GLM - THE FUTURE I5 CALLING. (*A REVIEW*)

“LONELINE55 I5 FOLLOWING MY WHOLE LIFE,
 EVERYWHERE, IN BAR5 AND CAR5,  
5IDEWALK5, 5TORE5 – EVERYWHERE, THERE'5 NO E5CAPE.
 I'M GOD5 LONELY MAN.”
-ROBERT DENIRO A5 TRAVI5 BICKLE IN TAXI DRIVER

YOU CAN'T 5TOP THE ROCK, AND GOD5 LONELY MEN JU5T KEEP ON ROCKIN' FOLLOWING ON FROM MAY'5 A PERFECT 5TORM, THERE'5 ANOTHER NEW TUNE, THE FUTURE I5 CALLING UP ON THEIR WEB PAGE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE, AND YOU'D BE A FOOL IF YOU DIDN'T. IT'5 A 5OLID 5LAB OF 5LEAZY POP'N'ROLL, A5 CATCHY A5 A WINTER COLD AND THE CLO5E5T THEY HAVE COME TO 5OUNDING LIKE THEIR FORMER LURKING 5ELVE5. WITH EVERY RELEA5E THEY UNLEA5H GLM JU5T GET BETTER AND BETTER. HERE'5 TO THE NEXT ONE.

WHERE ARE WE GOING / WHERE HAVE WE BEEN ?

 Duncton, West Sussex (Sept 2013)

KARRY ON KAMPING.

Graffham, West Sussex.(Sept 2013)

THE 5YRIAN 5ITUATION (5OME THOUGHT5.)

THE 5YRIAN 5ITUATION I5 A5 FLUID A5 THE COMPONENT5 THE WE5T 5OLD TO WHOEVER IT WA5 THAT MANUFACTURED AND LAUNCHED THE CHEMICAL WEAPON5 ATTACK IN DAMA5CU5.  THE WE5T MOVE5 BACK FROM THE RED LINE THEY DREW AGAIN5T THE A55AD REGIME. TWENTY FOUR HOUR NEW5 FEED5 AND 5OCIAL MEDIA MAKE 5URE THE WORLD CAN'T AND DOE5N'T LOOK AWAY, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO?

IMAGE5 OF CHILDREN AND A HUMANITARIAN CRI5I5. PROPAGANDA TO TUG AT THE HEART 5TRING5 AND INITIATE AN EMOTIONAL RE5PON5E, WHICH THE BRITI5H PEOPLE DID, AND 70% 5AID NO THEY DIDN'T WANT BRITAIN TO GET INVOLVED. THE MEMORIE5 OF AFGHANI5TAN AND IRAQ ARE 5TILL FRE5H. HAVE LE55ON5 BEEN LEARNED, OR I5 THI5 ALL PART OF LAYING FURTHER FOUNDATION5 FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER BY THE WE5T?, OR I5 IT AN I5LAMI5T PLOT TO GET THE WE5T FURTHER INVOLVED IN THE MIDDLE EA5T? FUCK THE COLD WAR, THI5 5HIT I5 A HOT WAR THAT COULD EXPLODE AT ANYTIME. WITH 5YRIA5 FRIEND IRAN AIMING 5CUD MI55ILE5 AT I5RAEL, AND THE RU55IAN5 DOING WHO KNOW5 WHAT, WITHDRAWING BUI5INE55 INTERE5T5, TURNING OFF THE GA5 5UPPLY.

DAVID CAMERON TAKE5 IT TO PARLIAMENT AND THE MP'5 5AY NO! THAT5 ODD....A GOVERNMENT LI5TENING TO WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT OR IN THI5 CA5E DON'T WANT. CERTAIN 5ECTION5 OF THE MEDIA HAVE TURNED ON CAMERON AND 5AID HE HA5 LO5T CONTROL OF HI5 PARTY, WHY? THE MP'5 DID WHAT THEY ARE 5UPPO5ED TO DO, AND FOR THE FIR5T TIME IN A LONG TIME THE GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT DID THEIR DEMOCRATIC JOB. THEY'RE 5TILL A BUNCH OF CUNT5, BUT THI5 TIME THE CUNT5 U5ED THEIR EAR5.

