430 over six decades
These are exterior shots of the incarnations of 430 King’s Road since the early 60s.
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Blessed & Blasted: Rock In Opposition 12.03.1978
Alan Freeman (BBC DJ): “The popular music press always branded Henry Cow or Art Bears as ‘left wing’. “ Chris Cutler (drummer, Henry Cow/Art Bears/etc): ”Of course. Extremely. If you hate this government, and everything it stands for.” I witnessed Henry Cow live for the first time at a “free” concert held one afternoon in […]
Blokes of Britain: Jah Wobble
NAME: Jah Wobble (real name: John Wardle) RESIDES: Cheshire OCCUPATION: Musician It’s well documented that, in his teenage years, Jah Wobble was a member of the Four Johns, the gang of youths who gravitated to each other while at Kingsway College Of Further Education on the fringes of the City Of London in the mid-70s. […]
Aphasic Disturbance at CHELSEA space
Aphasic Disturbance, the current show at CHELSEA space, is curator Stephen Bury’s response to “Two types of language and two types of aphasic disturbance”, the 1956 essay by the linguist/literary theorist Roman Jakobson on manifestations of aphasia (the loss of power of expression through speech). And Bury – now Andrew W. Mellon chief librarian of […]
Blessed & Blasted: Group Hangman 07.07.1997
This was produced by Billy Childish and his associates before they formed The Stuckists. I went along to a few Stuckist exhibitions and events, but preferred this manifesto to The Stuckists’; their’s seemed mere reaction when applied to artists of lesser stature than the soon-to-exit Childish. Yet The Stuckists were worthwhile in their verbalisation of […]