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The Third Policeman read by Patrick Magee

Thacker Mountain tribute cd

One from the Vaults is a new trans history podcast. Join us for our pilot episode as we take a look at the mystery of Lou Reed's transsexual girlfriend Rachel.

Sources:
http://www.jaynedoll.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/loureed.html
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/rachel_lou_reeds_transsexual_muse
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-morons-guide-to-lou-reed
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mkG7Y6_J7pUC&pg=PA155&dq=rachel+lou+reed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yeNwUvjdMu6p0AWQ_4GgDg#v=onepage&q=rachel%20lou%20reed&f=false
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/01/last-waltz-wild-side-lou-reed


OFTV 1: Whatever Happened To Rachel

Obey the Mandrill: https://www.facebook.com/mandrillifesto

MANDRILLIFESTO
In times of national demise, speaking historically,
the mulch of crumpled dream and culture is a laboratory,
that breeds outrageous saviours and monsters without warning; 
Cromwell, Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Jeremy Corbyn – 
emerging from a broken world to find a hole they can fill,
cometh the moment; cometh the Mandrill.

This greed and gore emporium is not how life was meant to be,
with franchises and fads reheated from a previous century,
and nothing new, a neutered future on the retro record deck,
that’s stuck and endlessly repeating in a firebombed discotheque. 
Your TV’s in a coma and you can’t get it to wake up.
What you need is a dictatorial baboon in makeup.

Overstated, aggravated and horrifically mutated,
here to see that you’re berated. What’s the last thing you created?
All those logos on your raiment, brand-name badges of enslavement,
drip-fed passive entertainment. Was this your intended statement?
When you have nowhere left to stand you'll have to take one.
If there’s no culture in the land then you must make one. 
Psychopathic, charismatic, I could go on but don’t need to:
as the higher primate it’s my long-awaited fate to lead you.
You have no choice but me, so please do not suggest so.
Hear now the poetry of my Mandrillifesto!

The light of burning corporations will repaint the sky in grenadine. 
There’ll be billions of banners and Art Nouveau butterfly bombers like this world has never seen before. 
We’ll march on ugliness and stupidity. 
We’ll make loveliness compulsory. 

And the roar of our orchestra engines will soar evermore in a glorious annihilating symphony, for the tyranny of beauty is our God-given duty. 
Every child at birth is to be issued with a ukulele, 
given their own flag and granted absolute and utter sovereignty, 
and so long as it’s coloured in nicely and has an old woman on, make their own currency. And we’ll turn every urban address into a dripping Rousseau wilderness, and we’ll keep advancing until there’s nobody not dancing.

We’ll put politics in the pillory,
put the art back in artillery.
We can weaponise wonder
and our voice shall be as thunder.

From times of national demise arise new apes like me, 
with, in our leopard-scaring eyes, manifest destiny. 
I’ll lead you to a fluorescent utopia if you’ll let me: 
love me, worship me, obey me – but never pet me. 
If we can’t build a future then we’ll be its human landfill. So…
Cometh the moment, cometh the Mandrill. 
(Repeat until indoctrinated)

Lyrics: Alan Moore /  Music: Joe Brown
Mandrill Make Up: Tamsyn Payne
Artwork by Dominic Mandrell
Arts Lab Northampton

Alan Moore & Joe Brown 'Mandrillifesto'

Novelists Lissa Evans and Stuart Evers join Andy & John to discuss Patrick Hamilton's 1947 tale of boarding-house life in wartime. Also, this week Andy has been reading Keith Waterhouse, while John talks about Padgett Powell's 'The Interrogative Mood'. If you like this episode, the 'Hamilton Extra' edition continues the discussion, with even more gin & it...

Timings: (may differ due to adverts)
4'40 - The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
10'45 - Palace Pier by Keith Waterhouse
17'38 - The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton

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The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton

@kalebhorton performing Hurt by Johnny Cash (At Folsom Prison)

In Part 2 Robin, Alan and Barney continue their chat. They delve into the Alan's final comic book EVER, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest, try to work out what consciousness is, chat about Robin's new book as well as John Higgs, Camus and more. Also everyone misremembers a BBC theme tune.

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The Third Policeman read by Patrick Magee

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