OVER THE CHANNEL THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT ARE U5EING THE 5ITUATION TO TRY AND DI5TRACT IT'5 PEOPLE FROM THEIR OWN INTERNAL PROBLEM5. THEY HAVE BECOME AMERICA5 NEW BE5T 5TRIKE ON 5YRIA FRIEND5. IN BRITAIN 5OME 5ECTION5 OF THE MEDIA ARE 5POILING FOR A WAR 5AYING THE GOVERNMENT5 LET BRITAIN AND IT'5 GLOBAL 5TANDING DOWN BY 5AYING NO TO ATTACKING 5YRIA. WHO CARE5 ABOUT JINGOI5TIC POLITIC5 AND WHO GIVE5 A FUCK IF THE FRENCH 5UPPORT AMERICA AND WE DON'T. IN THE 5PECIAL RELATION5HIP, LET THE AMERICAN5 HAVE A BIT ON THE 5IDE, AND ANYWAY THE FRENCH MIGHT FIND THEM5ELVE5 ON THEIR OWN IN ATTACKING 5YRIA.

OVER THE POND, AMERICA HAVE TAKEN NOTICE OF BRITAIN AND OBAMA HA5 TAKEN HI5 CA5E FOR ATTACKING 5YRIA TO CONGRE55 FOR THEM TO DECIDE, BUT I  CAN 5EE AMERICA5 HOU5E OF REPRE5ENTATIVE5 5UPPORTING BARACK OBAMA IN ATTACKING 5YRIA, IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE 5O.

WATCH THE PRE55URE GET PILED ON TO THE BRITI5H GOVERNMENT TO GO BACK ON THE VOTE, OR HAVE ANOTHER ONE, E5PECIALLY A5 ALL OF A 5UDDEN THERE I5 EVIDENCE AND INTELLIGENCE COMING FROM EVERYWHERE ABOUT WHO FIRED THE CHEMICAL WEAPON5 AND WHERE FROM. , THE U5 HAVE GOT 5OME, AND 5O HAVE THE FRENCH, AND THI5 I5 BEFORE THE FINDING5 OF THE UN WEAPON5 IN5PECTOR5 I5 PUBLI5HED. IF THEY KNOW ALL THI5 5TUFF NOW AND HAVE BEEN MONITORING THE 5YRIAN 5ITUATION, THEN 5URELY THEY MU5T HAVE KNOWN 5OMETHING WA5 IN THE AIR BEFORE THE CHEMICAL WEAPON5 WERE U5ED. EVERYTHING HAPPEN5 FOR A REA5ON, OR I5 MADE AND LEFT TO HAPPEN 5O AN END RE5ULT I5 ACHIEVED.

THERE MU5T BE OTHER WAY5 OTHER THAN BOMBING 5YRIA BACK TO THE 5TONEAGE, AND INFLICTING MORE CARNAGE UPON IT5 PEOPLE. NO ONE I5 CONDONING THE U5E OF CHEMICAL WEAPON5, APART FROM WHOEVER IT WA5 THAT LAUNCHED THEM, CO5 I'M NOT CONVINCED IT WA5 THE 5YRIAN REGIME WHO WERE BEHIND THE ATTACK, WHAT WOULD A55AD GAIN, OTHER THAN WORLD CONDEMNATION AND THE PO55IBILITY OF MA55IVE WE5TERN RETALIATION, 5OUND5 LIKE A NO BRAINER TO ME, MORE LIKE FORCE5 WHO WANT TO CONTROL THE AREA. EA5T OR WE5T? ONLY HI5TORY WILL TELL WHO5E TRUTH WILL BE WRITTEN. BUT IT I5 WHAT WE BELIEVE NOW THAT REALLY MATTER5

IF THE WE5T DOE5 ATTACK 5YRIA, THEN I CAN'T 5EE IT ENDING WELL, BUT HEY....2014 I5 THE HUNDRED YEAR ANNIVER5ARY OF THE FIR5T WORLD WAR, WHAT BETTER WAR TO REMEMBER IT.... THAN BY HAVING A THIRD ONE!

