EATING JELLO WITH A HEATED FORK
Eating Jello with a Heated Fork is 1996 studio album recorded by Mick Farren and friends released under the name Deviants IXVI. The album was recorded with long time friends and collaborators Andy Colquhoun and Jack Lancaster and featured Wayne Kramer and his band. (More from Wikipedia)
It is inaccurate to call Andy Colquhoun a side man as I originally did in the Facebook post; he would be better described as a collabarator with Mick Farren and is a full-fledged, latter-day bandmember (mostly on lead guitar) in Farren’s band the Deviants (originally the Social Deviants). For example, on the excellent 1996 CD Eating Jello with a Heated Fork, Andy Colquhoun cowrote 5 of the 9 songs with Mick Farren.
In 1996, Andy Colquhoun and Mick Farren hooked up again for a Deviants reunion album, Eating Jello with a Heated Fork (the cover photo shows a human brain next to a glowing silver fork). That was the first Deviants album I had purchased since the original three came out 25 years previously or longer – and was it a sound for sore ears! I just about played that CD to death, and I have picked up close to a dozen more albums by Mick and the guys since then, in a variety of bands and permutations.
(August 2011)
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The 1996 CD Eating Jello with a Heated Fork is one of my favorite Deviants albums of them all – the band name is given as Deviants ixvi (“96”), and the line-up is basically the same as on The Deathray Tapes. The bizarre imagery on “Three-Headed Lobster Boy” – and his adventures with the “ever hungry bikini women” – has to be heard to be believed; and the Apocalypse feels close at hand indeed on “You Won’t Make it Here”, “God’s Worst Nightmare” and “Rivers of Hell”.
(March 2014/1)
