{"id":10956,"date":"2023-05-14T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=10956"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:07:53","slug":"ceast-to-exist-sonic-subversion-and-anarcho-punk-in-the-uk-optimo-music-best-b4-1984-images-from-the-anarcho-punk-underground-lowthario-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/ceast-to-exist-sonic-subversion-and-anarcho-punk-in-the-uk-optimo-music-best-b4-1984-images-from-the-anarcho-punk-underground-lowthario-press\/","title":{"rendered":"CEASE AND RESIST &#8211; SONIC SUBVERSION AND ANARCHO PUNK IN THE UK &#8211; OPTIMO MUSIC \/ BEST B4 1984 &#8211; IMAGES FROM THE ANARCHO PUNK UNDERGROUND &#8211; LOWTHARIO PRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">CEASE AND RESIST &#8211; SONIC SUBVERSION AND ANARCHO PUNK IN THE UK 1979 &#8211; 1986 &#8211; OPTIMO MUSIC<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326119135_599017354896282_238003036936739760_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10957 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326119135_599017354896282_238003036936739760_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326119135_599017354896282_238003036936739760_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326119135_599017354896282_238003036936739760_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326119135_599017354896282_238003036936739760_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326119135_599017354896282_238003036936739760_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326119135_599017354896282_238003036936739760_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326537316_710958860570375_793054299525362233_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10958 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326537316_710958860570375_793054299525362233_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326537316_710958860570375_793054299525362233_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326537316_710958860570375_793054299525362233_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326537316_710958860570375_793054299525362233_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326537316_710958860570375_793054299525362233_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/326537316_710958860570375_793054299525362233_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Cease And Resist &#8211; Sonic Subversion and Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 is compiled by JD Twich and Chris Low and released on the Optimo Music record label.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ten years in the making, this double album looks back at some of the most radical music ever recorded by acts at the forefront of the underground and self-initiated musical movement, Anarcho Punk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Compiled by JD Twitch and Chris Low for Optimo Music, the compilation spans music made between 1979-86 and features classic tracks from Crass, Poison Girls, Flux Of Pink Indians, The Mob, The Apostles, Zounds, Honey Bane, The Cravats, The Ex, Lack of Knowledge, Hagar The Womb, Chumbawamba, The Alternative, Annie Anxiety, Andy T and more including several previously unreleased studio versions of classic tracks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A1 Zounds &#8211; Can&#8217;t Cheat Karma<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A2 Honey Bane &#8211; Girl On The Run<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A3 Crass &#8211; Bloody Revolutions (Alternate studio version)<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A4 Annie Anxiety &#8211; Hello Horror<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>B1 Flux Of Pink Indians &#8211; Tube Disaster<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>B2 Andy T \u2013 Death Is Big Business<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>B3 Poison Girls &#8211; Underbitch<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>B4 Alternative &#8211; Anti-Christ<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>B5 The Cravats &#8211; Rub Me Out<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>C1 The Apostles &#8211; Mob Violence (unreleased original full studio version)<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>C2 Lack Of Knowledge &#8211; We&#8217;re Looking For People<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>C3 Hit Parade &#8211; Here\u2019s What You Find In Any Prison<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>C4 Hagar the Womb &#8211; Idolisation<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>C5 Alternative TV &#8211; The Force Is Blind<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>D1 Chumbawamba &#8211; Revolution<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>D2 The Ex &#8211; Ay Carmela<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>D3 D&amp;V &#8211; Conscious (Pilot)<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>D4 The Mob &#8211; No Doves Fly Here (unreleased original studio version)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zOylPebBf_E\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Anarcho punk was the one sub-genre of punk that emerged in isolation from the rock and roll establishment. During its pioneering days of the early 1980s it thrived in opposition to the music industry, existing as a fiercely underground alternative to the bands, labels and venues of the commercialised mainstream punk scene. It continues to do so. Anarcho punk represented one of the last truly underground and autonomous music movements ever witnessed and remains a movement that has never sold out and has never gone away.<\/p>\n<p>The major differentiation between the anarcho punk acts and the more traditional punk outfits was that for the former, albeit often more due to musical limitation than intent, the message was more important than the music. Standard song structures were often dispersed with in favour of a relentless lyrical polemic accompanied by a similarly uncompromising aural assault. As the scene grew, so did the diversity of records that emerged under the anarcho punk umbrella: from D &amp; V (drums &amp; vocals) to the proto-EBM synth-pop of Belfast\u2019s one-man Hit Parade and the Dadaist Beefheart hybrid of The Cravats. In later days the two biggest acts of the scene, Flux of Pink Indians and Crass themselves, both released albums which had more in common with improv Jazz than hardcore punk.