THE FITS - Lead On EP (*A REVIEW*)

IT'5 BEEN NEARLY 30 YEAR5 5INCE THE FIT5 LA5T RELEA5ED A RECORD, 5O THI5 I5 A WELCOME RETURN.

BEFORE WE LOOK AT THE LATE5T CHAPTER OF THE FIT5 5TORY LET5 GO BACK A FEW YEAR5 TO THE 1980'5 WHEN THE FIT5 5HONE A5 BRIGHTLY A5 THE LIGHT5 ON BLACKPOOL'5 GOLDEN MILE. VOCALI5T MICK CRUDGE WA5 IN5PIRED TO 5ING AFTER 5EEING ADAM AND THE ANT5 IN 1979, AND THE FIT5 WERE BORN. 5EVERAL 5INGLE5 WERE RELEA5ED AND WELL RECEIVED, AND ONE RATHER PATCHY ALBUM YOU'RE NOTHING YOU'RE NOWHERE. THEIR 1982 5INGLE LA5T LAUGH WA5 PRODUCED BY KNOX FROM THE VIBRATOR5, TEAR5 OF A NATION WIDELY ACCEPTED A5 BEING A CLA55IC WA5 RELEA5ED IN 1983 WITH THE HELP OF ARCH ANARCHO5; CRA55, IN 1984 ANOTHER CORKER OF A TRACK, PEACE AND QUIET WA5 RELEA5ED A5 A 5PLIT 5INGLE WITH PUNK PATHETIQUE JOKER5 PETER AND THE TE5T TUBE BABIE5. THE FIT5 WERE NEVER YER AVERAGE PUNK BAND CONFINED BY CONVENTION, THEY WERE A GREAT LITTLE ROCK'N'ROLL BAND THAT CAME FROM ANOTHER GARAGE AND WHO DROVE A DIFFERENT ROUTE DOWN THE ROCK'N'ROLL HIGHWAY. 5O, WHAT ARE THE FIT5 5OUNDING LIKE IN 2013? WELL THE FOUR TRACK5 ON THE EP TAKE UP WERE THE BAND LEFT OFF IN 1986 AFTER THEY'D 5PLIT UP AND BECOME PURE PRE55UE, (I PO5TED A DEMO OF THEIR5 ON HERE AGE5 AGO, 5EEK AND YE WILL FIND) THE PUNK ROCK HAD DEVELOPED INTO A 5LIGHTLY MORE .5TRIPPED DOWN ROCK 5OUND. ONLY MICK CRUDGE AND RICKY MCGUIRE REMAIN FROM PREVIOU5 FIT5 LINE UP5. RICKY WENT ON TO PLAY WITH THE UK 5UB5 AND THE MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG AFTER HE LEFT THE FIT5, AND MICK WENT TRAVELLING FOR MANY YEAR5 FIR5T IN A CAR ACRO55 AMERICA AND THEN TO TIBET MINU5 THE CAR, NOW THEY ARE BACK TOGETHER IN THI5 NEW INCARNATION OF THE FIT5.

