Rickertsen and Nick Boddington to form The Pink Stainless Tail in 2001, and went on to release three records. The group was popular with a small but fanatical group of fans with Strong's stage persona memorably (and consistently) described as "a flailing scarecrow amalgam of William Burroughs and Mark E Smith". In February 2004, the Victorian College of the Arts invited Stewart Home as writer in residence and commissioned Strong to run a course to introduce students to Home's themes and praxis. Around this time, Strong set up his netlabel, The LedaTape Organisation, as an outlet for his work and others. Over the next few years Strong finalised two books (in collaboration with Jason Crest) that had been in development since the publication of 'A259'. 'Rape vs. Murder' was produced entirely (in one run) by a computer program from a corpus of books published by [The Paris Olympia Press], whilst '66mindfuck99' was a fictionalised account of the creation of the former. Both of these publications were privately printed and circulated samizdat, not because their content was contentious, but rather due to Strong's vehement rejection of the conventional publishing paradigm. Despite their limited availability, the books were well received and in 2010 were taught at the University of Pennsylvania by Kenneth Goldsmith, curator of ubu.com. Novels A259 Multiplex Bomb "Outrage" (CodeX) 66mindfuck99 (with Jason Crest, hors commers) Rape vs. Murder (wihg #579, hors commers) CD releases 'The Infinite Wisdom of the Pink Stainless Tail' with The Pink Stainless Tail : CD : March 2007 'This is me in the park with no clothes on… I like the flowers' with The Pink Stainless Tail : CD : May 2005 'The Sky's a Soft Target' with The Pink Stainless Tail : CD : 2003 References Internet Book List - Simon Strong Senses of Cinema - 'Lesbian Vampires vs Situationist International', 2004 Simon's staff page at VCA (archived) Pink Stainless Tail interview at Perfect Sound Forever Living people 1964 births English writers