Alex Fergusson returns
Interviewed in Ripped & Torn issue 2, Alex Fergusson was then in a band called The Nobodies. After the issue was published Alex moved to London and helped out with ideas for Ripped & Torn (I had also moved down to London) and formed Alternative TV with Mark Perry. Initially Throbbing Gristles Genesis P Orrige was their drummer. After Alternative TV, Alex joined up...
Ripped & Torn 11 cover star returns
Ripped & Torn issue 11 cover star Faebhean Kwest rehearsing the Cuddly Toys song Madmen with Guru Honey Badger singer Rachel Darq. There’s more to come from these two as they develop songs Faebhean wrote for the film maker Kenneth Anger. This is just a taster of the forthcoming magic.
Book from Ripped & Torn fanzines
Ecstatic Peace Library Ecstatic Peace Library publishers have kindly turned all the pages of my Ripped & Torn fanzines, plus Ripping Christmas, into a book which is great news all round. See their website for more details plus some reviews and images from inside the book. Here is the cover. This is created from some of my many ways of writing Ripped & Torn on the cover of...
Ian Dury Live in Paris 1981
01. “Wake Up (And Make Love To Me)” 02. “Sink My Boats” 03 “Delusions of Grandeur” 04. “Dance of the Crackpots” 05. “What a Waste” 06. “Hey! Hey! Take Me Away” 07. “Hit Me (With Your Rhythm Stick)” 08. “Sweet Gene Vincent’
Killing Joke John Peel Session 1980
The complete session recorded by Killing Joke on 5 March 1980 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 17th of that month. Tracklist: 1. Change (0:07) 2. Tomorrow’s World (4:27) 3. Complications (9:21)
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Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
by Jamie Havlin 1976 started with some sickening statistics in Scotland, January proving to be the country’s most murderous ever month on record, with seven killings in Glasgow alone and…
Desert Island Discs – Richard Cabut
Richard Cabut produced the fanzine ‘Kick’, wrote for the music press under the pen name Richard North, and played bass and proselytised for the punk band Brigandage. He lives in…
Were Pink Floyd punk?
Well, were they? (You can comment at the bottom of the page) Here they are, below, live in Brighton 1972. At their height, apparently. But were they punk? They were…
Alistair Livingston Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs- Alistair Livingston Alistair Livingstone was a part of the Kill Your Pet Puppy collective, danced onstage with the Mob at many gigs and was one of the…
Malcolm McLaren – his life, authenticity vs karaoke culture
“Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Txt Pistols” Malcolm’s McLaren’s “Reflections on Learning” keynote presented at the Handheld Learning Conference 2009, London. Malcolm discusses his life, the challenges that authenticity…
John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street into Beasley Boulevard
The times they have a changed, from the Street to the Boulevard:
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