On the 21st August 2026, we learned of the saddening news that Mick ‘Lugworm’ Queally AKA ‘Luggy’ had passed on. May he continue to rest in peace. This news was greeted with much sadness throughout his family, his friends, and also the people who were around him in the early eighties, when he was a […]
I sent David at Earth Island Books an anarchist flag image, just a ‘flat’ image, and I asked David to try make the flag look as though it was ‘flying in the wind’ across the whole width of the book. This I assumed would not happen as I had no idea that it could be […]
I was handed a copy of the book; Punk: A Tale of Abuse, Addiction and Survival by Gary Morgan, some months ago, and I was inspired enough to place up this new KYPP post to let browsers know about the book, which is an autobiography and a difficult read in parts. “Darkness lies in every […]
Mickey Penguin & Tim Wells – Finsbury Park Sometime last year I was in Camden for Tim Well’s book launch for his book; ‘Crown and Anchor’, which is available from Spinners publishing. The ‘Crown and Anchor’ book contains a dozen short ghost stories, each story revolves around an everyday item or object. This sounds mad, […]
ALL THE WORDS BELOW ARE WRITTEN BY GERARD WHO USED TO FRONT THE BAND FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN. GERARD IS ALSO A WRITER OF BOOKS NOTABLY; ‘THE STORY OF CRASS’ (UNDER THE NAME GEORGE BERGER). GERARD HAS ALSO WRITTEN FOR SOUNDS, MELODY MAKER, AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AMONGST OTHERS. PRIOR TO THE BOOK; ‘THE STORY OF […]
Mick ‘Skinner’ Baker on the left with Chris Almond. The five books written by Mick ‘Skinner’ Baker; guitarist of Virus V1 are about growing up in the late seventies and early eighties. From Mick’s school days, through to his obsessive interest in punk rock, eventually forming the band Virus V1 in 1982. There are many […]
Looking For A Kiss – PC-PRESS. A story of two lovers, Robert, and Marlene, who’s love has long faded. The story is mostly based in the early eighties, in and around the London of that period, a London that is now largely gentrified. The story seems to float around in a dream-like state […]
ADAM MORRIS – MY WORDS I got to know Adam Morris around 1987 when I would visit him at his day job, working at Shigaku at the Metrostore in Acton, a company that was punting out the finest export records to shops and mail order companies (like my own small record and tape distribution service […]
CEASE AND RESIST – SONIC SUBVERSION AND ANARCHO PUNK IN THE UK 1979 – 1986 – OPTIMO MUSIC Cease And Resist – Sonic Subversion and Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 is compiled by JD Twich and Chris Low and released on the Optimo Music record label. Ten years in the making, this double […]
1985 – 1986: SOME WORDS – Mickey Penguin. I am thinking about Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with fondness, after I heard the sad news of his passing during the evening of the 14th March at the age of seventy years old. I was remembering the times that I spent at Beck Road in Hackney, and the […]