KYPP ran from New Years Eve 1979 to the Summer Solstice 1983.
But culturally we were part of a larger landscape that ran into the mid 80’s (and still today you say?). Plenty more information to be put up in the seperate categories.
KYPP ran from New Years Eve 1979 to the Summer Solstice 1983.
But culturally we were part of a larger landscape that ran into the mid 80’s (and still today you say?). Plenty more information to be put up in the seperate categories.
Stewart
January 26, 2009 at 12:23 amYou know, I remember that cover so well! Not sure I ever actually read the thing, I just remember it lying on the floor of Huntingdon Street! Lol! If it came out in January 1980, and I was born in March 1962, I must have only been 17… Jesus, is it only me or do other people find it VERY hard to get a true chronological perspective on their lives???? It all seems to be a bit blurred… Must have been the drugs… 🙂
alistairliv
January 27, 2009 at 9:17 amNah, not the drugs. Our memories are not ‘saved’ in time -order, they are all jumbled up. Dramatic or personally important memories are easier to recall than ordinary/ everyday memories -which fade away if not recalled. So what we end up with is like a mental photograph album, but with the photos in random order.
So I can vividly remember visiting Huntingdon Street with the KYPP crew – we went by train from West Hampstead to Caledonian Road and Barnsbury. Brett avoided the ticket office by jumping over a fence but fell and hurt his leg. The ticket office was unmanned anyway. Pip made us a vegetarian lasange…
But when was this visit? There is no time stamp on it… but when I cross-reference with KYPP 4 which came out in September 1981 and has a piece on gay punx (which Pip wrote for Gay Noise?) and a Mob page… I can start to date the visit.
alistairliv
January 27, 2009 at 9:27 amAh ha. In the photo gallery there is flyer for a Mob (plus plus) gig at Parliament Hill Fields dated 23 August 1981
http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb227/killyourpetpuppy/Parliament%20Hill%20Fields/?action=view¤t=ParliamentHillFieldsflyer.jpg
I remember going from Huntingdon Street to this gig (by train. North London Line again) … it was the first time we Met the Mob, and Min who was also at the gig. So this memory maybe a continuation of the one above. Or they may have been separate occasions.
Stewart
January 27, 2009 at 7:31 pmYou should have been a detective, Alistair! Yes, I can remember the KYPP crew coming round 51 for the first time, too, but I seem to recall I stayed in my room for most of the time – just can’t remember why or what I was up to! 🙂
John No Last Name
January 27, 2009 at 10:29 pmErr Stewart let me refresh your memory about what you were up to, it’s a multiple choice answer and they are
a) no damn good
b) absoulutely no good
c) T.R.O.U.B.L.E
Stewart
January 27, 2009 at 10:45 pm*winks* Yes, I thought it was something like that…
baron von zubb
February 4, 2009 at 6:57 pmThe time thing aint the drugs.
Its merely the fact that it doesnt seem like 30 years ago.
Thats more than a quarter of a century.
Like 30 years before punk was WWII.
And thats like pre-history for us, no?
I just dont get it…
Sam
February 5, 2009 at 9:24 pmI know. It’s been 30 years this year since the Jam Doughnut miracle Jake.
alistairliv
August 10, 2009 at 8:56 amAre we nearly 2 then? [KYPP site will be two years old in September]
Jay Vee
August 11, 2009 at 4:09 pmOh-oh, the terrible 2’s
Penguin
August 11, 2009 at 11:41 pm‘Fraid so Jay…the fanzine itself though is a massively old 30 years so we got some catching up to do.