The Recollections Of Josef Porter…
With full permission of Gary Hatcher, Kill Your Pet Puppy present an amusing journey into the early life of one Josef Porter, one time sticks man of The Entire Cosmos, Zounds, Null And Void, and The Mob, now of course still performing every now and again with Blyth Power.
From the pre-punk years, forward onto all the major events in the small localised Somerset community of bands and faces, onto the free festival scene, squatting in west London, Crass and the non appearance of Zounds at the 1980 Stonehenge free festival. All the recollections are here written with wit and gusto, and the good news is that there is much more to come.
A wonderfully written personal history, at times hilarious which should be printed chapter by chapter and placed in a folder to read.
The chapters, when chosen, will dump the reader onto the host site, which is the Blyth Power official site. Have a mooch about that site while you are visiting…
More chapters to be added when they become available from Gary Hatcher. Looking forward to those immensely.
To be continued…
May 28th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Really enjoyed reading these. Its made me pick up Gormenghast again.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Fascinating, laugh out loud stuff from the legend that is Gary Hatcher, mead-snatcher. He’s got a knack for this kind of thing, hasn’t he?
More please soon.
October 19th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
[...] of my favourite bits of KYPP is Josef Porter’s ongoing serialised autobiography, Genesis to Revolutions, with tales of squats, trains, chillums and his time in bands like Zounds and the Mob. [...]
June 7th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
A new chapter in the Josef Porta cronicles of them olde daze with Zounds added tonight. A real rib tickler! Go on you know you want to. Chapter Eleven.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Brilliant. Never been to Berlin myself .. think I’ve missed out there.
Enjoying this series a lot.