11 comments
  1. Stewart
    Stewart
    January 26, 2009 at 12:23 am

    You know, I remember that cover so well! Not sure I ever actually read the thing, I just remember it lying on the floor of Huntingdon Street! Lol! If it came out in January 1980, and I was born in March 1962, I must have only been 17… Jesus, is it only me or do other people find it VERY hard to get a true chronological perspective on their lives???? It all seems to be a bit blurred… Must have been the drugs… 🙂

  2. alistairliv
    alistairliv
    January 27, 2009 at 9:17 am

    Nah, not the drugs. Our memories are not ‘saved’ in time -order, they are all jumbled up. Dramatic or personally important memories are easier to recall than ordinary/ everyday memories -which fade away if not recalled. So what we end up with is like a mental photograph album, but with the photos in random order.

    So I can vividly remember visiting Huntingdon Street with the KYPP crew – we went by train from West Hampstead to Caledonian Road and Barnsbury. Brett avoided the ticket office by jumping over a fence but fell and hurt his leg. The ticket office was unmanned anyway. Pip made us a vegetarian lasange…

    But when was this visit? There is no time stamp on it… but when I cross-reference with KYPP 4 which came out in September 1981 and has a piece on gay punx (which Pip wrote for Gay Noise?) and a Mob page… I can start to date the visit.

  3. alistairliv
    alistairliv
    January 27, 2009 at 9:27 am

    Ah ha. In the photo gallery there is flyer for a Mob (plus plus) gig at Parliament Hill Fields dated 23 August 1981
    http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb227/killyourpetpuppy/Parliament%20Hill%20Fields/?action=view&current=ParliamentHillFieldsflyer.jpg

    I remember going from Huntingdon Street to this gig (by train. North London Line again) … it was the first time we Met the Mob, and Min who was also at the gig. So this memory maybe a continuation of the one above. Or they may have been separate occasions.

  4. Stewart
    Stewart
    January 27, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    You should have been a detective, Alistair! Yes, I can remember the KYPP crew coming round 51 for the first time, too, but I seem to recall I stayed in my room for most of the time – just can’t remember why or what I was up to! 🙂

  5. John No Last Name
    John No Last Name
    January 27, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Err Stewart let me refresh your memory about what you were up to, it’s a multiple choice answer and they are

    a) no damn good

    b) absoulutely no good

    c) T.R.O.U.B.L.E

  6. Stewart
    Stewart
    January 27, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    *winks* Yes, I thought it was something like that…

  7. baron von zubb
    baron von zubb
    February 4, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    The time thing aint the drugs.
    Its merely the fact that it doesnt seem like 30 years ago.
    Thats more than a quarter of a century.
    Like 30 years before punk was WWII.
    And thats like pre-history for us, no?
    I just dont get it…

  8. Sam
    Sam
    February 5, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    I know. It’s been 30 years this year since the Jam Doughnut miracle Jake.

  9. alistairliv
    alistairliv
    August 10, 2009 at 8:56 am

    Are we nearly 2 then? [KYPP site will be two years old in September]

  10. Jay Vee
    Jay Vee
    August 11, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Oh-oh, the terrible 2’s

  11. Penguin
    Penguin
    August 11, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    ‘Fraid so Jay…the fanzine itself though is a massively old 30 years so we got some catching up to do.

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