collaborations
dividing the 2 hour podcast into two sections: First hour focused in
the 80's and the second hour in the 2000's paying tribute to one of the
most active and multifarious musicians in Australia. The episode's
sounds varied from New Wave (The Associates) and industrial (Lustmord)
to Neofolk (Death In June & Boyd Rice's Scorpion Wind) including
bands being member like Knifeladder and Last Dominion Lost and less
known collaborations with Espectra Negra (which i thank her for her
contribution) and Australian experimental band Gum.
R.I.P. John Murphy (1959 - 2015)
Tracklist:
Whirlywirld - Signals (Whirlywirld 7" / Missing Link / 1979)Current 93 - A Visit To Dogland (V/A - The Fight Is On LP / L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords / 1985)The Associates - Nude Spoons (The Peel Sessions LP/CD / Strange Fruit / 1989)
Gene Loves Jezebel - Screaming (For Emmalene) (Screaming (For Emmalene) 12" / Situation Two / 1983)
John Murphy - Father Of Skins-Panik (V/A - Garbage Sandwich 4CS / Beast 666 Tapes / 1992)
Lustmord - Comahon Q.Q. Comahon (Paradise Disowned LP / Side Effects / 1986)
Orchestra Of Skin & Bone - Glory (Untitled LP / Major Records / 1986)
Krank - Scry (Live) (Chaos CD / Dark Vinyl Records / 1991)
Gum & John Murphy - Blood On The Floor (20 Years In Blue Movies And Yet To Fake An Orgasm LP / Not On Label / 1988)
Andrew King & The Oval Legionary Chorale - Legionnaire In Algiers
(V/A - Tutti A Casa! Ain Soph Tribute 2CD / Hau Ruck! SPQR / 2003)
Last Dominion Lost - Ritual In The Dark (Snowdrops From A Curate's Garden LP / The Epicurean / 2015)
Espectra Negra & John Murphy - Offering To Sanwa-Dupa (Savage Justice CS / Self-Released (Espectra Negra) / 2013)
Gerechtigkeits Liga – Justice (Dystopia LP / Zyklus Records / 2011)
Naevus - Like Arms (Behaviour CD / Operative Records / 2002)
Browning Mummery - Sutured (Chants Of The Bardo Engine MP3 / Self-Released / 2015)
Wertham - Man-Ho'-Rexia (Maladolescenza 7" / Deathangle Absolution Records / 2014)
Knifeladder - Red Drum (Organic Traces CD / Operative Records / 2002)
Foresta Di Ferro - Harmony Of Pen And Sword (Bury Me Standing CD / Hau Ruck! / 2003)
Scorpion Wind - The Cruelty Of The Heavens (Heaven Sent 2LP / Twilight Command/New European Recordings / 1996) + John Murphy - My Father of Serpents
I paint astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs. Stanley
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, well before I was
born, so I have no firsthand knowledge of how it was received. I don’t
know if people really believed we'd be living in space in 2001, if we'd
have robot butlers and flying cars, geodesic lunar homes, and
genetically reconstituted dinosaurs helping or eating us. But from Lost
in Space to the Jetsons to Jurassic Park, it seems that popular culture
has fostered this space-age perception of the future. Generations raised
on these TV shows, movies, comic books, and novels are now grown and
living in a future filled with mini vans, Starbucks, iPads, and Hip Hop
videos. In many ways, the year 2001 failed to live up to expectations.
And yet the world today is peculiar in ways unimagined in 1957, when
Sputnik was launched, or in 1968, when 2001 was released, or even in
1994, at the dawn of the internet. The present is in fact a very unusual
place, and it's strangest in the ubiquity of things we take for
granted. The astronaut in my paintings is simply here to explore the present Via
