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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 29, 2011 20:12:04 GMT
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Post by dem on Sept 30, 2011 18:53:28 GMT
and again, off the butt and onto paypal at last... very fine companions to PF and indeed to Kontinental X as the brit bias works as contrast to the euro sleaze of the latter. excellent Michel Parry and John Burke interviews, some interesting critique of movies that treats them seriously as pieces of work trapped in their time without being 'serious' in a film academic style, and come on - even THEY aren't that keen on Virgin Witch, either! the Satans Slaves and Blood On Satan' Claw pieces are particularly recommended, although the Bloody Kids piece is the most intriguing, as it really makes you want to try and fid this forgotten piece of tv. one to wait for with as much relish as PF. it took me ages to get round to buying, and if you haven't then don't hold out any longer! am waiting til i land a hard copy to continue with Bedabbled! #2 (Zardoz, most likely, if i make it) but what particularly impressed me about the Michel Parry interview is this. The old lags will likely remember that Justin interviewed Michel way back in 2006 when Paperback Fanatic was trading under the name of Pulp Mania? Mr. Marriott's piece remains pretty much definitive as far as Michel Parry, author & editor are concerned, but while the anthologies are touched upon here, Martin Jones mostly concentrates on Mr. P as film-maker & screenwriter. It - the Bedabbled! interview - compliments the earlier piece to the extent that, stich them both together and you would swear they were parts 1 & 2 of the same article. i also really like that Michel laces his chat with many a colourful anecdote: early underground collaberations with designer/ lightshow artist Barney Bubbles and shooting the no-budget Hex: the trials and tribulations of the doomed Bikers Versus London project: touring with Mott The Hoople and Deep Purple as research for a proposed adaptation of Groupie. Fanatic, Kontinental X and Bedabbled! all on the go at once. we're being spoilt, that's what we are! As for Blood On Satan's Claw: if there's one event would make me consider attending the annual industry bash that is fantasycon then it's tommorow night's "spine-chilling, mouth-watering and rib-tickling amusements". Good luck to all of the brave performers! |
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Post by michelp on Oct 4, 2011 15:40:19 GMT
Hi Kev,
Thanks for the mention of the interview in Bedabbled! # 2. Appreciated!
Just wanted to say that my Groupie project wasn't based on the book by Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne as your review suggests - an easy assumption to make given there was confusion between the two even at the time!
If you send your latest email details to me at bazarre93@hotmail.com I'll let you have a fuller account.
How about a thread on horror writers' groupies?
I suspect it might be a short one...but then I've led a very sheltered existence.
Best,
Michel
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Post by pulphack on Oct 4, 2011 15:54:46 GMT
it must be said, the interview doesn't make it clear whether or not the Groupie movie was based on the Fabian book or not - i made the same assumption as kev. can't wait to hear more!
it's a cracking interview and i have to say mr P, if nothing else i'm impressed and jealous that you were chums with the fleet fingered and sorely missed Phil Lithman - both Chiili's albums are perennial faves, and at the other end of the scale his wired solo on the Resident's The Electrocutioner is stunning.
does this mean you knew or indeed know the equally adept Sufi antiquarian and one time book dealer mr M Stone?
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Post by pulphack on Oct 4, 2011 16:42:47 GMT
as it happens, i'm thinking of Constantinople, another Residents track with snakefinger. they're both on the Duck Stab/Buster & Glen album, and i get old and confused very easily.
writing this made me dig that out and then also play House With No Windows, a class Mighty Baby track with Martin Stone mellifluous throughout.
(ps he was in the Pink Fairies for a while, which i bet Simon Clark knows!)
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Post by dem on Oct 4, 2011 17:21:20 GMT
How about a thread on horror writers' groupies? I suspect it might be a short one...but then I've led a very sheltered existence. Best, Michel Hi Michel. Ha! Linda Lovecraft tells a very different story! Have just whizzed you off an email. Apologies for getting my 'groupies' arse over tit - i really should know by now never to jump to conclusions.  |
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Post by michelp on Oct 4, 2011 21:15:00 GMT
Hi Pulphack,
Yes, Phil Lithman lived above me in a squat in Bristol Gardens. The Red Hot Peppers would rehearse in the flat above and sometimes jam with friends from other bands like Hawkwind. Martin Stone was a frequent visitor. If this sounds cool, imagine trying to write with the ceiling shaking from amps. I often fled to the Reading Room of the British Museum.
Phil was well-educated, had a sharp wit and we shared a healthy cynicism about our more starry-eyed neighbours. He was also an avid reader of fantasy, SF and horror, so we got on very well. I already had an unmanageable collection of books and comics and the problem arose that he was always trying to borrow books from my shelves. There were no locks on the doors in the house so he would stroll in and ask to borrow an Arkham House edition, and I would have to hurriedly persuade him that he would be better off borrowing a Michael Moorcock paperback. It became something of a game.
Phil died young of an inherited heart condition not long after moving to the US with his American wife, Freddy.
I never got to know Martin Stone as well as Phil. We did have other mutual friends like Barney Bubbles and later Chaz Peltz so we would bump into each other from time to time. As you probably know he has lived in Paris for many years, and has developed an almost magical instinct for tracking down copies of rare books.
