Monday, 28 November 2016
THE DERELLAS - Freakshow (*A REVIEW*)
The DeRellas are back! Not that they
really went away; A swift line up change and straight out of the
Punk'n'Roll Garage all fired up and onto the streets again, ready to continue the
party they started. Their new mini-album Freakshow is a sexy six
track glittery glamstastic brew. Every track is guaranteed to get
yer stack heels stomping, doc martins dancing or brothel creepers
bopping. Splatterings of Slaughter and The Dogs, lashings of The
Lurkers and heaps of The Heartbreakers and a never say die, don't give a fuck attitude adorn the bands own tunes,
while in the bottox dripping 21st Century silicon implant
obsessed world an inspired cover of Adam and The Ants Plastic Surgery
rounds it all off nicely. Top shelf stuff....These boyz just keep on
sticking it to the man! Freakshow is available here in 10” slime
green vinyl or as a Digipack CD. Highly inflammable and highly recommended!
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
ENEMIES OF PROMISE - Hearthland EP (*A REVIEW*)
In times of social confusion, political
upheaval and economic uncertainty we need Rock'n'Roll that matters,
and in this new error we are entering Enemies Of Promise matter, with
their lyrical snapshots of this dis united and divided Kingdom we are
living/existing in. Opening track Know Your Shame references
Julian Assenge, David Kelly The second addresses the National Health
servicing multi national drug companies Hearthland is a scathing
attack on the North South divide. and Broken burys the capital
punishment debate.
Enemies of Promise just keep getting
better and better with each release, and the Hearthland E.P is their
best yet. With dual vocals, power chords and thumping rhythms, they
sound like Carter USM meeting The Jam, but with twice the passion.
They are a force to be reckoned with; keeping the flag flying in the
face of the impending storm that is heading our way unless people
question the way the winds of change are blowing, and who the real
enemy is. Insurrection and Revolution never sounded so pure,
powerful and full of promise. Check 'em out over at their facebook page. Ignore and remain ignorant of a different future than the ones
our enemies are promising us.
Monday, 14 November 2016
OH SHIT, HERE WE GO!
Well....It's been a few months since the good people of Great Britain voted to leave the
European Union, they fell for all the bullshit and propaganda, since
then both the Labour and Conservatives had/have leadership issues
and party’s have become divided. The result of the referendum was
a democratic decision, but it has left Britain with another unelected
Prime Minister. Racial tension is growing across the globe; trigger
happy US Cops gun down Black people, Black people gun down cops.
There is a very real possibility that Donald Trump could become the
next American president, The referendum result has seen the rise of
hate crimes in Britain, thanks to the anti immigration sentiments
promoted by certain sections of the leave campaign; UKIP and Britain
First. The Austrian people elected a Right Wing president and the Le
Penn dynasty in France are always there All that is solid melts
into air as a spectre haunts Europe – the spectre of Fascism!
Another day another death,
carnage on the streets of somewhere. Terror attacks Total war
Muslims V's Christians
Independence Day,
Armageddon or Apocalypse Now! Project Fear becomes project reality,
only time will tell, but the workers, disenfranchised and the
dispossessed will still get the crumbs.... That's if we do actually
leave.
Turn a negative into a
positive? Glass ½ empty, glass ½ full, or glass smashed on the
floor?
My brain is starting to
hurt through trying to keep sane in this crazy world, where death and
destruction appear to be a daily occurrence across the globe and
nearer to home.
People stare at screens
while I write in my note book.
Anarchy in the UK....In
the days that followed the Brexit 'victory' the government were in
meltdown; there was nobody driving, and whose gonna rule when
governments fall? Not the Labour Party that's for sure, because they
were (and still are) in a mess and are a defective opposition against
an undemocraticly elected leader; Theresa May. Once again our
democracy is left wanting.
(All the above was written prior to US election result.)
The election of Donald Trump as US President is a piece in the jigsaw, a picture of a New World Order that gets it's support from people basic primal instinct; self interest and self preservation.
Playing with the pieces
means you don't see the whole picture.
Militarised Police Forces
Robo-Cop storm-troopers the defenders of the state against what it
defines as terrorism. Descent will rise as people on both sides of
the political divide get let down and lied to. “Ever get the
feeling you've been cheated” United they stand divided we fall.
They want build walls/fences instead of bridges across the divides
that they keep creating, both physical and mental.
Medicate feelings through
state prescribed drugs.
Half the Americans are in
therapy or on anti depressants, it's no wonder they voted for
President Trumpery Trump! Perhaps the right to vote wasn't such a
good idea! Universal sufferage, yeah....and universally everyone is
gonna suffer. The only thing that's gonna save the World is an
assassins bullet. Extreme? Maybe.... but a President that didn't
denounce the KKK's endorsement of him, well that just scares the shit
outta me. Still at least it's gonna give Putin someone to have a
fight with over another piece in the jigsaw....The Middle East! Then
there's the Balkans and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Or will
Trump withdraw the US military from the world, he's not keen on NATO,
is that the sound of a future European Army marching.
9/11 another piece. The
Taliban the Americans friends when they were fighting the Russians in
Afghanistan. US UK special relationship Cruise missiles and
Greenham Common. Orgrave, Battle of The Beanfield, the Poll Tax,
Criminal Justice Bill, more small pieces. Anti terror laws, stop and
search armed police 24 hour CCTV Universal coverage and all to
protect our freedom. Democracy; smoke and mirrors one person one
vote.
Brexit and Trump have been
described as “democracy in action.” Yeah right....one based on
division and deception. British Prime Minister Theresa May is
unelected by the British people! More voted against the Conservative
Party than voted for it, and more people voted for Clinton than
Trump.
In regard to Brexit,
Theresa May is refusing to let Parliament have a say and decisions as
to how it happens. High Court judges decided that they should, but
May is appealing against this ruling. A parliament that is made up
of MP's from all parties who were voted there by the people. So how
exactly is democracy in action if she doesn't believe that these MP's
who represent the people should have a say about what the people have
decided. There is an acceptance that despite the blatant lack of
truth on both sides of the in/out brigades, the immediate going back
on promises in regarding the NHS and xenophobia and right wing
rhetoric on the leavers side that Britain will leave the EU, it is
how and when this happens and what it will mean to the country that's
what our MP's need to have a say on, without that we will be living
in a Totalitarian Fascist state not a democracy.
