Circulus
As King Harold breathed his last, medieval wind instrumentalist Will Summers sat perched on the battlements of the doomed monarch’s tumbling Sussex castle and played his rauch pfeifer. While the peasants revolted over the inequalities of the feudal system, the band’s leader Michael Tyack grabbed his cittern and a joint and told the tragic tale of a scarecrow that, running to make it to his field to protect the farmer’s corn before daybreak, stops to light a cigarette and foolishly sets himself on fire. A longhaired beauty freaked out on bad acid at London’s legendary UFO club in 1967 to the sound of master keyboard player Ollie Parfitt’s killer groove, and as the ancients raised stones to the sun and stained their hands with the blood of sacrifice, Circulus’s singer Lo Polidoro wailed her ghostly harmonies and floated three feet above a patch of parched grass nearby.
