| Tigers at Layer Road 21:11 - Sep 23 with 52516 views | SparkfilmsTV |
In a strange twist of events l found myself in conversation with a young lady who had attended Layer Road for a match against Hull City in our first season in The Championship. The 5-1 encounter.
We were attending a promo evening for a band called The Datsuns in North London in 2008.
During the evening she explained that she had been present at a party that made the national news due to the tragic death of someone by the name of Mark Blanco.
The incident occurred in December 2006.
This incident will be shown on Channel 4 on Monday night at 22.00 in an hour long documentary and several people known to me have made contributions.
It may be of interest to some.
I am very much hoping that the police will reinvestigate the death of Mark Blanco as a result of what will be included in the content.
I know that what l was told by this young lady 15 years ago has been instrumental in the making of this documentary.
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 13:37 - Feb 15 with 2649 views | SparkfilmsTV |
THE OPEN
You seem shy ...
Almost apologetic
As you inspect this latest concept
In living and work space
In this former store room in an industrial unit
Up here where the air is clear
And our minds are clear
I pull you near
You come gift wrapped in mystery
Weaving your tapestry of intrigue through these shadows
And the words that you say
They may just stay with me
'The moon looks bright tonight'
'Would you like a jelly baby?'
Things that may seem insignificant at the time
Can become a catalyst for something far bigger
Than either of us could possibly imagine
Your hair is tied back
And l ask you to let it down
I put on 'Lovers in the rain' by The Open
Pulled you in, whispering nothing much
Something about your eyes l think
Who knows?
This could lead to the longing
The wanting
The yearning
The tossing and turning night after night
The craving
Aching hearts breaking into splinters
Through the longest winters
My good fortune to have access to an industrial unit in Felixstowe with stunning views across the docks and beyond.
'The Open' appreciated being featured in this piece and their sound would have been in keeping with the prevailing atmosphere in the vicinity.
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Featured on course work at The University of Lincoln and Nottingham Trent University in the UK | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 13:46 - Feb 15 with 2648 views | SparkfilmsTV |
ANTISPACE
Intelligent landing?
Into the night zone
This grainy texture
Potent mixture
You will be hiding
Hiding in the antispace
Climbing above me
The security light
It catches your face
We could talk about violent crime on the streets
Or we could get lost in the moment
You have voted with your eyes
I can see them now but only just
A week may pass and a glance into the kitchen
May reveal the shampoo and eyeliner you rip from magazines
Between your telephone rage and adjusting the fairy lights
Extremes that can no doubt be traced
Back to your childhood
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 [Post edited 15 Feb 13:49]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 17:55 - Feb 15 with 2611 views | SparkfilmsTV |
FINAL ELIMINATOR
Sex girl
In a crack world
On the rat talk cat walk
Attacks drag queen
In the full beam
Where are you now?
What are you now?
Self sealed in foil
Cut open and reveal all this sunny morning
Some tabloid android gargoyle
Spewing in the gutter
Where all the glitter hearts and body parts
Get soaked up in the void
Retouched and ripped open
This is the final eliminator
A futuristic sculpture
Skeletal wires
Dormant in a field of static
No touch transmission
No one can save you now
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Video production and graphics by the illustration students at The University of Lincoln in the UK. | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 18:15 - Feb 15 with 2610 views | SparkfilmsTV |
AEROPLANE SEATS
I'd not heard from you in a while
Then.....'Hey, it's me...'
