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Wear Sensible Shoes - a Coil Guided Tour of London - Solstice Edition!
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Wear Sensible Shoes - a Coil Guided Tour of London - Solstice Edition!

Who's up for next month's Coil walk?

This is Wear Sensible Shoes, my Coil-centric guided walk that since 2019 has explored London's outer realms.

This year, the three different walks are all around the Solstice week - Sat 20, Sun 21 and Fri 26 June. Good light and good weather followed by rest, refreshments & conversation that usually goes on til dusk.

The walk dips into many locations of the band's biography, song themes, album art, photo shoots and twenty years of associated Coil-lore. The exact locations will be revealed as the walk itself unfolds. Be sure that the city of London is packed with relevant locations and the routes taken merely scritch the surface of Coil's darkly shining domain.

Three price tiers from £22 to £55 as some indoor locations require separate ticketed access.

This year, the walk includes a bonus extra for all attendees. Shadows for Sale will be an ePub digital book which cobbles together the various Coil essays I've written over the last few years, expanded updated and corrected. Plus a few extra relevant images from my own archive. It's currently around 30K words. This will be sent to attendees ahead of the walk along with a few other bits and bobs which will help the walk you attend make sense.

Places still remain and can be booked in advance here:

https://www.stillwalking.org/coil

See you on the Marylebone Road, and of course wear sensible shoes!

u/WearSensibleShoes — 5 days ago
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The Philip K. Dick & Coil connection

I was reading Dick's "A Maze of Death" the other day and found this very familiar sentence:

>"One day," Babble said, "your pills are going to hatch, and some strange birds are going to emerge."

Which, of course, reminded me of Coil's "Strange Birds". I vaguely recall some articles about the band or interviews with Balance and Sleazy declaring their interest in Dick's works, but cannot put my finger on it. I guess the sentence is too similar to the lyrics, so it's hardly a coincidence, unless there are another sources and/or explanations. Anyone?

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u/UbuNoir69 — 6 days ago
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Erik Satie - Gnossienne in Asia Minor. interpreted by Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra

this is sitting between A List of Wishes and Tattooed Man, to me. I've always wished we got more from them like A List of Wishes

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u/_inchoate — 8 days ago
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Coil and Kill List

I watched a few Ben Wheatley films this week and today I saw Kill List. I was astounded when a character was dying after being attacked and his last words were, “It just is…”

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u/Mauerparkimmer — 5 days ago
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Sleazy's Hipgnosis Work

Knowing that Peter was working for Hipgnosis around the time of this last Walker Brothers release (Nite Flights — 1978), I wonder if he designed the cover, or had some input on the style.

Is there any definitive list of which visual artist(s) at Hipgnosis worked on which album layout?

u/bfgstreams — 3 days ago
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Moon's Milk Bonus Disc - background?

The Moon's Milk Bonus Disc has always been one of my favourites from them, but I'm wondering if there's any back story to each of the tracks. I know that 'The Coppice Meat' is originally from Angus MacLise, but not sure what brought them to cover it. etc..

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u/_inchoate — 8 days ago