Friday 30 November 2012
Wednesday 28 November 2012
"We're GODS LONELY MEN"
Gods Lonely Men are not The Lurkers,
well they are, except in name. Original Lurkers Pete Stride, Nigel
Moore and Esso have got together with a new name that gives a nod to
the past and a bunch of songs from the present. It's hard not to
compare GLM to The Lurkers, so I'll try not to. I've not got a lot
to go on as moneys tight so I haven't been able to buy a copy of the
album, but I have heard the three tracks posted on their website,
which are worthy enough of a review. GLM have a dark and heavy
sound, while still maintaining those trade mark Lurker guitar
licks'n'riffs and that rhythm. Vocal duties are handled by Pete,
with his distinctive vocal delivery. Every Night's A Story, is a
catchy little chugger of a tune. Surviving is a half spoken half
sung tune that gets into yer head and buzzes about. Chemical
Landslide which is available here to download for free is a no
frills but a lots of thrills blast of old school punk pop. A welcome
return to Pete, Nigel and Esso, and on the strength of these three
tracks, if I had it, I would splash the cash on a copy of the album.
So if you've got it, go spend it here!
Sunday 25 November 2012
THE VIBRATORS - Live on 'Revolver' in 1978
Today’s
musical offering is another Vibrators recording. Only one track;
Judy Says (Knock You In The Head), performed live on ITV's short
lived music show Revolver, which was introduced by the legendary
comedian Peter Cook. This
is what the British Film Industry website says about the show.
“Revolver‘s
most innovative element was designed to evoke the confrontational
atmosphere associated with punk gigs. Peter Cook was invited to guest
on the programme on the strength of the notorious Derek and Clive
recordings, which shared with punk a kind of adolescent, deliberately
puerile nihilism. In the guise of the seedy manager of the rundown
nightclub rented out to the TV company, Cook would appear on a video
screen, sneering at the acts and antagonising the studio audience.”
Here
are The Vibrators giving it some punk rock attitude on Revolver
sometime between July – Sept 1978. Enjoy!
Another Sunday Sermon.
Further to yesterdays post. It now
transpires that the children, (there were more than one) who were
taken away from their adoptive parents by a local council's social
services department, because they belonged to a political party that
wants independence from Europe, were from Eastern Europe. Does this
make any difference to the decision, or should it? The answer is No!
That is unless this is some new policy by UKIP and other right wing
parties, to encourage its members to adopt children from non British
backgrounds in order to harm them, no matter how cynical and
untrusting I am of politicians, especially those that lean to the
right, and how much I love a conspiracy theory, I don't think that
this is the case at the moment.
Many people, including MP's may think
that UKIP are one short goose step away from the BNP, but
unfortunately that's the price we have to pay for living in a
democratic society; the freedom of speech and free elections, which
is why everyone should be allowed their say, no matter how odious
their policies are, just because they have their say it doesn't mean
people have to listen, but it's hard for some to distinguish the
truth from the media’s propaganda and the politicians lies, they
read it in the papers and see it on the news, so it must be true.
The headlines on one of todays papers
scream that David Cameron is “Set to defy Leveson over new press
laws” do we believe that? No we don't, I mean just how many U
turns has this present government done over things recently, I've
lost count.
I'm sick of the celebrity culture
created by the media, and their perpetuation of it, I'm sick of the
scapegoating and stigmatisation of some sections of society in the
pages of the right wing press, just as much as I'm sick of the
liberal lefty sit on the fence stance adopted by other publications.
Banning the banal, the libellous and the trivial might make Britain a
better society, but it will also make it a less free one.
Saturday 24 November 2012
"Working for the clampdown"
Britain's establishment is homophobic,
sexist and fascist; Conservatives against legalising gay marriage, a
clergy that doesn't want women bishops, and now a Local Council has
taken away a child from its adoptive parents because they are both
members of the UKIP Political party. Next our freedom of speech and
freedom of the press will be under threat. The Leveson Report into
press standards is due to be published soon? I wonder what findings
there are and what the recommendations will be, and how these are
enforced and controlled, as we move closer to a one party
totalitarian state!
