"Mad Cow Paté" was the stupid name given to the self-organized, gig-putting-on exploits of the Milton Keynes-based brain-wrong and guffshite, Allan Harrison, between the years of 2001 and 2010. Spanning and yet ignoring a multitude of genres, and organised on a wilfully non-profit, wholly independent (non-arts-funded), let's-just-hope-we-break-even basis, these gigs took place at various venues around Milton Keynes - and included visits by such ludicrously-influential musical luminaries as The Dismemberment Plan, ZU, Duracell, Joe Lally of Fugazi, Medications, DJ Scotch Egg, Jack Rose, Justice Yeldham, Talibam!, Shitmat, Al Duvall, Extreme Noise Terror and many, many, many more. In helping bolster the presence of the DIY music community in and around Milton Keynes as well as bringing to town music that wouldn't dare get an airing anywhere else, MCP was later heralded as "the bravest promoter in the Midlands" by Trakmarx, and the gigs cited as a formative influence upon local scene-dwellers Action Beat / Fortissimo honcho Don McLean, Hired Muscle, House Of John Player and others, while remaining a gleefully irreverent thorn in the local music scene's side. Mad Cow Paté stopped trading in early 2011 after a (fantastic) Radikal Satan / L'Ocelle Mare show, citing gig exhaustion and Facebook fatigue. The Milton Keynes music scene (TM) has since relocated to Manchester for the far-better drugs.
