//Copy of PIL’s Metal Box complete with tape printed with Dennis Morris’ logo for the band; DB reckons this may have come from the group’s guitarist Keith Levene//

During a recent visit to his mother’s north London home, NY-based expat DJ, art/publishing player and blogger DB Burkeman took the opportunity to recover some of the ephemera of his youth, including the items you see here.

//Flyer for evening at the London outpost of Peter Gatien’s 80s club brand featuring Barnsley (now Barnzley), Tim Simenon (of Bomb The Bass) and the Wild Bunch’s Nellee Hooper//

//Photo of Allen Jones artwork obtained from Burkeman’s first employer//

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Tags: 1967, Allen Jones, Barnzley, Barry Jones, Bomb The Bass, DB Burkeman, Gear Guide, Hawkwind, Keith Levene, Limelight, London Cowboys, Metal Box, Nellee Hooper, Old House, Peter Gatien, PiL, Stacia, The Roundhouse, The Roxy, Tim Simenon, Wild Bunch

One of my favourite Instagram feeds is The Family Acid, run by Kate Steffens, daughter of reggae archivist, actor, anthologist, psychedelic pioneer and photographer Roger Steffens.

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Tags: Bruno Blum, Devon Steffens, Jack Martin, Kate Steffens, My Favourite Poets, Roger Steffens, S_U_N, The Family Acid

//Sydney Morning Herald, November 9, 2014//

My legal claim against Vivienne Westwood, her co-author Ian Kelly and publisher Picador over plagiarism of my work in the recently published memoir of the British fashion designer has been featured across the Australian media.

I was interviewed in Melbourne by Jason Steger, literary editor of The Age, whose article about substantial plagiarism from my book The Look as well as a multitude of factual errors, potential libels and serial failure to correctly credit photographers was picked up by the Sydney Morning Herald and Australia’s book industry magazine Books + Publishing.

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Tags: Books + Publishing, Eichborn Verlag, Ian Kelly, Jason Steger, Pan Macmillan, Picador, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age