Month: April 2011
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Welcome to the United Police State of RoyalWeddingStan
Seriously this is why I didn’t watch it nor go near town during that event. Protest of any sort was banned, and many people were arrested and squats raided well before the event including the exceedingly peaceful Charlie Veitch of the Love Police who I’ve featured here…while the media went into overdrive to brainwash people…
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The Big Bad Post Coachella Round Up (yee ha!)
Every hipster kid with their ironic day glo kids shades, feathers in their hair (yes really) and ironic t’s have done their roundups of Coachella but I haven’t done mine – I don’t do what the hipsters are doing…so now it’s like, so uncool it’s time for me to rock the joint. Fuck yeah *fist…
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God Loves Rock and Roll and Smash Up Derby!
Video I shot while at Bootie Aprilween in San Francisco – it’s Smash Up Derby (with Zombie Elvis – Adrian, Zombie John Bonham – Dada no less) doing their NIN vs Joan Jett live mashup ‘Closer to Rock n Roll’ – with added furry SQURRRL invasion! Loads of fun, and yes that’s Jeb and me…
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Back to 89…again with Friendly Fires
I would love this video from Friendly Fires harking back to the summer of rave – 1989 and the sentiment about missing it and being told ‘you don’t get it’ by those who were there (I missed going to raves – no car, no drugs, no money, and in the uncoolest place on earth). The…
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Oh cancer, up yours – RIP Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex
Today comes the surprises news of the death of Poly Styrene at 53 from cancer…she was the lead singer of X-Ray Spex which had a very short but influential career in 1976-9, playing Rock Against Racism with the Clash and later reforming and producing their second album. Sad cos she’d just released a solo album…
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Of Birthday Kilts and Bootie London
Bootie London went with a bang (almost literally with Eric Kleptone above with birthday sparkler!) and it was a few days after my birthday too, so I treated myself to a long-wanted kilt and turned up as sort of ZZ-Top/Scottish/biker/leather mashup wearing a leather vest, a black traditional kilt (in true Scottish style, of course!…