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Here and Now, live 7 June 1977, Bristol Gardens London W9<\/p>\n
Available for \u00a37 inc. post and packing from HERE<\/a><\/p>\n You can also can get a free download of one of the tracks. Features Twink (Pink Fairies) on synthesiser.<\/p>\n On 7 June 1977 the Sex Pistols took a trip down the Thames, manufacturing much outrage in their wake. .<\/p>\n The same day, Here and Now played a Jubilee Street Party at Bristol Gardens. Bristol Gardens was a squatted street, one of a network of similar squats which had grown up across London as part of the radical counter culture.<\/p>\n Squatting communities grew up all over London: at Bristol Gardens, Charrington Street, Tolmers Village, Finsbury Park, Longfellow Road and many other places. A few similar communities occurred outside the capital, too: Hebden Bridge, Bristol, Brighton etc. Each one was different depending on its size, the conditions of the property, the amount of security, and the people attracted to them. Some were made up of people from predominantly middle class backgrounds; others were almost exclusively working class. Some, like Prince of Wales Crescent, shared a hippy ideology which never truly \u201cadapted to overcome social or political problems.\u201d<\/p>\n And they all invariably changed rapidly, responding to external and internal pressures. But common to most was a sense of identity seldom found in towns. People had a sense of living somewhere special, symbolised by the street carnivals and parties which became a regular feature of squatting life. For some people, albeit only a small minority of squatters, squatting began to be more than simply finding a roof, it became fun, it offered new freedoms, a sense of community . . . almost a way of life in its own right.<\/p>\n