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27 Nov 2022 - I was testing software for building static web sites and it got a bit out of hand, so here we now have a spruced-up version of Mr Blint's Attic. It's come a long way since its origins on Geocities. But not…

March 2020. Consequences was mentioned by Mark Kermode on the BBC 5 Live movie programme Wittertainment on 27th March 2020 when discussing albums of movie soundtracks that contain large amounts of dialogue from the films. We hope the good doctor finds Consequences a cinematic audio treat!

August 2019. Consequences has been re-issued again in a smart new re-mastered CD box set, there's more material to come on this site soon, plus the CD re-issue got me thinking about my relationship with the album 42 years after its relesase. Read more in…

May 2019. There's a Consequences podcast! Head on over to Podbean to hear Paul McNulty and Sean Macreavy exploring, explaining and dissecting this unique album. I can also thoroughly recommend the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast - they interveiwed Kevin Godley at length in podcast 95, a fascinating listen spanning…

Jan 2016 'The Gizmotron is the strangest guitar device you've never heard of' Tom Avis has written a nice article about the Gizmotron - the original and the new version. It includes some lines from Kevin Godley that were new to me. Well worth a read.

On 4th December 2015, BBC Four showed a new documentary about 10cc which included footage I'd never seen before from the 70s BBC news programme Nationwide. On it, Kev and Lol demonstrate the Gizmo to presenter Richard Stilgoe, and Lol plays a section from the…

May 2015 - Lots of news! First up, Kevin Godley has published an autobiography on iBooks and he now seems much warmer about Consequences than he once was. Read my review here. Thanks to Paul Hamilton for alerting me to that, and for sending me some amazing scans of…

Andy Langran sent me photos of his THREE copies of Consequences - Japanese CD, cassette and vinyl. A true fan! Thanks, Andy.

Blint and you'll miss it. 10cc's Graham Gouldman was Simon Mayo's guest on Radio 2 today. He talked about his sadness at Lol and Kev leaving the band, and there's the briefest mention of our favourite triple concept album featuring Peter Cook - at about 1h…

Grateful for @bobthesheep for alerting me to No Brain by Madvillain - now where might that opening sample come from I wonder?

The marvellous Stuart Maconie is featuring Consequences on the Freak Zone BBC 6Music on Sunday 3rd Feb 2013. I was lucky enough to be able to help Stuart get the album on air. Find out more here.

On 3rd Novemeber 2012, Andy Votel appeared on Stuart Maconie's Freakier Zone on BBC 6Music to talk about 'Oddley & Creme' - the darker side of 10cc. Lots of great music - as well as stuff from Consequences, they played some of the flexi-disc that…

Gizmo help wanted! Bob Price writes: Does anyone still have a wheel and wheel support in good shape, so that a company I am working with here in the USA, could cast a mold from it? The new wheels and wheel arms would be made…

March 2008 John Knight writes... I thought I'd make contact to inform you that I am selling my Godley and Creme GIMOTRON Serial No. 54. on Ebay which I purchased in 1975. As you'll already know, these are incredibly rare so you may wish to…

January 2007 Lots of news to catch up on... Many thanks to John Convey for sending me a great interview with Godley and Creme - and a review of Consequences - from the Record Mirror in 1977 - follow the link on the navbar above. Just read…

November 2006 Huge thanks to Ric Morris for sending me two contemporary reviews of Consequences, one from the NME and one from Sounds. Read them or view them as images on the new Reviews page

February 2006 Simon Rhodes-Johnson writes: I am writing to you to let you know that 'Pete and Dud - Come Again', the play we produced at the Edinburgh Festival last year, is now transferring to the West End. We are opening a twelve week run…

November 2005 Sorry the site's been neglected for so long... since I last wrote things have changed on the availability front - at least according to Amazon.co.uk, looks like you can only currently get the full Consequences CD on Japanese import - not sure what…

August 2003. A remarkable e-mail from Zander Nyrond in Bath, England: "Has it ever occurred to you or any of your correspondents that there is a certain familiarity about the male cast of the play (beyond the obvious links to the mediaeval elements, of course)?…