So, not a great day to fly to Berlin but at least I can sit out the delays at the airport by doing a bit of blogging (on a borrowed laptop I hasten to add). It makes me feel quite the sophisticated international traveller, I can tell you. History Is Made At Night on Zines, …
ReynoldsRetro Completely unexpurgated* interviews conducted by Simon Reynolds for his Guardian piece on zines.. Featuring (in order of appearance) ME (Woofah and my long distinguished history of zine-nerdery) , ELODIE AMANDINE ROY (Applejack), JON DALE (Astronauts), MIKE MCGONIGAL (Yeti/Chemical Imbalance), JOLY MCFIE (Better Badges) *i.e. includes my own typos and half finished sentences because I …
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“Why do you think I do a blog? Cos it’s less work than doing a fanzine and it costs sweet F.A to ‘publish’. Sorry if I’m more advanced in my commitment to the anarcho-socialist utopia of the 24/7 leisure society than some.” – Martin, BTI There seem to be less and less magazines out there …
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Stewart Home’s comments below have lead me to discover he has a new blog here: http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/blog – check it out for the usual mayhem and bewilderment (especially in the comments boxes). It includes this entry about his recent appearance on BBC Radio 4’s flagship “Today Programme” discussing the role of the avant garde in the …
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More on Berlin later, but grab yourself a copy of the latest issue of Datacide magazine now, from the uncarved shop. 56 pages – biggest issue yet! £2.50. Contents: Neil Transpontine: A Loop Da Loop Era – towards an (anti-)history of Rave CF: Radical Intersections – The rise and repression of the free festival movement …
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Hackney Council displaying their characteristic control-freakery and incompetence: “It seemed a diktat had come down from above that I was a non-person and should be barred from the library for the crime of writing an off-message piece on the Olympics. This essay, published in the London Review of Books, responded to aspects of the creation …
Actually, don’t go out of your way to smash them. They are tiny these days and have been completely eclipsed by the more sophisticated British National Party. In the mid-70s, though, the NF were a force to be reckoned with, both electorally and on the streets. Which naturally put the wind up a lot of …
Some of the (text) contents of Datacide issue 9 have been placed online, including the crucial: Howard Slater: LOTTA CONTINUA – Roots Music and the Politics of Production Also an article critiquing Muslimgauze’s politics, an archival 80s interview with John Balance of Coil, and a whole lot more – check it. Or buy the print …
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