Lucifer Rising

But while his older brother was secretly nurturing his musical ambitions, Chris was finding his own way in the world.

His career has taken in acting, including a role in Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising, fashion, journalism, and above all, music, establishing himself as an artist in his own right, most recently bringing together his musical and literary worlds on the album Mixing Up the Medicine.

His 2021 autobiography, Talking To Myself, offers a candid account of his life, his work, and the experiences that shaped him.

In our conversation, Chris takes us right back to his childhood with Mick, the early days of The Stones and his famous victory in a Mick Jagger lookalike competition, before recounting his adventures in swinging London, his travels through India and beyond, his experiences on stage and screen, and studio life at Stargroves during one of the most important periods in The Stones' history.

But I did it far away, so that was quite a good move in a way.

Well, soon after that you started working with Kenneth Anger.

You had a role in Lucifer Rising.

Oh, yeah.

He had actually just completed being part of a movie that was done by a satanic Church of Satan guy named Kenneth Unger.

And the movie was called, I believe, Lucifer Rising.

and, uh, Mick Jagger did the soundtrack for that.

And Marianne faithful, the singer from great Britain, she played ISIS in the film and Bobby Boussoula played Lucifer.

But this witch mother wearing red and the fact that this is all about, like, western esotericism witchcraft, it's impossible that no one in the writer's room working on this movie didn't put two and two together of Crowley's Scarlet Woman and the witch mother in this movie.

So we got a movie like this where you are taking the grandkids to go see it, but if I, if I'm really interested in that stuff, I could also go watch Kenneth Anger movies and throw in some Lucifer Rising, you know? Same sort of stuff, but now it's explicit.

Uh, but a, a still very theater kiddy, right? Like, like-

Very theater kiddy.

in, what was it? The, uh, what was the one with the, where he basically it was the Babylon Working?

Uh, was it Lucifer Rising or-

Lucifer Rising, yeah

... yeah.

The one that had, uh, Jimmy Page in it-

His first novel, Atta, which was originally published in 2011, is now being reissued by Semiotext, and in it, he enters the consciousness of of 9-11 hijacker Muhammad Atta and follows the architecture, ideology, and alienation surrounding him as he moves towards his horrific conclusion.

His more recent book, Invocation of My Demon Brother, begins with Kenneth Anger's 11-minute 1969 film of the same name and expands outwards into Anger himself.

the occult bobby beausoleil the manson orbit and the strange network of people and ideas moving beneath the surface of the late sixties In some ways they're very different books, but both are acts of obsession, taking something seemingly contained and following its connections until there's an entire hidden world that opens up around it.

And that raises a question that runs through the conversation.

Oh, yeah.

Bobby's the...

Bobby was in Kenneth's film.

He lived with Kenneth in the summer of love.

The intersection of Page's occultism and the film world provided further evidence for conspiracies.

Page was commissioned by underground filmmaker and fellow Crowleyite Kenneth Anger to score the film Lucifer Rising.

The collaboration ended in disaster.

Anger accused Page of being a lazy addict who produced only 23 minutes of useless music after three years.

We're going to talk about the collaboration between underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger and the elite tier of rock royalty and how it represents the literal intersection of Hollywood's occult history and British rock's mid-70s decadence.

Unlike the Paul is Dead conspiracy or the Hotel California rumors, this particular conspiracy is grounded in a series of very real, high-stakes film productions where the line between artistic expression and ceremonial magic was intentionally blurred.

At the center of this was the production of Lucifer Rising, a film intended to be a cinematic ritual to usher in a new aeon.

To understand this conspiracy, one must understand Kenneth Anger.

I'll send

you a link to my Cold Hollywood because I cover Camel in there because he was in Lucifer Rising.

He was Horus in Lucifer Rising.

so he was totally connected to would you like to

would you like to join us