We Watch You While You Sleep. TV signal intrusion 1975 (Scarfnada TV) Scarfolk Council 2014-02-19 | http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2014/02/we-watch-you-while-you-sleep-tv-signal.htmlHere is a rare video from the Scarfolk archives. In 1975 there was a series of anonymous signal intrusions on the Scarfnada TV network. Many believed that the council itself was directly responsible for the illegal broadcasts, though this was never confirmed.However, In 1976 a BBC TV documentary revealed that the council had surreptitiously introduced tranquillisers to the water supply and employed council mediums to sing lullabies outside the bedroom windows of suspect citizens. Once a suspect had fallen asleep, the medium would break into their bedroom and secrete themselves in a wardrobe or beneath the bed. From these vantage points the mediums could record the suspect's dreams and nocturnal mumblings into a specially designed device called a 'Night Mary', named after the woman who invented it. The data would then be assessed by a local judge who could meter out the appropriate punishments. Many subconscious criminals were caught this way and the numbers of dream crimes plummeted. Literally overnight.
The Scarfolk Annual 197X. OUT NOW! Scarfolk Council 2019-10-17 | The Scarfolk Annual is out now. Available from Hive, Waterstones, Amazon, The Guardian Bookshop, Wordery, Blackwells, Forbidden Planet, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million. For more information please reread
The Scarfolk Annual 197X Scarfolk Council 2019-08-29 | The Scarfolk Annual 197X. 17.10.2019 (UK) 10.29.2019 (US).Pre-order: Amazon (http://bit.ly/scarfolkbook), Hive, Waterstones, The Guardian Bookshop, Foyles, Wordery, Blackwells, Forbidden Planet, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million & others. For more information please reread.
Track 4 from Uncomfortable Silences. No. 4 (BBC Records, 1971) Scarfolk Council 2016-12-08 | More info: http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2016/12/bbc-sound-effects-records-early-1970s.html
Brood Parasites (1970) Scarfolk Council 2016-10-02 | More information: http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/11/brood-parasites-1970.html
Europe Referendum TV advertisement (1975) Scarfolk Council 2016-06-09 | More information here: http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2016/06/europe-referendum-tv-advertisement-1975.htmlDuring the lead up to the 1975 EEC referendum, the government realised that the only way it could maintain its authority was to appear equally for and against Europe. It did this in two ways: First, by having its ministers wildly contradict each other on an almost daily basis, and second, by rejecting the use of facts and evidence, which the state viewed as hindrances in the political sphere. This strategy would eventually be formalised in the 1976 Truth Reform (http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-fact-ban-1976.html) The population was confused by this persistent doubletalk and consistent vagueness, but confusion was very much intended. Those in power know well that if their true positions can be obscured through contradiction they can never be shown to be wrong and therefore can't ever be opposed effectively. When citizens can no longer differentiate between truth and fiction, they are easier to control.Scarfolk politicians were the first to utilise 'puzzlement politics'. Though their first attempts were crude — pumping ergot into the water supply and lobotomising people during routine tonsillectomies — they eventually launched the more nuanced "Don't" (http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-kak-1973.html) and the "No!" (http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/08/no-1973-1975.html) campaigns. These made the populace much more manageable and much less likely to shuffle around in circles drooling.Incidentally, the music by Steven O'Brien in this advertisement also appeared on the Scarfolk library LP The Big Brass Sound of Patronising Encouragement (http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2015/09/library-music-lps-1970s.html).
Scarfolk Television. Teaser A. Scarfolk Council 2016-01-09 | A television series based on the world of Scarfolk is now in development at Retort (http://www.fremantlemediauk.com/our-labels/retort/). For more information please reread.Visit the site: http://www.scarfolk.blogspot.comBuy the book: http://www.bit.ly/ScarfolkTwitter: twitter.com/ScarfolkFacebook: facebook.com/Scarfolk-Council-469491913116002
Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler (Ebury Press) Scarfolk Council 2014-10-14 | "Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be in bed by 8 p.m. because they are perpetually running a slight fever..."Part-comedy, part-horror, part-satire, Discovering Scarfolk is the surreal account of a family trapped in the town. Through public information posters, news reports, books, tourist brochures and other ephermera, we learn about the darker side of childhood, school and society in Scarfolk.A massive cult hit online, Scarfolk re-creates with shiver-inducing accuracy and humour our most nightmarish childhood memories.FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE RE-READ.
Village of the Damned intro. End Of The Road Festival, 31 Aug 2014 Scarfolk Council 2014-09-05 | This video was made to briefly introduce a screening of the 1960 film "Village of the Damned" at the 'End Of The Road Festival', 31 Aug 2014
Demons Come In All Shapes & Sizes (Klofracs Records, 1973) Scarfolk Council 2014-05-29 | http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2014/05/clay-stool-tv-theme-tune-klofracs.htmlThe theme tune from "Clay Stool," a popular 1970s children's daytime TV programme for 4 to 7 year olds, was released as a single in 1973 under the title "Demons Come In All Shapes & Sizes.""Clay Stool" acquired its name from a form of medieval punishment for witchcraft. Originally, alleged witches were strapped to a wooden chair - a ducking stool - then plunged into a river. If they sank they were innocent, if they floated they were in league with the devil and summarily executed.Samuel Revile, a local priest and freelance misogynist, wondered if ducking stools, which were traditionally festooned with dozens of inflated pigs' bladders, colourful helium balloons, and tethered albatrosses had something to do with the high numbers of people being found guilty.Revile set about inventing the heavier "clay stool." A year after its introduction 100% of accused witches, mostly women, had plummeted to the riverbed where they drowned, proving their innocence.Revile's work also alerted communities to the dangers of balloons. It was they, he maintained, not the women, that floated and were therefore in league with Satan. To this day, people who make balloon animals are considered unholy and are barred from church jumble sales.Though Revile revolutionalised the justice system by inventing compassionate torture, he inadvertently caused widespread redundancies in the execution sector.
