Thanks to Stewart (Jellyfish – shown above) for getting this amazing video together. Please be aware that Ginny the lady who filmed it lived in Balls Pond Road near Dalston at the time. Some outside footage is included in Stewarts edit of Balls Pond Road along side the edited footage set inside of the Huntingdon Street squat, which is […]
Author’s history: Baron Von Zubb A.K.A Rich Kid A.K.A Jake Heretic’s parents hailed from Stepney but by the time he was born they’d left that all behind and joined the ranks of northwest London’s middle classes. Nice. This rather bored our Baron so after being expelled from school, squatting, punk rock anarchism, heroin and general […]
Three Times Seven / The Curse / Summer 83, Winter 85 / Vinegar Hill Blues / Hellbastard 1 / Hellbastard 2 / Crime / Step To The Universe 1 / Mistaken Identity / Step To The Universe 2 The Soft Machine / The Window / A World We Never Made / The Iron Brotherhood Trio: My […]
The Apostles – Erics Detachables / Skin Deep / Fucking Queer / Proletarian Autonomy / Pigs For Slaughter / Alienation The Mob – Cry Of The Morning / Gates Of Hell / Raised In A Prison / Dance On You Fool / Our Life Our World / Witch Hunt / Slayed Originally this material was released […]
Zerox Whip In My Valise Adam and his Antz second 7″ single, recorded by the second Antz line up comprising the musicians that recorded the ‘Dirk Wears White Socks’ LP. In 1980 this line up also infamously, had Malcolm McClaren (the then manager of the band) get the adorable and dreamy (I am allowed to say that […]
Closet Love / Third Gear / Turkey Girl / Burnt Offerings To Know Evil / Sad Shadows / Viet Not Mine, El Salvador Yours / Waiting For The Fun Annie Anxiety originally part of New York punk band The Asexuals comes over to England for a two week break in 1980 and stays for over ten […]
Roadrunner Once 1975 Roadrunner Twice 1972 Featuring Jonathan Richman, two versions of his ‘tribute’ to Velvet Underground’s ‘Sister Ray’ released on a 7″ single after the original band had split up, on California’s Berserkley Records. Jonathan Richman went to New York as a youngster to soak up the vibes at Warhol’s Factory Club and to witness the house […]
You Domestic Departure / Kerb Crawler The sound of Leeds straight out of Birmingham, good buddies with Gang Of Four and The Mekons, these post punkers first release on 021 Records is a stunner. Great choppy guitars and a picture sleeve of a smoothie being tossed down some stairs. You go girl…
Old Tarts Song / Crisis / Idealogically Unsound / Bremen Song Political Love / Jump Mama Jump / Under The Doctor / Reality Attack Eight track 12″ EP from the Small Wonder Records stable, re-released on Crass Records a couple of years later on, the record on this post is the original release. Formed as a band […]
Pedestrian / State Of The Nation / Salt Lake City Sunday / Coitus Interruptus / Fireside Favorite Newsreel / Insectacide / The Box / Arch Of The Aorta For Phil Ritchie who mentioned something about a Discharge and Fad Gadget gig that he never made it to…Can not quite figure that gig line up and no […]