Reading through the veritable frenzy of spectacular speculations in the media that the 2009 London G20 summit will lead to anarchy in the UK (or at least in the City), I was amused to notice that the second Stop the City took place on 29 March 1984 – twenty five years ago. However, apart from […]
The Bigger Picture… just to reinforce the message, the Photos section of KYPP online now has even more on it, including (in the Punk Lives section) a report written by Penny Rimbaud on the first Stop the City demo. Embarassing to admit, but totally missed this when it came out. What I can add is […]
TEXT ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY AL PUPPY IN 2005 – TIDIED UP AND IMAGES ADDED BY MICKEY PENGUIN IN 2019 It is a few years ago now since I discovered that my daughter was learning about the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common in her school history lessons. “History? How can it be history, your mum […]
THIS POST HAS BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD FROM THE ORIGINAL POSTING DATE OF DECEMBER 2007 – IN REMBERENCE OF ALISTAIR I found a diary I kept through 1983. Here are some edited highlights. Of interest is the movement on from punk (anarcho / goth) towards first Psychic TV and second Stonehenge, but also the politics – […]
Subway Surfing Anarcho-Goths Legend has it that when Tony D first saw Jeremy Gluck of The Barracudas, he was carrying a surfboard down an escalator at Holborn tube station in 1978. The Barracudas were a surf-punk band, celebrating early sixties California in late seventies London. They even had a hit in (?) with ‘I Want […]
Our friend and fellow ‘Puppy’, Alistair Livingston passed on after a short illness on the 3rd November 2018. I am in shock. In the 1980’s, AL was a leading light in the Puppy Collective, Black Sheep Housing Co-op and All The Madmen Records. From 2007 through his Green Galloway blog, Alistair battled to bring attention […]
Crass – Glasshouse – May 1984 Indebted to Nick Comfylux for supplying me with this audio that he recorded at the back of the hall of Crass performing their last ever concert in London, and indeed one of the last performances. Below are snippets of memories for two gigs from Tristian ‘Stringy’ Carter. Crass at […]
Two tracks from the ‘Chappaquiddick Bridge’ album, ‘Underbitch’ and ‘Alienation’. DOWNLOAD HERE Both tracks are instrumentals recorded at Southern Studios in May 1980, and both produced by Penny Rimbaud and engineered by John Loder. The audio sounds strange without the fiery vocals of the late Vi Subversa, but I thought I should upload the tracks […]
FOR ORDERING THE ALL THE MADMEN RECORDS POISON GIRLS ‘PERSONS UNKNOWN / STATEMENT’ DELUX 12″ SINGLE FROM ALL THE MADMEN DIRECTLY PLEASE OPEN THIS LINK: HERE FOR ORDERING THE POISON GIRLS BADGE SETS FROM ALL THE MADMEN DIRECTLY PLEASE OPEN THIS LINK: HERE Arrangements It was during the summer of 2014 that I found myself on […]
14th February, 2015 I write this on a significant date. No, not St. Valentine’s day (3id l-7ubb, ‘The Festival of Love’ in the Arabic-speaking world), but the fourth anniversary of Bahrain’s 14th February revolution, a revolution that was suppressed by a lethal combination of Saudi tanks and British political and diplomatic cover. I lived in […]
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