photo credit// Simon Daw/Paul Burgess aka Scale Project
Future Worlds.
Good Drug Stores.
Deal Short Term CIA.
Hard Lines.
Hard Lines.
Hard Lines.
Total Fuck Up
RIP Shane.
RIP Total Sorry Discount
Warning Maximum Fuck Up.
Courtesy Warning.
Jesus Kids Meals.
Super Lunches
Private Fear Fear Fear
Milk Shakes
Security
Systems
2 Non Permit Holders
Property Out.
Jesus.
God.
Way Out Plus Accessories Plus Fuck Me
Pure Mineral Water
Pure Jesus
Pure Fuck
Contracts Undertaken
No pedestrians on ramp
Complaints procedure
Securing Your Vehicle.
Securing Your Possessions
Securing Your Courtesy to Other Customers
Securing Your Fear Fuck
The Home of Quality Care
Emerge Amber.Pryke!
Emerge
Maximum Amber
Johnny Walker will have any boy. This is serious. Just tell her she’s pretty and UR in there!!
(she aint tho).
If you want sex ring Johnny
Clear Vision is a Wanker
Civic Amenities.
Your Ugly Terms & Conditions
Landparts
Keep Left
Way Left
Keep Up
KEEP UP!
I’ll see when I get their.
Wish you were Here.
Shops to let Shane on ramp
RIP Shane
Fuck Off Shane
Confectionary Bitch
Ugly Novelties
Check boxer.
Cool Cock!
Yes your Siren tit!
Chinese Rent a Car
Budget restaurant
Budget Jesus + wholesalers
Matt Saniford is with Pedestrians on Ramp
No Responsibility can be held for Pedestrians on Ramp
No Parking No Parking
Legal Action may be taken against unauthorized persons
Exit smoking
Exit Your Head
!Mind Your Prohibited Activities.
Safety in the Car Park.
Lost Ash
Lost ticket
Lost Variations of Terms and Conditions
!Definitions
Caution Risk
Life is shit Plus Accessories
We will miss:
Tents
Backpacks
God
Gold+Silver
Josh
Shane
Ash
Legal action
Vehicles parked without authority
Waterproofs
Drug Stores
Definitions
Moving
Agency
Tickets
Baby plants
Life
New & Collectors Books Car Seat Covers
Aaron Shirt
Amber.Pryke
Roxanne G
Safari
Rubbish
Confectionery Wankers
Future Accessories
Please let me watch
Parking pedestrians on ramp
Potato jazz if you want sex
Now available!
Total Fuck Up
Sorry Shit
Value Cards…appointments made
All Birds SLOW on This Level
Tricorn Dope
Ya Dun Know!
No deliveries accepted of course work
It lasted 4eva
Fuck Off You Specialists in Sunday business
Car Park Closed & Locked
Warning Gate Closed
Private Property Keep Out
No Parking
No Parking
Robert loves?
Shit
Sunday
Deliveries
Warning
Security
Hours
Green
Complaints
Pedestrians
Procedure
Possessions
Specialists
School
Your tit
Civic Amenities
Maximum wankers
Love
Exit
TV-Man
Home
The Samaritans
6 days a week
Do you need help?
Help me I’m being attacked by Home!
RIP see ya later!
Complaints Procedure?
Wish you were the Company’s Liability
Help me
Level 3
Level 3
Important Notice
Home Do Yo Hed
Jesus
God
Property Out
All Birds Keep Left
Warning SLOW Saint
Tricorn Sucka
Value Dicks Up
No deliveries accepted at any other time!
Fuk Skool
Fok You
Specialists in appointments only.
Ring me
Securing Your Greeting
Articulated wide
Hash
I’ll see you when I get their hash.
Specialists in Individual Love in the Wall
Hole?
Saint without authority?
Ya Dun Know!
Wish you were Home!
If you want Cozmic Groovy sex Exit Level 5 do not use lifts
Use green pen?
Sign left
Private Jesus
Hours Warning
Loading Only
The Sun Club
SLOW Warning
Kick Love Exit Ramp
God+Drug+S+Jess+New & Collectors Books without authority
Glory Boxer
Check Exit
Safari Tipping
Lost?
Please Park Here
Help me
Alan.Slater
wiv a drink!
The Home of Quality Filth
Hell hath no fury like a Security System
Odem
Warning
Jesus+Rules+Work+Leisure World
Contracts by Hustlers
City of Hash
Love All Artificial Saint Meals
Private Jesus
KEEP OUT!
2 Non Permit Holders Only
Furnished Flowers
Securing your Love
Fine Way Out
Wish you were Shane!
Exit Home
No Security
Lifts Up
No Property Value
Pure Orange
Exit Notice
Sun Property
No Help?
No Help
No Parking on This Level.
Ya Dun Know!
Save da Tricorn Jazz Init!
Shit
Greeting Tone
Birds Parking
Maximum Bird
Please let me.
Fuck Of
Amber.Pryke is a rule!
My cock.
Your tit.
Come
Closed & Locked.
Appointments made!
Hours of Business
No Parking without Egg
Please let me lick pussy!
PARKING MY ASS!
