Killer Clowns in Transit Vans - E.P Idea

A memory came back to me a few weeks ago.  It was quite a dark, disturbing one and I questioned whether it was an accurate memory or just something I had maybe thought up by mistake.  It was a memory from when I was about 5 or 6 years old.  It was about a bridge I use to go under sometimes when I would be visiting people in the nearby areas at the time.  It was an old stone train bridge and I remember thinking about how I thought someone dressed as a killer clown waiting in a van was there.  I thought about this and remember how I thought that the clown was there to take children.  I use to worry about walking under that bridge.  I questioned whether this had actually happened to me, or if I were just making this up.  I enquired on facebook whether anyone remember anything about a killer clown in a van.

I got a couple of replies from people who said that this apparently did happen.  Schools at the time we telling kids to walk straight home, and not to go near blue Transit vans.  Letters were issued to parents etc.  One story on the internet goes that the Killer Clown was a psychiatric patient who escaped from Carstairs Hospital, South Lanarkshire, and drove around in a blue Transit van.  He would offer kids sweets in playgrounds and if they declined, he would give them a Chelsea grin - cutting the face with a knife from ear to ear across their mouths.  Apparently another version of the story goes that there were a few of these clowns, and they were known as the 'Chelsea Clowns'.  This whole idea and story still fascinates me to this day.  Was it real?  If so, where are these guys now?  It made me think about Childhood fears and phobias.  I  am now going to possibly make an E.P along this idea.  It is personal to me, and maybe many people can relate to this too.

I have made this artwork for it, and intend to purely make songs from cut ups of old songs I have not used.

Watch this space,

Wullae