…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.
Ian S
June 2, 2008 at 3:21 pmiirc was invited by you!
Where you the first people to have lived in No 51 (meaning since it stopped being a shop)? Cos have a memory of a stash of old ska and reggae singles being found there, including Jimmy Cliff’s ‘King of Kings’. Someone must have missed them.
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 3:41 pmPhil will probably know that better than me, I moved in after him… I still have that single now!!!! In fact, by a VERY weird coincidence, I’ve just been playing it in my car! It’s fantastic! I mentioned it to Penguin in fact – I thought it was one of the ones I’d bought from a tobacconist’s shop in Dalston Junction, but obviously not lol! Strange how people’s memories can’t keep up, lol…
I DO remember the punky types that lived opposite us though, Andy had a long relationship with one of the women (and I can’t remember her name offhand :O Pat????) after everyone else had moved out of 51 and they were there by themselves with heroin slowly killing them. But I remember Pip catching a bloke called Dean (I think) walking out of the front door of 51 with a big pile of my records in his arms, and asked him what the fuck he thought he was doing – he said I’d said he could have them! Since Pip knew me WELL, he knew that wasn’t fucking true, so at least that was SOME records I saved from scum who’d steal from their own…
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 3:42 pmNot that I’m still bitter or anything…
Penguin • Post Author •
June 2, 2008 at 3:53 pmIf Ian was Oliver, Stewart the Artful Dodger, who the hell was Huntingdon Streets Fagin?
Whilst you are thinking of that you might as well let us know who would have been Bill Sykes and Nancy!
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 4:06 pmThat would be Pip. Even looked like Fagin… (*winks*)
Phil
June 2, 2008 at 4:12 pmHi Min really great to hear from you. I tried phoning you yesterday with a number i had got from Cory, but it was the wrong one. How mad is that!!
Gosh! Didnt know DTPM was still going. I remember when it was a sort of a afterhours club that people headed of to after Trade.
What? Boy George still cant mix. Doesnt surprise me at all!
Would love to see you sometime
Big Hug x
Phil
June 2, 2008 at 4:32 pmIan S. your really testing my memory now. Cory, Evlyn, Pip and me were the first in Huntingdon st.
And yes, I think I remember meeting you at that church now. I remember lots of cool bands playing too, but cant think of any names at the mo.
alistairliv
June 2, 2008 at 5:11 pmIan S. – there is a flyer for a gig at the squatted church on Pentonville Road
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb227/killyourpetpuppy/Pre-Anarcho%20Centro%20flyers/StJamesgigFlyer.jpg
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 7:38 pmI’ve got quite a lot more stuff too I’ve just looked out from my attic. Just sent Penguin the ZigZag article on Blood and Roses by Tony D to upload from August ’82. It’s mostly Bob spouting off about astral projecting and Aleister Crowley – and Jez has written: “Isn’t this the biggest load of old bollocks you’ve ever read?” on it – LOL!!!! Plus he’s then signed it, like he’s expecting to jet off to America to play Madison Square Gardens very soon and won’t be seeing me for a while – bigger Lol! I LOVED Jez… (very vulnerable bloke, actually…)
Plus more Blood and Roses flyers, The Vilettes flyers (remember them anyone? Pip played trumpet), some Managing Directors stuff – jesus, I’ve even got some hand-written poems/lyrics from Cory!
Is anyone actually interested in all this or is it just me? Don’t want to go to all the hassle of scanning it in etc if it’s all just a load of fish and chip wrapping to most people. It’s important to me, it might not be to you! 🙂
Penguin • Post Author •
June 2, 2008 at 7:51 pmThe Blood And Roses ZigZag article is in Zig Zag Magazine sub album in photogalley already Stewey. Send the other stuff though will get all that up.
Nic
June 2, 2008 at 7:58 pmI’d definitely like to know more about the Managing Directors…
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 8:07 pmHi Nic! Well, I’m just about to send Penguin an article about them that appeared in Okej magazine lol! It was the Swedish equivalent of Jackie magazine lol, and they were doing a Swedish tour – it was fab! Pip played keyboards for them by this time, but the photo had me in it as well, I was supposed to be the percussion player (which was bollox but they wanted someone else in the photo ‘to add colour’ lol). Unfortunately I only have a black and white photocopy, and it’s in Swedish, so I have no idea what most of it says! But I also intend to send Penguin their single to upload (tho sadly I haven’t transferred the B side onto my computer yet – which was ‘1,000 Light Years from Dub’). I’ll post more about them when I have time though – I really thought they were fantastic!