<\/p>\n<p>The resounding victory of anarcho punk is that it is now a the unifying soundtrack to a culture of resistance that spans Scotland to Indonesia and remains without compromise. It is still as removed from mainstream music and oppositional to conventional culture as it was over forty years ago and shows no sign of changing. Quite the opposite: the more popular anarcho punk becomes the less it has to engage with the music establishment and the more control it can enjoy. In 2023, that message remains as uncompromising as ever.<\/p>\n<p>This is a double vinyl retrospective compilation of some of the most radical music ever made, a musical force that changed lives. Covering the years 1979 &#8211; 86 and all newly remastered by master engineer Daniel Husayn. It comes as a high quality double vinyl pressing with a full colour sleeve featuring iconic artworks by the legendary Gee Vaucher plus a six page fold-out poster with detailed sleeve notes and images and a stunning anarcho-inspired wall-poster on the reverse by Glasgow graphic artist Andrew Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>The compilation is a fundraiser for Faslane Peace Camp. Not so far from Glasgow, Faslane Naval Base is home to Britain&#8217;s abhorrent Trident nuclear missiles. The camp has been there, protesting since 1982 and is still active to this day. We hope in our lifetime we will see those missiles leave Scottish soil. We have so much respect for those who have dedicated their lives to protesting against these weapons and it seemed an obvious choice that the proceeds from this release should go to help them and the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>About the compilers of the album<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JD Twitch and Chris Low met as teenagers in the pre-House\/Techno club scene in Edinburgh. They had their lives changed by the arrival of House Music and the subsequent Rave revolution, both DJing at and promoting club nights in the city as the 80s turned into the 90s. Prior to this, Chris was extremely active at the very heart of the anarcho punk scene, at a preternaturally young age. JD Twitch fell in love with anarcho punk after the fact, becoming a passionate advocate of the music and its message. Staying in touch throughout the years they began discussing putting together this compilation around a decade ago. It has been a very long process to get to this point, but here we finally are!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11024 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img186-1024x948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img186-1024x948.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img186-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img186-768x711.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img186.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>ANDY MARTIN AND CHRIS LOW DURING THE RECORDING OF THE 2ND APOSTLES EP IN 1984 &#8211; PHOTOGRAPH FROM CHRIS LOW COLLECTION<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chris Low first discovered punk in the late 1970s. At the age of eleven, he first saw Crass play his hometown of Stirling and embraced the emerging band and fanzine scene that would come to be known as anarcho punk. He published three issues of the fanzine, Guilty of What? and took up drumming. Since the early 1980s Chris played, recorded, and toured with seminal Anarcho acts including Political Asylum, The Apostles, Oi Polloi and Part One. He also contributed articles and graphics to early issues of Class War amongst other anarchist publications. Like Twitch, Chris became a DJ in the 1980s, coincidentally starting his first night, Sex Beat, on Wednesdays in the same Edinburgh venue Twitch was playing on Saturdays at The Backroom club. He ran and DJd at Edinburgh clubs Soma, Skidoo and the Ahoy! Raves on the Waves and continues to DJ regularly in London and internationally. He has retained a relationship with Punk throughout these years until the present, documenting the Tokyo Punk scene in a photo-book and exhibitions. He is currently working on an anthology of &#8216;Pigs for Slaughter fanzine and reissues of &#8216;The Apostles&#8217; recordings.<\/p>\n<p>JD Twitch (AKA Keith McIvor) is a DJ, artist, activist, producer, label runner and event promoter, active since 1987. He co-founded the club Pure which ran from 1990 &#8211; 2000 in Edinburgh and founded the club Optimo (Espacio) which ran from 1997 &#8211; 2010 in Glasgow. Optimo (Espacio) continues to be active to this day as a DJ duo comprising JD Twitch &amp; Jonnie Wilkes, touring globally. Optimo (Espacio) also put on regular club nights in Glasgow and in 2022, celebrate their 25th anniversary. JD Twitch has a long and diverse production and remix discography and also runs the Optimo Music record label (and various sub labels) with a discography of almost 200 releases. He is active raising funds and awareness for various local (and beyond) anti-racist organisations &amp; local Glasgow food bank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>BEST B4 1984 &#8211; IMAGES FROM THE ANARCHO PUNK UNDERGROUND &#8211; LOWTHARIO PRESS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10961\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-1088x1536.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-1450x2048.jpg 1450w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3154-1-scaled.jpg 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10960\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan3155-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>SO MUCH MORE THAN MUSIC &#8211; CHRIS LOW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"document-page\" data-page=\"1\">\n<div class=\"pdf-page\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">I fell in love with fanzines and their visual style from the first few I ever bought one rainy Saturday afternoon from my local record shop in Stirling and regard them as every bit as important to the original anarcho punk scene as the bands and music. If not more so as they were arguably the most genuinely DIY and egalitarian element of the scene. Whilst not everyone could afford a guitar, let-alone play one, everyone could put their thoughts, obsessions and frustrations down on paper; get the pages photocopied at the local library for a few pence and then sell their effort, however samizdat and amateurish, \u00a0at the next punk gig they attended. There really WERE \u201cno rules\u201d when it came to fanzines! You could express whatever you wanted and the final product could end up being read by ten people or ten thousand!