I would like to write a great deal about all of these but it just isn’t possible right now: Situationists (pretty) vacant anon – Jumbled Notes: A Critical Hidden History of King Mob Fred Vermorel – Vivienne Westwood: Fashion, Perversity, and the Sixties Laid Bare (Bloomsbury, 1996) Jean-Michel Mension, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator) – The Tribe: Contributions to the History …
Stewart Home has taken over the Stewart Home Society website. It is now completely redesigned and includes reams of new content – including entire chapters of some of his books. I would encourage anyone with a passing interest to check out the entries on: music – for in depth pieces on The KLF, punk, Death …
“Oi! What was that on your screen! It was a blog, wunn’it!?” demanded Den Bow – office bully! He tried to snatch the keyboard from under Bill’s fingers. “What yew writing about – your pafetic love life – or lack of it, rather?” “Fuck off!” Bill retorted, lashing out at his nemesis. Den simply pushed …
Martin’s BASH review is characteristically surreal and revisionist. After shutting up shop at the beginnig of the year, Gladdy Wax now opens up shop on t’internet: http://www.reggaeunlimited.com/ Nice interview with Steve Barker of On The Wire (and dub reviews in The Wire) fame over at: http://beatsgratis.blogspot.com/ Mr B from Microphonic seems to manage to attend the …
Power Writers and the Struggle Againt Slavery: Celebrating five African writers who came to the East End of London in the 18th Century (HANSIB/THACMO ISBN 187051833X) A fascinating booklet published by the Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Association. It covers five black writers who lived in the east end in the 18th Century. …
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Stewart Home – The Easy Way to Falsify Your Credit Rating (Sabotage Editions, 0954006380) By my reckoning this booklet, published on 31st December 2005, is the 15th released by Sabotage Editions. It is part of a trilogy released to commemorate the demise of the International Standard Book Numbering system. Like many of its precursors it …
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Stewart Home – The Correct Way to Boil Water (Sabotage Editions, ISBN 0954006399) By my reckoning this booklet, published on 26th December 2005, is the 14th released by Sabotage Editions. It is part of a trilogy released to commemorate the demise of the International Standard Book Numbering system. Like many of its precursors it collects …
Stewart Home – The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Changing a Light Bulb (Sabotage Editions ISBN 0954006321) By my reckoning this booklet, published on 25th December 2005, is the 13th released by Sabotage Editions. It is part of a trilogy released to commemorate the demise of the International Standard Book Numbering system. Like many of its …
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“Smash The Individual! Smash the bourgeois lie! Don’t need this bourgeois concept! Don’t need this I…I…I Smash The Individual! Smash the bourgeoisie! Can’t you see – identity Doesn’t mean anything to me?” A friend of a friend introduced me to Nick in a pub back in the Autumn of 2005. Our mutual acquaintances had brough …
After something of an interval, the latest issue of A.K.C.T. is available for download as a PDF (along with all the back issues). Highly recommended fiction from a long-running comrade. This issue covers psycho-commuters, filthly and verminous squat punks, git-hard zen buddhists, fucked up sexual relations and a whole heap more. Get it from here.