Living In NW3 4JR (Anarchy In The UK)
Here’s one for The Kill Your Pet Puppy Collective to pogo to, also The Heretics and anyone else who has squatted property in Hampstead, NW3.
I will save you the cringe of listening to the B side of this record. Made out as a spoof ‘News At Ten’ broadcast, which is not that great. Rabbi’s on strike in Golders Green, Dolly Parton as England football team manager and some other news titbits…not great, best avoided unlike the A Side which is pretty fun.
I have now uploaded the B Side of this record due to a request in the comments. Oh dear what have you let yourself in for Mike? 😉
Ian S
November 6, 2008 at 12:10 am.
Ian S
November 6, 2008 at 12:13 amNic: “One of my all-time favourite NEL covers:
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/sneed_sir_alt.jpg”
That is a great cover Nic and funnily enough found a copy a few months ago. It’s not bad reading.
Could waste I mean spend hours looking at that Trash Fiction website!
Nic
November 6, 2008 at 10:50 amYou and me both, Ian…
🙂
Ian S
November 6, 2008 at 11:06 amNic: some of those old NEL covers would make great posters.
Graham wrote: “I used to love the NEL science fiction book covers, especially the paintings of Bruce Pennington and Chris Foss.”
Foss was a master with the airbrush. Mayflower and Sphere had some good stoner cover artists too. Not one of Michael Moorcock’s better novels, but I liked the cover of this one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Michael_Moorcock_The_Winds_of_Limbo.png
Dunno who it’s by, any ideas?
Nic
November 6, 2008 at 11:46 amI believe it’s by Bob Habberfield, Ian…
Ian S
November 6, 2008 at 12:24 pmNice one Nic! Moorcock had this to say about him on the multiverse forum:
“Actually I picked Bob Haberfield for the first Mayflower covers and he did my covers for quite a long time until he joined an asram and stopped doing commercial work. You’ll note that the covers increasingly use Hindu and Far Eastern imagery and Bob was using his own symbolic language in the books to describe, for instance, his hatred of the English royal family.”
😀
Ian
November 6, 2008 at 12:58 pmThe Jilted John lp is possibly one of the best concept lp’s of all time, AND you got a free snakes and ladders game with it too.
baron von zubb
November 6, 2008 at 3:01 pmOh that Sams family. All the trancy tossers, I mean me mates down here see them as godlike.
Nic
November 6, 2008 at 4:18 pmGodlike? Because they made Peanut Butter?
Tranced out…
🙂
Chris
November 6, 2008 at 8:21 pmactually, someone HAS printed up aload of old NEL book covers as posters. They’ve got them downstairs in that record shop (the last remaining one!) on Inverness St in Camden, just down from The Mixer.
Those pages from that French Book remind me of some of the ‘Bazooka Group’ stuff, Kiki Picasso, Lulu Larsen et al, who ended up doing graphics for a few punk zines and record covers (Skydog releases if my memory serves me right). I really love the style of their graphics.
PS: “SIR, You Bastard” looks great! “Demo” has a great cover too and is another highly amusing read.
Martin C
November 7, 2008 at 4:33 pm“Punk Rock” by Richard Allen is crap but also one of the few books I’ve read where every paragraph makes me laugh. The band names and song titles really are awful, Allen obviously couldn’t be arsed to come up with anything more ‘outrageous’ than “Up Yer Kilt, Bonnie Charlie”. But the book’s bonkers moralistic overtones and the bit where he goes on about ‘loveable Des’ O’Connor – and the completely abrupt, “shit, I can’t be bothered to hack this out anymore” ending – make it one of my faves, along with “Boot Boys”
Great to hear they’re available as posters, love the hard punk chick on ‘Knuckle Girls’. And now I’m not going to be able to rest til I’ve tracked down ‘SIR, you bastard’ either….
Oh, and Nic – you mentioned
Kevin Short and His Privates’ ‘Punk Strut’
Surely it’s just the worst thing that ever existed? Like, ever?
