THE TONY DRAYTON INTERVIEW VIDEOS – ZEN 23 PODCAST – 2023

ALL THE WORDS BELOW ARE WRITTEN BY GERARD WHO USED TO FRONT THE BAND FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN. GERARD IS ALSO A WRITER OF BOOKS NOTABLY; ‘THE STORY OF CRASS’ (UNDER THE NAME GEORGE BERGER). GERARD HAS ALSO WRITTEN FOR SOUNDS, MELODY MAKER, AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AMONGST OTHERS. PRIOR TO THE BOOK; ‘THE STORY OF […]

VIRUS V1 – LIVE PERFORMANCES 1982 & 1983 – THE CXNTERBURY TALES BOOK SERIES BY MICK ‘N’ BAKER

Mick ‘Skinner’ Baker on the left with Chris Almond. The five books written by Mick ‘Skinner’ Baker; guitarist of Virus V1 are about growing up in the late seventies and early eighties. From Mick’s school days, through to his obsessive interest in punk rock, eventually forming the band Virus V1 in 1982. There are many […]

RICHARD CABUT – THE ‘LOOKING FOR A KISS’ NOVEL AND OTHER LITERARY WORKS

  Looking For A Kiss – PC-PRESS.   A story of two lovers, Robert, and Marlene, who’s love has long faded. The story is mostly based in the early eighties, in and around the London of that period, a London that is now largely gentrified. The story seems to float around in a dream-like state […]

LOSING IT – A NOVEL WRITTEN BY ADAM PAUL KINGDON MORRIS – KORM PLASTIC PUBLISHING

ADAM MORRIS – MY WORDS I got to know Adam Morris around 1987 when I would visit him at his day job, working at Shigaku at the Metrostore in Acton, a company that was punting out the finest export records to shops and mail order companies (like my own small record and tape distribution service […]

CEASE AND RESIST – SONIC SUBVERSION AND ANARCHO PUNK IN THE UK – OPTIMO MUSIC / BEST B4 1984 – IMAGES FROM THE ANARCHO PUNK UNDERGROUND – LOWTHARIO PRESS

CEASE AND RESIST – SONIC SUBVERSION AND ANARCHO PUNK IN THE UK 1979 – 1986 – OPTIMO MUSIC   Cease And Resist – Sonic Subversion and Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 is compiled by JD Twich and Chris Low and released on the Optimo Music record label. Ten years in the making, this double […]

Attack Punk Records – Bologna – Italy – 1982 / 1983 / 1984

Today I have uploaded seven 7″ singles from Bologna’s Attack Punk record label and a 7″ single on the Toto record label. All the 7″ singles are in glorious red vinyl and quite aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The second release especially looks like the sleeve and booklet was screen printed in the same way […]

In Remembrance of Alistair Livingston also known as Al Puppy

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 […]

Ripped And Torn Book – Ecstatic Peace Library – 2018

“People keep asking if I’m going to write a book about this stuff, which is preposterous; so this (the Ripped And Torn website) is the beginnings of that work” Tony D – October 2011 Well, the book took pretty much exactly seven years to finally be published with the invaluable help, and enthusiasm of Thurston […]

The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 – 1987 / Blood And Roses – Kamera Records – 1983 / Tribesman – Boa Records – 1979 / Peter Tosh – Intel HIM Diplo Records – 1973 / Crass – Aklam Hall – 1979

The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 Side 1 The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 Side 2 ‘It’s All Done By Mirrors’ released on All The Madmen Records was the first album by The Astronauts that I bought. I retrospectively bought the debut album ‘Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs’ shortly […]