Year: 2015
- Design
The Short Happy Life of Joe Colombo
Modern life and the future in the vision of an enlightened designer. But in the very same year there’s not…
Read More » - Genres
My Chemical Romance – Live
PROCESSION MOVES ON, THE SHOUTING IS OVER My Chemical Romance, Hammersmith Apollo It’d been a long cold wait for the…
Read More » - Punk
The Crassical Collection: Penis Envy – Crass (Southern)
Despite the paucity of new Crass music emerging from Dial House, the group’s profile continued to grow as their gigging…
Read More » - Punk
The Crassical Collection: Stations of the Crass – Crass (Southern)
There were two main reasons why reactions by the music press were largely irrelevant to Crass. Firstly, they had little…
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The Crassical Collection: The Feeding of the 5000 – Crass
In terms of punk rock’s political legacy, it’s difficult to overstate the primacy of Crass. Whereas the class of ’76…
Read More » - Features
Flats: Kick It ‘Til It Breaks
With two blistering EPs and their eardrum shredding new single ‘Never Again’ behind them, Flats have established the most credible…
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Mick Farren: Front Line Shaman
Mick Farren has been many things in his time; author, activist, agent provocateur, anarchist... and that’s just getting warmed up…
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Steve Ignorant: Between Courses at the Last Supper
For Crass in general, and former frontman Steve Ignorant in particular, it’s been all go just recently. Aside from the…
Read More » - DozenQ
DozenQ – Ravens In Paris
01 How did the band get together? We used to be in a band backing a singer song writer, but…
Read More » - Garage
Loveland – Order To Love (album, Groovie Records)
The newly minted band are led by the eponymous Lana, late of the Fuzztones, whose polymath talents are revealed to…
Read More » - Cinema
The Final Programme (1973) – National Film Theatre 10/8/10
I was hugely impressed with the Flipside for tracking down a print (however faded and scratchy) of this true 70’s…
Read More » - Punk
Sharks – The Future Is Unwritten
‘Fallen On Deaf Ears’ still electrifies to this day, fully realising all that promise it exuded from the get-go. Similarly,…
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