Just got the book 53 Cross Street Biography of a House, published by the Islington Archaeology and History Society and found on page 34 this photo of painting on door in 53 by Tod Hanson. I googled on ‘Tod Hanson’ and found his website http://www.todhanson.com/ which is full of Tod’s artworks. These include a whole […]
Alternative TV, Throbbing Gristle, Toxic Graffity(Sue Catwoman and Psychic TV) In the spring of 1980 Mike Dibbol of Toxic Graffity fanzine journeyed from Tunbridge Wells to London Fields in search of Throbbing Gristle. After drawing a blank at their Martello Street ‘Death Factory’ studio, he met up with the group on Beck Road. Sadly for […]
Rudimentary Peni … can’t say I was /am a great fan of the music, but a couple of years ago Tinsel sent me a copy of Nick Blinko’s book ‘The Primal Screamer’ (going for $100 on Amazon USA) and which includes mentions of the Wapping A Centre. The cover art work jolted my brain […]
How does it feel To treat me like you do When you’ ve laid your hands upon me And told me who you are…. At the risk of sounding like a Marxist, or at least a Situationist, was there a link between the cultural crisis that was punk and the economic crises of the […]
Pic above by local artist of local Druids. Random image. Tonight, after listening to Disorder and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, decided to relax before bed with Shostakovitch’s 5th Symphony. But it turns out that even in the world of classical music things could get pretty nasty – especially in Stalin’s Russia in the 1930ies…Found […]
The image is a flyer I made for All the Madmen in 1984/5. These words are sampled from here Punk cannot be understood by simply narrating its events in chronological order, as Jon Savage did in England’s Dreaming. Its determinations can only be unpicked by examining the latest developments in the contradictions it exploited, which […]
The story of William Orbit having his first studio at the Centro Iberico always seemed a bit unlikely, but just found the man himself has posted a set of photos, including some of inside the studio here
This is going to have to go in Greengalloway and Kill Your Pet Puppy. But it will take a bit of time to tease out the connections. But have a look here for starters The mini-free festival at Greenham in July 1982 [ there may have been a smaller festival in March 82 at Greenham […]
“ Up and down the Westway, in and out the lights…“ The Westway – a motorway on concrete stilts carved through west London, was opened in July 1970. In the July 1971 Mick Farren organised an oppositional series of free gigs / benefits for his White Panthers underneath it. Hawkwind (see photo above) and the […]
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