…including the start of several new sub-albums.
Fanzine Gallery being one of them, that has just been started and will add on to from time to time.
Also Huntingdon Street photos courtesy of Jellyfish (Stewart)
Farleigh Road photos courtesy of Jellyfish (Stewart)
Nightingale Estate photos courtesy of Jellyfish (Stewart)
Daubeney Road photos courtesy of Jellyfish (Stewart)
Additions to Puppies And Their Friends section courtesy of Jellyfish (Stewart)
Johns Highbury homecoming 2008 photos courtesy of John (and some by Penguin).
Memories of Min photos courtesy of (the adorable) Min.
Huntingdon Street reunion – photos courtesy of Stewart (who is lovely).
Harlow and Bishops Stortford scene – Tony Mottram and Neil Puncher photos from Michael Mitchell collection.
Mutoid Britain gathering 06/12/08
Photographs of the artwork, structures and machines plus the KYPP affiliated folk that attended this particular night, from the collections of Aithche, daughter of Mick Lugworm, Vicky Ridley and Steve Corr.
Tods Wapping Autonomy Centre toilet shots
Absolutely classy series of photographs modelled by some of the regular punters in the toilets at the Wapping Autonomy Centre.
Does anyone know of the whereabouts of Christina (above) from Bologna?
If so please leave a message in the comments section for this post.
Some new photos from the collection of the adorable Vicky Ridley are now uploaded in the photo gallery right HERE
Vickys photos take in London squats, the west country, punks and travellers in Spain and Portugal…
Fod has now kindly supplied some photgraphs circa 1982 / 1983 that can be viewed HERE
Martin Flux collection HERE
Lugworms spring picnic 2010 HERE
The lovely Tinsel has sent some of her photos to KYPP which may be seen HERE
Loads more photos being added all the time, so please keep coming back for new editions to the gallery.
Phil
May 29, 2008 at 8:40 pmBeing HIV is no where near as bad as it used to be. Even compared to ten years ago the medication has improved
I should know as I have been living with the virus for a number of years.
Nowadays, although theres no cure you’ve got a good chance of a much longer life span and not developing AIDS if you take your meds correctly.
I managed to clear Hep c a few years ago wich must say something for my immune system!
Penguin • Post Author •
May 30, 2008 at 12:24 amSorry to hear that Phil, you dont know me but still…hope you are bearing up.
More of Stewarts photos now uploaded Nightingale Est and Daubeney Road…look at main post above.
More to come, hope someone looks at the photos, takes me ages to transfer!
Ian S
May 30, 2008 at 10:21 amStewart wrote: ” I remember Ian arranged to interview Crass at their place in Ongar for the first issue of PFS and I went along – he didn’t say a fucking word!”
LOL that’s pretty much true, you definitely did more of the question-asking and challenged them on a couple of matters. It felt like an expedition going all the way out there. Mind you I was probably only 15 at the time, it felt like a big deal.
Re. uptight, yes and pretty awkward with it. Parents were fairly conservative people but my dad was terminally ill and my mum wasn’t well either then. So a lot of stuff was seething away in my head without my being aware of half of it. No my dad wasn’t a copper, he worked at Unigate in west London before having to quit.
I was out of place but no-one at No. 51 ever made me feel that way.
Random memories from Huntingdon Street days:
Andy and Sue as proud owners of a portable telly.
Dennis and his BMX bike, which made his knees come up past his ears when he rode it.
Dennis chuckling at a bit in Tom and Jerry, where Tom gets walloped on the head and ends up flat as a pancake: “Hur hur! The things they get up to in them cartoons!”
Fallen veg-scrounging patrols in Chapel market and Pip cooking everything up together in a big pot.
Booty from a nicked DDA box being examined. A slightly older man (forgotten his name) who was accorded respect came round to No. 51 to pass expert judgment on the effects of the various pharmaceuticals. “Take four, they’re like Mandies” etc.
Makhno the dog and the black-and-red bandana he wore round his neck.
Stewart
May 30, 2008 at 11:40 am*Winks* at Ian! I’m glad you have good memories of the place, Ian, so do I – never saw you again after 51, so I hope we all contributed to your personal and political development, lol! *winks again*
You’ve reminded me now – in some of the photos going up on the site it’s Dennis, not Steve, in the pix – Steve Teeth was his brother. Ah well, I’m old and my memory’s fading…
Yes, the older bloke was called Clive – I have a horrible feeling he may have been a paedophile :O Don’t like to think about it now
Penguin • Post Author •
May 31, 2008 at 5:03 pmOK last load of Stewart’s wonderful photos up now in puppies and their friends section in photo gallery.