The first foreign
politician Donald Trump meets is Nigel Farage! Where's a suicide
bomber when you need one?
If all things come in
Threes then next year will see the election of the far right leader
Marie LePenn as French President.
Emotional Fascism! Don't
tell me what and how to think. Get over it, move on don't be a sore
loser stop winging. FUCK OFF!....don’t try and deny peoples
feelings or make them feel that it's not acceptable to question the
rules of law and the results of so called democratic decisions.
Disobey all orders!
CONTINENTAL LIASION - *A REVIEW*
This review is long over due, the
passing of time in a timeless age goes too quick, better late than
never. Continental Liaison have taken the past out from the garage,
downloaded the present and constructed a solid structure of sound
from blocks of Beats'n'Riffs, it's the sound of the future; a post
industrial new technological world disorder. Continental Liaison keep on keeping on with the power of their songs, and these couple of latest ones (Action Time! and The Sublime) are no exception. Once again
Continental Liaison sound like nothing else from the underground
with their death dance disco beats, fuzzy garage guitars and semi
spoken/sung vocals. A Goth, Garage Punk, Disco Pop mash up as
infectious as the zeke virus. Check 'em out at their facebook page.
Sunday, 6 November 2016
Monday, 30 May 2016
A FEW LINES ON INTERESTING TIMES.
Just under a month to go before the
people of Britain 'have a say' in their countries future, and just
over a month since I started writing this and trying to make sense of
the NOnsense of it all. Should we stay or should we go? IN / OUT
shake it all about! Great Britain or Little England?
UKIP and the Vote Leave campaign want
to take back control of our country, (well....I wouldn't want those
UKIP cunts in charge of anything!) from the European Union and its
monolithic bureaucracy which is taking away Britain’s sovereignty
if you believe that truth. Well I for one would rather have the
better Workers and Human Rights that have come from Europe than our
government using its sovereignty to try and take them away.
Why are we having this referendum? Is
it to appease the UKIP, EDL and Britain First Populist flag waving
public who will choose their choice based on Immigration! Because
both the Labour and Conservative Parties parties refused or were
unable to address these concerns for fear of being branded racists,
or because they knew we needed a supply of cheap labour to increase
profit for Ukplc, and British workers would refuse to work for 'low'
wages.
The voters are given 'informed
opinions' by lying politicians, totally partial impartial economists
and the pound loving business leaders everyone trying to protect
their own interests. Who do we believe? Non of 'em! How do we make
our decision? Or has it already been made for us?
The IN / OUT campaigns are
psychological warfare; the people are under psychic attack from
propaganda that is using fear as its weapon. Our country will be at
risk from....Everything and Everyone, if we leave (Higher prices
houses, food etc, and Terrorists). Our country will be at risk from
Everything and Everyone, if we stay (millions more immigrants, not
enough jobs, schools, hospitals etc) A game of chance in a casino
economy. This isn't the X Factor or Britain’s Got Talent, this is
for the nations future, or so they say, because I have little doubt
that the deals have all been done; it's what money wants that counts,
global money in the unseen hands of the elite that pull the strings
of puppeteer politicians and play the tunes for governments to dance
to, and I'm sure they want Britain dancing along arms in arms with
France, Germany and the rest of 'em at the Brussels Ball, unless they
want a New World disOrder, then there will be no more dancing just
disharmony at home and abroad.
Project Fear (their words not mine) is
now telling the people that leaving the EU could threaten global
peace and bring about a risk of war in Europe, and ISIS and Russia
would like it if we were to leave the EU. Cameron is not just a
cunt, he is a crazy cunt peddling propaganda that is meant to
scaremonger people into submission. Anyway....I thought the
government were meant to keep the people that keep them in power safe
and secure, that's why they tell us we've got CCTV watching our every
move, armed police shadowing every step to keep us safe from
terrorists who want to destroy the British home ownership, share
holding, foreign holiday way of life, yet the Prime Minister is
spreading fear and terror amongst the people he's supposed to
protect.
If the Great British public decide to
exit the EU then David Cameron will have to go! Replaced by Boris
Johnson?! A charismatic fella, connects with people all the makings
of a dicktator for the flag waving populist peoples. Across the
Atlantic our new special friend could be Donald Trump, that's if he
would be prepared to do business with multi-cultural Ukplc.
Prices will go up. What price the cost
of living when people are only existing to pursue the latest product?
Maybe if people were free from a consumer existence they might start
living!
Glossy Sunday paper
pull-outs; more Royal pornography a 90 year old tax burden figure
head for a near bankrupt Ukplc, a not so Great Britain, the days of
Empire have past. Let the statues remain so future generations will
learn the truth about our past rather than a photo-shop revisionism
of our history. Ghetto mindset of selfie interest. Everyone's
seeking acceptance of their existence! Please Like Me! Have my
thoughts/feelings been shared? How many care?
The media manipulates the minds of the
masses with lies and moral out crys. Politicians lie and the
majority have no morals, they preach of the ills of corruption yet
Ukplc feeds and facilitates the corruption with foreign aid and cheap
London property. Everyone is guilty! Offshore Bank accounts,
backhanders, not paying the correct tax its all the same. Power
corrupts, and the powerful are the most corrupt. David Cameroon
shakes the hands of the “fantastically corrupt” while UK tax and
property concessions go into their backpockets, and then stands back
in judgement.
Barrack Bully Boy Obama protecting US
interests; capital hill and the dollar bill! a New World Order needs
a united Europe. Special relationship missiles on British soil,
Starbucks on every corner. If not then get to the back of the line.
The US need Britain to stay in the EU, so that they have someone to
do their dirty work for them. How many of our allies would have
joined with Americas war on terror if Britain hadn't backed it?
