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Being a
selective interactive history of the Ptolemaic
Terrascope, with some explanatory notes by the
editor, Phil McMullen |
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PT1 - May 1989 (also known as
Volume 1 Number 1).
Contents: Bevis Frond, Flyte
Reaction, Outskirts of Infinity, Twink, Green
Pajamas.
Inserts: "The Scrapbook" (A4
double sided sheet) cover, and inside vintage
cuttings from 1970s UK music papers including
Traffic, Moby Grape, Geranium Pond, Robin &
Barry Dransfield, Trees and Shirley & Dolly
Collins.
POT-1 7" EP featuring The Flyte
Reaction - Carousel / Psychos Mum - I Don't
Remember / Mick Wills - Untitled / The Bevis Frond
- The 99th Very Last Time
Notes: Cover image and artwork
throughout by the inimitable R.M. "Cyke" Bancroft,
who created each issue from scratch on blank
boards with the words and artwork pasted on. I'd
send him the text printed into columns (galleys is
the technical term) and Cyke cut it up and
assembled it on his kitchen table.
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PT-2 - September 1989 (also
known as Volume 1 Number 2)
Contents: Spirit, Wipers, High
Tide, Adrian Shaw, Bevis Frond, Walkingseeds.
Inserts: (a) Scrapbook of cuttings (b) Blue A4
sheet including do-it-yourself labels for the
POT-1 and POT-2 EPs [both included at end]
POT-2 7" Adrian Shaw - Paths Of
Time / The Outskirts Of Infinity - Eyes In The
Back Of My Head / Pete Pavli - Cello Piece / The
Walkingseeds - Gates Of Freedom / Pete Pavli -
Time Centre
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PT3 - January 1990 (also known
as Volume 1 Number 3)
Contents: the Rolling Stones
(Charlie Watts), XTC, Spirit, Tangle Edge,
Ectomorph, Bevis Frond, Twink.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
POT-3 7" The Ectomorph - Diverse
Humours / The Bevis Frond - Somewhere Else /
Tangle Edge - The Pinworm Era / Rustic Rod - Rest
Assured
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PT4 - May 1990 (also known as
Volume 1 Number 4)
Contents: Edgar Broughton, Barry
Dransfield, Captain Sensible, Flaming Lips,
Walkingseeds, Dave Stewart, Utopian Fields,
Spirit, Bevis Frond.
Print run: 1800 copies printed.
307 copies mailed out to subscribers on 12th May
1990.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
POT-4 7" Barry Dransfield - Be
Your Own Man / Green Pajamas - My Photographs /
Todd Dillingham - Lament / Flyte Reaction - Won't
Be Long
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PT5 - September 1990 (also known
as Volume 2 Number 1)
Contents: Pete Brown, Blue
Cheer, Dead Moon, Man, Barry Dransfield, Spirit,
Dave Stewart, Napalm Beach, Audio Murphy, Bevis
Frond, Green Pajamas.
Print run: 1500 copies printed.
We were over 100 copies short of the number
required. Subscription copies mailed out on 10th
September 1990.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
POT-5 7" Phil Shöenfelt -
Devil's Hole / Dead Moon - Walking On My Grave /
Audio Murphy - Ask Don't Get / Napalm Beach -
Pugsley
Notes: Title Page says "Issue
Four" - this is in fact issue five
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PT6 - January 1991 (also known
as Volume 2 Number 2)
Contents: Current 93, John
Cipollina, Cliff Richard, Vietnam Veterans, Man,
Dave Stewart, Galaxie 500.
Print run: 2300 copies printed.
389 copies were mailed out to subscribers on 20th
January, 1991. A second print run of 500 copies
took place on 8th February 1991.
POT6 Randy California - American
Society / Current 93 - Broken Birds Soar / Randy
California - The Whale Song
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
Notes: Artist Cyke Bancroft was
entering a "dark period", and the style of the
magazine followed suit. Spot the hand-written
marginalia which became such a feature of the
Terrascope at this time!