Phil
June 2, 2008 at 8:26 pmShow us your chip wraps geezer
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 8:44 pmWell, Phil, how can I resist an invitation like that? You always were a temptress… (I use the word advisedly…) *winks*
Phil
June 2, 2008 at 8:57 pmThink this web site is one of the biggest habbits ive had for a while
Stewart
June 2, 2008 at 9:04 pmMe too… probably just a phase (*winks*). Penguin’s uploaded some stuff to photo gallery printed material already btw
Jah Pork Pie
June 2, 2008 at 11:49 pm@Stewart-> “it’s in Swedish, so I have no idea what most of it says!”
Just a thought: scan it, OCR it and then run it through Babelfish.com – won’t be perfect but it might give you an idea.
Stewart
June 3, 2008 at 12:09 amGood idea, I’ll do that! Tomorrow…
Phil
June 3, 2008 at 7:47 amStu> the pic of the guy you’ve got with the baby in the nightingale collection
is Richard the drummer from Blood and Roses. Not sure who the baby is.
Might be Lisa’s boy(can’t remember his name right now).
Stewart
June 3, 2008 at 11:03 amHi Phil! Yes, ta for that, remembered eventually – declining number of brain cells, you know… just about to send over the Managing Directors single now
Ian S
June 3, 2008 at 12:37 pmStewart, did that MD’s single have a track on it which had the words ‘Hark the herald angels sing’ in it, maybe a chorus or something? It was a laidback sounding track iirc.
One record which popular back in the day was the Rema Rema 12″. No punk squat seemed to be without a copy. Can’t remember much about it, except it had a big sound, maybe a bit like the Psychedelic Furs ‘Into you like a train’.
Edited to add: just found the Rema Rema tracks on the 4AD website, does not sound anything like the Furs!
Nic
June 3, 2008 at 12:43 pmThe Rema Rema 12″ still sounds great, Ian: there was a nice cover of their theme song by Big Black in the late 80’s on a Forced Exposure 7″…
Ian S
June 3, 2008 at 1:02 pmYou’re right it does sound good Nic. Thank you Alistairliv for putting up the Pentonville Road church flyer link as well. Joseph Grimaldi was buried there iirc, the gravestone read ‘Here Am I’.
Stewart
June 3, 2008 at 1:21 pmManaging Directors – right, sent the A side ‘Life and Times’ to Penguin – haven’t got the B side on my computer at the moment I’m afraid.
It was recorded and pressed in Sweden (where they were momentarily very big in Nordic music circles between 2.30am and 3.30am one January Sunday morning – but it was just a passing fad).
The MDs started out doing covers of Kink songs and Gary Glitter etc (Rock ‘n’ Roll remained in their repertoire for ever as an encore and was always a storming favourite with the punx!) but they just got better and better as they wrote their own stuff.
What I find interesting is the reggae connection. Like I’ve said before, reggae and punk were ALWAYS connected, but not a lot of ‘punk’ bands were incorporating reggae influences and rhythms into their music – ATV and the Managing Directors were among the first, I believe. For reggae afficionados, John (drummer) and Kevs (bass player) were the Sly and Robbie of the punk generation! They were really tight! Grew up in Blaenau Ffestiniog playing together since they were little kids and had a mutual love of reggae. I think the record is over-produced but brilliant anyway (the B-side has a punkier track and a dub track on it), and the lyrics are fab: “Everyone I see looks so cold and angry,” “In the back streets is a foul and rotting ratland, many people here have learned to call it home,” and the chorus “We’re just trying to bring some heat to the heart of London”. As they evolved, Lee (the rasta in my Nightingale Estate pics with the big bag of ganja in front of him) sang with them and Pip joined on the organ (though he doesn’t play on this record). Lee and Pip and John and Kevs and others (Sue and Dave, also from Blaneau Ffestiniog, lol! Fucking happening little place, that!) later formed a straight reggae band called something like Earthstepper who were also fantastic. I remember all their tapes were stolen from the boot of Pip’s ancient yellow Volvo one day and he (and I!) were devastated. Pip was also playing trumpet with The Vilettes at the same time, with another trumpet player Jane (in my Farleigh Road pix). If anyone has ANY music from Earthstepper or The Vilettes I would bite your hand off to have a copy (though I’d leave you one hand free to upload it all onto this site first, obviously…) 🙂
Ian – the song you’re thinking of with the ‘Hark the herald angels’ line in it was an ATV track – off the top of my head, Life After Life possibly, but I haven’t checked. I loved their more laidback stuff…
Stewart
June 3, 2008 at 1:22 pmIan – PS you keep writing iirc in your posts – I have no idea what the fuck that stands for! :0
Nic
June 3, 2008 at 1:28 pm‘iirc’ = ‘if I recall correctly’…
It’s Netspeak, Stewart: get with the program, grandad!
