Resulting video from a performance at St Brides part of Silent Cacophony event - 11th Nov 2013
David Lee Morgan performing is evolutionary poem Word interrupted approximately every 9 minutes with telephone callers dialling in. The telephone caller Revd Alex Baxter was asked to talk live in to a hall with reference to the 1915 Zeppelin attacks in the UK. Revd Alex was then forced to collaborate with Andrew Rowe and his enlarged jack plug.
Read by Reverend Alan Baxter:
The Zeppelin Bombings was the beginning of modern warfare
The first blitz was more like a ghost story than our story.
1915 changed everything.
The sky was transformed by strange portentous monsters, fabulous sliver fish designed to scare Londoners and psychologically terrify them and subdue them.
But the English love a good show, and treated it as an aerial entertainment display, Something not to be missed.
Even D H Lawrence said ‘I cannot get over it. The Zeppelin is in the zenith of the night, golden like the moon, having taken control of the sky.
Our cosmos has burst; the stars and the moon blown away, the envelope of the sky burst out, and a new cosmos has appeared."
The initial excitement soon turned to anger, as people began to die, suddenly it wasn’t such fun. And these monsters had to be stopped.
But the English planes couldn’t even fly high enough to shoot them, and our bullets seemed to pass straight through them as if they were ghosts. They seemed invincible.
Cue James Pomeroy and his exploding bullets, Cue James Buckingham and his incendiary bullets.
Pilots took to the air once more and fired Pomeroy, Buckingham, Pomeroy, Buckingham.
These magical bullets pierced, exploded and then caught fire. Bringing them down like giant game, shot on the plains.
Things would never be the same again.
And the baby Jesus cried and shed a tear, for each life lost. For every time a human being takes a life. Sin enters the world once more, and we fail.
Revd Alex Baxter (script previously attached) said
The script I wrote was based on information on wikipedia so i cant vouch 100% for the accuracy although it seems sound. The DH Lawrence quote was a direct quote from the wiki page on 1915 Zeppelin Bombings.
David Lee Morgan: www.davidword.com
Jonathan Lockwood: www.14-15-77.com
Andy Rowe - Enlarge Jack Plug: www.slatepipe.co.uk
Tom Westbrook