COIL question: What's Up on the Cover of Horse Rotorvator?

http://brainwashed.com/common/images/covers/locicd16.jpg

Wikipedia -- which is notoriously unreliable -- claims it's "a photograph of the location of a notorious IRA bombing, in which a bomb was detonated on a military orchestra pavilion." Not only does this sound unlikely (and just kinda not their style), but I seem to remember reading that the bandstand/gazebo is actually in a secretive public garden in Paris that acts as a favorite tryst for transvestites. Ring any bells? Who knows for sure?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton_(horse)

Might have something to do with the above.

tsk. You'll have to add that closing bracket.

That's a different cover than my copy has:

http://www.discogs.com/Coil-Horse-Rotorvator/release/194306

which checking discogs I see that "This edition has been "cursed" by Coil due to the fact that Stevo of K.422/Some Bizarre continues pressing it without paying them."

fixed yer link btw xpost

ta.

Sefton returned to his duties with his regiment, and with pricked ears and no fuss he passed the exact spot where he received such horrific injuries. That year he was awarded Horse of the Year, and with Pederson back in the saddle took center stage at the Horse of the Year Show, to a standing ovation.

On August 29 1984 Sefton retired from the Household Cavalry, and moved to the Home of Rest For Horses at Speen, Buckinghamshire. There he became an instant attraction and was noted for his love of rolling in the mud. At the age of 30, Sefton died, a national hero.

Good grief who wrote this nonsense?

All the press and media, at the time.

Oh, he was held up as an example to us all to never kowtow to terrorists, and always be very suspicious of irish people who um, anything.

Strange days indeed.

Yes, but what does that have to do with Horse Rotorvator? Nothing.

For real, did that horse invent the anal staircase? Did he reverse a car off Dover? Where's the connection here?

Alex, the main point of significance of that story at the time, was that Horses were killed by means of the explosion scattering their limbs around.

Black humour, I guess...

Yeah, but that has precious little to do with the Horse Rotorvator itself (a dream of Jhonn Balance's involving a mechanism built from the jawbones of the four horses of the apocalypse to 'plough up the waiting world').

did stevø ever pay them what he owed them

no

stevø! *shakes fist*

this album was originally titled "funeral music for princess diana"

http://www.somebizzare.com/coil.html

Who is it that holds the rights to all this Coil, and when will these derelict dill pickles reissue it?

what is " full state kit "?

full ceremonial uniform

ie:

http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_610x456_scaled/photos/83788.jpg

Alex, I wrote a piece on tumblr about the Horse Rotorvator cover art.
There are two versions so I will assume it's the bandstand in Hyde Park cover.

John Balance had a dream about a rotor made of horse skulls paving away at the earth. Hence the album title. Spuriously related horse+death narrative with the IRA bombings = cover art.

More trivia: that bandstand in its pre bombed form was where The Slits did the Typical Girls video.

"a photograph of the location of a notorious IRA bombing, in which a bomb was detonated on a military orchestra pavilion." Not only does this sound unlikely (and just kinda not their style)

Not whose style? The IRA or Coil?

Alex, I wrote a piece on tumblr about the Horse Rotorvator cover art.

link plz