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Comment on Gig recordings by sean

sean — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:13:49 +0000

I was . One of 3 crass gigs I went to. I was squatting with some of No-Defences in Camberwell, but just happened to be visiting my mum who had just moved to Devon, so got to go to the gig. We travelled back to London overnight ( a sleepy driver nearly getting us killed a couple of times) after the gig, I remember getting into London at dawn.

I liked No Defences politically and musically, but any traces of them seems to have disappeared.

Comment on Gig recordings by thehippiesnowwearblack

thehippiesnowwearblack — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:05:51 +0000

Hi Sean – I was involved in putting together two such gigs – the first was on 17 September 1982 (with Crass, Dirt, Annie Anxiety, ‘Choosing Death’); and the second on 6 May 2004 (Crass, Flux, Annie, ‘Choosing Death’, No Defences and D&V) both at St George’s Hall, Exeter. So you would have been there in May 1984?

Comment on Gig recordings by sean

sean — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:49:48 +0000

is that the one with Annie Anxiety and No-Defences? I thought that was 1983? Maybe my memory is faulty. I was at a Crass gig in Exeter around then though.

Comment on Gig recordings by Matt

Matt — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:29:57 +0000

Hi Rich – I see there is a copy of Ability Stinks on ebay from 99p … if you don’t have it already.

Matt

Comment on Anarcho-punk fanzines and eBay by thehippiesnowwearblack

thehippiesnowwearblack — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:39:11 +0000

Hi irishdave and devotionalhooligan – thanks both for the http://punkishippies.blogspot.com link.

Another potentially interesting ‘print’ format development is the working being undertaken at the National Library of Scotland – a project to source and catalogue “the countless thousands of fanzines published in the UK over the past 70 years.” So the reach is broad, and the ambition is pretty daunting – but a publicly accessible, catalogued and preserved collection of UK-wide works would be quite something…

It’ll probably be a while before there are any catalogue records to search (and I don’t know the project timescales), but the story on the BBC News site certainly caught my interest.

Anyone know any more about this one?

Comment on Anarcho-punk fanzines and eBay by devotionalhooligan

devotionalhooligan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:22:16 +0000

Punks is hippies archive is great
http://punksishippies.blogspot.com/
x.

Comment on Anarcho-punk fanzines and eBay by irishdave

irishdave — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:05:45 +0000

Hi – one of the best on-line old zine resources is to be found at
http://www.punksishippies.blogspot.com

Not all anarcho, but y’know all punk!

Comment on Book update by thehippiesnowwearblack

thehippiesnowwearblack — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:42:55 +0000

China – to coin a phrase: “Book’s *not* dead!”

Expect to hear a lot more about progress on this project in the coming months…

Comment on Book update by china

china — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:39:41 +0000

thought this project was dead

I once had a kiss from Annie Anxiety

Comment on Love Songs – Freedom, 26 June 2004 by thehippiesnowwearblack

thehippiesnowwearblack — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:20:07 +0000

Gavin – yep, I was interested to see your piece. Lots of thoughtful stuff in there – although you might not be surprised to learn that I don’t agree with *everything*…