Whilst having a sort out I found these badges. Thought they may be of some interest. The top row in ‘badges1’ are from the Free State of Frestonia, the guitar pick belonged to Johnny Thunders and the CNT one I got from Catalonia in 1980. Both images are in the photo gallery, in the Badge collections sub album. The […]
Got the idea from Mark’s question regarding a dance Witch Hunt track, and this email I received: “Hi there, I’m trying to track down a song I heard on john peel somewhere between 79-82 I reckon. it was a punky sounding song with a (from memory) shouted lyric ‘WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?’ – not much to go […]
From my notes, The Long Acre/James Lane squat was home to some very radical people, some Chilean refugees, some members of a group called Bitch, some articulate punk/artist types and a fearsome South African brute who legend had it had cleared out all the junkies from the buildings. But the majority of inhabitants were […]
Myself and some Brougham Road types went to this 1982 festival. There is more print material about it in the photo gallery in the ‘Greenham Common Festival’ album. I’m sure I saw the Newtown Neurotics play here. This was the first non-Stonehenge free festival I’d done. Come back to London as Stonehenge finished at the end […]
For those who wanted the Edwyn Collins pieces he wrote for Ripped & Torn: I’ve trawled through the early editions and found a piece in R&T on the band Jolt which I’ve hand written onto the page, with the acknowledgement “edited down from a letter sent to me by Robert Collins”. This is now in […]
Doctor Death (not his real name) was about as bad an advertisement for five years worth of medical training as you could possibly imagine. It wasn’t so much the fact that he was a bad doctor . Whilst he was definitely crap in his chosen field, that was beside the point. It is just that […]
Had a punk magic marx chaos poetic moment tonight. pasted below two paragraphs of attempted explanation. AL I have a book I want to review for www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk It is called ‘Rebel Alliances’ by Ben Franks {AK Press: 2006] and is a lengthy history and review of contemporary British anarchism. There is not much in it […]
Out near (what seemed like) the wilds of Old Street, we moved into a new squat. The Fire Station on Tabernacle Street was a five story building enclosing a central courtyard. Most of the upper levels were coated in a snowy white covering of petrified pigeon droppings. Downstairs was a very large basement where some […]
…in the strangest places, see the original rough notes for the Mob interview – click on the cover for more:
Click on a cover to enter within: This will take you to the pages to browse through Puppy 1 Puppy 2 Puppy 3 Puppy 4 Puppy 5 Puppy 6
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