Get the link on the original post above.
Stewart
June 1, 2008 at 3:00 pmGreat to see all these photos out in cyberspace! 🙂 Re Rachel and Gary (Mick’s pix) – Rachel was Donna’s younger sister (Donna is in some of my pix), became a teacher, had three kids, and has emigrated to Australia…
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 3:21 pmIan S. It must of seemed a bit mad for you at Hutindgon St. I didnt realize you where just 15.
I remember that even Boy George, who had been squatting in Kings X for a while would refuse to come in the door and always sent Phillip Salon in to pick Cory, or whoever up to take clubbing.
When asks why, he would say the place was just to full of drugs!
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 3:27 pmAnyone remember my mate Sad Sack? He used to do a zine called Colbolt Hate and he had a friend called Megadoss Frank. Oh and Vermin as well
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 3:29 pmClive is dead . He died of Hep B
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 3:52 pmStu, that guy on the sofa with me and Andy is Ralph who went out with Lisa and produced the first E.M.F album (Maybe Blood and Roses too,dunno)
Jah Pork Pie
June 1, 2008 at 4:33 pmTop news to hear that Pip is going strong. I hope he’s still purveying dodgy home made punch to the antipodeans!
Mark M
June 1, 2008 at 5:19 pmFucking good photo collection now!! I will try and send a few more of mine at some point. Phil, I remember Megadoss and Sad Sack but not well I must admit.Do you ever hear from Christina? I bumped into her in Bristol years ago.Didnt you or Cory marry her? Memory terrible.One of these days ill stop smoking and it will all come back, but then its all coming back anyway thanks to this site.Say hi to Cory from me please.Whatever happened to W Og? And I havent seen any mention of Fod or Sarah.Im hoping theres plenty more to come out of the woodwork.
Stewart
June 1, 2008 at 5:49 pmI remember Christina! She was at Huntingdon Street too, before moving to a squat in I think it was Martello Street near that big warehouse that was some sort of black music venue, can’t remember what it was called. The first night I met her she had on this veil type thing over her face – made her look like a bee-keeper! A very pretty bee-keeper, mind!
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 6:26 pmThe last time i saw Christina was at The Treworge Tree fayre in cornwall 1989. That was fun
Yeah, I heard she was in Bristol too
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 6:30 pmThe last time I saw Fod Was at that full Solar eclipse festy. Cant remember the year 11/11/99?
luggy
June 1, 2008 at 6:31 pmStewart, I knew Rachel was a teacher, didn’t realise she’d moved to Oz. Gary’s going to come to the Subway Sect meet-up on the 13th.
Come along if you’re in town that week, Pork & anyone else. Meeting from 7 p.m. at south end of Highbury Fields then going to the gig underneath the Cock Tavern around 9 p.m.
Mark, Fod moved to Ireland for a while & had a sprog. Think he’s living somewhere in the West country now close to where his sprog’s mum lives. I’ll try & find out where if you’re interested.
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 6:44 pmHey Luggy looks like me and Simon Rix will be comming to Subway Sect
Mark M
June 1, 2008 at 7:02 pmHi Mick that would be great. He might be my neighbour. I met Brian who drove the stage at the first stop the city in the village where my yard is. His ex Nancy lives in the houses 1 field away. That was odd.
Phil I was at that treworgy do, I met Grant who was working for The Fall and he invited me up in the mixing desk. Id just eaten a load of mushrooms. Now sometimes you could see The Fall and they were shit and sometimes they were great. That night they were awesome..
Subway Sect could end up being sold out and they wont know what hit them. That would be a laugh 🙂
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 7:34 pmMark, I think I lived at treworgy for about a month. All that dust stuck around in our buses and benders forever afterwards.
Had to keep heading off to Loe beach to swim it off.
That was the last time I saw Trish the fudge too
Nic
June 1, 2008 at 7:52 pmTreworgy was a complete dustbowl! We were living on a field in Lincolnshire at the time, and drove down from there…I remember it being really hot, and – because the fields were on quite an incline – feeling like I was levitating as the psychedelics did the trick…
Saw some great sets (Hypnotics, Loop, Oroonies, Here and Now, Misty, Hawkwind, etc), and met lots of friends: good stuff…
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 8:11 pmYeah it was so hot. And those dead sheep…I had been living on this site that was an old Victorian walled garden in Oxfordshire near a little village called Great Tew. It was so lush
Phil
June 1, 2008 at 8:14 pmMick is that the tennis court end or the Tube station end?
