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 …
“Pulling on the boots and tightening up the laces Shaving their heads and strapping on the braces There you are a skinhead, looking for a fight Skinhead, skinhead, running through the night Skinhead, skinhead, running through the night Making lots of trouble, starting lots of fights Skinhead, skinhead, getting really pissed Skinhead, skinhead, tatted on …
Blah blah detournment detourned, innit. The only interesting thing about this artwork is whether or not the record label got copyright clearance for the use of Batman. Perhaps Sham’s recent appearance at the Labour Party conference wasn’t so surprising after all. I mean, it was only last year or so that “If the kids…” was …
“Everything was perfectly in place: the red velveteen backdrop, the multi-ethnic cast of Labour supporters positioned on the platform, and a speech balanced delicately between rousing celebration and the floating of new, explosive ideas. But who, in the long hours leading up to Tony Blair’s conference oration, picked the music? One crashing chord, and it …
Police chief calls for £7 pint… to stop binge drinking and the knock-on public disorder. “Binge drinking is already a bigger challenge to police than terrorism.” he added, barmily. There would, quite literally, be rioting in the streets if this actually happened. That said, I am all for moderation, mainly. I’m not a binger, oh …
“I was a punk before you were a punk” – The Tubes “Coxsone, Duke Reid – they didn’t think it was good music at all. After I cut tunes like Humpty Dumpty, They Got To Come My Way, Time Longer Than Rope and African Blood – and they were big hits on my soundsystem – …