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"document-page\" data-page=\"2\">\n<div class=\"pdf-page\">\n<div class=\"text-wrapper user-select-text\">\n<div data-canvas-width=\"69.24133333333333\">\n<p>I hope these pages I have curated from the boxes of fanzines and flyers I avidly collected between 1980 and 1984 reflect the vibrancy of the unique and empowering movement we now know as anarcho punk in all its glorious diversity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the deranged looking, hastily assembled and barely legible cut up and scrawled pages of Cobalt Hate and Coming Attack to Gee Vaucher\u2019s artistic and beautifully presented graphic agit-prop magazine The International Anthem; From the vegetarian recipes for recent meat-free converts in New Crimes and Oi Polloi\u2019s early Skinhead Havoc to the recipes for Molotov cocktails in \u2018The Militant Anarchist Punk\u2019 zine Pigs For Slaughter and guide to squatting on The Apostles\u2019 first EP cover; From testimony from gay punks to the inclusive liberation the scene offered to the caustic critique of punk tribalism in the embryonic Napalm Death\u2019s iconoclastic anthem, \u2018Punk Is A Rotting Corpse\u2019, It can all be found within these facsimile pages. The images are presented in a vague thematic order illustrating the preponderant concerns of the scene in this nascent period when fears of an escalating arms race were a primary concern and perhaps surprisingly veganism barely existed within the anarcho punk milieu. I have tried to avoid the obvious images, posted all over the internet and, in more recent times, commercially reproduced on T-shirts and posters and sold by opportunists on Ebay. Though, lamentably, I expect there will be all the more appearing once this collection is published!<\/p>\n<p>I have fond memories of the fanzine Guilty of What? I published three issues of over the years 1982-1983, during which time I was aged twelve, going-on thirteen. The name was inspired by two sources: a badge I had picked up following Sid Vicious\u2019 arrest for murdering his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen and the title of an article I had read about the Persons Unknown trial of an Anarchist cell arrested on bomb making charges. In hindsight, this could be seen as an unconscious attempt to synthesise Anarchism and Punk as, truth be known, I\u2019d never even considered this at the time. Similarly, I only discovered recently that one of the very first ever uses of the genre term \u2018Anarcho Punk\u2019 in print was a review of my final issue in the excellent Sunderland \u2018zine, Acts of Defiance.<\/p>\n<p>All three editions of Guilty of What? were assembled solely by myself at home using my mum\u2019s typewriter, scissors, glue stick, the mandatory WH Smiths blue plastic stencil and any Letraset I could steal from the local art shop. My father got the first issue copied at his work. Issues two and three were printed by the bassist of my first band, Toxic Noise, who was working on a YOP Scheme (early 1980s Government \u2018Work Opportunities Programme\u2019) at a printing company in Stirling and was able to duplicate my zine on the side, which at \u2018mates rates\u2019. He also printed Twisted Nerve #5 by Miles [Ratledge] the similarly aged original Napalm Death drummer, who I\u2019d become friends with through the DIY cassette and fanzine trading scene.<\/p>\n<p>As I produced my zines years before I could legally drink, and was still at school, and living with my parents, all my pocket money plus everything I made from the sales of my zine and the cassettes I put out on my tape label went straight back into fanzine production, buying records and going to gigs. Needless to say, postal costs were heavily subsidised by the time-honoured \u2018punk post\u2019, i.e. applying Sellotape or a coating of soap to postage stamps so the franking mark could be erased and they could be reused, often repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Like everyone involved with anarcho punk at the time, I\u2019d have said I did it \u201cto get the message across\u201d; all issues had articles on the mandatory anarcho punk topics: Nuclear disarmament, apartheid, vivisection, fox hunting, etc. Being active and campaigning against these ills seemed just as important as the music at the time. The reality is probably a cross between that and writing a zine simply being a fun thing to do and having some sort of precocious creative urge within me that it satisfied. There was the \u2018fan\u2019 angle too &#8211; providing a legitimate reason to write to and sometimes meet the bands and musicians I was a \u2018fan\u2019 of Crass, Flux, Discharge, The Alternative, Omega Tribe, DIRT, Poison Girls, etc. \u2018Fandom\u2019, per se, being much maligned within anarcho punk culture.<\/p>\n<p>Access and response were the major factors that determined content. Access in what bands I could successfully make contact with and response as in how, and if, they responded when I wrote to them with questions or attempted to conduct a telephone interview. Some were successful, Crass always responded to postal interviews with detailed, in-depth answers, whilst others, memorably with Discharge, The Wall and Anti-Pasti, were pitifully terse. I also covered local Scottish bands such as Stirling punk heroes, The Fakes and Dunfermline peace punks, The Alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Also, as I soon discovered, producing a zine allowed me to blag free stuff (posters, records etc.) and once I discovered tape-trading became an avenue for the reciprocal exchange of tapes of my early bands (Distraught, Political Asylum) and others throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Every week letters, tapes and other fanzines, often in native languages I couldn\u2019t comprehend and from places I\u2019d never heard of, would drop through the family letterbox. And every night I\u2019d spend responding to them and copying tapes to dispatch in return.