Talking of war in Iraq, where's the Chilcott Report! Lets hope it
doesn't take as long as the Hillsborough Enquiry, when after 27 years
the truth is out 96 working class fans unlawfully killed and facts
covered up., lets hope justice comes quicker, before the guilty die!
Wonder what they don't want us to know about in The Chilcott
Report....Lies, cover ups, misinformation, What we do know about is
the outing of the offshore banking business of the money elite, and
that David Cameron is a liar....FACT!
STOP PRESS + STOP PRESS + BREAKING NEWS
+ BREAKING NEWS
Chilcott Report due out in July! I
think they mean this July (2016) Lest we forget that the trouble
started with Blair and Bush's illegal war, and now he's got the cheek
to say that the only way to defeat ISIS is with having troops on the
ground, is he still the Middle East Peace Envoy? I fuckin' hope not,
cos he aint done too good a job of it.
Speaking out against the Israeli state
doesn't make you Anti-Semitic. Referring to historical facts and
mentioning Hitler in relation to them doesn't make you a Nazi. There
maybe Anti-Semitic sentiment in the far Left of The Labour Party that
need addressing, because lest we forget the Nazi Party in Germany
were a Left Wing party....The National Socialist Party!
The Conservatives are no better, the
Election for the London Mayor were marred by their Islamaphobic views
towards Labour candidate Sadiq Khan, and then we've got UKIP, who
just hate everyone that wasn't born in Britain.
First Ken Livingstone, and
now Boris Johnson mentions the H word (Hitler) in reference to the EU
Referendum, he stated another fact; that Hitler wanted a unified
Europe, a superstate, like the European Union. Once again it is
deemed in some quarters of the media that it is wrong for politicians
to mention Hitler, no it is wrong to try and censor people and hope
that if unfortunate truths aren't mentioned then they will go away
and people will forget facts. It's interesting that a couple of
politicians from the left and right both choose to mention a
Totalitarian leader, because that is where we are heading....a
Totalitarian state with illusions of democracy whether the vote is
Yes to stay in, or Yes to get out.
The referendum has already
divided Political parties, friends and families, will these divisions
start to polarise if those that wanted to exit lose the vote. Will
there be more defections to UKIP, who will emerge the victors
whatever the result, because someone will have to address the
populists opinion that will grow and see Britain First and the EDL
gain support, and as we have seen neither of the major parties seem
to be able to do anything, they wont even celebrate St Georges Day by
having it as a Bank Holiday. It is an uncomfortable truth that there
are growing Nationalist feelings across Europe, it was a close call
in Austria; where in the land of Hitler’s birth the Far Right
candidate nearly became President. Lets not think it can't happen in
Britain, because it already starting, and that's my fear....If we
leave the EU then Britain will become far more nationalistic than is
healthy. The state machinery is strong Armed Police, Anti- Terror
Laws, Total CCTV Surveillance, access to emails etc. It has grown
stronger due to Governments scare tactics about our safety and
security, people have been led by unfounded fears into acceptance of
having freedoms taken away in order to remain free from those that
wish to destroy our freedoms. Just who are the terrorists? And do we
want this machinery to end up in the hands of The Nationalist Flag
waving Peoples Army of UKIP and their like?
In some sort of
conclusion, where to place ones cross on June 23rd, in
probably the most important decision that the people of Britain have
been allowed to make; to Leave or to Remain in the European Union.
Whatever the result, I don't think the United Kingdom will be the
same again. If we go times may get tough a lot quicker, if we remain
it may take a little longer. Nationalism will rise (lets see what
happens in the European Champions Final in France this summer.) not
just in Britain. If we remain cracks will develop not just between
between our government and the EU, because there are other countries
that aren't happy with relationships with the Union.
With these sort of
decisions, its about the Head and Heart, my heart says if we leave
then it would be the first step to some sort of revolution in Britain
which could be good, but my head says that the Conservatives would
lead it more to the right, and would Labour even get into power to
lead it the right way to the left? I certainly wouldn't want this
lot of Tory Cunts having total control of the show So if we remain my
head says that there will be more compromises Britain has to make
with the EU that will be unpopular with the people, I think I'd
rather that than the Conservatives having the final say on making new
laws, look what they've already done for the poor, made them poorer,the workers, made them work harder all while we are in the EU. My heart says that we should remain,
because there is safety in numbers, and the workers of Europe need to
remain united, in times when all that is solid is starting to melt
into air! The citizens of Ukplc need
to vote with their hearts, because all the for/against propaganda has
fucked with peoples minds! Here's to hoping the British people have
a heart and do the right thing and VOTE TO REMAIN!
Monday, 25 April 2016
BAD BREEDING - Bad Breeding (*EXCLUSIVE* Free Download of their album! (*AVAILABLE NOW*)
If Stevenage had a sound, then this
would be it; Discordant and Disjointed just like the council estates
that make up England's first New town. It's from here, a place where
“nothing happens except nothingness” that Bad Breeding come from,
they have been described in some quarters (NME and The Guardian) as
“The Best New Punk Band in Britain.” but hey who believes what
they read in the press? Never mind that, take it from me Bad
Breeding are something special, a band taking a stand and doing
things their way on their terms, this is no corporate cock sucking
retro bullshit; this is the now. Bad Breeding’s self titled debut album is a
stark statement of intent, a Punk Rock symphony in sixteen parts, a
soundtrack to closing factories and steel mills, celebrity culture
and aspirations in a divided unequal society run by a government
whose moral compass is pointing nowhere. It is a state of the nation
address to a nation in a state, where things need addressing. It is
the sound of the gory days of 1980's Thatchers Britain fast forwarded
to the future were after Thirty Six years nothing politically or
socially has changed, if anything things have got worse. Musically
think Crass, Flux of Pink Indians with a (dot)dash of Wire fed into
the music blender, which has produced a sound akin to a full scale
riot. This is angular and angry stuff; with a capital A! music to
smash shit up to!! Bad Breeding have taken raging against the
machine to another level, but it isn't a mindless thrash, it's
intelligent stuff with words that say and mean something:
“Sick of being tied to your
institution / Fumbling around for a moment of clarity / Punch drunk
from every conflicting demand / I blame myself, blame you, blame
everyone//” Bad Breeding speak out for and to a new
generation of dispossessed, disadvantaged and discriminated against
in a divided we are all in this together (like fuck we are) society.