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PT7 - May 1991 (also known as
Volume 2 Number 3)
Contents: Groundhogs (Tony
McPhee), Legendary Pink Dots, Curved Air, Jerry
Donahue, Trees, Marshmallow Overcoat, Man,
Sundial, Van Der Graaf Generator.
Print run: 2000 copies printed.
448 copies mailed out to subscribers on 14th May
1991.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
CATATONIC PERISCOPE EP (POT7)
Tony T.S. McPhee - Meet Me In The Bottom / The
(Marshmallow) Overcoat - Cinderella / Bevis Frond
- Countdown Theme / Sundial - Slow Motion / Dave
Jaxon - Hazard Dream Sequence
Notes: Advertised with this
issue was 'The Woronzow Bag' - 250 printed plastic
record bags containing signed LPs by the Ectomorph
& the Flyte Reaction plus a 7" EP featuring
'Savage God' by the Ectomorph and 'Ceremony of the
Sea' by Flyte Reaction (catalogue number WOO 14
and a bit).
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PT8 - August 1991 (also known as
Volume 2 Number 4)
Contents: Nurse With Wound, H.P.
Lovecraft, Van der Graaf Generator, The Badgeman,
Davey Graham, Alan Moore, Caravan, Man, Jamie
Muir, Incredible String Band, Proteus Lights.
Print run: 2500 copies printed.
485 copies mailed out to subscribers on 27th
August, 1991.
MNEMONIC FIRE ESCAPE EP (POT8)
Richard Sinclair - Keep On Caring / Nurse With
Wound - Red Flipper / The Underworlde - Raw
Satellite Country
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at the end]
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PT9 - January 1992 (also known
as Volume 3 Number 1)
Contents: Robert Wyatt, Help
Yourself, The Troggs, Clark Hutchinson, Ant Bee,
Alan Moore, Glenn Phillips, Mandragora.
Print run: 2500 copies printed.
606 subscription copies mailed out on 27th January
1992.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
TECTONIC PTOLESCOPE EP (POT9)
Mick Hutchinson - Ragamag / Mandragora - Untitled
/ Robert Wyatt - Piano Piece / Green Pajamas -
Emily Grace
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PT10
- April 1992 (also known as Volume 3
Number 2)
Contents: Shirley Collins,
Hawkwind, Kaleidoscope (US), Tractor, Cul De
Sac, Dr. Brown, Glenn Phillips, Gordon
Haskell, Mooseheart Faith, Help Yourself, The
Nice.
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run: 2500
copies printed. 636 copies mailed out to
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& TONIC BATHYSCOPE EP (POT-10) Shirley
Collins - The Blacksmith / Mooseheart Faith - Soul
Train Of Thought / The Grooveyard -
Czechoslovakian Moomin / Dr Brown - Across The
Border |
Inserts:
Scrapbook of cuttings [included at end] |
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PT11 - July 1992 (also known as
Volume 3 Number 3)
Contents: Kaleidoscope (US),
Robin Trower, Iain Matthews, Yardbirds, Big
Brother, Hampton Grease Band, Magic Mushroom Band,
Arthur Lee.
Print run: 2500 copies printed.
661 copies mailed out to subscribers on 23rd July
1992.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
THE EMBRYONIC STETHOSCOPE EP (POT-11)
- Iain Matthews - Rains of 62 / Magic Mushroom
Band - Hubbly Bubbly / Cul De Sac - K / Jim
McCarty - Goin' Down.
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PT12 - November 1992 (also known
as Volume 3 Number 4)
Contents: Patto, Martin Carthy,
White Heaven, Mothers of Invention, John
Kirkpatrick, The Daily Flash, Rutles, Monomen,
Pavlov's Dog, Cerebral Corps, Alchemysts, Simon
House.
Print run: 1500 copies printed.