You could appear anywhere at any time
On television once at a Greenpeace demonstration
Just knew it was you
The kick boxing gave it away
Your eight stone five pound frame
That has graced many a festival dance tent
Then one night on the radio
When l was driving back from London at midnight
News of a group of people
Laying in front of a missile carrier
At an air base in Somerset
Blocking its way onto the A361
I knew you would never miss out on an opportunity like that
But the real killer
That l was to hear about three months later
As we sat on some aeroplane seats
You and your friends took from a 747 during a refuel
Was how the guys blew up a six million pound fighter plane
Just 100 yards from security
We spent three nights at your sister's semi in Lowestoft
Ate pizzas and listened to 'Cavelleria Rustincana'
You took barbiturates, they seemed to make little impression
And we got a call to say we were being watched by MI5
You, so dismissive saying 'Who gives a xxxx'
And l dread the day when l walk into a room
And you're standing there smoking in the way that you do
Listening to 'The thrill has gone' by BB King
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Written in Lowestoft, UK. [Post edited 15 Feb 18:17]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 20:42 - Feb 15 with 2593 views | SparkfilmsTV |
SYNAGOGUES AND COFFEE SHOPS
From the summer of your discontent
The flicker of your eyelids
Your last tenner spent on gravel
And you're watching it all through mesh
Fizzing on your lips
And licking your way to stardom on txt
Pixel projection effects
And the enhanced colour of flesh
Followed you through synagogues
And coffee shops
In the long afternoons
Saw the other showgirls hanging out
In the basement cafes
Killing lines and killing time
Out on the blue horizon
Waiting for the fog to roll in
Getting lost in some misty heaven
Missing presumed dead
The childlike way you squeezed the blackcurrant carton
And drew from the straw
In the alleyway where the gas lamps used to stand
Played right into your hands
Your soft face hardened by city rain
Your flame, the blue ice gaze on the casting couch
That day they said blue blood was dripping from your mouth
Can still hear the fridge buzzing on the landing
The whirring of sirens out on the ring road
Stuck pins in you
And detected two heartbeats as you murmured in Urdu
Your heart four months in a pawn shop
The fog coming in from The Humber
And you slumber on a reclaimed mattress
In a boarded up end terrace
Shriek, taking it deep
They put you to sleep
Watching it all through mesh
Defenceless
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Dedicated to the following UK bands -
RAZORLIGHT
WHITE LIES
HARD FI
THE ENEMY | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 11:00 - Feb 16 with 2543 views | SparkfilmsTV |
EURO COPS IN HIGH SPEED CHASE
You, with your eighty mile an hour hair do
Talk, talk baby
I'm listening to you
You know l am
Out on the amber walk
With the Euro cops and bottle tops
It's exciting there
The cold stare
You know l need it only too well
Infiltrate me
Save me
Make me into someone better
Hold my hand in the shadows
And tell me about the life of Bobby Sands
For l am the common man
And we are connecting
I will sit across a table
At a run down restaurant
By the light of a single candle
Looking out
At the back of a multi storey car park
In any town or city
That we just happen to end up in
No more making excuses
We're cutting loose
Facing the truth together
Subutex
The crucifixion
You will become
Addiction
And l am nailed to the wall in a hotel room
The future is bright
Now that we've torn down the walls
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Written in Scarborough [Post edited 16 Feb 11:02]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 11:17 - Feb 16 with 2541 views | SparkfilmsTV |
ESSENCE
Found on a post-it note in a phone box
'Emily - Circus Performer and Lion Tamer in town now'
A break-in at some portacabin in the early hours
Shadow dance and squirm
Turn towards the trailer park
Burn out the tyre tracks
Essorant and bareback
This rodeo show for one night only
ESSENCE
ESSENCE of you
NEW improved taste
NEW improved formula
While the fire eaters and snake charmers
And bare knuckle fighters in white hoods
Load white label goods
Into waiting vans as the town sleeps
To the anthem of Onward Christian Soldiers
Marching into the void
Ever deeper
I am your keeper
For the next few hours
Your aerosol calling card
By arclight in the goods yard
On the multi-wheeled transporters
Where Nordic drivers
Sex dream
'Emily performed here'
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Written in my car in Felixstowe | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 11:29 - Feb 16 with 2538 views | SparkfilmsTV |
EYES OF A KILLER
I think back to the last morning
At the Blue Moon Cafe
The two of you
Sitting at a table under the staircase
Together in conversation
You were looking into his eyes
Then looking away
With that degree of fortitude
That you possess
That in the circumstances
Was admirable
Turning your head
In the way that you do
Slowly to the left
Then to the right
As you scan those around you
You played the part
With understated brilliance
Incredible to think
That most of those who sat around you
We're working under cover
We envy your natural state of detachment
And quite understand
How you innocently
Befriended a cold blooded killer
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Written in Ipswich in Sainsbury's Supermarket after this event. | | | |
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 20:03 - Feb 16 with 2519 views | SparkfilmsTV |
YARMOUTH ROAD
Under the WILCO sign
On the Yarmouth Road
In the orange glow
In the toxic haze
Floating
Grazed and bruised
Blazed abused in shapes and shadows
This INTER dimensional glowing ORB
Two hours old
In towels and BUBBLE WRAP
Eyes wide open
On a NINTH FLOOR stairwell
By a LIFT SHAFT
This concrete ghetto
ECHO CHAMBER of FACELESS strangers
A message on a cardboard box
'Mummy loves you, see you on the other side'
Saw you
In a hand tinted photograph
LAUGHING in The Fox & Hounds
In ANGEL WINGS and glitter things
Drinking BREEZERS
You walked over the bridge one more time
CROSSED the line
When l heard your voice one last time
'And tear the stained skin from my HARLOT brow'
And l'm lost between the REAL and the MAKE BELIEVE
An illusion and the INFRARED
The camera NEVER lies?