This album is the sound of dissatisfaction and de(con)struction. A
relentless roar of rage and frustration with every vocal breath,
often struggling to be heard above the barrage of buzz saw guitar
that drills into yer skull and the pounding, pummelling bass and
drums which shake your spine. The individual songs bleed into each
other with feedback and white noise stitching them together to create
a seamless and tuneful cacophony that needs to be heard, and demands
the listeners attention. This is uncompromising, challenging and
confrontational. Fast and frantic, full on and furious. A total
onslaught and assault on the senses. Music to torture
Tories with; Cameron and his cronies need capturing, locking in a
room and forced to listen to this at full volume on repeat play until
their ears fucking bleed and their heads explode!. This album
is Bad Breeding’s truth, and the truth hurts. Extreme music for
extreme times when the walls really need shaking. The kids of today
have got everything, yet they have nothing. What they really need is
some Bad Breeding in their lives. It's the future, Turning
nothingness into something.“Stevenage Calling to the underworld,
come out of the cupboards all you boys and girls.” Keeping it real
and sticking it to the man rather than selling out to him, Bad
Breeding have made their debut album free to download Right Here,
Right Now....RIOT ON!
In the wake of the success of 'left-field'
bands like Sleaford Mods and Slaves, and the continued support of
mainstream music media Bad Breeding could become The Most Important
Punk Band band in Britain. Giving the yoof of today a parental
guidance free band that matter!
PRE-ORDER VINYL: HERE!
SPOTIFY: THERE!
Friday, 15 April 2016
JOEY RAMONE & FRIENDS - Live in New York (*MPFree Download*)
Hey, Ho, lets go....Here's a little
something to remember Joey Ramone who died on this day fifteen years
ago.....Today’s post finds him very much alive somewhere and at sometime in New
York City with his all-star band; Daniel Rey-Guitar/Andy
Shernof-Bass/Marky Ramone-Drums, blasting out a short, sharp and sweet set of Ramones numbers and a couple of covers. Enjoy!
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
LE MAT - The Waltz of The Fool (*VINYL ALBUM, MP3 RE-POST*)
I've been asked to re-post this several
times, so here we go. Le Mat came from Southend on Sea, England.
Their debut album The Waltz of The Fool was recorded
in 1982 over 10 days and on a budget of £2,000 it was eventually
released on Friday 13th June 1983 by Whaam records. A very special
album that defies all categories; is it folk, post punk, psychedelic
or prog rock, who gives a fuck! It is a unique and beautiful record
both musically and lyrically. If anything, it sounds in places like
a group of travelling Elizabethan mistrals armed with electric
guitars singing protest songs for the peasants. I should have re-posted it way before now, but better late
then never. You’d be a fool not to have a waltz to it, so here you
go! It is a real gem that still shines brightly after over 30 years, shame this rip from my original vinyl is a bit crackly and has one glaring jump/scratch, I make no apologies for having a well played and loved record in my collection. Enjoy!
Thursday, 7 April 2016
BLACK BOMBERS - Black Bombers (*A REVIEW*)
The spirits of Nikki Sudden and Johnny
Thunders ooze into the mixture of the Black Bombers 5 star
Rock'n'Roll petrol. Their self titled debut album is the
sound'n'smell of burning rubber; screaching'n'smoking, a full
throttle pedal to the metal Rock'n'Roller coaster of a ride that
slips and slides across the tarmac. Drums pound and clatter, the Guitar drops out before it stabs you with chops and slashes. The Bass rumbles on as
speakers start to shake and rattle. Vocals are an anguished drawl.
Garage Punk at its best; wild and feral with no bullshit to detect.
Eleven tracks that kick in the jams and mow you down, leaving you
twitching by the roadside. The freshest old sounds I've heard for
years; Rock'n'Roll keeps revolving! Black Bombers are a testimony to
this and are just the prescription for the summer time blues. The
album is released by Easy Action records at the end of May. Highly Inflammable and highly recommended!
Monday, 28 March 2016
JOHNNY THUNDERS COSA NOSTA - Live @ The Lyceum, London 9th Oct 1983 (* A MPFree Re-Post*)
An anonymous reader/listener who's got
good taste has requested this mighty fine Johnny Thunders recording
be re-posted, so here it is for whoever you are, and for whoever else
wants a blast of some top quality Thunders gear, if they haven't
already sampled it!. The Lyceum was packed and Johnny played his
heart out for an hour and a half with a collection of top tracks, the
old, new, borrowed and blue, the good the bad and the ugly, they are
all here, on what is possibly my favourite Johnny Thunders live
recording ever; as it captures everything that made him great as a
musician and entertainer in just one hit. Enjoy!
RANDOM RAMBLINGS.
There appears to be a dark cloud
descending over the Western world, full of bigotry and intolerance,
from Donald Trump to the European Union. Anti this, anti that finger
pointing stigmatizing and wall building. Fear and terror spreads, exploding in Airports, Stations and on the streets. Taliban Tabloid
terror stalks through readers minds, seeds are planted and start to
grow into hanging trees. We are not so much sleep walking into a
total security armed police state where everyone is a terrorist and
everything a suspicious package, but are being drugged by doses of
misinformation and propaganda. When ignorant people are scared they
will believe what the powers tell them and follow blindly down the
path the pied piper leads them! those that stay behind need to take
care, because a hard rain is gonna fall and there might not be much
shelter from the storm.
Friday, 25 March 2016
THE NOVEMBER FIVE - Throwing Rocks Against The Sun (*A REVIEW*)
It's been Three years since their
critically acclaimed debut album If You Are Satisfied Then You Are Dead, and The November Five are still
angry. Their new relsease Throwing Rocks Against The Sun packages this rage into a
parcel bomb of an album that when played explodes in your stereo.
This is awe and some more some stuff. A soundscape of a disUnited
and divided Kingdom painted with pounding rhythms, contagious
choruses and guitars that chop and cut right through you.