Stewart
June 1, 2008 at 9:06 pmYes, Boy George tried to get me into bed once, but I turned him down. He didn’t seem too bothered, mind… Probably just putting a brave face on it (*winks*)
luggy
June 1, 2008 at 9:23 pmPhil, it’s the tube station/swimming pool end of Highbury Fields.
Mark, hopefully I’ll bump into someone next Sunday at Stokefest in Clissold Park who’ll know where Fod is. If not, I’ll ring around. Got a feeling he might be somewhere in South Devon.
Phil
June 2, 2008 at 9:51 amCheers Luggy, might see you at Stokefest beforehand.
Phil
June 2, 2008 at 9:57 amStu, I think we gave those Blitz kids a bit of a (well deserved) hard time.
They did seem to want to hang out with us. Maybe they just wanted a shag!
min
June 2, 2008 at 12:10 pmHi guys,
So lovely to see you all here. Bringing some of it back to me…memory being what it is! I must say i have been missing everyone for years!! So amazing to see Sue on your film Stewart, thanks for posting it. I have some photos too so I’ll dig them out and put them up.
I live in Tottenham now. I saw Boy George djing
at dtpm a few weeks ago, he’s got to be the worst dj in Christendom but still has charisma + kept the room filled all night. I see Cory now and then, he seems ok really, not well, but you know, quite happy most of the time, falling in love with the wrong guys and funny as always.
Well i’m out of touch really, went off the country to be a proper hippy and had a baby in a damp teepee who grew up to want to be a punk and live in squats and be a rock star which he does quite happily in hoxton somehow! Despite my real (ish) efforts to introduce him to the ‘other side’ so now i think of it as our cultural roots.
Now i work for the NHS, and pretty much spend most of my spare time in gay discos or gardening.
hugs
xxx
Min
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 12:19 pmAnd who could blame them, Phil? Fuck, we were all so good-looking… 😉
Penguin • Post Author •
June 2, 2008 at 12:20 pmMin, I read this and thought it said “I saw Boy George dying” – Thought I missed a memo or something!
If you have photos or any thing else of relevance to this site then let me know nearer the time when you dig it all out and I will give you my details to send them to.
Welcome aboard, loads of people meeting up on 13 June in Highbury. Info coming soon on this site.
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 12:31 pmHey Min! Big hug! xxx I have lots of good memories of you, but I have to tell this one: I remember when you spent the night at that big council estate in Cazenove Road (Morley House) where me and Ken were squatting, and in the morning after Ken had gone to work I was faffing about in the corridor and you came out naked with a wicked gleam in your eye – and I ran away! Lol! More fool me (*sighs*) – still, I was young and sexually inexperienced – though I don’t think I would have been for long if I’d just stuck around lol (or maybe it was just my teenage hormones running wild and you were after a cuppa, who knows… I remember the boiler was broken and the water was so scalding hot you could just make a cup of tea from the hot tap, and the flat was full of steam all the time like a bloody sauna)
Really pleased to see you here! Though I didn’t realise ANY job with the NHS allowed you to spend all your time gardening in gay discos on taxpayers’ money… (*winks*) xxx
Mark M
June 2, 2008 at 12:57 pmHi Min, So many times i think of you and hope / assume youre good. All the kids are big buggers now. Dan is living at Pooh Corner in a full circle kind of way like Rowan. We must of been good parents…Im sure Claire would want me to send you love. She looks on in despair as i gaze at this stuff, but its wonderful to meet up with everyone again. Did you see my glamorous photo of you in the picture gallery ?…Loads of love to you x
Ian S
June 2, 2008 at 2:10 pmPhil wrote: “Ian S. It must of seemed a bit mad for you at Huntindgon St. I didnt realize you where just 15.”
Yeah was that age when I first bumped into Stewart near Highbury & Islington tube. It was like Oliver Twist meeting the Artful Dodger.
Do you remember seeing bands at the squatted church on Pentonville Road? A bunch of dossers hung around there and would try to demand cans of beer or a swig out the cider bottle as ‘price of admission’. Dog2000 and The Managing Directors played there iirc.
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 2:32 pmIan – “It was like Oliver Twist meeting the Artful Dodger” LOL!!!! (I’ll take that as a compliment!). I was wondering how we’d met, couldn’t remember! I know 51 used to be PACKED wall-to-wall with various waifs and strays some nights. I’m sure I wouldn’t have ENTICED you back to 51, you must have asked to come????