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Our Life Our World \/ Another Day Another Death \/ Stay \/ Dance On \/ Prison \/ Gates Of Hell \/ Witch Hunt \/ Slayed \/ What’s Going On? \/ No Doves \/ I Hear You Laughing \/ Youth<\/a><\/p>\n Never Understood \/ Shuffling Souls \/ Witch Hunt<\/a><\/p>\n Thirty four years ago, as crumbling canal side terraces were being cleared in Westbourne Park, a local sculptor named Jamie McCullough wondered if some of the derelict wasteland that was left after the demolition could become a community garden. He asked the local authority (Westminster at the time) for permission to turn the rubble into a park. Westminster gave temporary permission \u2013 hence the name, Meanwhile. The name stuck and the Gardens prospered. Meanwhile Gardens is still there today and is still a nice day out.<\/p>\n The ‘idiot picnics’ which were held four times a year at Meanwhile Gardens from the summer of 1977 to the last events in 1988 were organised by the Lancaster Music Co Op and the Street Level studios folk (notibly Kif Kif and Grant Showbiz) with the additonal help of Protag. The Meanwhile Gardens events which I attended and jumped around in the sand pit with a bottle of Merrydown cider in hand, were enjoyable affairs with a real mix up bands and performers\u00a0turning up to play, or to perform for free in the summer sun.<\/p>\n Enjoy the set, it’s an absolute\u00a0blinder,\u00a0 a nice bit of Grant Showbiz\u00a0at\u00a0the end and of course plenty of Raymond!<\/p>\n The other Meanwhile Gardens performance by The Mob recorded earlier on in that summer of 1983 is posted on this site right HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Thanks to Mark Vegas Palmer for the photographs of\u00a0 The Mob\u00a0in action at Meanwhile Gardens.<\/p>\n View some other random photographs of Meanwhile Gardens HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0if you so wish.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tom Vague’s apology to The Mob in Vague vol 15 above\u00a0may be read HERE<\/a>. Tom Vague had coated the band\u00a0off pretty bad (along with\u00a0most of the other ‘Crass’ type\u00a0bands)\u00a0in Vague vol 14.<\/p>\n Tom\u00a0going to one of\u00a0 The Mob’s\u00a0Meanwhile Gardens gigs in the summer of 1983 turned his view of the band around, which was great to read!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img137.jpg\")
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