Saturday, 12 August 2017
In Englands Green and (un)pleasant Land Post Brexit and in The Wake of Recent Terror Attacks....
SURPRISE,SURPRISE
HATE CRIMES RISE.
DIVIDE AND RULE.
SURPRISE,SURPRISE
PEOPLE ARE FOOLS!
Sunday, 23 July 2017
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
RANDOM, RAPID, RETRO-GRADE, RANTING, REACTION!
We need to maintain the momentum, says
he who hasn't posted a word for a good many weeks.
Any way here's a few thoughts about a
few things since the last time.
The Conservatives may have won the
battle, but the war is still being fought!
There are different and alternative
ways of thinking....Humans have two ears and one mouth; we need to
listen twice as much as we talk, and try and find some common ground
The DUP; a political party stuck in the
dark ages with archaic views on homosexuality and abortion. During
the election campaign JC was crucified for having talked to the IRA,
I'm talking Jeremy Corbyn here not Jesus Christ. (although some
might say there are similarities.) Beard, the saviour of the
dispossessed and downtrodden.
A burnt out tower block in West London
stands as a legacy and symbol to the cost of free market global
capitalism. From the charred remains of the economic migrants
living in poverty on the 25th floor, while across the road
others live in luxury to the penny pinching council and profiteering
contractors and manufacturers who for reasons of beautification clad
a block of flats with flammable material. Capitalism Kills! and it's
the poor that always die!
A Prime Minister so out of touch that
by the time she announces financial support for Grenfell Tower
survivors the community have already just given and pledged the same
amount, and had mountains of clothes and supply’s donated by people
from across the country. Power to the people! And Fuck the power!
Misinformation about the numbers of
dead, the local people weren't stupid, they knew how many people
where really living there. Residents concerns about safety were
ignored, all in London’s richest borough
More terror on the streets enemy’s
from within and enemy’s from without. Cars, sulphuric acid and
mopeds; new weapons of choice.
Discontent is growing. Public sector
workers are better paid than those in the private sector; Divide and
rule, don't be fooled.
We are being sold our own slavery if we
are dumb enough to buy it. DNA Databases, the stupid fools buy into
it; Ancestory.com have a kit available (at a price no doubt) so that
people can use it to trace their family history through a world
wide....database of everyone who has signed up for the service's dna.
Insurance company Aviva have a 'smart phone' app that monitors how
save a person drives in order to save themselves money on car
insurance. Homes are secured by cameras that watch our every move,
Head cams record journeys and computers, mobile phones and social
media hide no secrets. Total Surveillance and Total Control! What
price freedom?
Immigrants are still drowning and wars
keep raging. Yemen, Ukraine, Syria. North Korean Dicktator Kim Yong
ill keeps firing off Unclear Warheads at a rapid rate. It's all a
bit unstable
Brexit negotiations begin, can't say
I've got a good feeling about the outcome in two years time of these
talks. NO WAY TO NO DEAL! Should the people get another roll of
the dice when the deal has been decided, is it what they voted for?
Is hard enough or is it too soft? and will we be able to stop Johnny
Foreigner from crossing our borders! Because that's what the bottom
line will be....Immigration and that's when the trouble will start
unless we get a grip on the Racist dicks that seek to fuck up our
society. YOU HAVE A CHOICE!
Monday, 29 May 2017
DO THE RIGHT THING....VOTE LEFT!
The Media manipulate and manufacture
fear. Terror threat critical, Troops on the Streets. The Government
cares about kids when they are blown up, but wants to stop free
school meals and Youth Services are cut back. Don't fear the(ir)
fear It is known that psychologically it is easier to control people
if they are scared. Interesting times continue, as it all explodes
in the middle of a General Election campaign, one in which if the
Conservatives win by a huge majority will see Britain turn into a one
party state, the media once again manipulate and manufacture.
