Thanks to Val for passing on details of these interesting events – see http://www.1968.org.uk/index.html for more The big news is that after years of campaigning by their fans, the ban has been lifted! So 31 years after his last appearance there, Penny Rimbaud of Crass will be performing live at the Roxy! 13 MAY 2008 […]
Pic of Hall class GWR loco from 1979 – part of secret strategic steam engine reserve Is it just me, or is this totally surreal? Apparently, as part of the UK’s top secret nuclear war survival strategy, 160 steam (and a few diesel) engines were kept in working order in an underground depot up until […]
As readers of Kill Your Pet Puppy the fanzine will know, our Dear Leader (aka Tony D.) in his previous incarnation as editor of the classic punk fanzine Ripped and Torn [founded 1976] did a fair bit to promote Adam and the Ants in their original and unexpurgated form. Sadly, by the time (late 1979) […]
“When are you going to bed, dad?” asks AL junior… “When I have finished answering these questions about anarchic punk.” I replied. It is now 1.15 am and I have just finished. Bit daft really – questions are about the ‘anarchist punk movement’ and I start off by saying there never was such a thing… […]
How significant/ important/ influential were The Mob? The internet is like a time machine. Within the vast echoing vaults of cyber space the forgotten is remembered, recalled to life. It is a theatre of memory. A digital camp fire around which the scattered remnants of lost tribes gather. Here are shared fragments of forgotten histories, […]
I have been in search of lost landscapes… and written another 10 000 words on the Galloway Levellers Uprising of 1724. Only another 10 000 to go. AL Puppy
Music for Hippies In the Post 86 section, Penguin has just put up the Orb’s first (1989) record. I don’t have any Orb music, but listening to the first track – Loving You: Orbital mix – it sounded eerily familiar. (and beautiful and haunting). Eventually I worked out that it sounded like Tangerine Dream – […]
Tomorrow I will be heading off in search of medieval bank and ditch enclosures, but tonight I’m listening to Bauhaus : Bela Lugosi’s Dead, in a ‘most haunted ‘style search of the goth skeleton lurking somewhere here in the virtual Puppy Mansions. Note: I first heard Bela Lugosi played summer 1979 at series of gigs […]
Alternative Sex was made by Nicky, Illayne, Angie, Beck, Steph, Jenny, Debbie, Mouse , Griet and Val and was published in October 1983.
A bit of anarcho-syndicalist history in action in Dumfries last year when the IWW came to town. Prompted by Gerard’s questions about Spanish Civil War era anarchy in the UK
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