FARREN CARNIVOROUS CIRCUS Mona DEVIANTS Fairies Psych
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GRIT, NOISE & REVOLUTION ...UK 1970
~ DEVIANTS ~ PINK FAIRIES ~
LONDON UNDERGROUND
MICK FARREN
CARNIVOROUS CIRCUS
MONA
UK - Psycho - 20
Long time gone limited exact 2ndpress issued on the infamous Psycho label, by now soon to be a 30 year old pressing ...nevertheless the 1970 recorded album by Mick Farren, leader of London underground band 'The Deviants' casts a new backing crew who would, without him, become the Pink Fairies only months after the Carnivorous Circus album was released...
The CARNIVOROUS CIRCUS ~ MONA is a dizzying collage of words, aural overlays and strung-out proto-headbanging from the heart of darkness, “Mona” was conceived two months after Farren split from The Deviants during a live freak out in Vancouver Canada. Upon his return to London, he made up a third of what became (for a short time, anyway) the initial Pink Fairies along with ex-Tyrannosaurus Rex percussionist Steve “Peregrine” Took, and ex-Pretty Things drummer and vocalist, Twink. They all appear on this demented rant’n’roll record, backed by two members of Quatermass and wah-wah inclined guitarist Steve Hammond. “Mona” is an album of rock’n’roll cut and pasted into a revolutionary tract of smoldering fury, like a post-Altamont therapy session. More than a token release to appease the clause of recording contract, it was a crazed, warped vision that was perhaps the best Deviants record in disguise. It took the whole concept of The Deviants into a territory of wildly edited freak rock, voice over narrations and rock and roll covers combined into a bewildering assemblage like an orchestra-less and British “Lumpy Gravy.” There are two versions of Bo Diddley’s “Mona”, a great cover of “Summertime Blues” with casual, barking vocals and everything in between cross-faded and given separate subtitles under the two umbrella tracks: “The Carnivorous Circus (Part One)” and “(Part Two).” It goes from interviews with an English Hell’s Angel, Steve Took recounting his time inside jail, Hitler speeches to the ultimate freak/spazz out of “Society of the Horsemen”, the subtitled coda to “Carnivorous Circus (Part One)”. Here the question “Who needs the egg?!!” is shouted, snarled and ultimately beaten into the ground by Farren, Took and Twink until you feel lame -- no, SCARED -- for not knowing the answer.
But for all the weirdness, a weary Farren is able to state “This is the best part” right before the closing “Mona (The Whole Trip)” on side two, sounding like a “Soft Parade”-era Morrison who’s seen too much: his band departed from his vision, his deserted wife and a revolution fallen from his eyes, no less. Still frail from the physical and mental ravages of the ill-fated Deviants tour of North America, Farren sounds desperate, freaked out and militant as hell. He’s hoarsely screaming “Are you listenin’??!!” on side two over descending guitar blasts and cymbal tones of methedrine-edged paranoia. From the De Sade quote to the bearded-self portrait on the back cover as an aviator-shaded prince of the black flag, Farren looks every inch a man ready to bite the head off anyone in his path.
- Mick Farren / vocals, main performer
- Steve Peregrine Took / bass
- Twink / drums
- Victor Brox / keyboards
- Paul Buckmaster / Cello
- John Gustafson / bass
- Steve Hammond / guitar
1. Mona (A Fragment)
2. Carnivorous Circus, Pt. 1
3. Summertime Blues
4. Carnivorous Circus, Pt. 2
5. Mona (The Whole Trip)
CONDITION: The cover is thin & fragile ala UK imports and in collectible VG++ showing only very little bin wear, and otherwise solid...no split seams, or other bothersome problems...
The vinyl is all glossy both sides VG+ having ONLY superficial hairline scuffs that will not cause alarming audio distraction, playing around excellent, enjoyable, thus collection worthy by all means including scarceness of issue...
keeper copy!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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