Bullshit broadcasts blind the already partially sighted. The
politicians promises will manifest into lies when they get into
power. It all comes down to trust and who the people belief will
protect their self interests and beliefs the most. I hope enough
people don't vote Tory, A Conservative consensus would see our
freedoms taken away in the name of democracy, and more of our money
being used to pay for this while the railways grind to a halt and the
NHS falls sick. It's about the policies not the people. Strong
stable leadership, or Labour co-operation, policies for the few, or
for the many? Teresa May or Jeremy Corbyn? No...it's about the
party; one that is for the few or one that is for the many! Together
we are stronger, and don't let the media tell you anything else. If
people really looked, they would see that there is more that unites
us than divides us. We have more in common than the powers that we
let be would like us to think we have. Divided we are ruled,
together we make the rules!
Once again the British
Security Services let a terrorist escape their sights, this happened
on the Tory's watch, it also would appear that they haven't used
special powers to 'keep out' terrorists; Temporary Exclusion Orders
have only been used once to stop Jihadists returning from Libya and
Syria entering Britain. How do the Conservative Party address these
facts? They attack Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn and Dianne
Abbott for talking to the IRA, (back in the day when terrorist left
messages warning of an attack.) really, well I've got news.... the
Northern Island Peace process didn't happen without all concerned
parties putting aside their differences and talking. Our strong and
stable leadership doesn't sound very strong and stable when in the
wake of the recent attack in Manchester it accuses Labour leaders of
being terrorist apologists, rather than admit their own failings in
doing nothing to protect it's own citizens, or are some attacks seen
as inevitable and the victims just collateral damage when there
aren't the resources to watch all those suspected of being Radical
Islamists, then just to complete some strange circle Internment is
suggested as a means to control the terror threat, yeah look how well
that worked at Longkesh in Northern Ireland.
Intern them and have
troops on the streets is that really their answer? and the
Conservatives say the Labour party that wants to take Britain back to
the 1970's.
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE?
Monday, 1 May 2017
SOME THOUGHTS ON SOME THINGS!
A check up from the neck up. If the
health of a nation can be judged by the rate of suicides, then we are
not in a very good place; According to Gov.uk in May 2016 they were
are at their highest for 20 years. I don't think things have got any
better for the British people, cos that was before Brexit, Trump,
more terror, Syria, North Korea etc, etc, so who knows how many more
people have ended it all, with feelings of alienation and anomie.
Due to social stigma the recorded stats for suicides are also a lot
lower. In Jan 2017 some sections of the media said it was a
'national crisis' as miss recording of stats was hiding the full
extent of suicide in Britain. In March 2017, prior to President
Trump there was a report that said the USA was facing an epidemic of
“deaths of despair.”
So there you go the pursuit of total
free market capitalism with it's focus on individualism and
competition kills.... as suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness!
£12 million of British tax payers
money has been spent on the hunt for Madeline Macann, all because a
couple of selfish middle class parents didn't look after their child,
she wasn't stolen, they just cared more about themselves, and as a
result during all the economic hard times the people have been paying
for this couples mistake. Most decent people would have said enough
is enough, the money could be spent for the good of a lot more
people than just us, but hey who said the Mccanns were decent people,
because if they were then they wouldn't have left their child alone
while they went to stuff their faces. They are the epitome of what
has been wrong with this country for the last ten years; selfish,
indulgent, inward looking and a sense of over importance.
There are two sides for the few or for
the many. The individual or the collective, but it will always be
about the money and how to distribute it public or private. Work
together or get torn apart. The individual has ruled for too long.
Time for a collective reaction and some action. Fuck the few and up
the many! We've been shafted for far too long now!
As our leaders take us into Brexit
negotiations, they still believe that they are gonna be in control of
the table with their no deal is better than a bad deal for Britain
attitude. Well I've got news....they aint and it wont be! Teresa May
declares the forthcoming General Election’s gonna be a “Brexit
election” and promptly none of the parties say anything, it's all
about the NHS, Taxes etc, well I've got more news, there wont be much
money for anything if we don't get a good deal sorted out with the EU
They can try and get our votes with promises of increased funding
for this and that and having to have a strong economy, but with what?
and from where, when for the next few years we don't know were the
pennies and pounds are gonna be coming from. What about the
shortfall in funding that we used to receive from Europe? If during
this election campaign no-one addresses the elephant in the room that
is Brexit then we will be crushed by it, and if our leaders accept
no deal then they will be committing Britain to a slow suicide.
