Category: AL

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) […]

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 […]

It was the long hot hot summer of 1976. I was in London for a few days. I’d spent the past 17 years of my life living in the countryside – see it here Now I was in West 11 looking for my hippy heaven underneath the Westway – the place where Hawkwind and the […]

Complete Control Dunno why Al stuck this up…but I have hijacked the post and stuck some meat onto the bones via one of the most uplifting songs ever put onto plastic…Penguin x

Note: this link’s to Tony’s piece on the Anarchist United Mystics/ St. James St squat. The sun is not shining today in south west Scotland, so my son Callum is annoyed. Which means not much time to more than sketch this out. What I would like to do is make a link between the criticism […]

This is by way of an answer to years of (hippies were) crap. Main feature, which may not be very legible is an article from Undercurrents magazine No. 26 December 1977/ January 1978 and was their response to punk. Undercurrents was a UK based magazine which ran from 1972 to 1981 and focussed on what […]

Did fanzines destroy the Mob? When I became ‘manager’ of All the Madmen record label, a small ceremony took place where was given a large carrier-bag full of ‘Letters to the Mob’. Amongst these letters, to which I did my best to reply, was the following, to which I did not reply. AL Puppy Please […]