tony fisher: guitars, effects
chris p mowforth: bass
andy heintz: keyboards, tapes, effects, voices., musical saw, kazoo
tom augsburger- percussion
aided and abetted at various times by the GIANT PAWchestra ( tove redevall- guitar & vocals, tracy vandal- vocals, thea heintz- violin, sallie robbins- cello, maria alavarez echenique- vocal translation )
Influences
mainzer cats, mark ryden, liz mcgrath, howls moving castle, nursery rhymes, amphetamines, alan moore, sandman, tetsuo, ealing comedy, film noir, retro futurism, robots, animation, spongebob, taxidermy, abandoned buildings, anthropomorphism, psychedelia, lowbrow art, paranoia, daleks, burlesque, masks, cold war, celebrity, stasys eidrigevicius, jan svenkmajer, cabaret, oil projecters, fire, full metal alchemist, gantz, chobits, karas, ghost in the shell, art toys
'flood' by joe vaux, inspired by giant paw track 'flood' to be released soon
The Ancient Order of the Giant Paw was a secret society formed in London during the 1880s A contemporary of the ' Golden Dawn ' , it was based around an icon which was believed to be the severed paw of a she-demon.....
The legend of the Giant Paw claimed that the Paw was cut off by Abdul Alhazred , a mad poet of Sana, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia -- the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients -- and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death..........
In this desert he attempted to invoke the she-demon Theasalli , a cat/bear like entity which roamed the earth in search of children whose souls she stole to enable her to lactate the 'milk of life', and animate her demon spawn..........
The legend states that Alhazred succeeded in calling the demon , which became so enraged it tried to drag him into a mighty chasm to the pits of hell, a fate he escaped by severing the monster's paw with his scimitar.........
Over history the Giant Paw passed through many hands, Olaus Wormius mentions it in his texts of 1487 , it crops up again in Henri Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim's influential work De occulta philosophia libri tres (1531), before becoming the property of the Elizabethan magician and astrologer Dr John Dee during his stay in Prague in 1587, given to him by the alchemist Jacob Eliezer known as the "Black Rabbi"..........
The Giant Paw then disappears , the next record of its existence being the formation of the ' Ancient Order Of The Giant Paw ' in London by John Ravenscroft , the son of a wealthy mill owner who had amassed a huge fortune during the early years of the industrial revolution.........
Initially just a playboys vice and opium den, the club members soon turned their hand to dabbling in the occult (a very fashionable pastime in the latter half of the 19 th century) but with dire consequences for Ravenscroft who became implicated in the murder of several East End children who had been discovered ' torn to pieces as if by some monstrous animal ' and although his family's influence kept him from the hangman's noose, he lived out his days in Bedlam..........
The Giant Paw is still the property of the Ravenscroft family, having been passed down the generations as an heirloom, and is now kept at their family estate in Bodmin, Cornwall...........
Since 1983 there have been over 60 sightings of large cat-like creatures on Bodmin Moor ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/136546.stm ) .........
In 2005 John Ravenscroft the 4 th started the record label ' FERAL electronics '.............
Their first signing was the band Giant Paw...........
In 2006 Giant Paw decided they would not be a traditional 'band' anymore, but would be a musical greetings card company issuing strictly limited edition hand made cards containing numbered CD-Rs of specially recorded songs......................
LIMITED EDITION ART CARD SERIES 1 RELEASES: ................................................................................................................ ISSUE 1 (DECEMBER 2005)- A WINTER TALE... one track cd inside individually hand numbered ' snow paw' design card. Strictly limited to 50 cards.....SOLD OUT
ISSUE 2 (NOVEMBER 2006)- EARLY RISER/ SOMETHING AROUND A.... two track cd inside limited edition hand screen printed card...design by Chin Keeler ( Doberman Family).strictly limited to 200 hand numbered cards....SOLD OUT.
ISSUE 3 (AUTUMN 2007)- MOSQUITO/SILENCE... two track cd inside limited edition hand screen printed card...design by Chin Keeler ( Doberman Family).strictly limited to 200 hand numbered cards.....SOLD OUT.
ISSUE 4 (SUMMER 2008)- FLOOD/SURGE... two track cd inside limited edition hand screen printed card...design by Chin Keeler ( Doberman Family).strictly limited to 200 hand numbered cards... OUT SOON
Big Bad Love at 93 Feet East July 10th Doors: 7pm £6.50
This is our first 93 Feat East gig and we’re happy to be gracing this illustrious stage so look out for special door price offers a few days before the gig… Or you can buy in advance here: http://www. wegottickets. com/event/32336
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This then is Young Fredrik Reinfeldt; having his First Meeting with Representative Democracy somewhere in the early Teens; when Power and the Pothential to get Grubby With Girls with Actual Tits Was Explained and Made Clear for Him; as Reported by one of Our TimeStaffers from IeCONTROL, present on the Scene: Don't Miss We: [Eaniel and Dmily, Eohn and Jrik, Magnus and Marie]; Arriving in Show and Olso, Theresesgate 5 [I&II]. 22'nd-31'st July. Show us Yours and We'll Show you Ours. Can you feel it?
hoy hoy kids! how's the old things?...lewis is playing with us on thursday...but aside from that, come see dave cloud, a big feller-me-lad genius fer sure AD
This is fabulous!Could you burn a cd-r of the works of yours you find most representative and send it to me so that I could play those on my radio show here in Serbia? It's a local fm radio heard throughout the West Serbia region.The address: Igor Jovanovic, Skolska bb, 31210 Pozega, Serbia