😉
(Thanks for the Managing Directors info, Stewart: they passed me by, so it’s nice to learn something about them)
Stewart
June 3, 2008 at 1:32 pmAs a little add, Pip’s yellow Volvo was the one used by the drug dealer who supplied Phil (in the Huntingdon Street video) when he was squatting in Nightingale Estate a couple of floors below me and Pip – no wonder we used to get pulled all the time, lol. When the cops bust Phil’s place (I wasn’t there, but I am told not only did they come through the front door, they abseiled down from the top of the tower block to the 17th floor to come through the balcony back door too!) and took him and the dealer and whoever else was there away, we spent hours tearing that Volvo apart looking for the dealer’s stash, lol. Didn’t find anything though, just bought the car when he was released on bail…
Stewart
June 3, 2008 at 1:45 pmYou’re welcome! Since I know you’re all bloody obsessed with Blood and Roses for some reason, THAT connection was simply because we all at various times shared squats together. When Jez and Ken and German Frank and I were squatting 57b Cazenove Road (the upstairs bit of a very large house), the lead singer and guitarist of the Managing Directors, Chris, and his girlfriend Helen (all in my Farleigh Road/Blaenau Ffestiniog pics), were squatting in 57a Cazenove Road, the separate downstairs flat of the same house…
And I’ve remembered the name of the middle-aged black guy at the Three Crowns who told the shebeen in Cazenove Road that I was OK to be there – it was Londi. Always stood at the door in a long coat and hat, which he never took off, and we’d buy him a pint if our dole money had come through. When I was a bit drunk once I DID take his hat off, because I was determined to see what he was hiding (lol) – and he was just going bald and greying, as you’d expect! When Pip bought me a saxophone for my birthday, he introduced me to another black guy who’d (allegedly) played saxophone with the Specials and I used to pay him in wraps of speed in return for lessons. He would pour it into a big spliff and smoke it! Sadly, my desperate desire to learn to play saxophone never matched my appalling lack of talent and eventually the time came where there was a mutually understood decision to, erm, shut the fuck up and go away now… which I did, lol
Val
June 3, 2008 at 6:42 pmHello Min! How lovely to see you on here! Nicky has passed on news over the years – I think we’ve all been unknowingly running along on parallel lines. x Val
Stewart
June 3, 2008 at 8:51 pmBTW, I have a note next to the original photo of Richard and baby at Nightingale Estate saying the baby is J.J. and named after Jez… awwwww
Phil
June 4, 2008 at 9:30 amYeah Stu thats Lisas kid then.JJ
Penguin • Post Author •
June 16, 2008 at 9:42 pmA few photos up in the ‘Johns Highbury homecoming 2008’ section – Friday 13th John No Last Name homecoming get together and Subway Sect to finish! Go to link above on original post for easy access to the page.
John No Last Name
June 16, 2008 at 10:42 pmHi Stewart,
Wow I was just given an old diary that I started in 83 and never finished as well as one from 85 that I managed to actually complete and in the 83 one it keeps mentioning me going over to visit you and either you or Pip teaching me to play the sax. There are about 5 entries over the course of a month which end with me being able to play at least a couple of songs on it so you must have been a pretty good teacher. The funny thing was I was just thinking huh he keeps talking about Pip playing trumpet but I remember it being a sax, and the diary said sax too, so until this post I was pretty confused. Anyway thanks for all of the memories and those pictures are great. Shame you didn’t make it to Higbury the other day it would have been great to see you. If Matt, Sue, Jake, Andy and Dave Lyons, Steve, Pip, Cory or anyone else from those days read this I hope you all are doing great and hi Min it’s really good to hear that you are doing well.