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Category: Blessed and Blasted

Blessed and Blasted

Blessed & Blasted: The 1980 Face Show. 01.1981

As explored in In Their Own Write, the most important creative in the development of British print media in the latter half of the 20th Century was Nick Logan. Arguably his greatest contribution was via the launch of The Face in 1980. This year-end review – “123 things to remember 1980 by” – was featured […]

January 28, 2011
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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 […]

January 24, 2011
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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 […]

January 23, 2011