So today I fell through a wormhole and was asked by the Fabulous FAB (“Thunderbirds Are Go”, but no Bomb The Bass here) to open up my music player, let 10 random songs play and then blog about them. Well I’d been having some problems with my MP3 player and had to reinstall the software before doing this (and wipe everything off it first) and I kinda cheated by only putting ten songs on before doing this, I’ll get more on now…. But here are my 10 “random” songs:
1. “Morning Way” by Trader Horne – acid folk at its very best, the title track of the duo’s only album – and what a combination: sometime Fairport Convention member Judy Dyble and Jackie McAuley ex-guitarist with Them and Belfast Gypsies (dig all that stuff Kim Fowley produced for the Gypsies, but especially “People Let’s Freak Out”). Well Trader Horne couldn’t last but this is just fabulous, those vocal harmonies have me in ecstasy, and if you tell me this is fey I’ll kick you….
2. “Quiet Days In Clichy II” by Country Joe McDonald. Yeah, the title track to the legendary Jens Jorgen Thorsen screen adaptation of the Henry Miller book. The film is one of the finest examples of Situationist detournement ever (Thorsen was a member of the 2nd Situationist International) and one of my favourite movies of all time. Country Joe is good, nice little tune over which he sings filth.”
3. “Purified By The Fire” by Henry Flynt. Personally I can’t get enough of radical avant-garde hillbilly music and Flynt does us proud on that front. He knew all the names in the New York scene of the sixties, being close to La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Jack Smith and others, but went his own way as a result of his interesting critique of art andserious culture. He also stood in for John Cale at some Velvet Underground performances when the Welshman was sick. There is an interview with Flynt up on my website at – http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/interviews/flynt.htm – but this is about activities other than his music. But check the music, it is great!
4. “Get Your Tits Out” by Heavy Metal Outlaws. On this MillwallRoi Pearce formerly ‘singer’ with failed early eighties British skinhead band The Last Resort tried to make a nineties come back by crossing heavy metal with rap – and it doesn’t hold up against real talent like Run DMC, but it is funny. One of the worst records ever made: “Ever since I was eight years old I was a fan of the centre-fold, girl’s good looking andshe’s got class, I stick my cock right up her arse, my mate’s doing time or so I heard, so I’m going round there to shag his bird, bend me break anyway you take me all you gotta do is masturbate me, come on the heat I’m a sex machine, I’m really going down like a submarine, tits out for the boys, get your tits out for the boys… fuck you, fuck you, fuck you…”
5. “Why Don’t You Smile Now” by The Downliners Sect. This is from the third album “The Rock Sect’s In” by this legendary sixties British freakbeat band. For this platter they bought in a few songs from Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths, this one being knocked out by Lou Reed and John Cale; and it’s actually what the Velvet Underground would have sounded like if they’d been good. The Sect were also the first to do another Tin Pan Alley song “Hang On Sloopy”, but they decided it wasn’t strong enough to release as a single – so it was The McCoys who had the international smash with it despite recording and putting it out after the Sect had got there first….
6. “So Greedy” (remix) by 999. What a difference a producer makes! This is produced by Vic Maile and as an indie release actually sounds a lot better than anything Nick Cash andco. did when they were on the major UA label. For comparison purposes check out the difference in the three singles punk band Satan’s Rats put out, with the Maile produced “You Make Me Sick” standing head and shoulders above the other two. I saw 999 at least a dozen times in London in the late-seventies, just coz all the punks went to see them, and they were never that great. But the “Concrete” album this appeared on in the original mix has some other great tunes (and some not so good ones), but their version of “Fortune Teller” is a gas.
7. “N-E-R-V-O-U-S” by Trash. Another A1 production job, this time by legendary American maverick Shel Talmy, the man behind the early Kinks and Who sound. This is just fabulous, I bought this and the first Trash single “Priorities” when they came out, after seeing the band (who I recall as being from Reading) playing on a multi-bill event at some London suburban university. Power pop doesn’t get any better than this! There were a lot of great British pop records that came out in the late-seventies and didn’t make the charts, and I particularly love this one.
