Joyce Voice

After he woke me up last night same dream or was it? Wait. Open hallway. Street of harlots. Remember. Haroun al Raschid. I am almosting it. That man led me, spoke. I was not afraid. The melon he had he held against my face. Smiled; creamfruit smell. That was the rule, said. In. Come. Red carpet spread. You will see who.

Looking For Joyce

Dangerous Art

These pictures show different connected uses of the boardwalk / bodies / bathtub scene at Jonestown, where lots of people died of believing the same thing.

Left top: Full image used for Fake DF  (2005)
Left bottom: Image cropped to remove bath tub, used for regular DF sleeves (2006 onwards)
Right top: Cartoon image with Jim Jones 'Kool Aid' jug-man, drawn by Brian Walsby for Cheap Tragedies 7" (2008)
Right bottom: Cartoon image with Damian jug-man, drawn by Brian Walsby for a DF test pressing (fan commission 2013)

Hidden Weird

Thanks To Seamus for letting us know about is Hidden World 'Mixed Press' variant... This is a combination of 1st press (monochrome label) and 2nd (coloured label) discs, packaged in a 2nd press sleeve...

The record came from a distro sometime around 2010-2011, so it's unclear if the two were put together by Deranged to use up the last of the 1st press vinyl, or if the distro stores their records and sleeves separately and muddled things up. We're calling it a variant for the time-being, because we like variants.

Fucked Up

JADE HAIRPINS don't seem to have existed before FUCKED UP covered their song "Tower on Time", but that hasn't stopped them contributing a song to the latest Merge Sampler CD

The CDs are going out free with Merge orders - my copy had been cast to one side for possible future listening... Thanks to Steven for getting in touch and pointing it out! Finally we get to hear what the "Hoxton Cunts" techno 7" might have sounded like if it wasn't fake.

The Plot Thickens

In the News this week: New record leaves FU superfans & stalkers intrigued. 

Recorded in Toronto by some weathered but familiar statues in the Toronto punk community... 

Produced by The Green Man and Timmy Scumbag  

Orchestration Davi D'Eli Ade, Overseen by a Mad Man 

Available now on available HERE at Quality Control HQ.



Weirdos wondering about apparent Ulysses references in blurb accompanying recent FU releases will probably also note the following:

Jellicoe and Woodbury are the twin dogs of Doubt and Fear, a poetic interpretation of James Joyce’s 'Ulysses', where dogs seemingly are ready to attack at any moment, based on Joyce’s well known fear of dogs. Doubt and Fear channel 'Ulysses' through a Bastard ‘Wind of Pain’ like lens. These self-created monsters use capitalism to keep us afraid to really move forward in life, and scared to connect with each other. They chase us back and 'breath down our neck’.


Also, this is true:

"The name Jellicoe and Woodbury comes from an intersection of two streets in the west of Toronto where two large dogs, Rhodesian Ridgebacks - a breed of dog bred for hunting and killing lions - lived in a friends house many years ago. These dogs terrified Mike from FU as a child. The dogs were mostly friendly and just curious even though they were this snarling violent breed used to kill the most fearsome thing in Africa - one lets their own fear of dogs dictate their relationship with these creatures. The names Jellicoe and Woodbury are the formal names of Doubt and Fear in the world of this story."