Wednesday 21 November 2012
"Warning this report contins graphic images that some viewers may find disturbing"
Bombed and bullet ridden bodies lie
burnt and bloody on roads paved with bullshit. From the Middle East
to Africa and South America, the war machine thunders on fuelled by
western dollars, pounds and francs and the Russian ruble. John Lennon said "War is over if you want it." But they don't want peace, because it's like someone (whose name escapes me) said "War is the health of the state." The war machine will never stop, because wars make money, and human life is cheap to those in power!
Sunday 18 November 2012
COLBERT HAMILTON and THE HELLRAZORS - Re-post.
“Colbert Hamilton is the UK's
original Black Elvis with his own unique style embracing all aspects
of the traditions of Rock'n'Roll and Blues. The Black Elvis persona
is no gimmick but a stunning evocation of Elvis' roots. Colbert has an impressive musical
pedigree. During his career he has collaborated with established
artists and writers including Danny Mitchell who has written for
Ultravox, and has played with various bands such as THE NITROS and
THE HELLRAZORS He has supported Dead or Alive on BBC Radio1 In
Concert and also Sigue Sigue Sputnik. He was one of the last unknown
artists to collaborate with Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy fame. He has
had the privilege of jamming with The Sweet Inspirations – two
original members of Elvis' 70's backing group”
Above blurb taken from Colberts
website.
MARTIAN DANCE - Re-post. An Anthology (1980-81)
Martian
Dance were a relatively short lived band from the early 80’s, blink
and you’d have missed ‘em. They had a sound that was close to
Adam and The Ants, and crossed that Post Punk New Romantic divide, if
there’d been any justice in Thatcher’s Britain, (which there
wasn’t) they would have been as popular as Duran Duran, instead
they disappeared without trace. I
originaly posted the two peel sessions and the live set from the
Marquee as individual downloads, this time around I've put them all
together here as an anthology. Enjoy!
Respect and thanx to Pete who made these available to me a few years back.
IT'S CRIMINAL....
The cost of the recent Police and Crime
Commissioner Elections was reputedly and reported to be £100
million, this wasn't just a waste of money, in times of austerity,
which is what our leaders tell us these days are, it was economic
negligence, and something the people didn't want to take part in, as
only 14% of them actually turned out to vote, at one polling station
no-one turned up.
I didn't know who was standing in my
area, until a few days before polling took place, not that I really
wanted to know, because like I said in a previous post, having these
commissioners is another step closer to a legitimised police state in
Britain. The question that should have been asked of the people was
do you want an elected Police and Crime Commissioner? and then tell
the people just how much it would cost in order to have one! Don't
reckon many people would have thought it was a good idea, because the
money could have been spent elsewhere.
Yes the public are unhappy about the
Police and crime, for example; with the number of 'bobbies on the
beat' Why have the numbers of police on the streets dropped? Because
of all the economic cut backs! and the powers that we let be thought
it would be a good idea to spend a fortune on a campaign to elect
someone to act on behalf of the public in holding the police to
account. Why?
Because the state had to impose the
idea of the public electing these commissioners in order to make the
link between the politicians and the police a legitimate and
democratic one.
Despite such a low turnout, those that
have been elected as Police and Crime Commissioners will have a
mandate to make decisions, yet the government is campaigning to make
it illegal for strikes to take place if less than 50% of Union
members vote in the ballot to take strike action. Now that's fucking
democracy for you! One rule for them and one rule for us!!
Sunday 11 November 2012
THE VIBRATORS - Live on 'The Speakeasy' with Jimmy Savile BBC Radio (Oct 1977)
I think this one got removed during the
mediafire clampdown, but it seems quite a topical time to do a
re-post, plus it's a great session and a slice of Punk Rock history
from one of my favourite bands.. Unlike the BBC I will not airbrush
the past. It is what it is....a recording of THE VIBRATORS
performing four numbers (London Girls, Flying Duck Theory, 24 Hour
People, Warzone.) on the BBC's Speakeasy Radio program in Oct 1977,
the show was hosted by Jimmy Savile, who introduces the band,
explaining that during rehearsals they played so loud that the people
in the news room upstairs complained, and The Vibrators had to be
turned down. Here you go then....The Vibrators introduced by
Jimmy Savile. Enjoy!
Credit to Marky Dread who passed this
recording to me many moons ago.
