the pirates died the cats died pt2 :(

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i only met tw once, at a promo party at the diorama off euston road -- in a moment of particularly ripe cash-loss lunacy, he was attempting to er staunch the sooncome bankrupting of his beloved factory by launching a CLASSICAL SUB-LABEL -- the material was iffy, and the plan superbly muddleheaded (one of those he signed was famous -- tho to be fair this might have been after -- for being billed as giving an ica talk, and literally zero audience turned up)

but this failure is after all utterly of a type with what had worked earlier: iffy, muddleheaded, no-chance absurdity, except somehow something new under the moon occurred that no one a right to expect, and no one HAD expected, and very few got their heads fully round at the time, as if Club Dada had opened its doors on Coronation Street -- you could grasp one or the other but not both at once

so if his goofiness is what's easiest to pick out of fictional portrayals (rather than the wisdom he's shown trying for and never reaching) it's pretty much also the side of him that got stuff done -- anyone else would have come to their senses, given up before bothering further, and hey presto! no factory, that means no lots of other things too, including me

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"sooncome bankrupting of his beloved factory by launching a CLASSICAL SUB-LABEL"

I saw one of those discs in a 2nd hand shop once (sorta ECM-ish bluey cover), a pianist's recital, I ws holding it thinking 'Not THE Factory records'.

:-(

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Heh I actually bought one of those discs (http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/fac226.html) in a 2nd hand shop once. From 1989, yet cover seems like something some labels might try these days to make classica look tasteful yet cool, or something (well, apart from the prominent billing given to the catalogue number obv).

(Mostly malapropos: I rly laffed at the RAVE SCRIABIN (http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/4/3029E.jpg) cover someone posted on ilm recently. Tasteful? Noncheck. Cool? Erm noncheck.)

I think Mark really nails much of the essence of the wilsonness in the top post, or at least how it is perceived/he projected it. "Superbly muddleheaded" heehee wd.

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The disc I saw ws Rolf Hind's "Country Music", and I see that one of the tracks happens to be Finnissy's "Come Beat the Drums", an excerpt from one of my favourite pieces ever - his "English Country Tunes". Perhaps the inspiration for the CD's title?

(btw, it ws v nice to put a face to the name, a_m :-))