The damp bank notes tainted with lavender
Still in the CARRIER bag by the roadside
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 20:53 - Feb 16 with 2515 views | SparkfilmsTV |
An explanation to some of these exerts from IPSWICH ZERO 6.
The material was written during 2005 / 2006.
You may have noticed references to The University of Lincoln and Nottingham Trent University along the way.
When 'BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE' was released in 2004 l put my email address at the back of the book. It was really interesting to get feedback from people.
This enabled me to discover who the work might have appealed to ( if anyone ).
The book was distributed all over the UK into all major cities and most major towns.
I was contacted by a design company in Sheffield - WIG - 01 who were planning a global release of a book to include poetic work from across the world and they had chosen seven pieces from BLUEPRINT.
'GRAPHIC POETRY' was the result and it was a major production appearing in hardback with a slip case cover. The book was published and produced by VICTIONARY in Hong Kong and the graphics and illustrations were by design companies from all over the world. The written words likewise ( but by poetical types ).
There was considerable media coverage on release.
WIG -01 then asked me if l had any work in progress / pending that they could put into design courses for illustration and graphics / video at universities and art schools in the UK.
I sent them about 40 new pieces ( many featured on this thread ).
I visited The University of Lincoln a few months later to see the results.
They were stunning!
God only knows what some of the students made of it at first sight, but they produced some incredible work.
Everything in IPSWICH ZERO 6 was written from personal experience.
I explained this to the UK Film Council ( as they were known at the time ) and l'm not sure if l convinced them if this stuff really happened.
Having access to buildings, caravans, portacabins, warehouses, underground bunkers, farm buildings and the like was an unusual UK holiday.
Suffice to say that we didn't always have keys or permission to inhabit these dwellings.
I should have filmed it at the time ( in the way Shane Meadows would have sussed? ) though l can't recall if camera phones were capable then.
It may be a relief to some that l will only be posting a few more of these pieces on here over the next few days. Likely people deserve a rest from it. [Post edited 16 Feb 20:56]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 10:00 - Feb 17 with 2492 views | SparkfilmsTV |
SKATE ON BY
Euphoric sky
Eye to eye
SKATE on BY
An AVENUE TAXIS customer receipt
Eleven BLACK BIRO numerals
Heavenly terminals
There's a radiance in the glow of containers
There's a silence in the stillness
Broken by heels on the CONCRETE STEPS
The key turning in the door to your flat
Above the PIZZA JOINT
That acts as a nerve centre from eleven till dawn
Where demons are born
Trailed round in the tail lights
Until MID SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
May just evaporate in the HAZE
Erased by this THERAPY
This SOLACE
And through the window some mystic FAITH HEALER
Is reaching down from the clouds
DANCING in a rhythmic flow
With the promise of some HARMONIC ending
And REBIRTH
Eye to eye
SKATE ON by
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
Written in Felixstowe - Experimental dance piece performed in Boston, Lincolnshire by Nadia and James in a car park at 1am. | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 18:19 - Feb 17 with 2471 views | SparkfilmsTV |
DRUG RUNNERS
First time l saw you
In combat gear at 1.30am
Some kind of overnight bag
Slung over your shoulder
Me, no more than an impartial observer
Waiting in the wings
For her to arrive
With more of those little things
We drop off in the night for dirty cash
There must be something intoxicating
In calcium and water
You, no one's daughter and never were
With an acetylene torch
Burning off another door
I've long fallen from grace
But there's no turning back
From this xxxxxxx crazy lifestyle
That got me hooked
And l blame it entirely on no one
Things had been far worse before this
Receiving four death threats in less than a week
All from one source
Myself
One minute with you is all it took
On this brilliant road to self mutilation of the mind
The end of mankind in the industrial sprawl
Of pallets and enamel and wire
Hearts of fire
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
And another....
