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Alan Moore Spoken Word CDs

Opps!!

17:05 / 02.06.04

Please help, i'm trying to find somewhere in the UK (either in the NorthWest or with reliable mail order) that i can get Alan Moore's spoken word CDs. Also are there any transcriptions of these pieces/events on-line.

grant

17:16 / 02.06.04

Here, Top Shelf carries all that stuff. They're in America, but will do business with the barbaric Britons.

There are bits of the spoken word things written (and drawn) out in the comics "The Birth Caul" and "Snakes & Ladders".

grant

17:34 / 02.06.04

Oh, and in From Hell, too, actually. Gull's speech in chapter five (I think) about the old feminine religions and that is in Grand Egyptian Theatre...&c, &c.

Nalvage

17:36 / 02.06.04

A few of them are also available at Steve Severin's site. Here's the order page.

Opps!!

20:21 / 02.06.04

Nalvage, whats what on this page - its not the clearest as it lacks pictures or product descriptions. Can you help

hashmal

20:27 / 02.06.04

go to your local comic store. they have 3 of his cd's in the latest previews (the one with morrison's we3 on the front). not sure if they're what you're after. the description said they were some kind of workings, one to do with london, one on blake, and i can't recall the other. really nice artwork on the covers though.

Nalvage

20:49 / 02.06.04

Okay, at that link I gave, "Highbury Working" is the CD about that part of London, taking in the Arsenal football team's experiences with hallucinogens, Joe Meek's suicide and a dab of Crowley. "Angel Passage" is the one on the life of Blake, and "Snakes & Ladders" is about Arthur Machen, DNA and the birth of the universe.

The other stuff there is of the non-Moore variety.

Opps!!

20:53 / 02.06.04

Many thanks Nalvage, much appreciated

DaveBCooper

11:05 / 03.06.04

I can heartily recommend not only the CDs, but also the prints from Steve S's site if you can get 'em. I have the Highbury Working print on the wall, and it's lovely. Very good value 'n all.

As far as I know, the ones which are hardest to get are the Birth Caul (though that was on eBay recently), The Grand Egyptian etc etc (though there's a snippet of it on the Creation Books CD sampler, and a comics adaptation of the same bit in Avatar's 'Alan Moore's Magic Words' songbook thing) and Brought to Light (which is Alan reading the christic institute book he did with bill Sienkiewicz et al over music by Gary Lloyd).

Oh, and 'This Vicious Cabaret', 'V's theme' and 'Incidental' [think that's the title), all from the 1980s V for Vendetta 12", are all available on David J's solo album 'On Glass', which is pretty easily obtained, from decent records shops.

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