<\/p>\n<p>There were various reasons I stopped producing zines: Guilty of What? It became very much an \u2018anarcho-punk\u2019 zine and by late 1983 the scene was beginning to change into something I was moving away from, mostly due to the influence of the \u2018hardcore\u2019 scene from America and \u2018thrash\u2019 sound from Scandinavia both of which held little appeal for me. I always thought when Crass split in 1984 anarcho-punk lost much of its direction and became more about the music rather than the ideas which, like the visuals, were the elements I found most the engaging.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe that was just me? I was only thirteen at the time\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>INTERNATIONAL PURCHASE RATES, INC. POSTAGE &amp; PACKING:<\/p>\n<p>UK: \u00a327.40 \/ Europe: \u00a338.60 \/ USA: \u00a350.00.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no extra import charges on delivery. Please send payment via Paypal at the address<\/p>\n<p>chrislow@chrislow.co (that is the correct address &#8211; just &#8216;co&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to add your address in the message field and please add if you would like your copy signed.<\/p>\n<p>Any other questions, please message Chris direct on the same email address.<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"69.24133333333333\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>THE &#8216;CEASE AND RESIST&#8217; ALBUM AND &#8216;BEST B4 1984&#8217; BOOK LAUNCH PARTY &#8211; MICKEY PENGUIN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_201508-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11031 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_201508-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_201508-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_201508-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_201508-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_201508-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_201508-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helgi&#8217;s in Hackney was the venue chosen to hold the launch party for the album; &#8216;Cease And Resist &#8211; Sonic Subversion And Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979 -1986&#8217; and the launch party for the book; &#8216;Best B4 1984 &#8211; Fanzine And Flyer Images From The Anarcho Punk Underground&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Both the album and book projects had been put together by the unstoppable force that is Chris Low, as was the organising of this launch party at Helgi&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The launch party was a resounding success, and as far as I know, no guests were seriously injured walking around the area to the rear of the venue. The venue was very dark, front and back, but especially around the rear of the venue, where the room was that we would eventually be seated and standing in. The rear of the venue had several steps to trip over, and a set of stairs leading to the depths of the building to wobble down backwards! Those that survived a trip down those stairs leading to the toilets, almost met their maker walking back up them again, what with the loose handrail!<\/p>\n<p>Helgi&#8217;s is an &#8216;occult&#8217; rock bar with &#8216;unique &amp; esoteric d\u00e9cor&#8217;, reminiscent of the &#8216;Ghost Train&#8217; rides at the fairgrounds that I would have gone on as a pre-teen. Maybe injury and near death experiences for patrons are the Helgi&#8217;s bar&#8217;s standard policy, and expected as all being part of the experience!<\/p>\n<p>It was an amazing venue, quite small but utterly amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Hydra and Dani Mejia (Less Than Human) DJ&#8217;d the bar. Both of their <em>strictly vinyl<\/em> punk and gothic sets were also &#8216;piped&#8217; to the rear of the venue, so other patrons who were not necessarily in the tiny bar area, could hear the music. Nick and Dani both played great sets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris Low run around in a blind panic from 6pm. Chris&#8217; hectic state remained for pretty much the whole of the night, although he was, of course, courteous and approachable to all in the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Tony D turned up as a &#8216;pound shop Adam Ant&#8217; after a visit to the hospital earlier that afternoon, for a small operation on the bridge of his nose. The black strip plaster across his nose could have at least been a white strip plaster, he missed a trick there!<\/p>\n<p>Tony and the other speakers, Nic, Dani, Rebecca, Chris and also Zillah (from the audience) spoke to the audience which filled the room, and I do mean <em>really<\/em> <em>filled<\/em> <em>the room<\/em>, relaying interesting individual experiences regarding their time in and around the anarcho punk scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donna patiently worked the stall, actually <em>very patiently worked the stall<\/em>, learning from a member of staff how to process hi-tech digital cashless transactions in super quick time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191212-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11038 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191212-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191212-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191212-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191212-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191212-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191212-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">GRAHAM BURNETT &#8211; NEW CRIMES FANZINE<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many fine folk and old faces attended, some folk who were from bands of those days, some who were fanzine writers of those days, some who, like me, were just eager punters of those days handing over small amounts of money to record store owners and to folk sitting behind desks at various gig venues.