Steve Ignorant has dimissed a new punk compilation CD being released as a benefit for the National Trust. Never Mind the Dovecotes is an 18-track release, featuring songs by artists including Sham 69, X-Ray Spex, GBH, and Slaughter and the Dogs. The Independent reported (4 August 2011): It is estimated that half a million of [...]
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Ignorant dismisses National Trust punk compilation
Posted in Diary, Steve Ignorant on August 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
US ‘all star’ Crass tribute band to perform Penis Envy
Posted in Diary on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Crass’ third studio album Penis Envy: members of such crucial indie-punk and riot-grrl bands as Bratmobile, Mika Miko, the Need, the Sharp Ease, Dunes, Peter Pants and Auto Da Fe will attempt to re-enact Crass’ seminal [...] Penis Envy. [...] So get ready for plenty of [...]
Last Supper – new American tour dates confirmed
Posted in Diary on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With the relevant US visas now secured, Steve Ignorant has confirmed the revised dates for the postponed north American dates of the Last Supper tour. This twelve-date section of the tour now kicks-off in Brooklyn, New York on 20 April, and concludes, back in New York on 8 May 2011.
Rimbaud discusses the life, times and death of Wally Hope
Posted in Diary on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Anarcho-fanzine cover gallery – Southend Punk Rock History
Posted in Diary, tagged Fanzines on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Southend Punk Rock History site offers a good gallery of anarcho-punk fanzines covers, alongside more general punk fanzine cover galleries from the late 1970s and early 1980s. What gets included in which category (anarcho-punk or general punk) is – inevitably – open to debate, and it’s a shame that no full-page scans have yet [...]
Music press archives online
Posted in Diary on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The idea that anarcho-punk bands never talked to (or were never deemed worthy of coverage in) the commercial music press is, of course, something of a myth. Things were a great deal more complicated than that, and the music weeklies did (sometimes with the co-operation of anarcho-bands and at other times in the teeth of [...]
Anarcho-punk fanzines and eBay
Posted in Diary, Sources on April 28, 2009 | 11 Comments »
One of the sources that I’m using as part of the ongoing research for the book is the original wave of anarcho-punk fanzines – which offer a pretty unique insight into the activities and culture of the movement. Aside from the bursting boxes of fanzines in my own personal archive, one obvious place to pick [...]
Book update
Posted in Diary on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The complete lack of posts on this blog in the course of the last year is not an indication of a lack of progress on the book- though the demands of other projects has slowed down progress on the draft. I will do my best to keep the blog more up-to-date on developments from hereonin, [...]
Love Songs – Freedom, 26 June 2004
Posted in Diary, Freedom (anarchist journal), Writings on December 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Crass, Love Songs (Hebden Bridge: Pomona, 2004). Pay no more than £9.99. http://www.pomonauk.com. “In attempts to moderate us, they ask why we don’t write love songs. What is it that we sing then? Our love of life is total, everything we do is an expression of that. Everything that we write is a love song.” [...]
A Compelling Call to Action – Freedom, 29 June 2002
Posted in Diary, Freedom (anarchist journal), Writings on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Six original members of the anarchist punk band Crass, in collaboration with other artists, presented an evening of musical, spoken-word and video performance at the National Film Theatre (NFT) on Saturday 15th June — in celebration of the culture and politics of anarcho-punk. For the uninitiated, the event was a visceral demonstration of the passion [...]
