Monday, June 1, 2009

An Evening with Unkle Sleaz



































...or the closest thing I'll get to it, without having been there. Special thanks to wassonii for this one.







Some excellent photos here, courtesy of Mr. Push.

COIL Song Meanings

I recommend this website to anyone interested in COIL's lyrics. Not many have people posted on it, but there is still some great insight into the meaning behind the songs. I was surprised to learn that much of Jhonn's lyrics are borrowed from other artists, most notably William Blake. I encourage you to contribute your lyrical interpretations.

The Sick Rose by William Blake

O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

Missing Child

From SoiSong's Blog,

"
Current mood:  anxious
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

In the view of the forthcoming Reunion Tour, SOISONG are eager to locate the owner of the voice used on the album, who has vanished since the studio recordings were made. Recently we have been unable to reach the "singer" by any method known to us, nor to locate his present position. Therefore we need urgent help in finding the missing performer.

Hereby we kindly ask you to participate in the search by doing the following:

1. Download the PDF file from by clicking on the image below or here.
2. Print it out on A4 paper in as many copies as you like.
3. Cut with scissors along the dotted lines where the tear-off phone numbers would normally appear
[for the reasons we can not disclose in public, please do not enter any phone numbers - leave the tags blank].
4. Place the poster in an appropriate location in your city or in places you visit.

[Note 1: Please post responsibly, and only in the areas where flyers would normally be found - i.e. avoiding illegal locations such as public buildings, transport, sculptures etc.]

[Note 2: As we originally found the singer by following flyers posted in rather desolate areas, it would be also appreciated if your A4 posters are placed not only in the lively city spots, but also in remote locations - do not hesitate to take a few with you on any possible vacation, or business trip].

Since the matter is of utter importance to SOISONG, we have decided to encourage the effort by rewarding your actions. Therefore, please take photographs of the flyers you post.

By sending to us photos of the flyers you may qualify for a free SOISONG T-shirt [free shipping included] with a new design featuring the missing performer's face, made exclusively for the first 100 participants of this action. All photographs should be sent to contact@soisong.com.

For you to be entitled to receive the new SOISONG T-shirt we require that:

a. the photographed flyers are displayed in at least 3 different locations;
b. the images are of high resolution - 700-800 kB size in JPEG format, as minimum;
c. street address and date of each poster placement are provided with each photo;
d. your own postal address and the preferred T-shirt size are specified in the message;

Last but not least: photos of flyers posted in illegal locations will not be admissible.

Naturally, You are welcome to send in more than three images if you like. We also encourage you to upload the photographs to your flickr account, and further submit to the Missing Child Flyer Pool on flickr. All photographs you send to us will be also published on our websites at greedbag.com and soisong.com

SOISONG need your help. However, please see this not only as an opportunity to help us, but also as a unique chance to be a part of SOISONG's history.


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Alas, something to do. Unfortunately I ended up buying a pack of cigarettes during my photo shoot...each beat feeds the heartworms...



You're Welcome

From SoiSong's Blog,


Current mood:  imaginative
Category: Travel and Places

SOISONG appreciate the effort of everyone who is helping us with the flyer campaign. There is a steady flow of incoming images, and this alone already makes us happy if only by indicating that your interest in our activities transcends today's "average consumer" levels. We feel we are priviledged to have such a strong and dedicated audience and we would like to thank you for supporting us in these difficult times.

Here is the link to the Flickr group which contains images posted to us or directly to the image pool:
Missing Child Flyer Pool

We found out, however, that images in this group will only star showing to non-members in a few days, according to Flickr's policy of verification. Therefore in the mean time we have set up a simple gallery on our own website - follow the portrait sign from soisong.com [no password required].

We still do encourage people to post photographs to the Flicker group too, and kindly ask to place them on the geographical Map in their own accounts - just like the images posted there by us.

Most of the flyers appear to have been placed in good spots, however one can easily notice a few which appear to be slightly on the border of "littering" - therefore SOISONG ask you once again: please show respect to the envinronment.

PS: we hav ealso noticed in some photographs the image appears within a frame which only belongs to the small image in our blog, not to the actual PDF file. For a better quality printout please do click on the image, as opposed to saving it and/or printing it out. The image is a link to the PDF file which is of considerably better quality and fomatted for printing on a whole A4 sheet."

everything keeps dissolving.