<\/p>\n<p>I knew many of the fine folk there, and met other folks that I knew by name but had never actually met. John Eden springs to mind. I met an old friend Tania, who I had not seen for over thirty years, so that was special.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_220646_hdr-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10975 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_220646_hdr-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_220646_hdr-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_220646_hdr-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_220646_hdr-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_220646_hdr-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_220646_hdr-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Books and records were sold to some of the fine folk in attendance, the bar staff were pleasant and were busy throughout, the toilets were, well, special, and things were good.<\/p>\n<p>Well done to all involved.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you Chris for giving me the album and book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>THE SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdf-page\">\n<div class=\"text-wrapper user-select-text\">\n<div data-canvas-width=\"69.24133333333333\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_203246_hdr-2-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10976\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_203246_hdr-2-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_203246_hdr-2-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_203246_hdr-2-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_203246_hdr-2-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_203246_hdr-2-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_203246_hdr-2-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Rebecca Binns:<\/strong><\/span> Has written the first ever monograph on the work of the artist and designer, Gee Vaucher, titled Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde (MUP, 2022), which evolved from her PHD research (LCC, 2019). She works as a lecturer on critical theory for design and illustration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"69.24133333333333\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190932-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10967 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190932-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190932-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190932-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190932-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190932-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190932-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Nicholas Bullen:<\/strong><\/span> Founding member and original Vocalist with Napalm Death who started off as an anarcho punk band and enjoyed their first vinyl release in 1984 on the Crass Records compilation, Bullshit Detector volume 3 in addition to publishing a number of fanzines whilst still at school. Nick currently works in sound art and plays with Rainbow Grave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_192023-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10972\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_192023-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_192023-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_192023-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_192023-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_192023-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_192023-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Chris Low: <\/strong><\/span>Chris became involved with the anarcho scene before even reaching his teens, publishing a fanzine and drumming for seminal acts including The Apostles, Part One, Oi Polloi and Political Asylum. A co-compiler of the compilation album with Twitch of Optimo who he met through starting a DJ career at the same Edinburgh club, Chris has remained engaged with the punk scene through his internationally exhibited photography work and writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191854-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10971 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191854-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191854-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191854-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191854-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191854-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191854-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Tony Drayton AKA \u2018Tony D\u2019:<\/strong><\/span> Moved from his native town Cumbernauld in Scotland to London at the explosion of the original punk movement, starting his first fanzine Ripped and Torn in 1976 before launching the more \u2018anarcho focussed\u2019 Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine which ran from 1979 to 1984 and becoming involved with the early \u201880s London Anarchy Centres. An anthology of his first fanzine was recently published by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Tony will open proceedings by exploring punk\u2019s evolution from 1976 into the anarcho movement this evening celebrates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191713-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10970 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191713-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191713-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191713-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191713-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191713-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191713-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Matthew Worley: <\/strong><\/span>Coming from an anarcho punk background Matthew has gone on to become a professor of modern history at the University of Reading