Sunday, 23 April 2017
Saturday, 11 March 2017
Sunday, 5 March 2017
TV EYE - 1977-1978 (*ARTICLE/REVIEW*)
A couple of weeks back I got a surprise
package through my letter box. It contained a CDR and some
photocopied info on a band called TV Eye. My instant
reaction....WOW! and.... YES! Why you may ask well let me tell
ya.....Birmingham legends TV Eye first came to my ears back in 1984
on the rather brilliant first What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen
compilation album with the track Stevies Radio Station which is a
piece of swooning pop'n'roll since then I've wanted to hear more from
'em. Now thanks to those good people at Seventeen records and Stephen
Duffy for preserving the recordings I can, and so can you. 1977-1978
is a collection of lost studio and rehearsal recordings by TV Eye.
“2017 is going to see many bands
celebrating the 40th anniversary of their 1977 debut
records. There won't be nearly so many from 1977 making their debut
40 years later in 2017. Here is one which is, TV Eye” - Seventeen
Records Press Release.
So after waiting 33 years to hear more
TV Eye, what do I think? Well....once again let me tell ya....
Opening track Repartee is a
short sharp and sweet blast of Power pop Punk. It's followed by the
beautiful and brilliant uplifting pure pop of Stevies Radio
Station which in turn is swiftly followed by the strutting and
swaggering Citizen Then we
have the angsty and angular, taunt, tense and narcissistic
proto post-punk Let Me Win, more Voidoids than Heartbreakers.
The last of the studio recordings is the intense and grandiose
Dreaming of Your Cars. The
fact that none of these songs saw the light of day at the time is a
rock'n'roll crime. The rehearsal tracks (Roses, When You're
Gone, Cry, Cry To You and Kites are more unearthed gems, Rock'n'Roll
relics that still sparkle and shine through their rough'n'ready no-fi
state, they sound in places like something the Cuddly Toys would come out with
a couple of years later.
TV Eye sound like The Stooges meet the
Stones with a slice of Sparks added to the whole Rock'n'Roll Molotov
cocktail mix. Switch-blades swish and slash as the alley cats
screech, even at their most sensitive these songs scream with a spikey fuck
you attitude and abandon. Dave Kusworths razor sharp guitar
riffs'n'licks duel with the rhythmic chops of Paul Adams guitar,
while the simple and solid rhythm section of Dave Twist's Drum's and
Eamon Duffy's Bass hold it all together and Vocalist Andy Wickets
wired and wild whelps, whoops wails and woo woos, add some theatrics
to the whole show, which unfortunately was a rather short one.
The demise of TV Eye came shortly after
Duffy and Twist joined up to help out The Prefects, Duffy opted to
stay, but Dave Twist returned to TV Eye, who stumbled on but
eventually fell apart by the middle of 1979 and the rest is, as they
say.... history; The Subterranean Hawks, The Rag Dolls, The
Jacobites, and Duran Duran....Friends'n'fans of the band Nick Rhodes
and John Taylor, soon to be a future member of Duran Duran used to
visit the band at their Cheapside rehearsal space and had been
taking notes; Stevies Radio Station later evolved into Rio, and there
is speculation that many other TV Eye ideas were taken by Duran
Duran, once again the rest is history and what could have beens, but
never weres but without these there might never have been The Bounty
Hunters, The Tenderhooks or The Black Bombers.
TV Eye were new romantic glam punksters; ahead of
their time. 1977-1978 is a timeless collection of Rock'n'Roll and
it's time is now! Available from 24th March as a very
limited red vinyl pressing of 300 copies on Seventeen Records, you
also get a four page photo insert and essay by Dave Twist. A CD
release with a couple of extra tracks will follow. What ever the
format this album must be heard at all costs, it's a newly discovered
masterpiece to shake the wall not to hang on the wall. Lovingly
presented and packaged by people that care. This album is indeed a
thing of beauty a work of art, and a must have for anyone with a luv
of Rock'n'Roll at it's most primal and feral.
For more details hit the TV Eye 1977-1978 Facebook Page.