WHATSBEENHAPPENING!
In 41 police force areas across Britain
there are Elections for Police and Crime Commissioners coming up.
Across the country people will be able to vote for someone to
represent them by holding the Police to public account. The roll of
commissioner is also to help produce policing plans and set out
police policies for local communities. Three quarters of the
candidates have political allegiances and alliances, this is not
good!
Once politics and the police get into
bed with each other, we are fucked! and it's the conception of a
legitimate British police state that can be born in the future;
because the public have voted for Police Commissioners with political
allegiances. Who will have the power to control the police and how
they enforce the law and maintain order;
Softly, Softly or Robo Cop? You decide,
but how much do people trust their choices? Cos I certainly don't,
not with the reactionary, scaremongering media and their mind control
orders.
Will many people vote? Just how much do
people care about who makes the decisions?
With recent public criticism of the
police's behaviour and conduct; Hillsboro ugh, Ian Tomlinson, it
would seem that the police do need to be held to account by the
public. The public are also unhappy about the way the streets are
being policed, and how the law is enforced. Within the Police force
itself moral is low, officers are unhappy with senior management.
The police have always been servants of
the state, but not under total state control. by politicising the
police this would change. Who's gonna police the police?.... The
people the police really serve, that's who!
We are already living in a 24/7
surveillance society, with mechanisms already in place in place The
Criminal Justice Bill, Anti Terror Laws, just a couple of things that
spring to mind, along with new Squatting Laws,
If you haven't done anything wrong why
should you be scared of living in a police state? But who decides
what is right and wrong in say 30 years time?
In relation to the whole Jimmy Savile
shit storm, it could be said that we are judging his and other
celebrities actions around young girls with a different set of moral
values, in the past for want of a better word, it seemed more
acceptable in the entertainment industry to have relationships with
young women, John Peel even ran a schoolgirl of the year competition
on a radio show of his. Yet as a society a decade into the new
millennium we have seen young people becoming sexualised at a younger
age through for example fashion.
It's all contradictions
Blanket coverage of US Elections in the
British media recently, yes it's important who runs the worlds most
powerful country, so will we see same amount on Chinas communist
party changing its leadership. Or will it be all about the
paedophiles and child abuse. Jim has fixed it!
Looks like the paedophiles have it, or
rather its all about the media and how they have handled recent
stories about child abuse. The BBC have come off rather worse,
criticism of their Newsnight Programs failure to run with an
investigation into Jimmy Savile, saw them investigate allegations of
abuse in a care home in Wales involving a former top Tory MP.
Newsnight alluded to who the MP might
be, which saw the MP in question jump to defend himself and deny any
involvement in child abuse. His initial accuser now says he made a
mistake, and it was someone different. Heads have rolled at the BBC
can the organisation still be trusted? No more than politicians and
the police. ITV is just as guilty, on it's This Morning program the
Prime Minister was given a list with names of alleged Tory
paedophiles on and asked to comment, they'd got the list from the
internet. Mrs Wolfs mum sent me a link to 'the list' a week or so
ago, she knows my dislike of politicians. But.... even I can't
believe that Jimmy Savile procured young boys/girls for former Prime
Minister Gordon Brown, or did he and in fact it's.... The Big Lie;
something so unbelievable, that it is actually true. Trial by
Twitter, but what if some accusations are true, and there are
paedophiles in high places like Houses of Parliament or the BBC.
By discrediting these allegations future investigations of inappropriate sexual improprieties by figures in the establishment will be harder to carry out. Everything is covered up, the guilty stay hidden, protected by their system and the old boy public school network.
The one thing that is getting forgotten about is that children were abused in care homes, where there was no care,
they have lived with the abuse they suffered and are now speaking
out, I don't think this story will go away, if anything it provides a
big distraction from bigger lies.
The media, especially TV have acted dangereously and destructively in the way they have handled the whole abuse story/scandal.
Freedom of the media and the internet is going to become under threat in the wake of this whole affair. The there are going to be the findings of the Leveson Enquirey into press standards, brought about by the phone hacking scandal.
How long before the political parties
really do start to control the media. Perhaps we could vote on a
commissioner for the BBC, to hold the organisation to account.
Sunday 4 November 2012
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