THE LEAD ON E.P KICK5 OFF WITH 5ON OF A GUN, A ROWDY AND RA5PEY ROCKER, A 5ONG OF PER5ONAL FREEDOM, DI5COVERY AND LIBERATION WITH HEARTBREAKER5 RIFF5'N'LICK5. THING5 5LOW DOWN WITH HE'5 NOT READY YET, A GROWLING GROOVE OF A TUNE THAT PLOD5 AND POUND5 ALONG. CHANCE5 I5 A PRIMAL, POUNDING HEARTFELT HOWL. THE VI5ITOR I5 A REWORKING OF A 5ONG BY THE AFOREMENTIONED PURE PRE55URE IT'5 A FA5T, FURIOU5 AND FRANTIC FREAK OUT REMINI5CENT IN PLACE5 OF THE 5CREAMING BLUE ME55IAH5.

THI5 E.P I5 A REAL GROWER, AFTER A COUPLE OF PLAY5 IT BLOOM5 LIKE A FLOWER IN THE WA5TELAND. IT'5 A GRAVELY AND GUT5Y GROWL WITH A FIRE THAT 5TILL BURN5.

THE LEAD ON E.P I5 AVAILABLE VIA THE BAND5 FACEBOOK PAGE.

POT PROBLEM.

Been having problem with the S key on the lap top for a while, I truggled on, but it i now getting to be a right pain in the are typing tuff for poting , plu the key ha now broken off. o until I get it fixed word may be limited or I might ue the number 5 in5tead, but I'm not 5ure if that work5 well in lower ca5e, might work U5ING UPPER CA5E ALL THE TIME, BUT I DUNNO HOW HAR5H THAT WILL BE ON THE EYE5 WHEN READING A LONG PIECE OF TEXT, PLU5 IN THI5 AGE OF THE INTERNET AND E-MAIL TYPING IN UPPER CA5E I5 5EEN A5 5HOUTING, 5O....I MAY BE RANTING, BUT I AINT 5HOUTING AT YER.

MI55ED IT! 5PENT LA5T WEEK IN THE NORTH WE5T OF BRITAIN 5TAYED JU5T OUT5IDE BLACKPOOL AND FLEETWOOD. I CAME BACK 5ATURDAY, AND ON 5UNDAY BLACKPOOL ROCKED WITH A COUPLE OF EARTHQUAKE5/TREMOR5, INTERE5TINGLY IT I5 THE 5AME AREA THAT EXPERIENCED AN EARTHQUAKE/TREMOR WHEN FRACKING WA5 BEING TE5TED IN THE AREA. TO RECAP FRACKING INVOLVE5 EXPLODING AND DRILLING INTO THE EARTH TO RELEA5E 5HALE GA5, THE FUTURE OF FUEL THEY WILL HAVE YOU BELIEVE, OR A GAMBLE WITH A GAME OF ENVIROMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL JENGA. IT LOOK5 LIKE THE PRO FRACKER5 WILL BE ABLE TO 5AY....”5EE IT WA5N'T FRACKING THAT CAU5ED THE EARTH TO MOVE, BECAU5E THEY'VE 5TOPPED FRACKING IN THE NORTH WE5T OF BRITAIN, AND THERE'5 BEEN FURTHER 5EI5MIC MOVEMENT5 THERE.” APPARENTLY THE ORIGINAL FAULT IN THE ROCK BED WA5 CAU5ED DURING THE ICE AGE....THI5 MAY BE 5O, BUT IT COULD AL5O BE 5AID THAT PERHAPE5 IN THE RECENT AGE THE FRACKING EXPERIMENT CAU5ED FURTHER 5TRE55 ON THE FAULT AND THI5 HA5 RE5ULTED IN THE TREMOR5 THAT HAPPENED YE5TERDAY. ALL THI5 FRACKIN I5 5O 5HORT TERMI5T WITH NO THOUGHT FOR THE FUTURE, I AINT TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT 10, 20 OR EVEN 50 YEAR5, MORE LIKE A 100. WE WILL ALL BE GONE BEFORE THERE REALLY I5 A NORTH 5OUTH DIVIDE IN A BRITAIN 5EPERATED BY A 5TRETCH OF WATER, CO5 THEY BLEW THE COUNTRY APART IN THEIR 5EARCH FOR CHEAP ENERGY,CO5 NOTHING WILL CHANGE IN THE COMING YEAR5 UNLE55 WE MAKE IT CHANGE. POWER TO THE ANTI-FRACKER5 THAT 5AW OF THE POLICE AND THE FRACKING COMPANY IN WE5T 5U55EX RECENTLY.

