'Smallcreep's Day' is the first solo studio album by Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford. From the opening "Moonshine" with it's trademark Rutherford bass pedals, and infectious keyboards to closing "At the End of the Day" the album is moving and anthemic. Rutherford has recruited some prog heavyweights to serve as his band here like Anthony Phillips on the keyboards, Noel McCalla (Manfred Mann's Earth Band 1991-2009) vocals, Morris Pert (Brand X & later Talk Talk) provides percussion, and the estimable Simon Phillips (Ten CC, The Who, Toto a.o.) is behind the drum kit, thundering away on his trademark double bass drums. The 24-minute title track is based on the 1965 novel "Smallcreep's Day" by Peter Currell Brown which tells the story of Mr. Goodbye & Good Riddance: 5th Anniversary I Am The Movie: 20th Anniversary Edition The Big Mess Įnd of Everything Īmerica's Volume Dealer Īltitude Ĭome on Feel: 30th Anniversary Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ĭeath Wish Blues
Though evidently still alive, Brown does not seem to have published any subsequent fiction. The music is good but he gave the story a happy ending, rendering it a rather aggressive exercise in point-missing. Musician Mike Rutherford (of Genesis fame) released a concept album based on the novel. Smallcreep eventually sees the machine the factory produces in action. "We should eventually become necrophiles together, and walk hand in hand through charnel houses and execution chambers, or write marriage vows on parchment made of human skins, or copulate in burial pits by the light of pyres." Near the end of his journey, Smallcreep runs into a managing director who offers a wholesale indictment of mankind. On his journey he meets no end of strange characters blithely going about their business despite the ominous, surreal landscapes around them, from men being "drowned" in an unchecked flow of money to a poleman boating on a vast underground lake of sewage. The titular and symbolically named Pinquean Smallcreep is a factory worker who, after sixteen years in the same slotting section of a nameless factory, decides to venture deep into its Gormenghastian confines to find out what it produces.
"THIS IS an ironic, comic, macabre, basically savage attack on modern man," proclaims the front of the dust jacket for Smallcreep's Day, and for once, they're not lying. Smallcreep's Day, By Peter Currell Brown (1965) Fantasy and Science Fiction - Curiosities
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