IN ADDITION TO creating the artwork for Angel Passage, I produced the video accompaniment for the original performance of the piece as part of The Tygers of Wrath, a William Blake celebration staged at The Purcell Room, London, 2nd February, 2001. The event had been organised by the Tate Gallery as part of a major Blake exhibition.
Running order of the evening was as follows:
- Billy Bragg
- Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling
- Jah Wobble and Deep Space
- interval
- Alan Moore and Tim Perkins
- Simon Boswell with guests Ewan MacGregor, Dave Rowntree (Blur), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) and others.
Also on stage with Alan and Tim was dancer Andrea Svajcsik whose fire-breathing act was about all she managed due to the limitations of the stage area. Alan's scheme divided Blake's life into four sections: Innocence, Hell, Experience, Heaven.
The Inferno section (the garish red images below) used a sequence from Dante's Inferno (1935), a film by Harry Lachman (here tinted). Lachman's scenes, derived from the engravings of Gustave Doré, have also been appropriated by Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell and others.
Jay Babcock reviewed the event for the LA Weekly, and talked to Alan Moore about magic and related matters.