Acknowledgement to Nikki Suddens book The Last Bandit for background info to this piece.
Saturday, 18 February 2017
ANOTHER DAY IN LA, LA LAND!
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in the world of Politricks....Then Tony Fuckin' Blair opens his mouth! Tells all those who voted to remain in the EU to rise up and try and change the minds of the Brexitiers. He hasn't brought about peace in the Middle East, and now he could start a civil war if people still actually belief a word he says. Iraq, now there's a word. People rose up against Blair’s illegal war and took to the streets, he didn't listen to the people then, the truth has been outed, and the arrogant lying cunt thinks people are gonna listen to what he's gotta say, the sad truth is that some people will. He's only unhappy because he's not gonna get the chance to be EU leader, and Brexit is gonna be bad for his business interests.
Thatcher and Blair are why we are where
we are at today; Thatcher along with Reagan and their free market
globalisation project, and Blair’s continuation with it, plus with
added war on terror; terrorists fly planes into buildings, and war
is declared, and the rest is history; Al Qaeda/Islamic State/Syria
total war equals population displacement; refugees become propaganda
pawns.
Having a De-skilled, De-humanised,
De-unionised and dumbed down unemployed workforce helped the growth
of immigration and economic migrants, if the Brits couldn't or
wouldn't do the job, then the Polish, Rumanian workers would, and at
a cheaper wage, which meant bigger profits for the champaign
socialist and Tory bosses.
Big business and
multi-nationals run the world, not the politicians, unless you are
Donald Trump, then you can do both and hid behind claims of "Fake News"
Trump has nothing to do with Russia,
yeah right. Oil deals with Trumps people are on hold till sanctions
are lifted, Trump person resigns over talking to Russia about
lifting sanctions if Trump was elected President. What's that
smell....
This shits nothing new back in 1917
American financial giants and super capitalists The Rockefellers and
others funded the Russian Revolution and continued investing in the
country in order to secure oil reserves for the European market In
1926 Standard Oil of New York built a refinery in Russia. Without
the chaos and destruction of revolution this would not have been
possible.
Sounds familiar.... Iraq, Syria...oil
reserves.... Russian and American involvement in overthrowing and
supporting regimes in order to secure supplies of the black gold, who
would believe it?
North Korean leaders half brother is
assassinated by a couple of women who thought they were taking part
in a TV Prank show. You couldn't make this shit up, or could
you....fake news? Another distraction from the main....attraction,
the same as it's always been Russia and America.
Friday, 17 February 2017
THE VIBRATORS - News Mania!
2017 sounds like it's gonna be a buzzin' year for 'Punk Rock royalty' The Vibrators, with a 4CD Box set soon to be released by Cherry Red Records, which compiles all their recordings for Epic Records between 1976-78 and BBC sessions. Disc's 1 and 2 are the classic albums Pure Mania and V2, both have bonus B-side single tracks. Disc 3 comprises three BBC John Peel show sessions and the four songs they performed on the Old Grey Whistle Test TV show. Disc 4 Is the full nineteen raw mixing desk recording from The Marquee, London in the punk rock summer of 1977. Forty years later and The Vibrators are about to release their 29th album; Past, Present And Into The Future, through PledgeMusic, the album will feature all original members; Knox, Pat Collier, Gary Tibbs, Jon Ellis and Eddie, plus Pete and Darrell from the current line-up. After a listen to the two stomping and slow burning tracks; Just Another Day and Loose Change (which are available for pledgers to download) and you know the rest of the album is gonna be worth more than just a listen. Details about the Box set can be found here at Cherry Red Records, and to sign up for the PledgeMusic Campaign click here. In uncertain and unstable times, it's good to have something solid to hold on to and The Vibrators are rock solid!
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Sunday, 5 February 2017
THIS IS NOT THE NEWS AT TEN!
Fake news, alternative facts and
Bullshit broadcasts, there is no truth just propaganda and Orwellian
New-speak; these are the real weapons of mass destruction as the
powers that we let be try to manipulate the minds of the masses.
It's all about control, and it will take less than 45 minutes!
If people don't know the truth or
aren't told the truth then they will believe anything.
