The text below was written in 2010 for the sleeve notes for the re-release of ‘Let The Tribe Increase’ album that was released on Overground Records. Catalogue number – OVER122LP / CD TIDIED UP AND IMAGES ADDED BY MICKEY ‘PENGUIN’ IN 2019 “We are not afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. […]
TEXT ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY AL PUPPY IN 2005 – TIDIED UP AND IMAGES ADDED BY MICKEY PENGUIN IN 2019 I do get bored, I get bored In the flat field I get bored I do get bored In the flat field I get bored easily. Although I can’t get down to London to give a […]
TEXT ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY AL PUPPY IN 2005 – TIDIED UP AND IMAGES ADDED BY MICKEY PENGUIN IN 2019 It is a few years ago now since I discovered that my daughter was learning about the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common in her school history lessons. “History? How can it be history, your mum […]
THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BY AL ‘PUPPY’ IN APRIL 2005 TIDIED UP WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND SCANS ADDED BY MICKEY ‘PENGUIN’ IN 2019. It was in 1977 that I finally found, and bought, a copy of the Sex Pistols ‘Anarchy in the UK’ on EMI Records. It cost 37p from Woolworths in Castle Douglas, and I’ve […]
THIS POST HAS BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD FROM THE ORIGINAL POSTING DATE OF DECEMBER 2007 – IN REMBERENCE OF ALISTAIR I found a diary I kept through 1983. Here are some edited highlights. Of interest is the movement on from punk (anarcho / goth) towards first Psychic TV and second Stonehenge, but also the politics – […]
Subway Surfing Anarcho-Goths Legend has it that when Tony D first saw Jeremy Gluck of The Barracudas, he was carrying a surfboard down an escalator at Holborn tube station in 1978. The Barracudas were a surf-punk band, celebrating early sixties California in late seventies London. They even had a hit in (?) with ‘I Want […]
This is the second draft of a talk I will be giving to an Anarchist Seminar at Glasgow University’s Dumfries Campus on April 9th 2014. I am posting it now so I can include feedback / comments in the final draft. I have written a lot about the punk side of anarcho-punk, but this is […]
Punk-an aesthetic. Edited by Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage. Buy, buy the damnation of your soul, here at last is the mechanism to destroy your old, ordered and worn out mind. Welcome frenzy and darkness with out stretched hands, become the person your parents’ warned you against. Do it now! (etc) … YES!!! Who else […]
Dirty Water- The Birth of Punk Attitude 1 & 2 – selected by Kris Needs. Available from Year Zero /Future Noise Music. Volume One. Volume Two. I have spent many hours arguing about what is or is not punk. Then I discovered these awesome collections of proto-punk songs. They are an essential purchase. First up […]
Review Albion’s Dreaming the History of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts (available from Housmans for £9.99) I got this book after Nic Bullen asked me about the Brew Crew recently I first remember experiencing ‘Brew Crew’-esque behaviour when we were trapped by police on the road in Wiltshire near Stonehenge in 1985 when a […]
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