Nic
November 7, 2008 at 4:51 pmIt’s pretty damned bad, Martin, that’s for sure…
Mind you, you know it’s got competition if you’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to ‘Christmas on the Moon’ by Little Troy Hess…
andus
November 8, 2008 at 12:47 pmRichard Allen wrote most of his books in 1 day, and then sent them off to the publishers to be edited. he even used the same paragraphs from previous books. The hells angels came after him after he wrote a book about them, he wrote books as Terry Moffat as well. the original paperbacks are worth about £20-£30 each !!
andus
November 8, 2008 at 1:01 pm1.30. DONCASTER. HARRY PATCH. 5-1 IS GOING TO WIN.
andus
November 8, 2008 at 1:05 pmAll the clocks in my house say 5 past 12, this website says 5 past 1,
Penguin what’s going on
andus
November 8, 2008 at 3:04 pm1 12 Harry Patch 9-0 P Robinson M A Jarvis 2 4/1 f
tracked leaders, quickened to lead over 1f, ridden out final furlong £4500-£1000 £1600-£400
2 15 1¼ Kingswinford (IRE) 9-2 J Fortune P D Evans 2 11/1
held up, ridden and headway over 1f, ran on final furlong opened 12/1
3 13 1½ Lucky Numbers (IRE) (ex6) 9-3 R L Moore Paul Green 2 8/1
Kevin Short
January 7, 2009 at 4:56 pmI wont say who….but you had some great musicians having fun on the Punk Strut/Short Cut….and if you’d have seen the dance that went with it LIVE you’d have had some fun too. Watch out for a Kevin Short revival in 2009 – Old age Punk – the final chapter. Happy 2009 to you all! KS
Tatiana
May 19, 2009 at 2:02 amKevin Short, I am waiting for your revival 2009 and for ever!!!!! Tatiana
Fernando
August 21, 2009 at 2:29 pmThanks for sharing this one!
That list of Nic’s amazing, great job.
I wonder if “God Save Disco” by The Critics (79) could be added.
The Black Arabs, what a great lost band. Their disco versions of the Pistols were just incredible. And they were the backing band in Vic Godard & Subway Sect’s first album which is, well, quite diferent to the Sect’s early singles but a damn great record anyway.
About Los Punk Rockers and the description as “a complete cover of the ‘Bollocks’ by Spanish fans” I have to disagree though. That record can now be viewed as such a weird rarity with such funny wrong lyrics and all but in fact it was a total rip-off. There was so much product like that in Spain in the 70s, I guess it started as an imitation of the K-Tel comps or something but the gas stations were full of rip-off tapes with covers designed to cheat the buyer. Disco comps, versions of TV themes (I have a Baretta / Starsky & Hucth theme tunes tape at home, haha), you name it. Like we had jeans rip offs (Luis for Lois, Lewis or whatever instead of Levi’s), clocks & watches (Casino for Casio, Lorus for Lotus…). In music, the typical title for these ripoffs was “Los éxitos de…” so they couldn’t be sued because the title wasn’t a lie. This is a perfect example. The cover said ‘Los Exitos de los Sex Pistols por los Punk Rockers’. If you saw that, you thought it was a Pistols release, because ‘LOS PUNK ROCKERS’ didn’t sound as a band’s name at all, but a description of the Sex Pistols themselves. That’s exactly what I thought the first time I saw it (in the mid 80s) and I thought the sleeve with the girl was quite funny. It was a 2nd hand shop and it cost like 1 € but I didn’t care cos I had Bollocks of course. Never thought it was going to be viewed as such a relic with high prices but anyway I was thinking it was a cheap Pistols reissue and didn’t care. To think the virtual money I had in my hands for a minute!
I don’t think the so called Punk Rockers were fans at all (in fact they sound more than once like mocking off the Pistols) but people making a bit of money from a ripoff company. I’ve read they earned 130 € and that they made similar Beatles & Stones imitations. Other sources associate them with Asfalto which was a hard rock hippy band (quite horrible if you ask me – tho I’ not sure about the Asfalto connection). Well, the record’s big fun anyway.
Saludos,
Fernando 🙂
jennifer gatward
August 17, 2010 at 1:12 pmJonny Rubbish is my dad!!!