Brexit, the big lie....£350 million
will be spent on NHS when Britain leaves EU....Bullshit, will it! I
know several people who based their decision to vote leave on the
basis of this alternative fact. I tried to tell them that it wasn't
gonna happen, and that it was a lie to get their vote, but they
didn't believe me!
Soon no-one will Know the truth, there
will be No truth. The people will be fooled all the time, as they
have been for most of the time. Now is the time, more people are
starting to see through the lies that they had previously been told
were the truth; Hillsborough, WOMD in Iraq etc. Citizens get angry!
Fight truth decay, before the lies rot it away!
Totalitarian states are built on
miss-information....they divide, they rule!
Let us see what the future brings, and
it will begin with what we take to the party. (It won't be any veg that's for sure, sniff, sniff....what's that I smell....BULLSHIT!) Citizens of the world
unite, we will have nothing to lose when a new dawn rises on not just
another day! It may not be tomorrow, but it is coming. Trust me! That's if they haven't turned everyone into a vegetable!
....STOP PRESS....STOP PRESS....STOP PRESS....
In some sort of art imitating life media statement I see that Channel4 have announced that next week is fake news week and are broadcasting a series of programs about the phenomena. Strange and interesting times that is for sure. Stay tuned folks!
Sunday, 29 January 2017
THE BRAINIAC 5 - Journey To X (*A REVIEW*)
The Braniac 5's new album is indeed a Journey....It is a full on post-psychedelic prog rock punk trip! Absorbing and atmospheric, Pink Floyd meets Yes on the hallucinogenic highway along with some folk and jazz that they've picked up along the way. The songs submerge the listener in sound, The Human Scapegoat is a twelve minute mystical exploration that warns of progress, self destruction and a need to search for a simpler life, while The World Inside swings and seduces you. If you fancy summat a bit different from yer usual Punk'n'Roll The Braniac 5's Journey To X is one well worth taking.
WHAT'S DONALD BEEN TRUMPING ABOUT?
The usual shit....
First week in office has seen
agreements signed away, Walls to go up, when it's bridges that are
needed. It's a time to connect not to contain and constrict. Why
should the rest of the world worry about what goes on in America?
Apart from a return to the dark ages, as Trump bars Muslims from
everywhere except Saudi Arabia from entering the USA, Money talks,
Bullshit walks! Rights and Civil Liberties are signed away in a
fervour of fear. Why indeed should the rest of the world care?
Well....where people lead others
follow, and as leader of the so-called Free World, the position of
President is a rather important role for a Misogynistic Bigot to
have, it will legitimise similar behaviours in people; the rise of
Race hate crime, sexism in the work place etc, That's if we let it
happen. Like it or not Brexit and Trump have happened. We have to
accept that, but what we don't have to accept is the Bullshit! Or
'Alternative facts' as Trumps people call it! The truth is Trump,
Farage and Hopkins are all Cunts'n'Cows. It's the Pied Piper and the
Emperors New Clothes master race mash-up mix based on popularism and
a perverted Democracy where the loser becomes the winner and some
times they don't even get elected by the people.
Talking of which....
British Prime Sinister Theresa May
visits Washington; shakes the hand, kisses the arse then sucks the
cock of Donald Trump, Trade, trade, trade, export, export, import,
import, money, money, money. Gotta get a good deal for Ukplc at any
cost, and money comes before morals in the 'special relationship'
just look at what Maggie and Ronnie got up to in the 80's! This is
gonna be an er(a)ror of a new form of globalisation with a dark
fascist heart, if fascists have a heart. This is also gonna be a
time for mass protests across the globe as citizens of the world
unite, remember we have nothing to lose except our freedoms!
