Author: Penguin

My 1966 Vespa Sprint and tent… My 1966 Vespa Sprint again… The Sea The tree …so please talk amongst yourselves for a few days while I fight the elements as my tent blows away with the expected gale. I will probably have to hug a skinhead for warmth…records will also keep me warm, dancing at the sound systems on the […]

  You Are Driving Me Dregs Photos of Southern Studios and text by Penny Rimbaud courtesy of thecravats.com

Ain’t You Hedi’s Head Fancied slapping this old chestnut up tonight. Marvellous debut (UK) single from this band that would soon become Liliput. Text ripped from killrockstars.com. The fact that punk rock could capture the imaginations of young people around Europe and America in the late ’70’s was embodied in the five-year output of Switzerland’s […]

Inc Beg Your Pardon / Reality Whitewash / You Can be You – 30 minutes of practice tape A fine practice session by Crass working on tracks, getting them warmed up for the masterpiece that was the box set LP ‘Christ – The Album’. That material was eventually released early on the following year, a nice […]

45 Minutes Of Genesis P And Geoff Rushton 45 Minutes Of Genesis P, Geoff Rushton and Paula P As it says on the tin, 90 minutes of laid back chatter recorded from Psychic TV’s Beck Road base in Hackney that was edited into an article for UK’s early 80’s fashion magazine ‘The Face’. Interesting enough for those of […]

The Dead Rest In Peace Cassette Some information and photographs on The Dead courtesy of Trunt originally from the killfromtheheart site: Part of the Howgil Contingent in Cumbria, The Dead were formed around 1982. They were the original garage band, practicing in Reg’s garage and producing some great songs such as “It’s No Joke,” “Band […]

Andy T / Annie Anxiety performance Alternative performance * Flux Of Pink Indians performance Indebted to Martin Flux for the lend of this tape and for the photograph of the man himself pounding the skins (drums not skinheads) at the majestic Bowes Lyon House in Stevenage. Great quality cassettes of this performance way up on top of […]

Jealousy Baby Wasted Youth were a popular post-punk band between 1979-1982, playing a dark psychedelic bohemian rock. Wearing all black clothes and some in shades and make-up but pre-dating goths, they embodied cool whilst paying homage to their numerous influences from the Velvet Underground to trash-garage bands. In that fertile early post-punk era, Wasted Youth […]

Bad Brains performance Indebted to Grant Dow for sending me this performance by the mighty Bad Brains performing on the weekly Sunday night punk nights at Stevenage Bowes Lyon House back in the summer of 1983. A minority of the audience, as you might expect from a small town like Stevenage with the local boneheads that would […]