Compelling and incendiary stuff, caustic and catchy. Eleven
atmospheric and anguished anthems howl at and kick against the cold
clinical corrupt and corporate computer age climate. In this
environment The November Five are keeping the engine of Music as
Revolution running, they're a shining and polished example of
Rock'n'Roll at its best, something that fuels the heart and feeds the
head. The sound of 21St Century Rhythm'n'Bruise with a
touch of Gothic glamour added to the mix. Think The Stooges, Gang of
Four, The Godfathers and Joy Division colliding at the crossroads.
Throwing Rocks Against The Sun is a work of art, a life affirming and uplifting
listen for times when a darkness descends. Do not ignore this
machine! If you feel satisfied without giving The November Five a
listen, then you really are dead! Check out their Facebook page.
Friday, 11 March 2016
....AND OUT COMES THE WOLF!
It was over 10 Years ago I started this
blog as a means of self expression. I've been a bit quite over the
last couple of years, months, weeks, days* (*Delete as applicable)
A Groundhog daze, waking every day to
the same global dramas, it's not that I have had No Comment, it's
just that I've said so much before that I start to struggle with
anything new to say about anything happening in the world.
Repetition gets boring things have
changed, nothing has changed power still lies with the powerful the
less fortunate are demonized, dehumanized and demoralized by a class
less society who wouldn't know good taste if it bit off their tongue
while they were drooling at the prospect of a new Iphone, tablet,
flash car etc, etc....the choice is endless, the powers we let be
call it freedom....economic freedom to them.... entrapment to those
that choose their chains! Instant credit long term debt keeps the
workers working to pay for their freedom.
On the subject of choice and
choices....In or out of Europe? Who knows? Its a destination
unknown. How will our lives be affected if we were to stay or go?
We will never know unless we were to leave, so looks like the Great
British public are gonna have to roll the dice, cos that's what it
will be....a gamble, because no forecasts by big business or the
bankers will really be able to predict the future if we did break
from 'Brussels bureaucratic chains of red tape'
Facts and figures are manipulated by
the powers that want us to vote for their side. Stories are
fabricated and plant seeds in the peoples minds that grow into real
fears that the powers will prey on until people have surrendered to
which ever side's propaganda was the most persuasive. The truth is
that it is all bullshit, just another chapter in the book of the New
World Order. Capital will decide; whatever is best for the Pound,
Dollar and Deutsch Mark will prevail and in the pursuit of profits
populations will be controlled by fear!
The way I see it is that it is like
someone who wants self rule without the interference of the state, but on a larger scale. Some want this self rule away from the European
Super-state (the OUT campaign) then there are those that feel we are
better having this state control (the IN campaign).
In a pure and ideal world individuals
should be able to live in a society based on the ideal of
co-operation rather than competition, these society’s should themselves flourish in a world of federalization. I know its not an
ideal world and purity has been bought and sold on the free market
place,but one can dream.
Human Rights and Workers Rights. Yes
the Human Rights Bill might have been used and abused in several
cases, usually involving 'illegal immigrants' these are the ones
people read about in the papers, the stories are pure propaganda and
result from the decisions of judges in High Courts. The
establishment establishes its own truths and presents them to the
people as the only truth that is to be believed. The Human Rights
act is then seen by many people as being detrimental to the country,
when the reality is that it offers some protection against the human
wrongs in the world. Workers Rights protect people from the
profiteers and their penny pinching and poncing from the working
population. Without the EU both these Rights and the protection they
offer people would not have progressed as far as they have, I mean
the British government are presently trying to take away the right to
strike away from the Unions.
We don't know what would change, or if
things would until we took a collective step over the edge. One
thing that does concern me if we were to leave Europe, is that
Britain has nothing to trade with the world, all the big industries,
mining, steel production etc have been slaughtered by cheap imports
encouraged by a succession of Governments leaving Britain as not so
much a nation of shop keepers, but a nation that works in shops, a
country that serves the rest of the world. In Middle England the
self made entrepreneurs feel they would be better off out of Europe
and free from its trade laws, as a poorly paid public servant I
wouldn't know about this, but it strikes me that they have being
doing alright within the EU so far, so what would change for them if
Britain were to leave. Well the major driving force of Capitalism is
the pursuit of more capital and there is no business however large or
small doesn't want to make money, so I conclude that small business
feels there is more profit to be made by not being part of a federal European
Union.
The media drones on. The war machine
marches forward further into a war that no one can win unless they
stop the race, because we are heading for a cultural and ideological
crash of biblical proportions! The children of Syria are getting
dressed in life jackets or suicide vests. Tides of humanity wash up
on the shores as Fortress Europe is closing its doors. The freeworld
has become a migrant camp for those it has displaced. In its total
war on terror Russia, Britain and America have become the real
terrorists. What we see....the bodies, the rubble is what they have
created and the carnage will continue until their jackboot has
stamped humanity into the scorched earth that is all around us.
Global domination a Rockefeller dream. Regan, Thatcher, Bush and
Blair, the Generals of Free Market Globalization. This is the daily
nightmare people awake from and start living in. Communities
destroyed by dead industries, the Labour movement destroyed by a
dying ideology.
Ground Control busies itself burying
bad news under David Bowie's body....never mind life on Mars, what
about life on earth? If you don't talk to strangers you may never
learn the truth! You need to see through it all like its a double
glazed window! If you don't make a stand....You stand for nothing!
Thursday, 11 February 2016
MANUFACTURED ROMANCE - Live in Stevenage 1981 (Re-Post)
Here's
a re-post request (sorry it's taken so long Phil) Manufactured
Romance are probably and possibly the most ignored band from the Post
Punk 1980's era, 10 minutes of fame; One single, the brilliant and
beautiful Time of My Life b/w Room To Breath and a couple of tracks
on the Backstage Pass compilation. It would be 30 years till the
band played together at a few gigs in 2008 and released a self
financed and untitled ten track compilation CD of released and
unreleased tracks. Anyway, here's what I had to say about Manufactured Romance when I first posted this. These
recordings literally fell out of the sky and hit me on the head, well
almost, while putting some stuff into my loft a box of tapes fell
out, nearly knocking me off the ladder one of the tapes lying on the
floor was this one. I’d forgot I even had it, well borrowed it
years ago from the original recorder (cheers Simon.H) the rest of the
tapes aint worth writing home about, but this one, well……………..Where
to begin? suppose the venue's a start; Bowes
Lyon House in Stevenage, and when? 1981 In the space of 2 months
Manufactured Romance played a couple of great gigs there and then.
