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David J, Alan Moore, Tim Perkins
4+ albums
spoken wordmusical poetry
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The 16th of July, 1994, marked the last night of a three-night confluence of subterraneans at London's Bridewell Theatre, just off Fleet Street and within prayershot of St. Paul's cathedral. The event, titled "Subversion In The Street Of Shame", was organized by Paul Smith of Blast First Records as part of his DISOBEY! programme and coordinated by lain Sinclair, visionary author and book-dealer; Metromancer; hit man for MENSA. The roster of performers had for the most part grown out of those assembled for the previous year's documentary / mystery play for Channel 4 television, "The Cardinal And The Corpse." The profoundly deaf performance poet Aaron Williamson gave a crackling and intensely physical nterpretation of his poem Holythroat Symposium, while sculptor, poet and performer Brian Catling crawled with video camera through the cellars under the theatre, a misshappen cyclops whose sole zoom-lens eye relayed its shadowy impressions to the audience above. The noir crime writer Derek Raymond / Robin Cook showed up to give a reading about death that, as it turned out, was his last performance with his own death following within the week. Peter Whitehead, legendary 'sixties cinematic portrait artist, gave a showing of his documentary film Wholly Communion, with Ginsberg, Corso and Alex Trocchi at the Albert Hall, before moving on to read from his Horus-meets-Holography occult novel The Risen, lit by the pencil beam of a green spotlight. The luminous Kathy Acker appeared una
