{"id":2716,"date":"2009-08-03T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2015-03-29T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:57:10","slug":"international-times-archives-on-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/international-times-archives-on-line\/","title":{"rendered":"International Times archives on line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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STOP PRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to Gerard (see comments below) we have Crass link. After the above IT cover came out in February 1977, IT did a brief interview with the Clash<\/a> in August 1977 – from which came the Mick Jones quote “Whoever said punk is dead is a cunt” which was then recycled by Gee\/Crass as image for their song “Punk is Dead” on Feeding the 5000 … so Crass and the Clash were reading IT in 1977.<\/p>\n

Now back to 1976…<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1976 I spent a week in London. It was very hot. Punk was still an unknown, so instead I wandered round west London in search of any traces of the Hawkwind\/Pink Fairies era counterculture. I did not find any such traces.<\/p>\n

I did find a copy of it \/International Times which had just been re-launched again. The details are vague \u2013 but I must have subscribed since I recognised quite a few of the covers\/ contents of later issues from this International Times archive. <\/a><\/p>\n

What the archive shows is that there was at least some continuity of the counterculture from the sixties (IT began in 1966) through the seventies and into the eighties \u2013 which included punk.<\/p>\n

There is another archive here<\/a>, which is searchable. I found two articles by Kenneth Grant written for It in 1969. One includes this very strong warning to all dabblers in drugs:<\/p>\n

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What I wish to emphasize here is, that in the unrestrained\r\nand uncontrolled vision induced by drugs taken without\r\nproper magical knowledge and skill, great danger lies. It is\r\na danger, not, so much of the drugs themselves as of obsess-\r\nion by entities which seize upon the magically unprotected\r\nconsciousness of the drug taker.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Just a shame all the hippies did not take Mr. Grant’s warning more seriously. If they had there would have been no need for punk…<\/p>\n
I also\u00a0 found something I wrote for a later re-launch in 1986 and \u2013 which I had totally forgotten \u2013 something I wrote for IT in 1979 as well.<\/p>\n
THIS IS A FILM<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis is a film, seen before<\/span>\r\nOn TV one night, too late<\/span>\r\nBlack and white, old and worn<\/span>\r\nSound gone hard to discover<\/span>\r\nThe action, the place, the time,<\/span>\r\nthe players.<\/span>\r\n\r\nA train in steam, a city lit by gas<\/span>\r\nHotel room mirrors<\/span>\r\nWhite and a maid, she seems Chinese<\/span>\r\nArranges flowers, careful decorations<\/span>\r\n\r\nOutside in the centre, old cars,<\/span>\r\nslow traffic<\/span>\r\nHorses,cobbles<\/span>\r\nSkyscrapers ultra new, electric trams<\/span>\r\nClose up faces sullen heavy<\/span>\r\nHungry, empty.<\/span>\r\nDemonstration in the docks<\/span>\r\nAnger roused, violence begins<\/span>\r\nAirship high gleaming silver<\/span>\r\nShoots into the crowd,bodies fall<\/span>\r\nA child cries lost, uniforms,horses<\/span>\r\nPeople running.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFactory chimney black smoke<\/span>\r\ntwisting over rooftops<\/span>\r\nGlistening leaded slates back<\/span>\r\nto back<\/span>\r\nFading into each other crowded close<\/span>\r\nGathered below a pyramid of <\/span>\r\nslag, smouldering.           <\/span>\r\nBy night a volcano                       <\/span>\r\nTattered children playing by a railway                                           <\/span>\r\nSlow shunter curving lines of trucks                                         <\/span>\r\nUnemployed vacant staring            <\/span>\r\nOthers picking refuse                     <\/span>\r\nOn a beach collecting coal                  <\/span>\r\nA grimy sea spills lifeless waves<\/span>\r\ndying on a barren shore.     <\/span>\r\n\r\nEmpty prairie, lines of steel          <\/span>\r\nPillar of smoke, a cloud becomes    <\/span>\r\nan armed train                             <\/span>\r\nShooting telegraph poles             <\/span>\r\nBloody flag once black                  <\/span>\r\nDesperate faces, knowledge           <\/span>\r\nof death.                             <\/span>\r\nBetrayal. <\/span>\r\n\r\nAn office steel furnished              <\/span>\r\nTicker-tape talking, papers fallen   <\/span>\r\non the floor                                <\/span>\r\nGreen\/grey useless notes, dying money                                         <\/span>\r\nIn streets below                             <\/span>\r\nArmed ex-soldiers, machine-gun    <\/span>\r\nMounted on a solid tyred truck                           <\/span>\r\nFrei-Korps hunting the remnants    <\/span>\r\nof a revolution.                             <\/span>\r\n\r\nALISTAIR LIVINGSTON International Times 1979<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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