Considering this tape is nearly 27 years old, the quality aint too
bad, a bit ropey at the beginning but it improves, and is very
listenable to, especially when the bands recorded output was minimal;
one single, posted here ages ago and a couple of tracks on a
compilation album and that was it. Imagine Penetration and X-Ray
Spex. Listening to these gigs shows what a great band Manufactured
Romance were, a real loss to the 80’s music scene after they
disappeared. It also captures the atmosphere from what I remember at
both gigs with noisy audiences and skinheads chanting “4th Reich”,
the bands original and slightly dubious name. While converting the
tape I was transported back there to a room full of punks and
skinheads jumping about wildly to the sound of punky pop’n’roll.
The only song titles I can tell you they played over both gigs are
“Time Of My Life”, “You” and a cover of “Knock On Wood”
Great stuff, both then and now.
MANUFACTURED ROMANCE - Live in Stevenage 1981 Enjoy! but remember....it is what it is!
Sunday, 3 January 2016
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
S*M*A*S*H T*H*E D*E*M*O*S - A R*E*P*O*S*T
Here's a repost request, nice'n'timely as there's a film due to be released about S*M*A*S*H and their fellow partners in the new wave of the new wave scene; These Animal Men. More details about the FLAWED IS BEAUTIFUL DVD can be found here
“This is the sound of the suburbs” Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire to be exact “a satellite of London.” Local lads S*M*A*S*H’s flame shone brightly for a couple of years, when they went from ’local band’ status to darlings of the music biz, thanks to the music press sponsored pre Brit Pop;
New Wave of The New Wave, which was basically a load of bands with the attitude, style and sound of bands from between 77-79 lumped together by the NME and Melody Maker, S*M*A*S*H along with These Animal Men were the best of the bunch.
Like the Stone Roses on PCP was how S*M*A*S*H were described by the NME in 1994. On this their first demo recorded in 1990 when they were called Smash At The Blues they sounded more like The Stone Roses without the PCP. With their second demo, (not sure if it is actually their second demo, but it’s the second one in this post) an MC5 aural assault had started to creep into their songs, and they were just S*M*A*S*H. By the time of their 1993 Self Abused demo the PCP had kicked in and thanks to favourable reviews in fanzines, local radio station and a review in the NME the band were on their way, and what a great fucking band they were ,touring tirelessly up and down, and across the country with cheap gigs, cheap merchandise and their own fanzine; Petal Buzz, which helped to spread the word and build them a large and loyal following. Two independently released singles in 1993 received rave reviews and sold out endorsements from The Jesus and Marychain, Joe Strummer, New Statesman and The Guardian soon followed as did a Top Of The Pops appearance and a record deal with Virgin subsidiary Hi-Rise which saw the 2 singles re-released as a mini-album before their debut album Self Abused hit the streets in Sept 1994. More gigs followed including support slots with The Ramones, The Cramps and Corrosion of Conformity.
Sadly S*M*A*S*H disappeared from the radar in 1996. They did start playing again in 2003 and released a second album Icon in 2007, which I don’t think is a patch on their debut, the PCP seemed to have worn off, saying that though, it’s a ton better than a lot of the shite that’s been about over the last few years. Maybe S*M*A*S*H were a band of a moment and that moment may well have past, who knows, because I saw ’em live again at Club 85 in Hitchin a few years back, and they were still on the ball.
The above text is from the original post but the links to the demos are new. Enjoy'n'Destroy!
Sunday, 13 December 2015
Sunday, 6 December 2015
Monday, 16 November 2015
TERROR TALK.
Still no official
conformation that the Russian passenger plane downed over Egypt was
blown from the sky by ISIS, but I'm pretty sure that it was, but no
one dares think what the Russians response, reaction and retaliation
will be. The French have already started bombing Syria as a result
of the spectacularly staged multiple attacks in Paris last Fri 13th
November.
Coincidently the previous
day Western 'Hellfire' missiles had killed IS poster boy executioner
Jihad John. All this shit will not end well, unless something
radical is done like talking rather than killing for example.
Western leaders haven't minded talking
to despots like Ghadafi and Saddam in the past, when it has come to
business deals. Lets sit down and talk business with IS and see what
it is that they want! Because more bombs = more bodies = more bombs
= more bodies.
Why isn't the supply of weapons to IS
stopped, the West and Russia know where they've come from, cos they
built 'em and sold 'em to IS.
The more the terror the more of our
civil liberties will be eroded in the name of freedom by the means of
fear. Just in whose interest is it to continue the cycle of
violence....Not in my name!
No surprise that media reports one of
Paris attackers had entered Europe as a migrant from Syria, a reason
for more fences across Fortress Europe for the Far Right to hide
behind while spreading islamaphobia and creating more tension and
violence. The writing is on the wall!
The world we are moving towards unless
something is done is one that our so called leaders have built and
engineered for us to live in. A world of Total War! and Total
Control! with One Total New World Order.
CITIZENS ACROSS THE WORLD NEED TO UNITE AND STAND TOGETHER AGAINST BOTH THE TERROR OF ISIS AND STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM!
Friday, 30 October 2015
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
RANDOM RAMBLINGS AND RANTINGS.
Vintage
badges but the message is still the same thirty years later. Why are
our government buying new nuclear missiles that we can't afford with
money that could be spent better elsewhere when we haven't even used
the old ones? Or are UKPlc just upgrading their household appliances
with our money ready for making us live in fear of massive
retaliation or mutually assured destruction from a multitude of
possible targets with the possibility of it becoming the new cold
war, but just a little bit hotter. We've already got a new Berlin
Wall, this time it's made of razor wire and it's meant to keep out
the war refugees. Those that have ignored the past are condemning us
to repeat it, got the badges!