757 copies mailed out to subscribers on 22nd
November 1992.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
THE MISANTHROPIC DUFFLECOAT EP (POT-12)
- Kaleidoscope - I'm A Hog For You Babe &
Little Orphan Annie / White Heaven - Silver
Current / Alchemysts - Blind Side
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PT13 - April 1993 (also known as
Volume 4 Number 1)
Contents: Noel Redding, Andy
Roberts, Mothers of Invention, Ed Kuepper, Loud
Family, Popealopes, Michael Quercio, Medicine
Ball, Laughing Trees, Walkabouts, Gas Huffer.
Print run: 2500 copies printed.
Subscription copies mailed out on 26th April 1993.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
HARRYCONNICK KENNETHCOPE EP (POT-13)
- Ant Bee - Lunar Egg Clips / Laughing Trees -
Reason Misguided / Andy Roberts - Picnic &
Home At Last / The (Noel) Redding Factor - Video
Show
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PT14 - August 1993 (also known
as Volume 4 Number 2)
Contents: Viv Stanshall, the
Shadows, Jefferson Airplane, Kaleidoscope (UK),
the Mothers of Invention, Dean Carter, the
Ramones, Alice's Orb, Jane Pow, Evergreen Dazed,
Young Fresh Fellows, Ghost, the Wall of Sleep.
POOMASTER RECEPTICAL EP (Pot-14)
- The Wall of Sleep - Slacker / The Sidekicks -
Lookin' For A Woman / Medicine Ball - Roomis
d'Gloomis / Jane Pow - Cycles.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
Notes: After 4 years, this was
the first issue produced at what was to become our
home address for the next 25 years
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PT15 - December 1993 (also known
as Volume 4 Number 3)
Contents: Paul McCartney, Paul Kantner, the Soft
Boys, Marble Sheep, Plummet Airlines, Fairfield
Parlour, Mike Gunn, the Kinks, Strapping
Fieldhands, Anglagard, Tom Rapp, Dan Hicks &
His Hot Licks.
Print run: 1900 copies printed.
Inserts: Scrapbook of cuttings
[included at end]
THE PIMPS TOE ACCELERATOR EP (POT-15)
- The Mike Gunn - Primal Burp / Strapping
Fieldhands - Just Too Much / Pearls Before Swine -
Transluscent Carriages (alt. version) /
Macbeth/The Cowboy Who Ate Vietnam (unreleased) /
Ring Thing (alt. version).
Notes: Subscription copies were
mailed out 23rd December 1993 - some actually
arrived on Christmas Eve.
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PT16 - May 1994 (also known as
Volume 4 Number 4) Contents: Velvet Underground,
Them, Show of Hands, Red Chair Fadeaway, Jefferson
Airplane, Dan Hicks, Tom Rapp, Wizz Jones, Family,
11th Dream Day, Flying Saucer Attack, Blossom
Toes, Guided by Voices.
Print run: 1st run: 2500 copies printed (350 less
than we had orders for). 2nd run: 500.
Subscription copies mailed out 3rd May, 1994.
Inserts: This was the final time
a scrapbook of cuttings [included at the end] was
included, completing the set that started with
issue 1.
THE POLITE CREAM TEA CORPS EP (POT-16)
- Flying Saucer Attack - All About Dreams / Guided
By Voices - Chicken Blows / Anglagard -Ganglat
Fran Knapptibble.
Notes: This was the very last
issue to feature original Cyke Bancroft artwork,
ending a run of 5 years and four different cover
designs. The cover for issue 16 is actually the
cover for issue 13 recycled.
Flying Saucer Attack made a bespoke sleeve for
the POT-16 EP; only 25 copies of the magazine were
sent out with this included though.
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PT17 - SEPTEMBER 1994
Contents: David Ackles, Band of
Susans, Nick Kent, Arthur Lee, Fiona Joyce,
Blossom Toes, Prisonshake, Simon Nicol, Skooshny,
Flamin' Groovies, Mick Farren, Jefferson Airplane.
Print run: 2000 copies printed.
Subscription copies mailed out 20th September
1994.
