After 25 long years, All The Madmen records is returning as a collective to be run by like-minded people with the ambition to provide talented and under appreciated bands with a platform to produce and release music into the public domain. By funding production, printing and publication of previously unsigned artists and reinvesting the proceeds […]
Downwarde Spiral in association with Bedsit Press present the new tome by Joseph Porter ‘Genesis To Revolutions’ The Curse Of Zounds Demystified. A beautifully presented book and an excellent read. Book of the year thus far in my opinion. You can get the book physically by sending Joseph £10 (UK orders) via paypal to the […]
We’ve had a couple of reports of people experiencing problems using this site recently with Internet Explorer. Could you let us know what your experiences are if you’re using that browser? Just leave a comment and it will give us an idea of what to do about it. We’re just as keen to know if […]
We have been alerted to the news of punk fiction relating to the nineteen eighties being released in ebook form, available for free. We have been alerted to this by the writer of said works. Marcus Blakeston, the author and self-proclaimed ‘shouting poet’, says the work is “Nine interlinked slice of life dramas set in […]
September went a bit mad for my old Ripped & Torn past, as two events dusted it down and included it in their various retrospectives of punk and DIY culture. The events were the launch of a book called ‘Fanzines’, authored by Teal Triggs and an exhibition of punk memorabilia – Loud Flash: British Punk […]
Leo from Soundbox Studios, Thomaby Gardens, Edmonton, N18 passed away on Friday 20th August after losing his fight against cancer. He was an important part of the anarcho-punk scene and I am sure his friends and members of bands that he worked with would like to know about his passing on. Other than being involved […]
If any browsers feel the urge to get a photograph onto the slideshow at the Steve Ignorant shows coming up in September and October in the U.K. and Europe then send good quality scans whether portraits or half body shots to punks@southern.com It is not worth sending in photographs of the subject (you!) halfway up a […]
The published book of Martin Lux Phoenix Press – ISBN 0-948984-35-x – £5.99 Thought anti-fascism was all about bearded sociology lecturers waving ‘Never Again’ banners? Not in London’s East End in the mid-to-late 1970s when the National Front’s London election results put them in position of 4th largest political party, with a street presence – […]
Alistair Livingstone, the great man, one time ex Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine scribe, All The Madmen Records head honcho (apres The Mob and pre Rob Challice) sometime writer and commentator on this site succesfully passed his degree on July 15th for the work he submitted on the Galloway Levellers. You can view Al’s work HERE Well […]
Title: Kill Your Pet Puppy Spring Picnic Location: North Millfields Recreation Ground near the River Lea Description: Going ahead as planned at Middlesex Filter Beds, Hackney on Sunday 3rd May (it’s a bank holiday next day). Will meet up from 1.30 p.m in North Millfields Recreation Ground near the River Lea/Lea Bridge Road junction before […]
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