30 seconds into this clip, Humphrey Ocean is called on stage to perform one of his amazing dances with the stars of the Stiff 1977 tour.
Postcards: Caroline Coon
Mar 4th, 2011
Just came across this card from one of my heroines, Caroline Coon.
Blessed & Blasted: Roots of the Anarchy Shirt part 3
Mar 3rd, 2011
//Collage: Derek Harris.//
This composition of images by Derek Harris from Christopher Gray’s Situationist text Leaving The 20th Century makes plain the significance of the visual vocabulary of the 60s anarchist movement on punk in general and Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood’s Anarchy Shirt in particular.
Blessed & Blasted: Roots of the Anarchy Shirt part 2
Mar 2nd, 2011
Two “manifesto” designs which emanated from 430 King’s Road – the You’re Gonna Wake Up t-shirt and the Anarchy Shirt – share a reference to “The Black Hand Gang”.
I had long assumed that both referred to Spanish anarchists La Mano Negra, since the group’s name was listed with that of their fellow countryman and revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti.
But on the t-shirt, the absence of an “and” or connecting device had me pondering the possibility this was another Black Hand Gang; maybe the secret society dedicated to Serbian unity (linked to one of the events which triggered the First World War, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914)?
Blessed & Blasted: Roots of the Anarchy Shirt part 1
Mar 1st, 2011
//Comic Strip, Point-Blank!, 1971. Derek Harris Collection.//
My investigation into the multifarious strands which fed into the creation of the 1974 t-shirt You’re Gonna Wake Up has, in turn, ignited a convincing set of new theories about the genesis of another “manifesto” design, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s so-called Anarchy Shirt.
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