Credit
where credit is due....Yeah the House of Lords is an unelected body
of political cronies put there by whatever political power wants
them there depending on what they have to offer financially and
ideologically. Now their paymasters scream it's a constitutional
crisis because they have stood up against the Robin Hood in reverse
Working Tax Credit cuts that robs the poor to give to the rich.
Don't suppose it would have been an issue if nothing had been said,
it would all have been perfectly democratic to make a section of
society less well off in order to save money on the Welfare State,
sounds well unfair to these ears. Yeah the minimum
working/living/existing wage is due to rise....in three years time,
but what where the people affected by these proposed changes supposed
to do in that gap when they would be worse off? Live on fresh air,
numb themselves with prescription drugs or turn to crime?
Anyway
lets not get too excited about the altruism of the ermine clad,
because they represent themselves and their interests which include
businesses, both big and small, who are gonna be effected by the
future increase in workers wages, it is in their interest to maintain
their profits, which at present is controlled by low pay, zero hours
contracts and Welfare Payments....Get The picture?
Unelected
bodies making decisions on behalf of the people, well that's
democracy for ya.
A
Chinese Takeaway....Human Rights sacrificed at the church of
consumption as Britain continues to deal with regimes that are
backwards thinking with how they treat their people, should this
concern us, well yes; it's about morals versus money and once again
another government takes the shilling and turns it's head away
Cheap
Chinese Steel flooding the European markets over the last few years
has forced the closure of several British Steel companies resulting
in collateral damage i.e. job losses, still at least those made
redundant can get Welfare Benefits....or work with the Chinese
building a new British nuclear power station.
Chinese
Nuclear Power and Russian Gas, nice to see UKPlc's energy supplies
are in safe hands!
At
least we've got our friends the Americans to help us out should
things get a bit sticky.
Our leaders shake hands with Saudi Sheiks because they want their cash, and all the
while the same money funds the terrorism we are waging war against,
the same terrorists we created by at first doing business with
countries like Iraq and Libya and then turning against them when they
demand more from the oil and arms business deals.
We
then sit back and watch the Russians bomb targets in Syria that a
pose President Assad, the very forces that the West supports, and
then do nothing about the collateral damage; Refugees, that are
crossing the European borders. This is the only exit strategy.
A
full English Breakfast cancer on a plate if you believe what they are
telling us, another scare story believe it all and yer gonna spend
too much time dying and not enough of it living! Talking of
Bacon....and believing do we really care that Prime Minister David
Cameron might have stuck his cock in a dead pigs mouth? It just makes
him a perverted cunt rather than just a cunt! “There will be no
cuts to Working Tax Credits.” make that a lying perverted cunt!!
Saturday, 24 October 2015
Sunday, 13 September 2015
RED SKY IN THE MORNING....A SOCIALIST WARNING!
A Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn is
a “threat to national security.” So says Prime Sinister David
Cameron. Sounds like the words of a scared man trying to scare the
rest of the people into a state of insecurity and a fear of Britain
being run by a Left Wing Government.
The more dirt that is dug and mud that
is thrown, the more I am convinced that 'they' are scared and fear
the possibility of a real and revolutionary Socialist Government in
the future. It looks like the war of attrition is getting closer to
victory. It might not be a party that is led by Jeremy Corbyn, and
it might not be in five years time, but it will happen!
Corbyn has been rebutted for wanting to
print more money to help build a healthy infrastructure for the
country by those that thought it was fine for Cameron to create more
cash to bail out the bankers. He also wants to nationalise the
railways and energy companies this is seen as a bad thing by those
that bailed out their banker friends by nationalising The Royal Bank
of Scotland. Yes Jeremy Corbyn has shared stages/platforms with
militant extremists both Catholics and Muslims, this talking is seen
as a bad thing, yet killing them with drones is good. Corbyns
election as Labour leader will highlight a lot more political
contradictions and differences, it might not fuck the system but it
will give it a good kick up the arse!
Saturday, 12 September 2015
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
SOME THOUGHTS'N'VIEWS ON RECENT NEWS.
Images of a dead child washed up on the
beach of our safe European home stirs the slumbering mass into
compassion that wasn't there before the picture was published by the
papers. Weren't the images of children being squeezed through
railway carriage windows enough? This child is just one of many
that have died, the rest have remained unseen....out of sight and out
of mind. It would appear that words are not enough for people; they
have to see it to believe it.
Immigration, Migration are different
issues, as are refugees. Lets not forget that our wonderful Western
democracies are ultimately responsible for these crisis's. The media
mixes and mashes the terminology in headlines until it has become one
whole thing....A FUCKIN' MESS! that no one wants to clear up even
though their wars and interventions have made it. They can't even
work together and make a start, they just start adding more to the
mess by talking about Christians versus Muslims, IS infiltrating
those trying to find asylum in the madhouse that they think is a
'better life' If we are not careful this mess will leave a stain
Free movement will become even more restricted as borders are shut
and the barbed wire goes up around Fortress Europe. Let history be
the judge, at this point in time....guilty. I mean British police
are now arresting people trying to go to Syria.
Media led politics has seen British
Prime Sinister David Cameron take a complete U Turn on the 'refugee
crisis' before the picture was published in the papers he was adamant
Britain would not be accepting refugees, after the picture he 'opened
the doors' to 'the swarm'
Some people have spoken out about how
we should welcome the refugees, others are speaking out as to why we
should not take any....There aren't enough houses or jobs etc put
“Britain First” they say....Fuck 'em that's what I
say....refugees, immigrants and migrants are Britain’s future. The
knuckle dragging Right Wing are gonna cause fear and panic amongst
the ordinary people. Britain has seen a rise of islamaphobic
attacks.
Empathy....understanding, or lack of
it. People really should stop and think....What if something
happened in Britain and they had to flee in fear of their life....It
couldn't happen here could it? Well if people believe what the
likes of the EDL, Britain First and UKIP....Yes it could, because all
the Muslims seeking asylum want us to live under Sharia Law and chop
the heads of Christians. Britain was built by immigrants, migrants
and refugees, they were our past and should be part of our future.
