Annie Anxiety – Cyanide Tears – Alternative Mixes – 1981 / Rema Rema – 1978 & 1979 – Inflammable Material Records – 2014 & 2015 / The Snipers – Crass Records – 1981 / Colin Conflict and Steve Ignorant Discuss The Brixton Academy Gig 1987 / Honey Bane – Sounds Weekly Music Paper Interview – 1983 / Nox Mortis – Demo Cassette Tape – 1987

Annie Anxiety – Cyanide Tears – Mix 1 Annie Anxiety – Cyanide Tears – Mix 2 Presenting two mixes of Annie Anxiety’s ‘Cyanide Tears’. Both mixes are from the original Southern Studio recordings. The song ‘Cyanide Tears’ is intense, and both mixes are altered enough to be worthy of inclusion on this YouTube post. The […]

Rubella Ballet / Conflict – Starlight Rooms, West Hampstead, London, NW6 – 13/02/82

Conflict – Starlight February 1982 material Rubella Ballet – Starlight February 1982 material Annie Anxiety also performed first on stage at this gig, next on were Conflict, headlining for the night Rubella Ballet with Pete Fender on guitar. No track-listing because I had things to do round the house so could not listen to it […]

THE TONY DRAYTON INTERVIEW VIDEOS – ZEN 23 PODCAST – 2023

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 […]

VIRUS V1 – LIVE PERFORMANCES 1982 & 1983 – THE CXNTERBURY TALES BOOK SERIES BY MICK ‘N’ BAKER

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 […]

Diary Of An Anarcho-Goth-Punk Fiend: An essay by Al Puppy

THIS POST HAS BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD FROM THE ORIGINAL POSTING DATE OF DECEMBER 2007 – IN REMBERENCE OF ALISTAIR  I found a diary I kept through 1983. Here are some edited highlights. Of interest is the movement on from punk (anarcho / goth) towards first Psychic TV and second Stonehenge, but also the politics – […]

Subway Surfing Anarcho-Goths: An essay by Al Puppy

Subway Surfing Anarcho-Goths Legend has it that when Tony D first saw Jeremy Gluck of The Barracudas, he was carrying a surfboard down an escalator at Holborn tube station in 1978. The Barracudas were a surf-punk band, celebrating early sixties California in late seventies London. They even had a hit in (?) with ‘I Want […]

The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 – 1987 / Blood And Roses – Kamera Records – 1983 / Tribesman – Boa Records – 1979 / Peter Tosh – Intel HIM Diplo Records – 1973 / Crass – Aklam Hall – 1979

The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 Side 1 The Astronauts – All The Madmen Records – 1983 Side 2 ‘It’s All Done By Mirrors’ released on All The Madmen Records was the first album by The Astronauts that I bought. I retrospectively bought the debut album ‘Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs’ shortly […]

Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night – Richard Cabut & Andrew Gallix / No Future: Punk, Politics And British Youth Culture 1976 – 1984 – Matthew Worley

PUNK IS DEAD: MODERNITY KILLED EVERY NIGHT Co-edited and including essays written by Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix, this original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret – back in the garage, when the cult still had no […]