I told a friend that I would do her a mix on the occasion of her birthday and in a flippant flight of fancy I said that that it would be a concept mix based on The Book Of Revelations and an old Lancashire folk tale about an errant milkmaid, as envisaged in Skip Spence's unfilmable screenplay. However she called my bluff and threw the gauntlet. And so it came to pass, that the milkmaid went a-wandering and found herself at the end of Blackpool's North Pier where she meets Gracie and George, top-flight-twice-a-night-light-entertainers who practise the ancient Lancastrian art of Insinuendo. They take her to Manchester, home to the Cotton Kings and Bad Joey Barton. Here she meets a Frenchman and a Jamaican who warn her of the approaching armagiddeon time. The sea turns to sour milk, there is a plague of barbiturates and amidst this biblical backdrop our lassie falls for a slippery stranger and gives unto him her most precious womanly gift of fu-fu. After this it all gets a bit crazy as Good and Evil battle it out eight miles high over Rochdale. Amen. (click to listen)
DONOVAN - Song of the Wandering Aengus
SKIP SPENCE - Cripple Creek
ELVIS PRESLEY - Milkcow Blues Boogie
NIC JONES - Flandyke Shore
GRACIE FIELDS - When I'm Mutton
GEORGE FORMY - My Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock
JULIEN CLERC - Laissons Entrer Le Soleil
JUDGE WINCHESTER - Public Jestering
JACKIE LOMAX - Sour Milk Sea
LEONARD COHEN - Who By Fire
THE DENNIS COFFEY BAND - Sweet Taste of Sin
LOU RAWLS - You'll Never Find
CAPTAIN & TENNILLE - The Way I Want To Touch You
MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND - Blinded By The Light
MAHALIA JACKSON - The Holy Bible
FAMILY OF GOD - Family of God
DYNASTIE CRISIS - Fasute 72
EDNA FALLMAN COOKE - Walk Through The Valley
TRINITY FT. THE PROPHETS - Blessed Are The Meek
JOYCE - Ave Maria
PIERO UMILIANI - Crepusculo Sul Mare
