Click here for a complete list of entries in the series “the first 23 gigs I can remember going to”. 7. Test Dept, Hackney Empire, 23/1/87 We’d come down to London to go to a Julian Cope gig in Westminster but it was sold out (perhaps unsurprisingly as it was around the time of “World Shut …
rhythmplex » Blog Archive » Interview: Bryan Lewis Saunders. Bryan does incredibly intense spoken word. He sent me some CDs out of the blue a few years back. I played one of his pieces on RSI Radio vol 2 which got some good reaction at the time. We’ve stayed in touch and I’m pleased to …
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A guide to the language of economics and recession as it relates to workers, as opposed to abstract mystifying jargon. – by the UK based Wildcat group, from the last time around (early 1990s) Credit crunch whacks Industrial in the wallet. – Beyond The Implode, in tribute to my latest ebay auctions (which finish Tuesday …
Stewart Home has updated his website to include yet more information about the fascist inclinations and associations of neofolk “musician” Tony Wakeford. Also featured are some rebuttals of the ridiculous criticisms leveled at Home by the pseudo-academic “Industrialised Culture Research Network” blog.
portrait of the author as an intense young man Somebody with a dysfunctional email address writes: What happened to you John? You used to be so vitriolic and teacher like. Now you’re all fluffy. Did having a kid make you less of a wanker? Good on you if did. I remember you being a full …
Lisa Crystal Carver – Drugs Are Nice: A Post Punk Memoir (Snowbooks, 2006) I’d only ever been vaguely aware of Lisa Suckdog (aka Carver) and her ‘zine Rollerderby in the 90s but my interested was piqued when I saw Stewart Home quoting her book on his web page about Tony Wakeford. It’s actually not a …
After reflecting on my teenage fandom of Death In June here, it felt quite good to finally purge this flat of their last remaining records. Unfortunately it looks like it isn’t as straightforward as that: MC036 eBay Listing Removed: Hateful or Discriminatory ( 182548222) Dear john-eden We appreciate that you chose eBay to list the …
Man like Gutta nominated me for this… It’s a weird one because like Kek, I don’t really feel ashamed about music any more – I’ve almost always been into pop stuff and… other stuff. Anyone who checked the office party mix will know that, right? So this is more of a “ten records I have …
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“My advice to you all is to take your entire Death in June / Current 93 / Sol Invictus collections down to the Music and Video Exchange and swap them for a copy of THE LEATHER NUN’s “Slow Death” 12″. This record is PROPER Viking Industrial, the sound of AIK Solna’s infamous Black Army waving …
Stewart Home’s new material on Tony Wakeford et al seems to have generated a flurry of additional information which has now been incorporated into the article on his website. The shitty politics of the post-industrial music scene AND revelations about the inability of some its “stars” to wipe their own fat arses.