Audio Control for Baby (Scarfolk Records & Tapes, 1970) Scarfolk Council 2013-10-13 | The cassette called "Audio Control for Baby" (Scarfolk Records & Tapes, 1970) has long been lost but we do have this recording of the music playing in the background at the Scarfolk Inconvenient Infant Playcenta. It was piped into every room around the clock at high volume and many child carers found it to be very effective: Enjoying drinks at the pub two doors down from the 'centa', the carers rarely heard any of the babies cry.Many struggled with the pressures of the job. As one carer, Jocelyn Hurtt, noted at the time, "the kids really set your nerves on edge, especially if, like me, you don't have a natural affinity with children. You can be right in the middle of a good programme on the telly and one of them will start up: complaining about nightmares, appendicitis or wanting to be freed from their restraints. I really don't know what I'd do without my Martini & lemonades. You're not supposed to hit the little blighters, but if you've had a few drinks you're less tolerant and you don't know your own strength; it's only stands to reason and is to be expected. After all, we're only human."We hope the extraneous sounds on the recording do not distract too much from the music.
Patient #249 (EEG Recording) 01.11.1977 Scarfolk Council 2013-09-26 | In 1977 Scarfolk Clinic conducted sleep experiments on a local boy known only as 'Patient #249'. He suffered from severe nightmares and developed a rare condition known as 'manifest hypnagogia'.Symptoms include the physical manifestation of hallucinations that sufferers endure between sleep and waking states. For example, Patient #249 frequently awoke to find, sitting on the end of his bed, a syphilitic, deformed Victorian clown eating trifle and pig's liver pâté. At other times, a confused sewing machine salesman from the Midlands would appear. Patient #249's parents found this inconvenient.Doctors observed Patient #249 at home and wired his brain to an EEG, which they attached to a Bontempi electric keyboard. They wanted to record what Patient #249's brain was doing and translate it into music. In the recording you'll hear the TV in the background before Patient #249's unconscious brain takes over and he slips into a hypnagogic state.http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/09/patient-249-eeg-recording-01111977.html
The Ghost of Mrs. Payne (Field Recording), 1975 Scarfolk Council 2013-09-26 | This offering refers to the disappearance of primary school music teacher Mrs. Payne whose body was found encased inside an ancient standing stone (go here for more detail:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OO20tdLcTs)Forensic examination of the stone revealed that it had originated more than 300 miles away and historians could not ascertain how prehistoric man had transported it to Scarfolk, much less how Mrs Payne had found her way into a 300 million year old rock. The police reported it as a chance accident.When the stone was broken into chunks and sold as 'Payne's Pain' souvenirs in the Scarfolk gift shop, purchasers began hearing ghostly music in their homes. Additionally, the music was heard at the stone circle where Mrs. Payne's body was found, as well as at the geological site of the stone's origin.The souvenirs were recalled and buried at the centre of the stone circle in Scarfolk fields, now the only location where the music can still be heard, but only on the anniversary of the death of Payne's husband who found himself unexpectedly dismembered during a pagan ritual competition for the under 10s.This is a field recording made from the stone circle.http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-ghost-of-mrs-payne-field-recording.html
The Tim Seven / Birds. (Field Recording), Summer 1972 Scarfolk Council 2013-09-26 | "Seven tourists visited that summer. Oddly, they were all called Timothy, wore identical clothes and appeared to communicate with each other telepathically. Everyone in Scarfolk called them 'The Tim Seven'.Three days after they arrived in Scarfolk all the birds disappeared and for months after the Tims left whenever Scarfolk residents tried to use their telephones all they could hear on the other end was distant, frantic backward birdsong."Some of you have expressed disbelief that these events actually occurred, which has vexed the mayor. He spent all afternoon rummaging around in the archives in search of one of the reels that were recorded at the time. So, for all you naysayers, here it is. This was recorded on the 4th July, 1972 from one of the council office telephones. This is the raw recording and it has not been tampered with in any way.http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/03/field-recording-tim-seven-birds-summer.html
The Children of Scarfolk Primary School - In the Playground with the Music Room Window Open Scarfolk Council 2013-09-26 | Back in 1975 the children of Scarfolk primary school released their own 45rpm record to commemorate their music teacher Mrs Payne who disappeared in 1972, but whose body was found encased inside one of the thirteen ancient standing stones just outside Scarfolk.Proceeds from the sale of the single went toward the building of a new coven and affiliated gift shop.http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-childen-of-scarfolk-primary-school.html
Dormin Slowly Died with the Radio On (Scarfolk Records 1974) Scarfolk Council 2013-09-26 | From Scarfolk Records 1974.The debut ambient album from 'Ragle' called "Dormin Slowly Died With The Radio On. Parts 1-82"This is part 71.It won 2nd prize at the Scarfolk harvest festival, having lost out to Gary Butters from Scarfolk primary school, class 5, who came 1st with his song "Eagle Eye Action Man."Ragle was the stage name of Eddie Rumpburn who was the manager of Twazzle's Hardware shop on East Twazzle Parade between 1970 and 1978.http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/dormin-slowly-died-with-radio-on.html
A Day at the Seaside (Scarfolk Music & Audio Library Vol. 1) Scarfolk Council 2013-09-26 | Here's "A Day at the Seaside" from the "Scarfolk Music & Audio Library Vol. 1" released in 1973.Enjoy this two-channel stereophonic offering for your music-centre. No batteries or cables needed. No home taping.http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-day-at-seaside-scarfolk-music-audio.html