8. “You’ll Always Be In Style” by Sidney Barnes. A non-hit from the Red Bird label, and a classic example of stomping sixties soul. “Everybody do the jerk and the monkey too, but by this time next year there’ll be something new… you know the clothes we’re wearing are changing every day, what was new in December will be out by May…. but I wanna tell you sweet honey child, you’ll always be in style…” This was one of the Divine birthday CDs… and I’ve been playing it a lot ever since getting it as a gift from Andrew Divine….
9. “Street Tuff” by Rebel MC. I loved this from the first moment I heard it. Yeah it might be a pop record but the MC knows exactly what he’s doing and went on to respect on the Jungle scene, not a trick easily achieved by someone who has had a massive pop hit. Back when I was leaving school in 1978 we used to talk about liking EFM (standing for extra fast music) and this is really fast, and wonderful mix of reggae, hip hop and rapping… Great tune too. Grooves don’t come any better than this! Can’t believe it’s already about twenty years old!
10. “Memphis Underground” by S.O.U.L. Yeah, the Herbie Mann original is great, but so is this, and unfortunately I don’t have a copy of the Roy Ayres version of the tune (anyone wanna get me an MP3 of that?). This is also the title of a novel I had out a couple of years ago. It comes from the band’s first album “What It Is”, and what a platter! Check the cover of “The Ghetto” which is every bit as good as the original, and the same goes for “Express Yourself” or “Message From A Black Man”. And what about tracks like “Burning Spear”? This is just one track from an absolutely crucial rare groove album. This tune is great but you need the whole platter.
And while you’re at it don’t forget to check – http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ – you know it makes (no) sense!
Comments
Comment by Belle de Jour on 2009-01-08 13:38:41 +0000
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Comment by Michael K on 2009-01-08 14:28:33 +0000
Man…your MP3 collection sounds like a total groove…and I have several of these hot tracks already languishing unplayed on mine (I don’t have one but that’s not important right now)..
Trader Horner..I haven’t heard but wasn’t it Kim Fowley who said ‘Come to Hollywood, kids, some to Hollywood’???? and I dig anything that has a connection to Them so I’ll be downloading some of that MF sheeeit as soon as I get off Sploshbook later this decade…
Country Joe sounds bad-ass and let’s face it, The Second Situationist International was the break between the “Parisian” and the “Scandinavian” tendencies amounting to “a conflict between a conceptual and an expressionist approach, or, to echo Jorn’s two tendencies of situlogy, a conflict between the ludic and the analytical.”
Henry Flynt, meanwhile, just rocks on combining fierce blues licks and country fiddling styles with a modal approach to extended improvisation and taking in modernist sound experiments, rawkus garage rock, Hindustani-inflected solo violin improvisations, and what might be called “minimalist country” but as Flynt told me last year, “I could bring you twenty to thirty people who would say that everything Henry Flynt ever did was totally worthless.”
As for the Heavy Metal Outlaws, well…the US defence department and the CIA love technology because it makes spying easier. “We need to find new ways to deter new adversaries,” defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in 2003. “We need to make the leap into the information age, which is the critical foundation of our transformation efforts.” In-Q-Tel’s first chairman was Gilman Louie, who served on the board of the NVCA with Breyer. Another key figure in the In-Q-Tel team is Anita K Jones, former director of defence research and engineering for the US department of defence, and – with Breyer – board member of BBN Technologies. When she left the US department of defence, Senator Chuck Robb paid her the following tribute: “She brought the technology and operational military communities together to design detailed plans to sustain US dominance on the battlefield into the next century.”
With the Downliner Sects, well I wasn’t gonna comment but I did it by invoking the Dead Boys above… Stiv rocks in hell!