Whose to say that the young Syrian boy kicking around a football
might not score the winning goal for England in a future World Cup
final.
It's good that Bob Geldof is going to
open his home(s) to Syrian refugees, otherwise he'd probably release
a charity fund raising single! Spare rooms for Syrians, one way to
sort out the 'Bedroom Tax'....People with extra rooms can stay in
their property as long as they house a refugee.
Every nation across the world that
committed and supported the war on terror should take a proportion of
refugees from places like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, there is enough
room in countries like the USA and Australia for example and it will
be a damning enditment at the sort of society Britain has become if
we stand by and do as little as possible. World War Two guilt has
seen refugees welcomed with open arms in Germany, while some
countries like Hungary can't wait to get rid of them, and all the
while America says and does nothing, while continuing to bomb Syria.
A global coalition is needed, including Arab countries like Saudi
Arabia, but they need to tread carefully though what with Syria being
friendly with Russia. The world is a big place, there's room for everyone.
It has also come to light that David
Cameron has illegally used RAF Drones to take out a couple of British
Jhiadists in Syria, under the premise that they were planning an
attack on British streets. Cameron mentioned the recent VJ
celebration/remembrance day, as having been a possible target
although it wasn't until days after the parade that Cameron OK'd
their assassination????!!!! This is a disturbing use and abuse of
political power, as the House of Commons were not consulted and as
yet no evidence has been seen, plus surely if you wanted to stop an
attack you'd have taken them out before the possible target event
took place.
Refugees from Syria are fleeing their
country because of war, as some sort of solution David Cameron is
talking about Britain dropping more bombs (not that they aren't
already supporting the continued US Bombing of the area.) I can't
see this ending well for anyone, least of all the innocent people of
Syria.
Talk not bombs! Britain’s past
terrorist problem....the IRA is/has been resolved through talks and
mediation not through guns and bombs. Labour leadership Jeremy
Corbyn knows that talking is the way forward having shared a
platform/stage with militants. This fact has been used to try and
smear his campaign, when really it is the only way forward....you
can't bomb an ideology, but you can talk to one and try and reach
some common ground.
Unless there are some short term
solutions and long term measures put in place that show compassion
and humanity have progressed as much as science and technology has we
will enter a new dark age.
Monday, 31 August 2015
CHELSEA - Live @ Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage 29/3/81) *MPFREE DOWNLOAD*
For no reason other than I've
been listening to their new album Saturday Night Sunday Morning a lot
recently, I'm gonna post a copy of a gig that Chelsea did way back in
March of the year 1981, (Sunday 29th to be exact, as the
ticket to yer right testifies) at Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage. In
1981 Chelsea were one of the few survivors from the class of 76 still
knocking about, they were on the road promoting their soon to be
released single Rockin' Horse. It was a new line up from the days of
their self titled debut and Alternative Hits era after both James
Stevenson and Chris Bashford upped and left Gene without a Guitarist
and Drummer. New members were recruited, including Guitarist and
songwriter Nic Austin and Chelsea were back in action with some top
toe tapping Rock'n'Roll tunes that would become the Evacuate album.
In the 1980's Chelsea had been
accepted by a new generation of UK Punk Rockers, and the band toured
with Anti-Pasti, Anti-Nowhere League and Chron Gen. Gene was always
proud of his punk rock roots, and lets face it without his input
despite what history doesn't tell you, in the early days several
doors into the music industry might not have been kicked in. By the
end of 1982 Chelsea fell apart and Gene pursued a solo career, until
1983 when he got Chelsea back together with a line up that featured
several “Stevenage Hooligans” who attended the gig in March 1981
(Guitarist Jon Thurlow, Drummer Geoff Sewell and Bassist Pete
Dimmock, were playing in a local band called Optional Xtras, before
Jon and Pete left and joined Chron Gen.) Geoff had played drums for
Chelsea on the single Stand Out prior to Jon and Pete joining after
the split of Chron Gen in 1982. This line up were captured on the
Live and Well album. (recorded at The Lyceum in Oct 1983 when Chelsea
supported Johnny Thunders.) Jon left soon after, but Geoff and Pete
from the Stevenage connection remained and featured on the next
couple of studio albums: Original Sinners and Rocks Off, in places
both were rather strange Rock'n'Roll affairs; a blissed out and druggy
Punk'n'Blues rhythm, not yer standard Chelsea fodder but still good stuff.
Neither of them were well received by the music press, Original
Sinners has never been released on CD, although there is a planned
re-release of Rocks Off. 1989 saw the release of Underwraps,
probably Chelseas weakest album, despite the help of Willy from Glam
Poppers The Grip and the appearance of ex Clash Drummer Topper
Headon on one track, but something was missing.
By the early 1990's Nic Austin was
back in the line up along with Mat Sargent on Bass and Chelsea
returned to form releasing a couple of cracking albums in quick
succession; The Alternative and Traitors Gate. (Both are due to be re-released soon on CD and vinyl) The classic Chelsea
line-up (James Stevenson, Dave Martin, Geoff Myles, Chris Bashford
and Gene) re-united in 1999 for the Social Chaos Punk Rock package
tour across America, captured on another live Chelsea album; the in
yer face and hostile Metallic F.O.
In 2005 minus Myles and Martin Chelsea
released a new studio album, Faster, Cheaper, Louder and Better
Looking, a great fist in the air pumping and powerful collection of
new numbers that saw Chelsea move up a gear, one in which they have
continued to the present day; their latest album is a classic, due to the strength of the latest line up that unites Nic
Austin and James Stevenson into an awesome twin guitar attack, alongside a solid rhythm section and Gene's passionate vocal delivery of songs that say something. Saturday Night Sunday Morning, check it out now! Until then rewind
back to Stevenage 1981 and check out this piece of aural punk rawk
history. The Sound quality is OK....it is what it
is....
Thanx to whoever it was that originally passed the files my
way, sorry my mind has gone blank and I can't remember yer name, but
it might have been Harry The Bastard, or it might not have been.
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