and co-founder of the Subcultures Network. He has had several books published on the topics of punk, fanzines, and associated culture in addition to collaborating with Steve Ignorant on his most recent autobiography and the collection: References \u2013 Lyrics and Stories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10968 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191055-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191055-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191055-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191055-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191055-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_191055-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"69.24133333333333\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190847-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10966 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190847-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190847-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190847-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190847-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190847-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_20230511_190847-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guest DJs who joined Chris Low in previewing the complete album and spinning a selection of choice anarcho tunes from past and present over the night were Nick Hydra (Punk Rock Youth Club\/Solus) and Dani Mejia (Less Than Human\/Wraith) who was also one of the speakers on the night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"document-page\" data-page=\"4\">\n<div class=\"pdf-page\">\n<div class=\"text-wrapper user-select-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>INTRODUCTION TO THE CEASE AND RESIST LAUNCH PARTY &#8211; TONY D<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scans202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10999 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scans202-1024x947.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scans202-1024x947.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scans202-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scans202-768x710.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scans202.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Tony D opened proceedings by exploring punk\u2019s evolution from 1976 into the anarcho movement this evening celebrates. Here is the transcript.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am an Antichrist, I am an anarchist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The opening lines to the Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK put \u2018anarchy\u2019 in the spotlight right from the start. To be a punk was to be an anarchist, because Johnny Rotten tells me so.<\/p>\n<p>It was exciting times, no doubt about that. The single Anarchy was released in November 1976 but all that year there had been music press talk and pictures of punks, wetting the appetite of people like me who lived a long way from London, who devoured anything about this new movement, instinctively feeling this is what we\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Then the records started, and it got even more exciting; with a tide of incredible, shouty, angry, snotty, fuck yous pouring out; smashing through the music industry and into our lives, changing our lives for ever. Me, I started a fanzine called Ripped and Torn whilst in Glasgow, and moved to London as soon as I could to be part of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I use the NME<\/strong>\u201d, sneers Rotten, the music press were welcoming punk with open arms and open pages. Punk bands were being signed up to major labels as fast as they could form or rebrand themselves as punks; and the music press were queuing up to do interviews and review punk records. They also wrote a lot about fanzines \u2013 because many of their older journalists were using fanzine writing to get a handle on how to report on punk matters.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw in this promotion of all things punk were things like the page in a fanzine which said, \u2018here\u2019s three chords now go form a band\u2019; and the Desperate Bicycles lyric, \u2018it was easy it was cheap, go and do it.\u2019 The secret was out, pandora\u2019s box was open, anyone can write a song, a review, make a record, make their own magazine. Who needs the music business, we can Do It Ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>One reaction to the growth of DIY and independence was the music industry trying to kill punk. As early as the summer of 1977 the official industry stance states \u2018punk is dead\u2019. When they couldn\u2019t kill it they tried to cage it, contain it by creating and favouring certain punk \u2018stars\u2019 who only performed at big venues, separating the audience and the bands like in the bad old days before punk. They also neglected any other version of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>But we had the anarchists, the Sex Pistols to fight this corporate takeover, didn\u2019t we? They would save us and keep punk anarchistic and free?<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I use anarchy,<\/strong>\u201d sneers Rotten. When the Pistols influence was needed it was nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, London was filling up with punks, who like myself were moving to London from all over the world, to experience and be part of the punk world they had heard about.<\/p>\n<p>By early 1978 punk squatting was beginning in earnest as still punks kept arriving, staying and finding somewhere to live. These squats were often in unsuitable buildings, I squatted in abandoned fire stations, pubs, churches, hospitals and warehouses, living as part of large communal group.<\/p>\n<p>Squatting was a commitment, a 24-hour punk lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>The story so far, in 1978 punk has evolved into a lifestyle removed from the original Pistols idea; whose idea of \u2018Anarchy\u2019 was only a firm commitment to fun; to get pissed, destroy. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<strong>Hampstead\u2019s for affairs and not for revolutions<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The band that these squatters were drawn to was The Ants, even though the band didn\u2019t sing about boredom and anarchy like punks were meant to. The music press were not talking about new punk bands, and they were DEFINITELY not talking about The Ants!<\/p>\n<p>This is due to their fetish imagery, camp and risque songs.\u00a0 For these same reasons they were also not signed to a major label \u2013 this exclusion meant they had an outsider, outlaw, feel to them and their gigs which the squatters could relate to, so The Ants were seen as the band \u2018like us\u2019 to many punks living in London.<\/p>\n<p>And still punks kept arriving. I remember one evening in May 1978 after an Ants gig at the Roundhouse in Camden, walking a troupe of homeless punks down to Central London and opening squats in a big tenement block, which was between Tottenham Court Road station and Cambridge Circus.<\/p>\n<p>Most if not all of these punks had The Ants written on their leather jackets, along with Ant images of fetish and decadence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIn all our decadence people die,\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sneers, shouts, screams an angry woman. It\u2019s a wake up call by a band called Crass; turning the world upside down again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crass-music-machine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10994 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crass-music-machine-1024x781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crass-music-machine-1024x781.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crass-music-machine-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crass-music-machine-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crass-music-machine-1536x1171.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crass-music-machine.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>TICKET STUB FROM IAN CHILES COLLECTION &#8211; THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THIS WONDERFUL ARTIFACT<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Crass\u2019 first record, Feeding of The 5,000, was released in November 1978 but the beginnings of Anarcho Punk really started on January 29 1979, at the Music Machine, when Crass headlined a Small Wonder Records showcase.<\/p>\n<p>With the Pistols, before the release of Anarchy In The UK, I knew what they looked like but could only imagine their music.<\/p>\n<p>With Crass it was the opposite, I loved Feeding and all the literature that went with it, International Anthem and so on, and so were an increasing number of people I knew. But we could only imagine what they looked like live. At the Music Machine we had our first live experience and what an experience, especially to hear Steve Ignorant shout<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do They Owe Us A Living?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly Crass were on the back of leather jackets everywhere; the squatting punks finding strength and direction in the onslaught of the Crass experience. The noise, the words, the visuals that shouted I am a punk, I am an anarchist; and this time we mean it, man.<\/p>\n<p>Living outside society was a key factor in Anarcho Punk building it\u2019s own identity, unmanufactured and raw. Defiantly DIY was the credo, the 1976 idea of DIY and independence was back in force. Only this time we weren\u2019t just destroying the passer-by, now we were attempting to destroy the world that passer-by lived in; with its\u2019 crushing, constricting conformity.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired, I started a new fanzine called Kill Your Pet Puppy and there were many more springing up all over the place. And bands were forming and playing in all manner of makeshift venues, such as squatted schools, ambulance stations and children\u2019s play parks.<\/p>\n<p>Animal rights, pacifism, the ethics of what we wore and what we ate; these were all introduced into this world; concepts also excluded or disdained by the mainstream. The political words, thoughts and thunderous songs developed over the following years into a diversity of sounds and visions as heard on this album.<\/p>\n<p>Anarcho Punk was excluded from history for a long while, with one example being John Savage\u2019s book England\u2019s Dreaming. The book originally ended with an interview with Crass but this was cut out by the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>However; thanks to the medium of the internet, and with the help of the &#8216;free&#8217; hosting site, MySpace, Mickey Penguin&#8217;s, All The Madmen Records and The Mob pages brought scanned images, information and digitalised music of the bands concerned to browsers world-wide. Continuing the work with this, the Kill Your Pet Puppy site, we have helped the story of Anarcho Punk grow, and to be recognised with the importance it deserves, and it is still as relevant as it continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Anarcho Punk is as independent, indignant and angry as ever; still asking<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do they owe us a living? <\/strong>(Of course they fucking do!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-wrapper user-select-text\">\n<div data-canvas-width=\"69.24133333333333\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11002\" src=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-705x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-768x1115.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-1058x1536.jpg 1058w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-1410x2048.jpg 1410w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scan530-1-scaled.jpg 1763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEASE AND RESIST &#8211; SONIC SUBVERSION AND ANARCHO PUNK IN THE UK 1979 &#8211; 1986 &#8211; OPTIMO MUSIC \u00a0 Cease And Resist &#8211; Sonic Subversion and Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 is compiled by JD Twich and Chris Low and released on the Optimo Music record label. 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