Fuck Off.
Stairs on Ramp?
RIP
Bye Home!
Landport will die
SLOW
The Company’s Securing Your Possessions
Your Complaints
Your Cock
Your Tit
Your Sign
Your Saint
Your Jesus
Your Value Cards
Your Pure Vehicle
Your Home
Your Hash
Your Market
Your Love
Your Exit
Your Shit
Your Way Out
Your Way
Lifts+Stairs
RIP TV-Man
Park Closed
Wax Warning
Level 4A
Fuck Me
Sorry
Now Available Short Term!
Good Future
Deal Worlds
Level 2 Love 2
Home Up
Artificial Kids
City of Private Property
Jesus Drinks Milk Shakes
Cool Blow
Confectionary Wholesalers
Maximum Fine: Amber.Pryke RIP
Ugly Gate
Illegally Securing Your Terms & Conditions
Landport will ♥♥
6 Days a Week ♥?
I’ll see you when I get ♥!
Important Bros.
Martin ♥ Rob ♥ Barry ♥ Lee ♥ C.J. ♥ Steve ♥ Jeb ♥ Charlie ♥ Kamala ♥ Luke Francis ♥ Spike ♥ Tina ♥ Steve ♥ Collin ♥ Laura ♥ Ben ♥ Basse ♥ Egg ♥ Huntley ♥ Jay ♥ Silent Bob ♥ Shane ♥ Mark ♥ Steph ♥ Paul ♥ Roxanne G ♥ Matt Sanford ♥ Aaron Short ♥ Maladay Short ♥ Les Short ♥ Dan ♥ Alan Mills ♥ Kathy ♥ Boma ♥ Ryan ♥ Jak ♥ Flik ♥ Dany ♥ Luke ♥ Lucy ♥ Kanger ♥ Sean ♥ Jonny ♥ Steve ♥ Jesus ♥ John ♥ Rob ♥ Jess F ♥ Meg M ♥ Meg R ♥ Meg P ♥ Jade W ♥ Pam ♥ Holly ♥ JJ ♥ CJ ♥ Alan Slater ♥ Amber Pryke ♥ Johnny Walker ♥ Zoe ♥ Hollie ♥ Amber ♥ Dani ♥ Josh ♥ Lee We ♥ Leey Wright Le ♥ Tina ♥ Amy ♥ Spyce ♥ Ben ♥ Sam ♥ Colin ♥ Robert ♥ Jim ♥ Rod ♥ Chris ♥ Jake ♥ Sinba ♥ George Richards ♥ R.H. Cherden ♥ E.O. Hills ♥ A.G. Fehrenback ♥ Avril Lavigne ♥ Mark ♥ Jennie ♥ Robbie ♥ Viv ♥ Sam ♥ Shell
and Sons
Limited
No Specialists
No Shane
No Potato
No Cool Love
No Vision
No Systems
No Hell
No Jesus
No God
No Dope
No Hole
No Responsibility
No Variation
No Moving
No Safety
No Exit
No Legal action
No Courtesy
No Disposal
No Parking
No Tipping
No Lunches
No Pedestrians
No Complaints
No Tricorn
RIP Tricorn
All Saint Demo
Private Demo Keep Out!
No Car
No Car
No Car
City of Fear Me Fuck Me
Private
Out
Hello there.
Art leaves Portsmouth for good.
In the event of Fire I’ll Wish you were Here.
Articulated Sun Hustlers
Keep Out
Way Out.
Future Worlds is a cut-up of official and unofficial words found inside the Tricorn Centre and transcribed by me into a composition book on 24 January, 2004, days before it was demolished. Paul Burgess and Simon Daw of Scale Project took video and photos from inside the Tricorn on the same day. I became anxious looking at the graffiti and the old signs that would vanish in a matter of days and wanted to preserve them somehow. Burgess and Daw felt the same way about the building, which, while having been voted the ugliest building in all of Britain, was a unique example of the heyday of brutalist 1960’s concrete architecture.
The Tricorn was also one of the only venues for punk and alternative music in the '80s and '90s and its passing was mourned by a small but vocal minority in Portsmouth, as it will inevitably be replaced by something slick and soul-less. Burgess and Daw found the computer generated plans for the new shopping centre and have cut-up those into their 2004 photos from the abject Tricorn. The slides created from all their material are integral to this performance as the journey through the Tricorn was shared and from the point of view of the anxiety of loss of something unique, this event has been created.
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton is an award-winning writer and director whose work has been published and produced internationally; most recently, her stage text Shit was chosen for 2018 Cimientos at IATI. Her stage and prose texts have been published online and in printed anthologies, including Prentice-Hall, Stockholm Review, Ohio Edit, The Other Stories, and New York Theatre Experience. When in London (2003-11), she founded Apocryphal Theatre and was awarded a fellowship for her practice-as-research doctorate at University of Northampton, arguing theater can be an act of philosophy. She moved back to NYC in 2011 to research and write a book about her grandmothers' divergent paths through the 20th Century, The Amazing True Imaginary Autobiography of Dick and Jani. She teaches workshops, edits, and coaches writers; her blog is Somewhere in Transition.