Friday, 20 January 2017
THE GODFATHERS - A Big Bad Beautiful Noise - (*A REVIEW*)
Peter Coyne, The Godfathers only
remaining original member said he wanted their new album to be
a....”Kick arse contemporary Rock'n'Roll record that expands upon
the musical legacy of the great Godfathers albums - Hit By Hit, Birth School Work Death, More Songs About Love And Hate and Unreal World. And I believe
we've done that.” and he's right, they have! Peter maybe the last
man standing, but ….these new boys of his rock in a way The
Godfathers have never rocked before, there are some anthemic moments
like the albums closing track You and Me against the World,
which is a real lighters in the air guitarfest moment for outsiders
everywhere. The whole affair is kicked off by the post apocalyptic
sonic molotov cocktail of the title and opening track A Big Bad
Beautiful Noise, which like several on the album; Defibrillator
and
Feedbacking
have heavy traces and large doses of Hawkwindesq spaced
out psychedelia and Stooges stoner rock, others, like One Good
Reason verge toward Lou Reed and Velvet Underground, while You
Don't Love Me and Lets
Get Higher recall the The Godfathers of old. Then there are some
new Pop/Rock hooks on Till My Heart
Stops Beating and the tribal stomp of Poor Boys Son plus an aching guitar ballad She's Mine It is indeed
contemporary, check out Miss America for a timely attack on
the land of the free, and musically, well some of these tracks
wouldn't sound out of place on a Primal Scream album. Big Bad
Beautiful Noise....It does what it says on the tin and more It is a
potent and explosive mixture of songs, something for everyone, an
album that makes you feel.... so alive! What more can you ask for in
a Rock'n'Roll record?
Sunday, 8 January 2017
UN-PUBLISHED/POSTED/FINISHED/EDITED WRITINGS AND REVIEWS FROM 2016.
Prescription drugs fuck you up! Stress
and anxiety fucks you up! Yoga and whale music ain’t my thing.
Count to 10 deep breaths....BANG! That don't work I just wanna
explode. Counselling / therapy maybe, but from my experiences those
doing the listening are just as fucked up as those doing the talking,
except their making a living out of our feelings. Prescription
drugs control the anger/energy, reduce the stress and anxiety, but
suppress feelings, creativity and thinking. Just like they want the
people to be. Well not this one anymore. It's been a struggle but
I'm busting through and getting the writing going. Thinking hasn't
been the problem....Too much? Probably! But there's been a lot to
think about on the macro level; Brexit, Trump, Syria etc, and on a
micro level, well....that's my war, in my head! The struggles on
both levels continue and I will keep on keeping on addressing them in
my own time with my own mind.
Thank goodness for Rock'nRoll to
continue to shine a light in dark times. 'cos this year's seen some
fucking good shit: THE RUTS – This Music Must Destroy / UK SUBS –
Ziezo / SLAUGHTER AND THE DOGS – Vicious / THE WITCHDOKTORS –
Voodoo Eye / THE FOLK DEVILS – Beautiful Monsters /BLACK BOMBERS –
Black Bombers / REACTION – Accelerator / BAD BREEDING – Bad
Breeding / ENEMIES OF PROMISE / CONTINENTAL LIASONS / THE DeRELLAS /
Easy Actions continuing NIKKI SUDDEN
collections, has seen a lovely 3 CD Box Set of Treasure Island hit
the market earlier this or last year, complimented by the release of
a blistering live set from Berlin’s Quasimodo Club
Some I reviewed and some I didn't, and I've probably forgotten to mention a few more, but.... Hey, Ho!
Had a few technical difficulties not
just in my mind but also in the Laptop's, which has days were it's
not responding; more memory needed, attacked by viruses and generally
fucked. yeah know that feeling sometimes....now where was I?
Yeah....so uploading music is/has been a bit of an issue/hassle,
hoping to get this resolved.
Hold on tight cos I reckon 2017 is
gonna be a bumpy ride Just gotta stay strong and keep on keepin' On!
ZIEZO....an Un-posted/published/edited/finished UK SUBS Review from Nov 2016.
The final UK Subs alphabet album
bottles the “spirit of our time” into a fantastic and
inspirational brew for those of us old and wise enough not to have
fully grown up.
I Get the same feeling of excitement as I
did as an impressionable youngster when I first heard Another Kind
Of Blues. The 'Subs must have made an impression, because here I am
Thirty Six years later still in their stranglehold, raving about
their latest album. After 26 albums one for each letter of the
alphabet, Charlie Harper has achieved his (possible) Guinness World
Record busting goal, and Ziezo. that's it....
