wtf this is zany bonkers!  John cooper Clarke territory.. class. cheers for the folloe

re-incarnation as a frog

very rough cover of Sebadoh's 'Careful' from their LP 'Bakesale'...

Careful (Loewenstein/Sebadoh)

Gravetemple: Elavúlt Földbolygó (World Out Of Date)

recorded under the moniker 'Sidekick'....lyrics inspired by a very vivid drunken dream during 'Party Seacombe' period....the street's my domain...

from 3 'unfinished' (as in no time left to record/mix properly) tunes dating from 1993...recorded, over a couple of days, with the very wonderful Alan Gill (Teardrop Explodes/Dalek I) at the helm in an old thatched cottage tea-room by a lake...a magical time was had...

Demo's

Think Bike (Take 2) (Jackson)

Recorded by Politburo in New Brighton...engineered/produced by Dave Dix...1985...maybe 1986....*hazy*

Tell-Tale Heart (Jackson/Politburo)

Label press release:

"We at Owd Scrat are very proud to present our first full length LP, which is also the first by musician/artist/writer Paul Rooney under his own (full) name. In beautiful frosted transparent vinyl and CD digipack. An album of revenant songs, in which various dead people return from beyond the grave to visit their lover, play poker or haunt a toilet seat. The record features many collaborators including actor Gregory Cox, mesmerizing ethereal harmonisers Lutine, and has a cover image by artist Leo Fitzmaurice.

We at Owd Scrat are very proud to present our first full length LP, in beautiful transparent ectoplasm coloured vinyl and CD digipack, which is also the first by Liverpool UK based musician/artist/writer Paul Rooney under his own (full) name. Following on (though ten years later) from his acclaimed 2007 single Lucy Over Lancashire – a dub folklore epic narrated by a Satanic Lancastrian sprite – this long awaited album delves even further into the demonically possessed everyday. It is an album of revenant songs, in which various dead people return from beyond the grave to visit their lover, play poker or haunt a toilet seat. The record features many collaborators including actor Gregory Cox, mesmerizing ethereal harmonisers Lutine, and artist Leo Fitzmaurice, whose image graces the cover.
The narrative song lyrics range from unjustly wronged music hall ghosts (Sunday Best, Father’s Grave), or lost souls stranded on tour buses (Lost High Street), or stuck inside trumpets (Spit Valve), to a child’s voice from a film soundtrack come to restless, spectral life (Black Ear). The album’s stories recall darkly comic absurdist writers like Barthelme, Beckett or O’Brien (Flann), married to a kind of post-punk dub synth-folk. The result is gloriously unique. How about Ivor Cutler collaborating with Xiu Xiu on the soundtrack to a low budget folk-horror about stoats? Robert Ashley creating a music hall song-cycle about breath condensation with This Heat? As these comparisons reveal, this album is both hard to describe, absolutely distinct, and bloody great. And thank the undead for that."

Wire Magazine online preview of the record here: https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/46200/multimedia-artist-paul-rooney-releases-new-album

Buy here: http://owdscrat.com/futile-exorcise/

Futile Exorcise

Sunday Best

'The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog' is a 25 minute mini-album by The Seven Heads of Gog Magog.

Now available on Owd Scrat Records:
https://owdscratrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-seven-oracles-of-gog-magog

The tracks are also accompanied by a specially written blog by EF Bausor:
sevenheadsofgogmagog.org/

In the blog, tomb-dwelling 66 year-old autodidact 'poly-myth-storian' Bausor claims that the tracks are "premonitory or prophetic emanations that have issued from – or through – seven objects from University of Cambridge museums". Her seven blog posts each attempt to interpret each track's oracular 'wisdom'.

Seven

Five

Four

Three

From the mini-album The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog.

Tomb-dwelling 66 year-old autodidact 'poly-myth-storian' Emma Florence Bausor uploaded these seven enigmatic sound recordings to her website in late 2014, claiming they were gifted to her anonymously. This mini-album, accredited at Bausor's insistence to 'The Seven Heads of Gog Magog', is the first time the tracks have been released officially. 

In the course of her website blog Bausor refers to these recordings as ‘oracles’, and claims they are "premonitory or prophetic emanations that have issued from – or through – seven objects [the seven heads] from museums in Cambridge". In her blog Bausor attempts to comprehend what this idea could mean, primarily by engaging with the enigmatic lyrics of the oracles themselves, which can best be described as psychogeographic animal-peopled shamanic spirit-journey childrens story rock songs.

EF Bausor's blog is here: https://sevenheadsofgogmagog.org

The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog.

The Seven Heads of Gog Magog – Five

From the mini-album The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog.

Tomb-dwelling 66 year-old autodidact 'poly-myth-storian' Emma Florence Bausor uploaded these seven enigmatic sound recordings to her website in late 2014, claiming they were gifted to her anonymously. This mini-album, accredited at Bausor's insistence to 'The Seven Heads of Gog Magog', is the first time the tracks have been released officially.

In the course of her website blog Bausor refers to these recordings as ‘oracles’, and claims they are "premonitory or prophetic emanations that have issued from – or through – seven objects [the seven heads] from museums in Cambridge". In her blog Bausor attempts to comprehend what this idea could mean, primarily by engaging with the enigmatic lyrics of the oracles themselves, which can best be described as psychogeographic animal-peopled shamanic spirit-journey childrens story rock songs.

EF Bausor's blog is here: https://sevenheadsofgogmagog.org

The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog

The Seven Heads of Gog Magog – Two

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Songs of ordinary but haunted life.
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Sunday Best

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