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Wizard Of The North
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Improvised pendulum-poetry from the fevered Mr. Fish. Dedicated to T.C. Lethbridge and all his out-of-print books. Guest appearances from Rose Kemp (vocals) Andre Van Solinge (acoustic & electric guitars), and the gorgeous burping Reshma!
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Ranting, grooving, shrieking, psycho-jazz/rock/blues/classical/comedy/funk mayhem
On December 25th 2005 NIGE and TREV were announced as winners in no less than three categories in the 2006 International Online Music Awards (IOMAS)...BEST ARTIST, BEST COMPOSER and BEST SONG for their track entitled 'My Horse will never exist in Reality'. NIGE and TREV's drummer Dale Marshall also received the 2006 IOMA for BEST DRUMMER. NIGE and TREV are a ranting, grooving, shrieking, psychedelic, experiMENTAL, soup hurling,pendulum obsessed jazz/rock/blues/classical/comedy/funk duo who have a passionate devil-may- care, 'no-holds-barred' approach to music resulting in a rapturous hotch potch of euphoric whistling funk-folk pandemonium peppered with fevered bursts of whammy bar werewolf gibberish reminiscent of Captain Beefheart and the great Lord Buckley with distant echoes of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. Mick 'Trev' Clack's battered Stratocasters wail and howl relentlessly at the three moons of Planet Klennaar carving out a ricketty balsa wood platform for Frank 'Nige' Fish's reckless, unstoppable, scatterbrained Hammer-Horror love sermons. He talks in tongues, he yelps, he growls, he plays guitar upside down, he yodels, he bellows, he serenades, he lectures and occaisonally he even resorts to SINGING! NIGE and TREV also have a wacky website on MY SPACE. MICK 'Trev-or-is-it-Nige?'CLACK has his own website on MY SPACE... FRANK 'Nige-or-is-it-Trev?' FISH has his own website on MY SPACE... Nige & Trev also rear their ugly heads in a band obsessed with all things aquatic - FRANK FISH AND THE FINS....click on this Soundclick logo to visit their garish underwater world of psychedelic, high energy, flipper-hatted panto-rock:
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Genre
Alternative • Avant Rock
Charts
Peak #102
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
Mick Clack/Frank Fish/Dale Marshall
Rights
Mick Clack/Frank Fish/Dale Marshall
Uploaded
October 26, 2003
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MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
T.C. Lethbridge who died in 1971, was an archaeologist,psychic researcher, dowser, explorer. He was for thirty years Director of Excavations for the Cambridge Antiquarian society and for the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He was on three Arctic expeditions, several Hebridean exploratory expeditions and two voyages to the Baltic in square-rigged sailing ships. He was also, as Colin Wilson wrote, 'one of the most remarkable and original minds in parapsychology'. Frank Fish, who is still alive, was born in Cutteslowe, North Oxford. After studying the guitar technique of Johnny Winter - he formed the notorious pantomime rock combo 'Frank Fish and the Fins' and the surreal avant-rock duo 'Nige & Trev'. Obsessed with UFOs, the paranormal and pretty girls - Mr. Fish is most at home in front of a microphone with a can of cold beer in his hand where the jumbled contents of his hammer horror mind spill out like a huge upturned Cornflakes packet onto an old spiderman comic. 'Wizard of The North' was recorded at Rooftop Studio in Oxford in September 2003. Frank 'Nige' Fish: Vocals, electric guitar Mick 'Trev' Clack: Electric guitar, bass. Dale Marshall:Drums Andre Van Solinge: Electric and acoustic guitars Rose Kemp: Vocals Reshma: Burps
Lyrics
We're all gonna live forever Ooaahh...we're all gonna live.. foreverrrr (Lethbridge Gautama Isis Gig Magog) Respectively...repeatedly... Bow before the Framed photograph of four sacred ceramic baby donkeys Filth describes my neck With our collective breast thoughts Lemon remains my stature Twins are my disgrace (Lethbridge Gautama Isis Gig Magog...) The shining stars disintegrate They sit in neat white rows Slouching on sheets of bended glass As tiny Karen cycles past Unaware of a connection to the miracle twins Conceived... Shin yah-shin yah Shin nam myo hundlee Book Archie Butsu...it's over Leth-brrrridgge..nahhhhmuuuh After me... Lethbridge...And when the shining stars disintegrate Lethbridge Gautama Isis Gig Magog... Shin yam shin yoobie shin shin shin yah shin yap shin noobie shin yohh shin yap shin shaow shin shibbeedeee shin yaow Gig-gigcay gaoeww... My name is Lethbridge My wife is Mina...we... We can feel the energy in the Earth's ground We pick it up through our pendulum We're diviners of time We can see Ghosts (Lethbridge Gautama Isis Gig Magog...) We can see history I was there when the Roman legions came conquering... I am the master wizard There are no holy books There's never been a holy man or woman There's never been a holy book Books you can edit Emotions you can't... (I am the angel of death) They will destroy every town (I'll bring you happiness) The Romans are bringing Jesus to England The Roman legions are marching The Bible in their hands They used to fight battles with their short sword but now they use John...Matthew.. But I am Lethbridge - the wizard of the North.
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