An assortment of links to sites that uphold the tradition of all things spooky...

Blog Sites

10 Days With The Spooky Men
http://onespookyman.blogspot.com/

Music Sites

www.rustavi.org
The original and most magnificent Georgian male choir. We refer you to them for all questions regarding “how to sing like a bloke”

www.klaffi.com/screamingmen
The Screaming Men are a bunch of magnificent lunatics from Finland who amuse themselves by shouting national anthems and various pieces of legislation, including those that prohibit them doing their versions of national anthems in some countries. They also have a fascination with wearing rubber ties, and singing in desolate, snowbound landscapes, so they’re our kind of blokes, we think....

www.kyleano.demon.co.uk/dondisc.htm
Don McGlashen is one guy who’s been a big spooky influence, if for no other reason than that he wrote “The Mess Song”, the inspired breakfast anthem which was one of the first songs we learnt. Breakfast-wise, we still marvel at the degree of existential insight that Don is able to glean from the debris.

www.thecpr.org.uk/projects/99georgiansongs.htm
A brilliant book of tradtional Georgian songs, painstakingly researched and immaculately presented.

www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s992805.htm
Joseph Jordania, genial encyclopaedia of Georgian music, tiger lover and Beatles nut, talking about Georgian singing.

www.genghisblues.com
About the blind black San Fransisco bluesman who went to Tuva and won a horse in a throat singing competition

www.stephentaberner.com
The Spookmeister’s website

Mastodon sites

The Mastodon project

Another mastodon site

Other eminently Spooky sites

www.ibys.org
Mark Thomson's "Institute of Backyard Studies". Lots of very funny and droll advice on how to do barbies properly, plus a good deal of post-modern anthropological speculation on shed-ology.

www.asterix-international.de
Info on the indomitable Gaul and his friends

The Mysterious Australia website
For anybody wondering whether the Lithgow panther really exists...

www.kazakstankowgirls.com
By an extraordinary twist of geographical improbability, an impossibly sexy musical entourage of unmarried Kazahstan ladies with unparalleled animal wrangling skills has ended up living in Tasmania...visit them here, and if you like the sound of their gristle souffle, try out their dating page.