Ziezo is Dutch I believe for that's it
The album cover takes the past and
makes it the present as it resembles and has echoes of the Another
Kind of Blues sleeve. So where do the UK Subs go from here?
It has been a long hard road the Subs
have travelled along, throughout this journey.
If this is to be their last album, well
they've certainly finished up on a high and with some style and
substance. Timeless.
Ska Punk Rock'n'Roll crunching riffs,
powerhouse drumming give a pummelling and pounding power to the songs.
As always lyrically tuned in to the
world around them, musically varied.
It's well produced, well played and
just.... well fucking good! Up there with the best of 'em. Even a
couple of possible fillers are killers, and Banksy has got to be up
there in the top ten of Subs tunes.
Its fitting that this release was
funded by the fans through pledge music
Charlie, Alvin, Jet and Jamie are the
final classic UK Subs line-up from W to Z they have rocked out as
powerfully as any of the previous classics
World domination for the UK Subs,
because they deserve it!
Monday, 2 January 2017
NEW YEAR! I dunno if it's gonna be a HAPPY one though.... Depends on what side of the bed yer sleeping on!
I recently heard on the radio the Uber
Right Wing Farage'n'Trump loving Katie Hopkins saying that the Left
refer to the Brexit and President Trump votes happening as a result
of populism because they don't know what else to call it. Well
here's some news for you, it's called FASCISM!, they know that and
they also know it could be coming our way. Right and Left unite,
they have more in common than they care or dare to admit, because
they are all a bunch of Dic(k)tators! History shows this to be the
case! I also heard that the BBC are promoting something called
'Oneness' It sounds like the Great British state are trying to
create some sort of post-Brexit social cohesion and consensus by
brainwashing people to feel united and together ready for what the
future might bring. A good thing surely? Well, no, because I've got
more news for you. Oneness and Togetherness are not the same thing.
One is about being a single minded unity, the other is about groups
working in co-operation with each other. One promotes differences,
the other division by prejudice and scapegoating those that are
different. People like Katie Hopkins and organisations like the BBC
are the enemy of the people!
Concentration Camps and
Gulags....there's a fine line between Fascism and Communism. They
are different sides of the same coin....Euro/Pound/Dollar/Yen. 2017
the year the Capitalist coin stops spinning, history will decide who
had luck on their side.
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
URBAN DOGS - Attack (*A REVIEW*)
Attack, The Urban Dogs fifth album is a
real feast. A beautifully crafted and constructed twelve track (Ten
originals and a couple of covers) masterpiece that defies musical
categorization; chunks of Punk, Garage, Rock, R'n'B and Psychedelia
have been fed into the Urban Dogs musical blender and produced a
collection of songs that really are Another Kind of Blues. The genre
busting sound of Attack is down to the three distinct and different
styles of song writing and singing of Knox, Charlie Harper and Alvin
Gibbs and their collective influences, mustn't forget Drummer Mathew
Best who provides a solid beat from the back.. the Urban Dogs are greater than the sum of their parts.All over the album
guitars bleed and cry harmonicas wail and the rhythm throbs. The
sound is menacing the pace is at times fast and hard and at others
slow and smouldering. Stand out tracks? all of them, there's no
sitting down here! We are Machines is a haunting unholy
hum, a dark and intense short circuit of a song that burns slowly
into yer skull. Goddamn Liar, a vicious vitriolic attack on all
politicians by Bass, Guitar and Drums....Crash, Bang, Wallop! Then
there's Pawnshop Special a harmonica driven fucked up Faces boogie.
Storm of Golgotha Tonight throbs and pulses, while the recent single
Trick Or Treat is a sinister spaced out strum about. The cover of
Johnny Thunders You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory tears away
the tenderness from the bone leaving behind a beefed up beast of a
tune with added punk rock Hammond organ that bares only a passing
resemblance to the original, this is a good thing....Total Punk Rock!
Even the standard RnB fodder of I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone sounds
fresh and rejuvenated in the hands of the Urban Dogs and their 21st
Century Blues. Attack is available over at Time and MatterRecordings.
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!
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