THE PROSTATE CARE POLEMIC EP
(POT-17) - Bevis Frond - Off My Shoes / Fiona
Joyce - Trees / Crome Syrcus - The Weather Report
/ Skooshny - Appetite for Mystery.
Notes: Artwork and paste-up by
Nick Saloman. The cover art owes a nod of
ackowledgment to the Jefferson Airplane's 'Crown
of Creation'! The "volume" concept was changed to
a straightforward issue number at this time, and
the scrapbook discontinued.
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PT18 - MARCH 1995
Contents: Tiny Tim, Robyn
Hitchcock, Celibate Rifles, Episode Six, Steve
Wynn, Gene Parsons, Roy Harper, Paul Roland, Dave
Swarbrick, Arthur, Smell of Incense.
THE LACE TRAPPIST ROE COME EP
(POT-18) - Tiny Tim - Devil May Care & Tiptoe
Thru The Tulips (live) / Robyn Hitchcock -
Creatures of Light & As Lemons Drop
Notes: There aren't too many
publications in which you'd find David Tibet from
Current 93 interviewing Tiny Tim! Sadly not
everyone saw the funny side - we lost at least one
American subscriber for daring to feature Tiny Tim
in a psychedelic magazine. Cover art once again by
Nick Saloman, with new recruit Davina Ware
crafting some of the headings.
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PT19 - SEPTEMBER 1995
Contents: Moby Grape, Pete Sears, Michael
Chapman, Reverb, National Heroes, Bevis Frond, St.
Mikael, The Lyres, The Flat Earth Society, Episode
6, The Wellwater Conspiracy, Frank Zappa.
Print run: 1900 copies printed.
Subscription copies mailed out on 11th October
1995.
A METAL CREEP'S PORTICO EP (POT-19)
- Wellwater Conspiracy: Germanium, Telescopic
& The Solar Know / The Roots Of Echo - As Time
Goes By
Notes: This was the first
edition put together by our new artist Davina
Ware. Davina was to make the magazine
her own over the next six years, with a style
which became symbolic of the Terrascope to many.
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PT20 - APRIL 1996
Contents: Julian Cope, Mighty
Baby, Jessamine, The Spacious Mind, Sundial, Moby
Grape, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Marilyn
Decade, Brother J.T.
Print run: 2200 copies printed.
Subscription copies mailed out 22nd April, 1996.
MEAT PIE TOECLOTH SCRAPER EP (POT-20)
- Sundial - Fairground / Mayo Thompson - Woof /
Jessamine - Live @ Off The Record / Brother J.T. -
Slowly
Notes: This was the issue that
launched the 'Succour' double compilation CD, the
result of a year or more of fundraising to help
save the Terrascope from financial ruin.
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PT21 - SEPTEMBER 1996
Contents: the Beatles (Pete
Best), Bridget St. John, Sonic Boom, The Grifters,
Moby Grape, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Nazz,
Porcupine Tree, Dead C, Guru Guru
MASTER PETE CAPITOL AND HIS MAGIC EP
(POT-21) - The Hampton Grease Band -
Upper and Lower Dresden / Neutral Milk Hotel -
untitled / Tom Rapp - Blind
Notes: The Record Offer this
issue was a CD entitled 'Audible Rumbles', our
second CD compilation. Featuring exclusive tracks
from the Hampton Grease Band, Baby Lemonade, Bevis
Frond, Man, Tom Rapp, Das Weeth Experience, the
Outskirts of Infinity, Moosheart Faith, Flying
Saucer Attack, Magic Hour and White Heaven it
remains my favourite of all the compilations we
ever put together.
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PT22 - FEBRUARY 1997
Contents: The Silver Apples, Roy
Montgomery, Richard Davies, The Mandrake Memorial,
The Outsiders, Warser Gate, Witch Hazel, The
Shadows.
Print run: 2500 copies printed.
Subscription copies mailed out 24th February 1997.
