"Take the words and make them into bullets, take the words and make them do something." The life and legacy of Amiri Baraka, the poet, playwright and political organizer who died Thursday at the age of 79. Baraka was a leading force in the black arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1963 he published "Blues People: Negro Music in White America," known as the first major history of black music to be written by an African American. A year later he published a collection of poetry titled "The Dead Lecturer" and won an Obie Award for his play, "Dutchman." After the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965 he moved…
A Band Iron Man Records is Working with
How To Burn Money
From: Iron Man Records To: All Agents Edited transcript of a "Friends of Positive Void Communications" update for dissidents dissemination. An action took place on 23 August 1994, in which the K Foundation burned cash, the amount of one million pounds sterling, on the Scottish island of Jura. The incineration was recorded on a Hi-8 video camera by Gimpo. In August 1995, the film "Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid" was toured around the UK. Thirteen short months from now will be the 20th anniversary of the burning. We have been in discussion with organisers of certain film festivals who are keen to mark this special date by showing…
John Sinclair – Biography (June 2013)
Cultural revolutionary, pioneer of marijuana activism, radical leader, political prisoner by the end of the 1960s, a legend of the imagine nation, the last of the Beatnik Warrior Poets, and a founding father of the U.S rock and roll constitution, John Sinclair. John Sinclair was born on the 2nd of October 1941, in Flint, Michigan, and grew from being a rock’n’roll fanatic and teenage disc jockey enthusiast to a cultural revolutionary icon, pioneer of marijuana activism, co-founder of the White Panther Party and a political prisoner, all by the end of the explosive 1960’s. He first tuned into rhythm and blues radio at a young age, getting his hands on records by…
Ted Chippington – Blues Fan. New 500 Limited edition 10" single on Respect Vinyl
Buy Ted Chippington - Blues Fan. New 500 Limited edition 10" Vinyl here Straight outta Fenton (Stoke On Trent) the young Eddie Chippington began annoying audiences at hippy festivals and pop concerts in the early '80s when opening shows for long haired groups such as Here & Now, The Cardiacs and Dangerous Girls. When maturity and baldness caused the growing Potteries lad to become Ted Chippington and a 'Top Comedian' he also moved in to riling up and calming down excited crowds with his act at gigs by punk rocker bands The Fall, the Nightingales, The Farm, the Higsons and many others. During this period Ted - "The funniest man alive" according…
Samuel Fry
Sam Fry Passed away this weekend. He was the second drummer with Last Under The Sun from 2001 to 2002, he played many gigs and played the drums on the the 30 second 30 song first demo called "Defect" and the 8 songs that made up "Windfall" that the band produced around the same time. If anyone has any more photos of Sam when he was in Last Under The Sun with Rhys and myself, please send a copy across. I didn't have a decent camera in those days so i have no photos of him at all that I can find. He was a good drummer and a kind, caring,…
English Heretic: GIMPO'S M25 25 Hour Spin 20th – 21st March 2010
All Agents: GIMPO's M25 Spin 2010. Sat 20th to Sun 21st March 1pm. Meet at ThurrocK Service Station, off M25 at 11am Sat 20th March. This just in..... As many of you will recall a cache of lost and forgotten material was rediscovered during Jimmy’s house move early last year. Some of the tracks were liberated by The Junior Insurgent Transmitter Ensemble for the soundtrack to the 2009 M25 Spin. We have produced a single track DVD sampler and will be giving it away to all the “spinners” joining us this year. The track featured is a unique version of the Pure Trance classic What Time Is Love and was recorded…
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