PAUL HAIG – The Only Truth

Ahh, I have sadly neglected this blog. To make some amends may I present: Paul Haig. Edinburgh Boy and ex Josef K. singer. He is back but sadly to me doing not nearly as cool stuff nowadays. Trying to be Hip and teen and all that palaver. Paul, just be yourself! You’ve put out world class material before. Anyway, seriously one of my teenage heroes.

SPANDAU BALLET – To Cut A Long Story Short

Do the Spandau Ballet. A sick joke. It used to mean the flailing about of someone executed with a heavy machine-gun. That machine-gun being mounted on a tripod, a “Spandau” in German. Voila’……Spandau Ballet.

This LP (Journeys To Glory) was actually quite good. Shame about the rest of their catalog. So to cut a long story short……………..

THE MUTANTS – Perfect Target

San Francisco’s Mutants. Found this today and remembered this from an old Target Video VHS tape I used to have. In my never so humble opinion, Los Angeles & San Francisco had two of the best Punk/Post Punk scenes.

If yer going to San Francisco, beware the Mutants in yer hair.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn has died.

Tovarisch Solzhenitsyn is def one of my favorite writers. Classic books such as The Gulag Archipelago, One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle, Cancer Ward etc, set the standard for writing in an historical context. His last book: “Two Hundred Years Together” about the Russians and Jews being forced together in 1772 and their history ’til now remains unpublished in English. Despite being a best seller in Russia, Germany and France. Unsuprising as all of the major bookhouses in the English speaking world are run by “those who cannot be critisized”. And Solzhenitsyn had much more to say. He was a Warrior/Philosopher in the truest sense. The Warrior part of this equation comes from having served as an Artillery Captain in the Red Army in WW2 (Until arrested by the NKVD for refering to Stalin in a bad light in a letter). He became in time the closest thing to a national philosopher for Russia. He was the outer manifestation of Russia’s soul.

He attacked the moral bankruptcy of both the Soviet Union and the West. He despised so-called western culture (ie: Rock Music, The Media etc etc…) He condemned America for moral vacuity and weakness. How America measured other societies in comparison to itself. He also refered to “the calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness.” in the world today. Even more to the point “we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility”.

Solzhenitsyn also concluded that Marxism by it’s very nature is violent. There was nothing special in the Russian model that made it so violent. The “Russian” Revolution was not so much Russian as Internationalist. The Semetic composition of the Nomenclatura of the Revolution shows this. He rejected the notion that the barbarity of the Soviet system was ignited by Stalin. It was Lenin, Trotsky etc, who founded the Cheka (to become the OGPU, NKVD, MVD and finally the KGB), destroyed the economy, founded the Gulag and executed hundreds of thousands of innocent souls. Communism will wear the face of nationalism to deceive peoples. When in actual fact Communism will wipe out national cultures and oppress peoples. Much like Social Democratic Globalism today.

He did however find hope with Vladamir Putin and the rebirth of Russian culture. Let us hope that Russia continues in this vein and becomes a symbol of hope to a world crushed under the wheels of the G8.

Rest in peace Tavarisch Solzhenitsyn.

FUGAZI – Glue Man

Fucked Up

Got Ambushed

Zipped In

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I spent it all

Fuck it

BAUHAUS – Spy In The Cab

Even more reletive to these CCTV times.

ACR – Crippled Child

A Certain Ratio in 1980.

Certainly more Post-Punk/Joy Div then later Funk infused ACR.

Outstanding.

THE POGUES – Dirty Old Town. – MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I was going to put up “Fairytale of New York” for Christmas……………But jumpin’ mohommad! I’ve heard that bastard a million times! I was working in a pub last year @ Xmas and that was on microwave rotation. So here’s one of my fave Pogues tunes, though I believe it’s actually a cover. Anyway, now it’s time for my rant:

Ok, Forget the PC Brigade. It’s Merry or Happy Christmas. Not flippin’ “Happy Holidays” or Happy Hunnakkah  or other such s***. Please remember to tell everyone “Merry Christmas!” when you see them. This is our holiday and we should be proud. It has NOTHING to do with commercialism. It has everything to do with joy, family, friends etc. So in closing, Give the finger or even two fingers up to the PC bastards. “Celebrate”(A real PC term) our own identity and culture! Woo hoo! Now it’s time for my Guinness. Err actually it’s still too early. Damn.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

THE POP GROUP – She Is Beyond Good And Evil

More Bristol Avant-Funk from those cats in The Pop Group. AAAaaaaaaggghhhhh!!!!! Yooooooo!!!!

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. – CHANT!

Pil doing “Chant” and being interviewed by 70’s Man. Check Jah Wobble going off the deep end! I’ve never seen  someone bleeped out for thaaaat loooong on TV. I about s***! Hah! Back when Lydon was the kid sayin’ the emperor is wearing no clothes. Before he became such a wunnerful all-round entertainer. Now he’s a twat. Twat I tell you!!!