FLASH OF LIGHT
In the SUNBURN AFTERBURN alleyway
They hunt in packs
You pose, splashed with colour RUN for cover
By the wheelie bins and wheel trims
A flash of LIGHT picture postcard framed
And it feels like DIAMONDS sometimes
Teeth marks on your skin
And it's a straight choice
Between the VICE SQUAD and the FIRING SQUAD
The blood splattered backdrop
All this on the same day
Three more products were reclaimed from supermarket shelves
And a CHINESE shopowner was found DEAD
Laying over a safe in WIGAN
And in your head
Did you ever think of breaking away?
I always wondered that
A sweet wrapper twisting and tumbling
From a NINTH FLOOR balcony
Where the television has been on for forty eight hours
Plays tricks with your eyes
Open a book ...
See a picture of a table laid for one
Light the TOUCH PAPER
And run ..
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 20:54 - Feb 17 with 2461 views | SparkfilmsTV |
I think the process of sifting through piles of written works by Peter Doherty prompted me to delve back into some of my own releases and overload this thread with examples.
I hadn't opened Ipswich ZERO 6 in at least ten years and it's been quite a journey reading through some of it.
Almost forgot that l wrote a stage play / soundscape draft for it which on scanning today l feel compelled to revisit.
Overnight l received another large quantity of letters addressed to Peter and they are a very interesting record of events. Being handwritten ( not the usual mode of communication in the new millennium ) they are quite 'graphic' in their own way and may lend themselves for inclusion in book form.
Someone asked about FINAL ELIMINATOR from Ipswich ZERO 6.
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 11:30 - Feb 18 with 2445 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Here is a piece from the soundscape section ( orated ) that is pretty much in keeping with what precedes.
TESCO METRO
Standing there
Majestic again
Soft pencil lines
On a Tesco METRO skyline
Dressed as an alibi
In the white plague plastic universe
Tonight, let's rewrite the copy
And tell it like it really is
Out there....yeah?
Destination NOWHERE
Pay and DISPLAY
Display and you'll PAY
Jettison
Cancel the cheque
Love bites on your neck
And what you see is what you'll get
Out there
In the gallery of chevrons and pylons
And passwords and USER NAMES
Forget it babe
I'm driving through walls of silence
LAY on your back
For another twenty minutes
And GAZE at stars you'll never see
You'll forget me
Easily
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6
( Soundscape / stage draft ). | | | |
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POISON
( This is spoken by Katie, AKA 'Dirty Blonde at the Cash Machine' who next appears in IPSWICH ZERO 6 and forms part of the soundscape / audio in the draft for the stage production script ).
She called me mummy
They called me druggie
They stole her from me
My world went empty
I am poison
I am scum
I am not worthy
Of anyone
I run with the foxes
I walk with the vagrants
I watch the snowflakes
Make patterns on the pavement
I am poison
I am scum
I am not worthy
Of anyone
Don't ask me round
Don't know this frown
I'm a single noun
I'm out of town
( I am poison etc )
And if you dare
To let me in
I'll promise you
One thing
I will destroy
Everything
I will be your ruin
Your undoing
I will take all your stuff
And sell it for drugs
They cut out my heart
Took me apart
They froze my mind
They made me blind
I came from the womb
I'm headed for the tomb
Someone cry for me
At my funeral please
Am l poison?
Am l scum?
Cry for me
Someone
A little more clarity on what IPSWICH ZERO 6 consisted of.
Section 1 - Mediascape
A rapidly written journal about working for Sky News on The Suffolk Serial Murders. Sky News kindly gave me copies of all the pieces of film we made and gave me permission to use screen grabs in the book.
