What
would the new Syd Barrett be like if he were around today? I think he
would’ve done some of the numbers I did and have on my CV, and that
the music might just be secondary, a mild, amateurish Hobbyism for
Sundays.
For
example, at
seven I helped invent the net: when
the idea of the net needed storing in writing in the attic here to
give it a chance to grow all the way round the world it was I that
wrote it. At
eight I
was
the witness from The
Lords And The New You
Know Who, twice
making strange, Naturalistic Observations. At
eleven I
went
through an experiment into the maths of the new colour as
a cellular mark.
At
fifteen I
attained
the face of stars which
might’ve been scripted in the Bible.
At
eighteen I
spoke
against September 11th
using my own brain in the year 2000, prophesied the God Particle from looking at dust
in a late ray of light angling in, founded a new religion based on
the elephant and wrote the highest-marked A-level exam essay in the
country.
Following
on from school, I recorded on binaural earphones, with a band, had an
effervescent mobile phone reverberating the rhythm of ‘William
Tell’ through every technological inlet in the room before it rang,
hosted the Plough alignment, got a First despite mental illness,
spotted a sensory overlay of my name on Piper,
worked the numinous purple-bleeding screen, built the Tower as an
instrument of philosophy, conducted an experiment into a tape with a
pause where cut and resealed in the reel, and discovered the sheet
where pictures (seemingly
depicting my own song lyric)
grew.
This
for me would be the CV of the new Syd Barrett. The music would be
secondary. If however the music was all he did, it would be more like
Mark Velarde’s band Candyblasta, to which I can grant you an
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