{"id":2395,"date":"2009-05-17T01:29:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2024-01-17T19:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:15:15","slug":"part-1-paraworm-records-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/part-1-paraworm-records-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 1 – Paraworm Records – 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghost \/ Salem \/ Funeral Parade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Funeral Parade \/ Graveyard Song \/ Tomb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Massively\u00a0fine EP by Milton Keynes based ghouls Part 1 – A very rare slice of\u00a01982 proto-goth at it’s best. Even more rare when you consider what happened to several hundred copies of this 7″ gem. For that small bit of inside\u00a0information you will need to continue reading the text below!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indebted to Mark F from Part 1 (pictured below performing at Wapping Autonomy Centre courtesy of JFB) for the text that he has written specifically for this post.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026and yew really have to imagine this:\u00a0 a brick cell, some kind of bleary, damp and very archaic structure, deep underground, sealed except for some rusted kind of sluice pipe, entering at flagstone level.\u00a0 Sometymes admitting aire.\u00a0 Sometymes a frothy mix of slurry, rank vegetation, sea water\u2026and within the pitch black darkness\u2026an occupant.\u00a0 In fact, the form of something akin to an octopus, moaning and slapping out bruised tentacles to walls slick with a thick, greyish moss. And here we be!<\/span><\/p>\n

In regret, I\u2019m not totally sure it is an octopus\u2026for it has a single, baleful eye, caught to its imprisonment, burning in the dark with a luminous, hypnotic rage\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Why we, Part 1, had travelled all that way, to just outside Cambridge, and that particular recording studio to lay those tracks for the \u2018Funeral Parade\u2019 E.P. I am not really sure.\u00a0 I have a vivid memory of coming \u2018above earth\u2019 after the eight or so hours we\u2019d been in there, work done, and standing at the edge of a farmer\u2019s field, the July 1982 sun setting over a far meadow, blazing gold, red, those wild sickly yellows, my skinny elbows pricking into hedgerow\u2026the bark of a rabbit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, \u2018Octopus Studios\u2019 were in a spot that rural!<\/span><\/p>\n

Having decided to travel so far from Milton Keynes for this recording, I think we were all suffering from some bizarre form of agoraphobia.\u00a0 Our first attempts at recording \u2018Graveyard Song\/Tomb\u2019 a mere 16 months previous, had seen another far visit to alien lands, the neat little 8 track \u2018Crypt Studios\u2019 in Stevenage, buried \u2018neath a de-consecrated church no less.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From Milton Keynes to Stevenage\u2026what a daft show of neurotic masochism!<\/span><\/p>\n

Cruelly green, we soon gathered from \u2018Mr. Engineer\u2019 at Octopus, rather proudly,\u00a0that the Grandee Royal of \u2018Custard Pie Punk\u2019, Mr. Ray \u2018Captain Sensible\u2019 Burns, had been to said same a mere weekend afore, worming pantomime and getting his sticky fingers into tuck shop \u2018Dolly Mixtures\u2019.\u00a0 I expect he used every single, bloody one of those 16 tracks\u2026we didn\u2019t, not out of some snarling antipathy toward the recording techno, but again, I surmise, through a whiff of the nascent agoraphobia\u2026that had primarily caused us to van drive the 80 or so miles from MK.\u00a0 Everything, every crime, had to occur \u2018far from home\u2019!<\/span><\/p>\n

That afternoons recording did indeed catch something of the intense, spiteful malignancy we had been exhibiting that year, in the gigs that we had played, especially with those cultured, backwater yobbos from Hertfordshire, Rudimentary Peni.\u00a0 Sound wise, its as close as close can be to \u2018live\u2019 as, not wishing to offend \u2018Mr. Engineer\u2019, we got our collective skull-caps down-pat and it was all first take.\u00a0 Except I must confess to a little over-laided riffing amid my desperate cries for \u201cmore reverb!\u00a0 I must have more fucking reverb!\u201d\u00a0 Plaintive wordings which all fell like scales from the mulched cochlea of \u2018Mr. Engineer\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