Section 2 - Voices
Transcripted interviews with 'working girls' recorded at various locations.
Section 3 - Soundscape
An idea for a possible stage production with narration and recorded street sounds with footage from our film archive that could be used as a backdrop.
Section 4 - Poetics
About 40 pieces written as the words entered my head and virtually unedited to keep them raw.
Section 5 - Filmscape
A draft filmscript that was presented to The UK Film Council. They considered a dark British made film to be unlikely to recoup the required revenue at box office, but it was a close call being voted 2 for and 3 against. Things could be different now.
Section 6 - Reflections
Included in this section is a reference to the death of 'Dirty Blonde at the Cash Machine'.
I possess a copy of her death certificate.
Hope this clarifies what the project entailed.
Thanks due to anyone following this, it can't be an easy read. [Post edited 18 Feb 20:53]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 21:13 - Feb 18 with 2421 views | SparkfilmsTV |
SEARCH PARTY
And l will fire coloured flares
Up into the night skies
From the Orwell bridge
That light up the Euro Park
A one man search party
With your picture around my neck
Laminated for protection from the elements
Even though this may all be in vain
Some fait accompli
I will trawl the taxi ranks
Kebab houses, drop - in centres
And 24 hour pharmacy
Sit on the bowling alley steps
Out in the rain
Tiger's eyes on a mission in the mist
Lighting beacons
Building fires in multi - storeys
Shout your name through tannoys
In the disused railway tunnel
Where l once saw you injecting
At four in the morning
I will comb the back alleys and empty factories
Till daylight
The cafes, launderettes and subways
In my pocket
The things that you gave me
A PJ Harvey CD
A poem you wrote for me in a crayon
That you found outside your daughter's school
Where you watched her through the railings
And she may never know
Who you are
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 - Soundscape section | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 10:20 - Feb 19 with 2390 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Happy Half Term!
WELCOME to ...
NIGHT TRAIN
Trespass
Staring into blackness
Azure eyed princess
Alone
On the night train
Expressionless
In a pawn shop window
Your price faded by the sunlight
Perpetrator
Slashed face in the doorway
In the
Fade
Fade
Fadeaway
Fingers
Feverishly running
Eating out of a tin can
Wavering and cunning
On a sunbed in Nacton
A few hours from action
Inhaling
Sweet intoxication
In the Angel Hotel
Occasionally shot
Flicking through the classifieds
A time bomb ticking
When you testified to this
Your life story
On a cigarette packet
A rabbit's foot in a stolen jacket
And you never knew it was there
Could it make any difference
From this living disorder?
Black box recorder
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 - Section 3 / Soundscape | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 10:45 - Feb 19 with 2384 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Folk must be in need of a break from Suffolk....so we are headed to the airport.
GATWICK 3AM
No red carpet
No heroes welcome
No champagne
No fanfare
No hands to greet us
No shelter
From the rain
No friendly faces
No heirs and graces
No satellite crew
No signatories
No celebrities
No one from the news
No microphones
No cables
No tables
Can't see no
Flashing lights
It's just
Another lonely night
But tonight
The stars shine
Just for us
And the cool breeze
Whispers freedom
And the moon
Looks down
And smiles
Then dances
Across the sky
As the oceans
Roar their approval
And as the sun
Lights up
The night
I feel
Your little hand
In mine
And l know
That l
Was only dreaming
Taken from THE PORNSTAR AND THE PRIEST | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 11:11 - Feb 19 with 2382 views | SparkfilmsTV |
SILENT WITNESS
And maybe if l saw you
On a crowded railway station
In the liquid crystal evening
Would l stop to take a photo
In case you never happened
I could have been mistaken
But somehow l don't think so
Then imagine if l caught
Your reflection in a window
Sometime in the future
At a modern retail outlet
Where the dreams are half price
And the staff are European
Would l summon up the courage?
It's a tough one to call
Not that l don't mean to
I'm sure you've got the picture
Taken from THE PORNSTAR AND THE PRIEST
Photography and layout / design Lee Thomas
Front cover graphics by Jackie Moon ( Australia ).