You might like this. I once wondered into the communal kitchen and there on the table was my pristine hardback copy of 'Tales of Horror by Eminent Authors'. I knew instinctively that Phil had borrowed it without telling me. Furious I snatched it up, stormed into my room and replaced it on my shelves. Later, Phil came in, somewhat sheepish, and asked if I had seen his copy of TOHBEA. He said Martin Stone had dropped it off for him as a present. Still cross, I told him that the only copy of the book I'd seen was my own copy, thanks. Looking crestfallen, he wandered out again...Fast forward about 30 years. In a different time and place I finally get a chance to unpack some of the many crates of books I'd accumulated. Suddenly I find myself holding identical copies of Tales of Horror in both hands. How come I've got TWO copies? I ask myself. Then I flashed back to Phil and realised he hadn't been spinning me a yarn after all. Two copies of a rare hardback horror anthology in the same hippy squat, what are the odds?
Not long afterwards I ran into Martin Stone (barely recognizable without his trademark beret), told him the story and apologised. I don't think he had a clue what I was talking about!
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Post by pulphack on Oct 6, 2011 8:44:06 GMT
hello mr P
thanks for this - i used to house share for six months with a guy who liked to rehearse in the next room - i think it's why i wrote one book completely to the accompaniment of BBC News 24, just to drown it out - and he was just one man and an electric. the British Museum was a much better bet, i'm sure...
mr Lithman was a techincally gifted and highly individual player, and there aren't many of them. his eclectic tastes seem to fit with his music, somehow.
as for mr Stone - i last saw him wandering around after a Moorcock/Moore/Sinclair thing up Liverpool St way - a unique chap, i recall a Without Walls in the 90's where he sat there and stated. 'i don't deal in books anymore. only in individual objects.' (not quite verbatim, but that was the gist). the man in search of the unique - presumably to match him! Lithman and Stone were alchemical on instruments, and must have been an interesting combination without!
that was the infamous 'did flann o'brien write any sexton blakes?' edition that also had driff in it. mad stuff.
anyway, having digressed, thank you for sharing those memories, mr P.
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Post by dem on Nov 8, 2011 18:35:20 GMT
another publication from the house of Bedabbled!, launched on Sunday at the Zardoz fair. Michel Parry - Three Demonic Tales (B! Publications, Nov. 2011)  Rik Rawling
Eye Of The Beholder
Red ChristmasA super-slimline (20 pages) booklet collecting one new story and two oldies. i think i'm right in saying that up until now, Michel, the man of many pseudonyms, has only put his name to a single horror short, The Last Bus in Richard Davis's Tandem Horror 2. Now we learn that he is also 'Roland Caine' who contributed stories to the 2nd and 5th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (one of which makes my imaginary Christmas horror anthology) To get yourself a copy, drop Martin Jones a line bedabbled AThotmail.co.uk (as ever, substitute the AT with an @) |
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 8, 2011 19:48:16 GMT
anotherpublication from the house of Bedabbled!, launched on Sunday at the Zardoz fair. Michel Parry - Three Demonic Tales (B! Publications, Nov. 2011) Will And Ed's Day Of Judgement
Eye Of The Beholder
Red ChristmasA super-slimline (20 pages) booklet collecting one new story and two oldies. i think i'm right in saying that up until now, Michel, the man of many pseudonyms, has only put his name to a single horror short, The Last Bus in Richard Davis's Tandem Horror 2. Now we learn that he is also 'Roland Caine' who contributed stories to the 2nd and 5th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (one of which makes my imaginary Christmas horror anthology) To get yourself a copy, drop Martin Jones a line bedabbled AThotmail.co.uk (as ever, substitute the AT with an @) I never realised - or had forgotten - that Michell Parry wrote The Last Bus. I still remember that story clearly after all these years. A chilling little tale that has stayed with me, which says a lot! |
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Post by dem on Nov 20, 2011 20:39:41 GMT
B! now have their own blog at Bedabbled!. Martin writes "Check in regularly for all B!-related news and release information. Our latest post is the B! Affordable Art Sale: two great works by our Head Designer Rik Rawling are up for grabs. All proceeds go towards future B! productions!" |
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Post by cyberschizoid on Apr 8, 2012 13:35:15 GMT
BEDABBLED! have joined forces with the Classic Horror Campaign to present an afternoon of classic british horror on Sunday 6th May at The Roxy Bar & Screen, London. Sunday 6th May @3pm * BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE (1958) * VAMPYRES (1974) * £6 admission per person * Buy tickets here - www.wegottickets.com/event/163545 * Awesome horror giveaways from BEDABBLED! - the magazine of British horror and cult movies! * For more information head to - www.classichorrorcampaign.com/events/ Meet fellow horror fans in a relaxed boutique cinema environment and give yourselves a nostalgic treat. |
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Post by cyberschizoid on Apr 17, 2012 15:40:53 GMT
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Post by dem on Sept 17, 2012 18:41:52 GMT
Just learned from Martin Jones that the long awaited, Just-getting-wasted-with-the-Vampires issue of Bedabbled! is on track for October publication. In the meantime, you might like to sink your fangs into Martin's novella, The Demeter, a transcript of Captain Nikolai Zamyatin's journal covering the ships ill-fated voyage from Transylvania to Whitby ....  Derek GrayDetails: Bedabbled! blogspot. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 18, 2012 0:11:40 GMT
Derek Gray That's a beautiful cover. |
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