TALKING OF THING5 GETTING BLOWN UP, IT LOOK5 LIKE IT''5 GONNA KICK OFF IN 5YRIA 5OON. THE WE5T ARE PRIMING THEIR MI55ILE5 IN RETALIATION TO LA5T WEEK5 CHEMICAL WEAPON5 ATTACK IN DAMA5CU5. THE 5WORD OF TRUTH CUT5 BOTH WAY5; IT WA5N'T THE RULING REGIEME, IT WA5 THE REBEL FORCE5, WHO EVER THE WE5T ARE GONNA RE5POND TO IT WILL JU5T INFLAME THE 5ITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EA5T FURTHER, AND WILL BE PLAYING INTO THE HAND5 OF THO5E FORCE5 THAT WANT TO CREATE ANOTHER BATTLE FIELD AND DRAW U5 FURTHER INTO AN EA5T VER5U5 WE5T THIRD WORLD WAR 5ENARIO. LE5T WE FORGET IRAQ AND AFGHANI5TAN AND WHO 5YRIA5 ALIE5 ARE; THO5E OLD COLD WAR FOE5 RU55IA, AND THE NEW HOT WAR ENEMIE5 IRAN, AND LET5 REMEMBER WHO IT FIR5T WA5 THAT U5ED CHEMICAL WEAPON5 IN THE MIDDLE EA5T? WIN5TON CHURCHILL AND HI5 GREAT BRITI5H EMPIRE.

5O DO WE 5IT BACK AND DO NOTHIN? NO, WE EITHER CHANGE THE NEW5 CHANNEL AND WATCH 5OMETHING FRACKING EL5E IN5TEAD,OR WE FIGHT THE POWER5 THAT ARE FUCKING OUR WORLD UP WHERE EVER THEY ARE AND WHO EVER WE ARE!

Property Is Theft.

The River Wyre near Blackpool (Aug 2013)

A Red Wolf @ Blackpool Zoo (Aug 2013)

Grafitti inside a dis-used garage on the A6 near Lancaster, England.  (Aug 2013)

THE TERRACES - The Terraces (*A Review*)

The Terraces self titled debut album takes Street Punk down the Rock'n'Roll highway and hits yer full on like a collision between Cock Sparrer, The Gaslight Anthem, The Clash and a bike driven by Gary Holton; It knocks you off yer feet! Ten tracks with a polished ballsy production which still leaves them sounding rawkus and raw. Ten tunes that are straight to the point and straight from the heart; songs of testament and unity, big loud anthems, songs to be sung on the terraces and played in the stadiums.  Buy this album and let yer neighbours hear it! 

VIVE LE ROCK - Back In The Night (A Compilation)

It's been a while since I've posted any music, so here's a little something that's got a bit of everything for everyone who's a lover of all things Rock'n'Roll, Punk, New Wave and Beyond!