THE TOASTIER LEPER CAMP CO. EP (POT-22)
- Roy Montgomery - Liverpool 82 / Tangle Edge -
Hesperus / The Silver Apples - Parkinmeter Mojo /
Witch Hazel - Farewell to Cheyenne
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PT 23 - July 1997 featuring
interviews with Hood, Damon & Naomi, Peter
Green, Bert Jansch, Randy California, the Monks,
Barbara Manning and the 50 Foot Hose
Print run: 2500 copies printed.
Subscription copies mailed out 17th July 1997.
THE COMPLETE SEPIA CARROT EP (POT-23)
- Alastair Galbraith - Flickering Too / Fifty Foot
Hose - Bad Trip / Hood - You Should Never Be Alone
In This World / CJT - Jazzshite / Damon &
Naomi - Spirit of Love / The Monks - I Can't Get
Over You
Notes: I often think of this
issue as "peak Terrascope". Put together while we
still bathed in the glow of a successful first
Terrastock festival, it features an absolutely
incredible line-up of acts both on the cover and
on the EP. The reviews columns are worth looking
back on as well, with innumerable artists
mentioned who would go on to become vital elements
of the scene.
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PT24 - JANUARY 1998 Contents:
Electric Prunes, Guided by Voices, The
Misunderstood, The Lazily Spun, Cosmic Invention,
Karl Precoda, Pelt, and Salamander.
THE TERMINAL SPIN EP (POT-24) -
Guided by Voices - Scorpion Lounge Shutdown / The
Lazily Spun - Old Guy / Electric Prunes - Hideaway
/ Pelt - Zincmine
Notes: This was the last issue
to feature a vinyl EP - the Terrascope included a
CD from issue 25 inwards.
Davina Ware, the artist during this period, was
under strict instructions from Phil not to feature
any "mushrooms, pixies or other hippy nonsense".
Careful study of the tree on the front cover will
reveal numerous mushrooms and pixies hidden
amongst the leaves!
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PT25 - AUGUST 1998
Contents: The Savage
Resurrection, Stars of the Lid, Atman, Can, Green
Pajamas, Country Joe McDonald, Zumpano, Rhombus of
Doom, Gomez.
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA CD (POT-25)
- Mick Hutchinson & The Magic Dragon - Summer
Jam / The Wellwater Conspiracy - My Own Personal
Ladder To The Moon / Country Joe & The Frond -
Bass Strings (live) / Zumpano - The Mods of
Christmas Town / Rhombus of Doom - Unlimited
Intelligence / The Green Pajamas / Dim Phantoms of
an Unknown Ill / Dipsomaniacs - Consume / Alphane
Moon - Terra Adamica / The Lazily Spun - A Puce
Moment / Warser Gate - Shut Eye / Stone Breath -
Listen, Listen (agape mix) / The Kitchen Cynics -
Burning Toast / The Last Days of May - Von
Datesman Express / Atman - Live in Bechatow
Notes: issue 25, being our 1/4
century issue, featured the same R.M. Bancroft
cover artwork used for issue 1; however the
artwork throughout the magazine was by Davina
Ware.
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PT26 - FEBRUARY 1999
Contents:The Magic Band, Linus
Pauling Quartet, Steamhammer, Stone Breath, the
Doors, the Kinks, Supreme Dicks, West Coast Pop
Art Experimental Band.
THE 26th COMMANDMENT CD (POT-26)
- Pat Orchard - Jacob / Fit & Limo - Open
Scene / Linus Pauling Quartet - Cole Porter / The
Sanctions - You Can Help Yourself / Mirza - A
Bower in The Arsacides / The Conrad Hopkins Set -
Theme For An Unwritten Spy / The Supreme Dicks -
The Mighty Euphrades 1247 BC / Simeon & The
Alchemysts - Oscillator Manual / Kieran White -
Hummingbird / The Flyte Reaction - 3 O'clock /
Azusa Plane - Implications of Holomovement / Hood
- For A Moment, Lost / Pat Orchard - Answers On A
Postcard / The Loud Family - Asleep and Awake on
the Man's Freeway / The Green Pajamas - Emma is
Crying
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PT27 - AUGUST 1999
Contents: David Ackles, Windy
& Carl, Vortex Navigation Co., Eyeless in
Gaza, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band part 2,
the Webb Brothers, Hawkwind (Dave Brock), and
Nikki Sudden.
