Back in the mid-90's I had a theory that Fratton was once host to a Stone Circle.I found links to road names and and alignments and all sorts of things that convinced me. Froddington is the fore-runner to modern day Fratton,and is listed in the Domesday Book. I was also publishing a Julian Cope fanzine called "Snorer Explorer" and deep into JC's Modern Antiquarian trip, visiting various sites on our treks across the U.K to see the Arch Drude peform.The theory still holds up by the way-one day I might actually put it all on paper.
Anyway in 2011,that's where the title comes from,and, built around a 10 second sample of the feedback that opens "Schizadelic k.o",the first track on Julian Cope/Brain Doner 's "Too Freud To Rock N Roll,Too Jung To Die" album ,the track was supposed to be an ur-ambient soundtrack to a film of the length of time it takes to walk the boundries of Fratton (33 mins).
It didn't quite turn out that way....
The film never got made and the track was left.
I thought about putting it on "Tthe Paul Groovy Birthday Bootleg"but it didn't feel finished so it got left off. Last night, wracked with pain from a back injury,I finished it.
Now it bleeds slowly into your ears-the sound of the gaps between the notes in Sister Ray, in Louie Louie, in Sleeping Gas- an ambient apocalypse not to be listened to on headphones-the sound of the madness that lives in the shadows behind your eyes....
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