Much gratitude to Books etc for putting so many copies of the book in the window at Canary Wharf branch and selling them.
Thanks to Barraclough, Hall, Woolston, Gray ( soon to become Proximity London ) for their unwavering support throughout all creative journeys. Just the most fab company to work for!
I had no idea that some of this work was being emailed around the world in 2001.
Thanks also due to Waterstone's ( over 100 outlets ), Borders UK, Ottakar's ( eventually absorbed by Waterstone's ), Blackwell Books, Foyles and to all the independent bookshops around the UK for putting this on the shelves.
Was terrific fun. 😊😊😊 | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 13:58 - Feb 19 with 2371 views | SparkfilmsTV |
FILM SCRIPTS AND HITS
We never planned this
No one could have
The first weekend
We slept in a portacabin
That acted as a cafe by day
For construction workers
After two nights we moved homes
To the Site Manager's Office
Where you exchanged a lap top
For a drop off at 4am
You were always streets ahead of me
In every way
And less than half my age
Each day would bring unprecedented excitement
And intrigue
And after all
What had l got to lose?
Only my wife, my home, my job
In no particular order
Oh, and my street cred
And would l ever have to explain this to anyone?
Helen's mother for instance
Can't imagine where I'd start with that one
But it ran through my mind sometimes
When you would go off for hours at a time
But return with Mega Deals and Happy Meals
Cigarettes and wine
And other stuff
And l would think
This could end up in the newspapers
The courts
Prison
After all, it occured to me
That we broke the law every single day
But after a while
This madness took on a strange normality
And l needed it like you needed heroin
And l wanted you like a mother wants her newborn
Warm and close
Life was becoming instinctive
And l realised by week three
That l had reached the point
Of no return
Which proved to me
That the previous twelve years
Did not add up to much
I was learning fast
Faster than ever
You taught me how to break into cars
And blow out alarm systems
But bigger, even bigger than all of this
I was falling in love with you
TBC - Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 - Section 4, Poetics | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 17:51 - Feb 19 with 2359 views | SparkfilmsTV |
FILM SCRIPTS AND HITS - Continued
.....
And that is when l realised
Whatever the result of our actions
It just had to be you and me
In our very own film
That no one else would see
With scenes like this....
'Nobody's Home' by Avril Lavigne'
Blasting out of the car stereo
At 3am on the motorway
On replay for 100 miles
Your hand in my hand
The connection
The sight of the credit cards
You had acquired
After just 36 hours
In the North East
Laid out on the bed
At The Novotel
Ordering all your favourite sandwiches
From room service
Phoning your step dad at dawn
And telling him that you were going to report him
To Social Services and Bedfordshire Police
For years of abuse
You showed me a picture
Of your two year old sister Carly
Who was killed
By a hit and run driver in Luton
At 4.30 in the afternoon on August 8th, 1985
Which explained to me in an instant
How this all started
And how l wanted it to last
We hadn't slept for almost
Three days and nights
It seemed like we were living
On pure adrenalin
We got high from being chased by you guys
Even in your unmarked cars
We were able to ID you in our rear views
It was the way you sat upright and focused
Obvious, we became experts
I lost count of the cars we stole
Between Middlesbrough and Ipswich
It must have been eight or nine
We loved the Tesco sign
Out there on our very own horizon
People were so kind
Leaving their vehicles for us
All neatly parked
Between the white lines
Some of those that we 'broke into'
Well, there was no need
They had left the doors unlocked
And in one case
The key was still in the ignition
Very thoughtful
British people can be so kind
And when you are driving someone else's BMW
Into an electricity sub station
The sparks that fly
They just seem brighter
More pronounced somehow
In this world
Only idiots possess such statements
Of power and lifestyle
When only we know
We have the power and lifestyle
That they can only dream about
While they are sat at The Odeon
Munching popcorn xxxxxxx xxxxx
I think back to the four nights
We spent in the basement
Where we found the body parts
In the freezer
Carefully packaged
In cling film
And bubble wrap
Blood red dayglo
Masking tape blue
It had little effect on you
Placing frozen peas and McCains Oven Chips
Next to a severed foot
Your cold blooded nonchalance
It impressed me
Marking time
Of our highest
And lowest points
Converging reality and fantasy
Running hand in hand
TBC -
NB - During 2005 and 2006 certain information was shared with Suffolk Police
I'm not really sure how much notice they took of it. When they visited my home l had to explain it a few times over before they really grasped it. Grasp it they did though eventually and it is just as well. [Post edited 19 Feb 17:57]
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 08:44 - Feb 20 with 2326 views | SparkfilmsTV |
I really appreciate those of you who are taking the time to follow this unusual ( for a football forum ) thread and will continue with FILM SCRIPTS AND HITS after the morning dog walk.
