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 […]
Penguin has tidied up the photo gallery and has also entered much more material on to the sub-albums. Photos, reviews, interviews, flyers etc. Have a look and remember to come back now and again, to check new sub-albums appearing or new images in existing sub-albums. Press here for shortcut to gallery. ALSO read all the […]
New Way Suckers / Uniform The first single by The Wall on the wonderful Small Wonder Record label. Formed in Sunderland, in 1978 featuring Ian Lowery who left the band in 1980 to form Ski Patrol then the Folk Devils. The Wall without Ian managed to put out some decent singles and a fine LP […]
Banging And Shouting / Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart / Work Rest Play Reggae Set We Free / Optimism Here is Patrik’s debut single for Small Wonder Records. A little bit scratchy this single, compared to the other one uploaded on this site (use search function), hence the reason why I put the other one on…Due […]
How does it feel To treat me like you do When you’ ve laid your hands upon me And told me who you are…. At the risk of sounding like a Marxist, or at least a Situationist, was there a link between the cultural crisis that was punk and the economic crises of the […]
Pic above by local artist of local Druids. Random image. Tonight, after listening to Disorder and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, decided to relax before bed with Shostakovitch’s 5th Symphony. But it turns out that even in the world of classical music things could get pretty nasty – especially in Stalin’s Russia in the 1930ies…Found […]
Into The Abyss Deiche Another Kill Your Pet Puppy favored band, this time a band that included Dave Roberts who was around several of the house’s that the Puppies resided in free of charge! Andi the vocalist I think was something to do with The Straps who were around the same scene in the late 1970’s […]
The image is a flyer I made for All the Madmen in 1984/5. These words are sampled from here Punk cannot be understood by simply narrating its events in chronological order, as Jon Savage did in England’s Dreaming. Its determinations can only be unpicked by examining the latest developments in the contradictions it exploited, which […]
Roman P B-Side groove 1 – Temple Of Psychic Youth spokesman B-Side groove 2 – Jim Jones / Charles Manson Psychic TV following Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle unto this most respected record label, Sordide Sentimental. 3003 copies made of this particular release. A rare release indeed and what do you get for your money? The best […]
P.P.B. / Got It All Wrong Exploitation / What Will Tomorrow Bring? As if by magick Anthrax appear…Originally from Gravesend in Kent, the line up included Fod and Rob Challice, editors / contibutors to the excellent Enigma fanzine. Both these members did not stay in the line up for long, Rob going to live in Brougham Road, […]