IT'S THE BIG ONE (POT-27) CD
featuring Nikki Sudden with the Mandragora
Lightshow Society - Big Store / Sandra Bell -
Willow / The Lucky Bishops - Gone is the Sad Man /
Windy & Carl - At Ascension / Pop-Off Tuesday
- Inner Dead Point / Bari Watts - You Want Change
For Your Re-Run / Doldrums - J’ai Obtenu Mon Sang
Change En Suisse / Martyn Bates - The Wayward Love
/ Abunai! with Barbara Manning - Dock Ellis / The
Lothars - Twisted Calliope / Me - Where I Came
From / The Vortex Navigation Company - Green
Pyramid (The Big Day Turns) / The Lucky Bishops -
Cow Statue
Notes: Subscribers received a
£10 discount coupon for the Terrastock 3 festival
(London) with this issue.
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PT28 - FEBRUARY 2000
Contents: Kinks (Dave Davies),
Captain Beefheart, Mac Macleod, Charles Shaar
Murray, Six Organs of Admittance, Deviants, Indian
Bingo, Pins, Arco.
THIS IS POT (POT-28) CD
featuring Six Organs of Admittance - Lament for
Summer / Deviants - Lurid Night (live) / Soft
Cloud - Time Machine / Mac Macleod - Codeine /
Wellwater Conspiracy - What Become of the Clock /
Pins - Brittle Starling / Pangolin - The Sea /
Greg Weeks - For Chan / The Virgineers - Smile,
Cheshire Cat / Donovan's Brain - Days Playing /
Help Yourself - Eating Duneburgers, Honey Please
and Miss Grace
Notes: This remains one of my
favourites of all our CD compilations.
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PT29 - NOVEMBER 2000 Contents:
John Mayall, Small Faces, Greg Weeks, Faust,
Disposmaniacs, Mac Macleod, Scenic, Flying Saucer
Attack, Abunai!, Iain Sinclair.
THE POT MACHINE TURNS YOU ON CD (POT-29)
featuring John Cipollina's Raven - Unvicious
Circle / Ring - Be Peaceful People / Mac Macleod -
South Coast / Abunai! - Willo Bend / Broken Dog -
Will There Be Drinks? / Crazy Alien - Cause &
Effect / Greg Weeks - Sleep Softly, Children / The
Lucky Bishops - Sleuth / Vic Conrad & The
First Third - Emily & Liam / Flying Saucer
Attack - Land's End / Scenic - Year of the Rat /
The Bevis Frond - Silver / Man with John Cipollina
- Bananas
Notes:
During 2000 the Terrascope was flying.
Newly appointed reviews editor Steve
Hanson had hit the ground running;
Davina's artwork was just incredible, causing me
to up my game in an attempt to match it; and the
list of contributors includes pretty much all of
the finest writers of their time: Nigel Cross,
Byron Coley, Colin Hill, Jud Cost, Fred Mills -
and the late, great Lee Jackson and Tony Dale.
What could possibly go wrong? Sadly, I did. Not
only did the next issue (30) take an age to
publish, but the next two read today like a
catalogue of my failing mental health.
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PT30 - JUNE 2001
Contents: Bardo Pond, The Lucky
Bishops, Its A Beautiful Day, Jeff Nuttall, Gary
Marker, Subarachnoid Space, Vashti Bunyan, The
Minus 5, Mirza, Soft Machine.
A POT BY ANY OTHER NAME...
