DEGENERATE DEL IN 1979 VJ discovered there was an old abandoned mental hospital a couple of stops down the line in Kilburn called St Monica’s where Jake Heretic and his friends were squatting, I knew I had to find it. On the way VJ told me stories of how haunted the place was. When we […]
TAPE ONE SIDE ONE TAPE ONE SIDE TWO TAPE TWO SIDE ONE TAPE TWO SIDE TWO I was in attendance at this Flux gig. The first time witnessing Flux (Of Pink Indians) live on stage for two or three years. It was quite a change from the old militaristic Crass style Flux sound of 1982-1983 […]
I remember visits to Penguin Towers from Laila along with her father Vince several years ago. She was a beautiful and bright toddler in those days. Fast forward several years and adding a lot of effort, time and imagination, Vince and Laila’s mother Donna, along with Laila herself are on the brink of releasing a […]
I love a nice surprise and today I get home to find Defiant Pose fanzine volume 8 on my doorstep out of the blue. Included within the package a beautiful 7″ record by Rema Rema. A 7″ record on the heaviest vinyl I have had the pleasure of holding! Been on the record player over […]
Rubella Ballet ‘Planet Punk’ Overground Records OVER135CD : 689492142025 & OVER134LP : 689492142018 (Green vinyl w/CD) Release date: 31st March 2014 “They were the band who bridged the gaps between The Sex Pistols, X Ray Spex, and Crass.” TylerVile Punk Globe Dec 2014. Rubella Ballet formed in 1979, with the nucleus of the band coming […]
Victory / Repulsion You Never Know Today is a sad day. The day that all of us here at KYPP found out about the passing of Martin Neish A.K.A Protag. This KYPP post is dedicated to Protag as well as the hundreds (thousands probably) of people that knew Protag and have been saddened by his […]
Flack practice tape – 1981 Indebted to the honourable Chris Low for the loan of this cassette tape uploaded tonight, to Andy Martin for the text and to Tod Hanson for the photographs. Expect a right royal racket with some crazy bass playing. All glorious material though! Tod and Martin of Flack, Southend Martha Moscow […]
Soul Fire / Throw Some Water In / Evil Tongues / Curly Locks / Ghetto Sidewalk Favourite Dish / Free Up The Weed / Big Neck Police / Mr D.J Man / Roast Fish And Cornbread Easing the KYPP browers into the new year with the first Lee Perry vocal album that was released in […]
La Main Morte Testament D’Auguste Rodin A release from 1987 on the Temple Records imprint. A poetic collaboration between musician Kenny Morris and the radical 1970’s writer Dorothée Lalanne, which works out very well. The two sound-scapes on each side of this 12″ record, are both soundtracks for the two films ‘La Main Morte’ and […]
Indebted to Steve Corr of Idiot Strength, one of my favourite bands on the mid 1980’s, who jotted down some notes for me to place onto this KYPP post – Revised March 2016. Wasting Your Time Caroline These two songs are the first things I ever recorded and I’m told ‘Wasting Your Time’ was played […]