Schwarze Welt Wolken / Grossstadtindianer Incubus Succubus Zu Jung Zu Alt / Blut Ist Liebe The marvelous 7″ and 12″ singles by Xmal Deutschland on the excellent Zick Zack label from Hamburg. After these two releases the band signed up to the equally wonderful 4AD record label and released several other 12″ singles and an absolutely brilliant […]
I fancied bringing this post forward to the present date from January 2008 just because I been playing the tracks a fair bit recently…! Carnage / Curfew Belief / No Gods No Masters From sleepy Devon, Amebix formed in the late 1970’s, influenced by Killing Joke, this band were one of the earliest to incorporate […]
Mark Stewart And The Maffia – The Wrong Name And The Wrong Number – William S Burroughs – The Five Steps The Camberwell Now – For Those In Peril On The Sea / Replash – Martyn Bates And Peter Becker – Sun Like Gold In Three Parts I originally bought this LP for the track by […]
Dumb Blondes – Sorrow / Cuddly Toys – Someone’s Crying / The Igloos – Octopus / Family Fodder – Savoir Faire / Cuddly Toys – Madman / Wilko Johnson – Back In The Night / Bernie Torme – All Day And All Night UK Decay – Unwind / Manufactured Romance – Times Of The Life […]
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 […]
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force… The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar… as they rule as a class and […]
Just woken up at 4 20 am by the early morning light, still close enough to the solstice so not much darkness. Usually I would try to get back to sleep, but Nic asked me a question on Facebook about the Brew Crew which has burrowed its way down into the depths and re-emerged as […]
Fall In / Great Expectations / You Dont Know / Thud And Blunder Hole In The Ground / Ridley Road / Watch Your Step / Moving Mountains Between The Lines / Motivation / 1-3 Animosity / Rise And Fall / Bleach It ONU Sound artists, London Underground are uploaded on KYPP tonight, the two LPs released […]
After a gap of thirty one years, some of the bands that performed on the original Jonathan Barnett inspired Weird Tales tours from 1979 and 1980 are back together to perform again on 18th November 2011. The Mob. Anyone that was lucky enough to get a ticket for Bristol reunion performance in April or be […]
In the Pagan Celtic year, there are four major Sabbats or harvest festivals and four lesser Sabbats, also known as solar festivals. Litha is one of the lesser Sabbats and is also known as Summer Solstice, Midsummer, Gathering Day and Vestalia. Typically celebrated on June 21st, Litha is the longest day of the year and […]