To give due credit, both Nick and Grant Peni helped much in this subsequent uneasy, first (and only) birth from PARAWORM RECORDS, stumping out some \u2018ackers from the honeyed pots of \u2018Farce\u2019.\u00a0 The master tape itself was taken by Blinko and F out to\u2019 S.R.T. Records and Tapes\u2019 of Finchley, a hack enterprise that had done all the \u2018Outer Himalayan\u2019 releases, and whence for the blood-sum of three-fifty nicker,1000 gleaming, rounded beasties sliced, spiced, diced, labelled, were wetley borne\u2026I thank ye kindly.<\/span><\/p>\n

They also \u2018mucked in\u2019 as regards \u2018penile muscle\u2019, i.e. the hernic-rupture inducement of \u2018escorting\u2019 dirty great suitcases brimful of \u2018Funeral Parade\u2019, up and down, up and down tube escalator, bus etc after its pressing\u2026back to Bletchley vaults.<\/span><\/p>\n

The disc did represent probably our four strongest tracks of that tyme.\u00a0 The instrumental intro\/outro \u2018Funeral Parade\u2019 was borne out of some morose, elongated \u2018jam\u2019, a rich paean to necrophilia, incest, agoraphobia\u2026a sure fire hit!<\/span><\/p>\n

The original studio version of this instrumental rambled on for about twenty minutes. \u2018Mr. Engineer\u2019, slacking of jaw,\u00a0decided to cut and cauterise various sections for consideration, i.e. for the beginning of side one and the close of side two.\u00a0 But \u2018Mr. Engineer\u2019 lazily repeated the opening section on his spool, and dispensed with some other equally darkling parts\u2026why?\u00a0 Why \u2018Mr. Fucking Engineer\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

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The printing of the A3 sized fold-out sleeve, littered with F artworks and rantings,\u00a0 took place on a quiet Saturday, circa September 1982, at the Bletchley print works where Bob (Part 1 drumming utterances) had his employ.\u00a0 Bletchley…Oh home of ire and sedition! Of course, having responsibility for the keys helped, as did the boss sunning his scaly mutoid body in Majorca, or similar.\u00a0 My designs led to a painful thousand-fold act of blasphemous origami, a veritable ‘death by a thousand paper-cuts’ for any bleeder vaguely associated with the band.\u00a0 The PARAWORM RECORDS staff were in up-roar.\u00a0 But my…it did look good.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Out of the thousand folds, a few hundred went to the slack-jaws of Rough Trade, another couple of hundred to Sir Peter Gnome of Small Wonder…and then…<\/span><\/p>\n

…an octopus in darkness, slapping its bruised tentacles against dungeon walls…<\/span><\/p>\n

Feeding into the cochlea, ‘Ghost’ still seems to carry something of an evil portent, what with its aggressive growling bass sound and the insane ‘bird calls’ of guitar.\u00a0 The lyrics are amongst favorites of mine, tyme wrote.\u00a0 I mean, what better than, ‘fuck the cross, cut the throat of religion’ and ‘at night you\u2019re no longer human’…I mean, they still carry charm.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Salem’ seems to suffer from that lugubrious, sliding bass which dominates and grieves a little too much, threatening to overwhelm the whole proceedings, ’till the ominous strains of the ‘Funeral Parade’ outro return, pulling all back to some ill-holy balance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long after the inevitable fold of Part 1, many a ‘remaindered’ copy of ‘Funeral Parade’, sleeved and boxed, still in those damn suitcases, met an ignoble end I’m ashamed to state.\u00a0 During 1985, tired and annoyed at the presence of a large number still cluttering the parental shed, I literally skipped four hundred copies into the Milton Keynes municipal dump, there to mulch as fodder for concrete cows or, more hopefully, to join entombed 80’s landfill awaiting just resurrection and that judgment day of ‘Charlton Heston\/Statue of Liberty\/Shock’…a moment that surely must await us all…man, ape, barking rabbit or…octopus.<\/span><\/p>\n

…yew can take the Octopus out of the Crypt, but never the Crypt out of the Octopus…<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark F 2009<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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