(POT-30) CD featuring Lucky Bishops - Time of the
Season / Soft Boys - Insanely Jealous / Donovan's
Brain - 22 Lost Marbles / Vashti Bunyan - 17 Pink
Sugar Elephants / Gadsby & Skol - Fools like
You / The SandPebbles - The Big V / Warser Gate -
Faces Blunt / Quicksilver Messenger Service - The
Fool / Bardo Pond - Another Place / Tony Hill -
Naked Ape / Thuja - Jewelled Antler /
thebrotheregg - Negative Space / Subarachnoid
Space - Delayed Gratification
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PT31 - FEBRUARY 2002
Contents: Paul McCartney and
Wings, Acid Mothers Temple, Amber Asylum, Bardo
Pond, Keith Christmas, Circulus, Clientele,
Delicate AWOL, Will Sergeant/Glide, the Hollies,
Michio Kurihara and The Minders.
Print run: there were two, with
different covers. Pictured is the second edition.
GET YER POTS OUT (POT-31) - Acid
Mothers Temple - Flying G Spot / Kinski - My New
Worry / Mary Jane - Blackwaterside / Bardo Pond -
Living Testament / Circulus - Music Plays In The
Air / The Minders - The Familiar's Song / Amber
Asylum - Sopor / Holy River Family Band - Bear
Mountain / Liquid Zoo - Diamond Chains and House
On The Hill / Damon and Naomi with Kurihara - Eye
of the Storm (live) / Discolor - Golden Tops On
Stellar Plane / Arkron Daraul - Horsing & The
Damned French
Notes: I was literally and
figuratively barely with it for this issue - the
majority of it is the work of the late, great Tony
Dale
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PT32 - OCTOBER 2002 Contents:
Forest, Apples in Stereo, Kinski, Landing,
Ultimate Spinach, Fantasyy Factoryy, Damo Suzuki,
Peter Scion, Charalambides, Paik, The Iditarod,
and Phosphene.
POT-32 CD featuring Paik -
Purple / Jens Unossen - The Sea & The Willow
Tree / Phosphene - And the Ship of Sunrise Burning
/ ST 37 - Cloud/Cattle / Peter Scion - Stone Song
/ Forest - Monday Morning / Forest - Spring Saga /
Landing - In the Colors / The Iditarod - Sparrow /
Charalambides - Song for Always / Surface of Eceon
- Layer of Given Lustre to Clouds in the Seventh
Sky / Fantasyy Factoryy - Phobia / Saint Joan -
December
Notes: Although only a few
people realised it, this was my "back from the
brink" issue. I'd been in a rough place mentally
for a year or so, lost half my bodyweight and came
close to becoming homeless & destitute. I also
managed to destroy several friendships, including
tragically that of Terrascope artist Davina Ware,
an idiocy on my part which almost spelled the end
of the magazine. Friends and family rallied round
however and we were lucky to find several new
contributors, including artist Iker
Spozio, whose brilliant work was to
define the look of the magazine for a whole new
generation of readers over the next three years.
The cover is by the inimitable Timothy Renner, who
had also crafted several Terrastock festival
posters for us down the years.
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PT33 - MARCH 2003
Contents: The Golden Dawn, Piano
Magic, Destroy all Monsters, Cerberus Shoal, The
Land of Nod, Dora Flood, Lol Coxhill, Mountain
Goats, Terrastock 5, Rockette Morton, Quicksilver
Diaries, and The Sandpebbles.
POT-33 CD featuring Bella -
Katsimbalis / The Iditarod - Roots of the
Butterfly Bush / The Land of Nod - Colli di Pedona
/ Monster Island - Dream of Nothing / Cerberus
Shoal - A Hawaii that Does Exist / Comets on Fire
- Beneath the Ice Age / Green Pajamas - The
Haunted Dollhouse / Sharron Kraus - Seedless / Lol
Coxhill - My Girl / the SandPebbles - Hanging Out
/ Davis Redford Triad - Spanish Flea Market / The
Golden Dawn - My Time / Dora Flood - The View /
Dora Flood - Echoes
Notes: This was sadly the last
Timothy Renner cover design we used until 2016
when he stepped into design a new cover for the Terrascopaedia.