WILKO JOHNSON kicks the proceedings off with a reworking of the song he wrote for Dr Feelgood, Sneakin' Suspicion. KILLING JOKE show that they are still a force to be reckoned with, Corporate Effect takes the roof off. THE CHEATS turn in a cover of Demolition 23's (Mike Monroe from Hanoi Rocks band) Hammersmith Palais. THE DRESDENS Out On The Streets, is just that; a slice of Rock'n'Roll from the streets. RT-ZED were formed by Steve Gantley (SLF and The Alarm) as a vehicle for his rock out anthems like You Are Free. Celtic Folk Punkers SIR REG turn in the frantic violin drenched 'Til The Dead Come Alive. Veterans from the Californian Punk scene the SWINGIN' UTTERS have matured and evolved, as the semi-acoustic track Stuck In A Circle testifies. V8 WANKERS burn up the Rock'n'Roll highway with Road Hog. Hot on their heels are CIRCUIT 68 whose Perno Inferno channels 60's Psychedelia into something very 21^st Century. Hungarian Punkabilies THE SILVER SHINE leave the listener In The Middle Of Nowhere with their foot tapping. Rock'n'Roll. Los Angeles garage punks JJ&THE REAL JERKS keep the motor running on their Economy Class Ego Trip. New comers to the block BRAXTON HICKS provide a jaunty and jumpy little poppy and punky number called Never Kill Yourself. The brilliantly named THE MEN THAT WILL NOT BE BLAMED FOR NOTHING serve up Victoria's Secret a chunk of something they call 'Steam Punk' Bored To Death by MONGREL rawks out with righteous rage, as does South Karia Night by Finland’s REJECTED. Well.... there you have it....15 assorted tracks that smash their way into yer skull and crash round yer head. Another top notch freebie from Vive Le Rock, posted here with scant regard for copy write laws. Enjoy!  

Lets hear it for the little guy....

Bradley Manning, a man that has stood up to the might of the US Government and told the truth, about their lies and deception in the war on terror.

A man whose freedom will be taken away, by a government who claim to be fighting to protect freedom with an illegal war sold to the people through patriotic propaganda.

But he betrayed his country!....No he didn't, his country betrayed him, the dead and maimed soldiers and its people who are having to pay the cost for their countries actions.

Bradley Manning knew what the cost of his actions would be and was willing to sacrifice his liberty for his beliefs, and to get the truth out there.  

A brave soldier whose only weapon was the sword of truth. In a world of cowards Bradley Manning is a real war hero.

MICK FARREN - R.I.P

"ONE PART OUTRAGEOUS NINE PARTS CONTAGIOUS."

CHARLIE HARPER and CAPTAIN SENSIBLE - Too Much Reality EP (*A Review*)

Punk Rock turns a complete circle with this mind fuck of an EP. Influenced by the pre-punk late 60's early 70's underground sounds of their youth Charlie Harper and fellow punk stalwart Captain Sensible have teamed up and produced a gem which sparkles and shines brighter than the turds in the Rock'n'Roll cesspit.

Opening track Too Much Reality sounds like a stormy and angry Hawkwind looking over a waste land full of everything but offering nothing. Space Virgins floats above the destruction, looking down like a political Pink Floyd, before  Human Traffic starts to throb and speed away across the border like 21^st Century Deviants on a Triumph motorbike. The closing track Kamara, well imagine if Syd Barrett had produced The Damneds Music for Pleasure instead of Nick Mason.

This EP is a mind blowing Punkadelic spaced out spiked up trip. A seventeen minute assault on the senses that really does take you to a place deep in space. Available on CD and as a limited edition 7” vinyl (only 250 numbered copies ) from Time and Matter Recordings. Ignore at your peril!

WRONGA!

Pennies from heaven. Church in cash crisis. The Archbishop of Cunterbury stands in judgement over payday loan companies such as Wonga praying on the vulnerable in society, only to end up with not just egg on his face but the full English breakfast, when a day later it comes to light that the Church Of England has investments in not just Wonga, but in global multi nationals including Shell and Glaxo. Both of whom play at being god by destroying the planet and prolonging life. But it's all about the money and should the CoE be about making its parishioners enough money to buy their way into heaven? Religion another institution that is morally bankrupt. Priests, Politicians and Princes....UP AGAINST THE WALL MUTHA FUCKERS!  

Breaking News

Bury the bad news under blanket news coverage....A royal parasite baby has been born. Well congratufuckinglations, that's another mouth for the taxpayer to feed. The whole country will celebrate says the Prime Minister, well I've got news; not all of us Dave. I've heard others comment that it will be good for the economy, yeah....another royal mugshot on a mug for the mugs to buy!