The Real Tuesday Weld make a record for Dead People.
Buy In Memorium here
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Barely a week goes by without some new horror story about the London property market. But accommodation has always been a problem here - even for the dead
The city is a teetering Necropolis. Countless thousands lie beneath our feet. Until inner city burials were banned in the mid 19th C., everyone who died here was squashed into tiny parochial church yards. Even before the horrors of the Black Death, tales abounded of body parts visible below thin layers of soil, corpses piled upon each other in cellars or left lying in the streets.
The Victorians built 'The Magnificent Seven Cemeteries' in a ring around the city to stop all that. This month, in two of them, Antique Beat are hosting 'The London Month of the Dead' with our friends A Curious Invitation. We are investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents with workshops, walks, talks, a seance and an incredible array of speakers on death, dissection, bereavement, cemeteries, near-death experience, the paranormal **
As importantly, we are raising money for Brompton and Kensal Green cemeteries. My personal project is to raise enough to unlock 'The Brompton Time Machine' - better known as The Courtoy Mausoleum. An interesting legend has grown up around this mausoleum because it is the only one in the cemetery for which there is no record of construction - and for which there is no key. It hasn't been entered for over a hundred years. It is thought to have been designed by the Egyptologist and occultist Joseph Bonomi - pictured here. The legend is that it may have been a Time Machine or even part of wider 'London Teleportation System' **
Our aim is to raise enough to have the Mausoleum opened and a new key provided for future access / time travel. To that end, we have made a haunting new Ep called In Memorium - a sequence of songs about death with our friends Lazarus and the Plane Crash, The Puppini Sisters and Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies.
Listen and buy it here
(If you buy a ticket to any event at London Month of the Dead, you get a complimentary copy included in your ticket price).
So go ahead
Help out the dead
And save a slice
Of the Afterlife..
And in case you need any more inducements to help raise (money for) the dead, here is the Lazarus Plane Crash song "The Clay's a Calling" exhumed from the In Memorium Ep.
So go ahead
Help out the dead
And save a slice
Of the Afterlife..
And in case you need any more inducements to help raise (money for) the dead, here is the Lazarus Plane Crash song "The Clay's a Calling" exhumed from the In Memorium Ep.
* Of particular note to Londoners, may be 'A Day in the Life of Death' - a chance to ask a London undertaker all the questions you ever wanted to or 'Apocalypse Now and Then' when London's 'mass fatality planner' will be explaining what will happen to us in the case of various disasters..
**Ironically, of the several ways of now getting quickly around London, one of the ones that has become more popular is 'The Brompton' - a fold-up portable bicycle.