I don't often revisit my books, once they are out there.
I wouldn't have written IPSWICH ZERO 6 had it not have been for a certain individual over there in Northern Ireland who was quite emphatic that l should 'get it out there'.
While flicking through the pages of the book over the past few days l can confirm that an entire chunk of it is upside down! I'm not sure how many copies went out like that but no one has complained, and if they know how l work they probably think it was deliberate.
Having had a very close run with death a year ago this Forum allows the opportunity to share some of the work output over the past 25 years.
I give complimentary copies of my work to anyone who shows an interest.
Should be back in action after 10am.
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| Tigers at Layer Road on 10:39 - Feb 20 with 2320 views | SparkfilmsTV |
FILM SCRIPTS AND HITS - Continued
Through the subway
Your empiric gutter stance
It came in waves for days
I was stoned for the most part
You, dangerously close to the end
Writing out a guest list
For your funeral
An impressive compilation
Of urban white noise on a CD
With your name on the cover
'Katie - She who dares'
When we left on the Tuesday
I was tempted
Looking at the phone box
You grabbed my arm
And pulled me back
At the time l almost resisted
But looking back on it now
I can see you were way ahead of me
Traffic
That's what we are
In this car
In all these dead beat places
And you're speaking
In some kind of code
And l'm finding...
Finding it really xxxxxxx hard
To keep up
Keep up with where we are
Working out
How you throw them off the scent
With your simultaneous conversations
And arm actions
As you point directions
On the windscreen
Which are different
To anything you are discussing
With these people
Who are these people?
Pretty face neons
A Hollywood gantry with strobes
That threw us for a moment
Although it is hard to imagine
Anything like that
Having the least effect on you
But it did
'Cause you looked over to me
As if to say
'What the xxxx was that?'
And the roads that we travel on
Dripping
Surreal
Seeping gas
Breathing in and slinking through the gaze
The warehouse ablaze on the horizon
Lights up the sky
3am eternal
You remember that?
Impressive
I can see through the steam
You seem thinner
And in the vapour trail
I find it amazing
That your eyes are clear as crystal
Converging and colliding
Submerged in the tide
Hustler
Body extra
Sitting by my side
TBC - Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 13:06 - Feb 20 with 2308 views | SparkfilmsTV |
Has anyone else noticed that two members from a prominent indie band have moved to Colchester recently?
I had seen them in the town centre a few times and thought that the guys had followed the mode of look / fashion etc ....it turns out it is actually them.
I have just visited another musician who has moved down from London and Colchester is becoming a home to many musicians who graced the stages in the post millennium period.
Some of them have been following this thread which is quite comforting. | | | |
| Tigers at Layer Road on 20:19 - Feb 20 with 2293 views | SparkfilmsTV |
FILM SCRIPTS AND HITS
Curled up on the stained settee
Your hair, it's in tangles
Talking to no one
It must be a week now
The curse of surrender
Tactile and tender
The pill box is empty
Your eyes frozen over
Pins dig so deep
So deep you don't feel them
Try and decipher
The words you have written
By light of reflections
The night that bought torture
Layed in the shadows
Smashed out in the basement
I wanted to help you
No one could help you
Stared into space
In a trance like state
Terminal forces
The act of a killer
In the cold chill of winter
Avoiding the sunscreen
Everything fading
All turned mute
Send in the stormtroopers
Bring on the blitzkrieg
Cordon the area
In case any kids see
Take a mould
Cast her in ice
Seize the moment
Donate it to science
That concludes FILM SCRIPTS AND HITS
Taken from IPSWICH ZERO 6 / Poetics section | | | |
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