For some odd reason we used the same red and
silver colour scheme again just two issues later
(PT35)
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PT34 - JANUARY 2004 Contents:
Electric Prunes, Lazily Spun, United States of
America, Jennifer Gentle, Steve Wynn/Dream
Syndicate, Eleventh Dream Day, Comets on Fire,
Kaleidoscope (US), Jade, the Ill Wind, Steven Wray
Lobdell, Clive Palmer, Verdure, Country Weather,
and Quicksilver Messenger Service.
IT'S GONNA BE HOT IN THE CANNIBAL POT
TONIGHT (POT-34) - CD featuring The
Lazily Spun - Lipse of the Marchpane / In Gowan
Ring - Caught Within the Tendrils of the Vine /
Verdure - Albatross Times / Country Weather -
Confusion / Country Weather - Ride With Me /
Country Weather - I Am Getting Closer / Jennifer
Gentle - Verde Mostro / Steve Wynn - Amphetamine /
Jade - September Song / The Davis Redford Triad -
Targets Of Opportunity / Steven Wray Lobdell -
Montecore's Revenge / Pothole Skinny - Harnessed
In the Catacombs / The Bevis Frond - Lifelike /
The Bevis Frond - I Can't Get It Out Of My Mind
Notes: This was the first issue
to feature Iker Spozio artwork throughout, and he
delivered an absolute masterpiece. It was also the
issue that introduced our new Reviews Editor, a
post he was to make his own over the next 12
years, Simon Lewis. It's odd how
the issues with brown and cream covers (issues 1,
10, 24 and 34) all seem to be strong personal
favourites of mine; in this case, the amazing
line-up of artists interviewed strike just the
right balance between new acts and old, and the
artwork and layout is just exquisite. It's a good
job I loved it really as by now all the money was
gone and I had to pay for this out of my own
pocket - something Mr. Saloman, to his eternal
credit, was repeatedly advising me to stop doing.
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PT35 - DECEMBER 2004
Contents: Movietone, Sharron
Kraus, In Gowan Ring, Jack Rose, Tarentel,
Longstone, Mission of Burma, Nick Nicely, the
Stooges and The Open Mind.
THIS WAY UP (POT-35) - CD
featuring Nick Nicely’s X-Ray Orchestra -
Psychotropian Dobbscape / The Green Pajamas -
Black Velvet Cat / Jack Rose - Box of Pine /
Longstone - Indochine / Thought Forms - Memento
Memorii / In Gowan Ring - Listless Midnight / Help
Yourself - Halfbreed / Steve Mackay & The
Radon Ensemble - The Moment is Sinking #2 / The
One Ensemble of Daniel Padden - We Tumble Each
Time We Dance / The Bevis Frond - Why Have You
Been Fighting Me? / Tarentel - Untitled / Grimble
Grumble - Dose Lied
Notes: Finally I took notice of
my friends and family and asked for help in the
editorial with this issue. Former contributor Pat
Thomas kindly stepped forward and was to produce
just one more issue - Ptolemaic Terrascope issue
36.
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PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE No. 36
Contents: Devendra Banhart,
Shirley Collins, Davey Graham, Michael Chapman,
Vashti Bunyan, Ron Ashton of The Stooges, Elaine
Brown of The Black Panther Party.
CD with Rare/Unreleased Songs
by: Doug Yule of the Velvet Underground, Kendra
Smith, Barbara Manning, Six Organs of Admittance,
Steven Roback of Rain Parade, Steve Wynn, Fern
Knight, Ruthann Friedman, Shirley Collins, Davey
Graham, Normanoak And others….
Issue 36 was published in the USA in October
2007. Editor/Publisher: Pat Thomas Layout: Jozef
Becker (formerly of Thin White Rope)
Illustrations: Stacie Willoughby Cover Photo:
Alissa Anderson
Notes: Not included here as I'm not too sure
who owns the copyright - presumably Pat Thomas
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