Sunday, December 15, 2024

Trackers and Breakbeats: Brain Records exhibition

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'Trackers and Breakbeats: Celebrating Brain Records’ Underground Revolution' was an exhibition  at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Uni...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

Joe Strummer, Rock Against the Rich and Spycops

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In 1988 Joe Strummer embarked on a 'Rock Against the Rich' tour organised by anarchist group Class War. The tour had its origins in ...
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Friday, November 22, 2024

This is the Beatnik Horror (1960)

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From 'The People' July 24 1960 a report on Beatniks in Liverpool, London and elsewhere, with some choice quotes and turns of phrase:...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Partisan Books: a 1970s radical community bookshop in Luton

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Continuing the series on the radical history of Luton, here's a bit about a 1970s radical bookshop, Partisan Books which was based at 34...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Folk song as solidarity with the dead: Broadside Hacks/Shovel Dance/Goblin Band, Ewan MacColl & Walter Benjamin

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Not sure how many folk music revivals we have had now, of course it's never really gone away but I am enjoying the latest queer friendly...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Dave Lawson's Indieprints

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Dave Lawson (1972-2021) was a  London and North Wales based artist whose Indieprints series features numerous music themed designs, often in...
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Big Sexy Festy Finsbury Park (and Big Chill) 1996

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A couple of free festivals I went to in north London's Finsbury Park back in 1996. Not sure of the date of the first one - 'Festival...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

John Scarlett-Davis on Derek Jarman

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A fascinating Derek Jarman talk and film at London's Farsight Gallery last month, featuring a 1984 LWT (London Weekend TV) documentary f...