I remember the first time I heard about 999. I was living in Maryland, just outside D.C.. Kim Kane from The Slickee Boys came over and said “I just bought this record I think you might like.” And he held out the first album. I was a fan from the first second I saw the cover!
Click here for the Discography of Shel’s work. Click here for Shel’s production services. Click here to contact Shel Talmy.
Aug 1, 2003 … The Red Bird label was yellow with black print, with the red and black logo on top.
REBEL MC Street Tuff (1989 German 4-track maxi CD, picture sleeve) … Click to see a bigger picture of Rebel MC.
Memphis Underground…This curious and disconcerting book is split three ways between a story about an artist-in-residence in Orkney, a would-be music entrepreneur in East London, and a purported diary of Stewart Home’s cultural activities in the UK and across Europe. By the end, the three stories have overlapped and more or less come together. In Orkney, some of the inhabitants are dead celebrities – like Princess Diana and Stephen Milligan – and the military seem to be behind everything; the whole sequence is bizarre and dreamlike. (There is a great scene though where the artist tries to explain his painting of a white question mark on a white background to a sceptical local.) In London, the narrator does various dead-end jobs, suffers housing problems, and is finally forced out of his council flat. The Stewart Home section describes readings, travel, winning awards, and meeting friends who are invariably also cultural types. There is a lot of repetition, unnecessary detail, laboured humour, name-dropping and general dullness as characters go on at excruciating length about house prices, the nouveau roman, soul music and what they had for dinner. This dullness is of course all entirely deliberate, but in case we haven’t twigged this, we also get told (even more laboriously) how it is deliberate, and why: because this is an anti-novel. Well, OK. Stewart Home is brilliant, unique, politically sound, entirely uncompromising, and always worth reading – but unless you’re already a fan, it’s probably better to start with something with a bit more oomph, like Slow Death or Pure Mania.
Comment by mistertrippy on 2009-01-08 15:53:02 +0000
You’re right, Nick Cash of 999 is pure horny!
Comment by Ant-Eater on 2009-01-08 15:56:11 +0000
…and the music is pish
Comment by Stewart Home on 2009-01-08 17:25:22 +0000
Shit is getting pretty transdimensional and unsuitable for Radio 4 listeners interested in constituting themselves as ‘bourgeois subjects’. I got too high..I mean I’m tripping…colours fly in my face….
Check out my new blog where I reveal how I became Michael K!!
Comment by Mister Trippy on 2009-01-08 17:27:55 +0000
Wow…shit’s getting pretty transpersonal (not to mention extrmely tedious but sporadically re-interesting to those not interested in constituting as Radio 4 listeners. Meanwhile, my early sex-experiences as Michael K are documented in my new blog
Comment by Mogs on 2009-01-08 18:50:44 +0000
I could’ve sworn someone else blogged that…
Comment by mistertrippy on 2009-01-08 22:53:50 +0000
Someone else did blog that, it was me in one of my other schizophrenic personalities… yeah 999 were pish… but all really bad bands should have a decent track in ’em….Whose going to the Resonance event then???
Comment by The Real Stewart Home on 2009-01-08 23:21:31 +0000
Keep repeating to yourself… it’s only a clone, it’s only a clone, it’s only a clone… if this was 4real then we’d have a list of breakbeat tunes… I mean come on! Whose kidding who?
Comment by Belle de Jour on 2009-01-08 23:22:58 +0000
Well let me tell you I think that Simon from Trash is pretty darn cute… and if he came to me as a customer I’d give him a freebie!
Comment by filthy toad screaming pervert on 2009-01-08 23:27:20 +0000
I got a real problem with your list mate, you need more bird singers, I can’t jerk of to blokes singing people would get the wrong idea! the problem with this list is it isn’t wank! oh for some Girls Aloud or Duffy! I mean that Duffy she can’t sing and she ain’t exactly hot so even I must be in with a chance…
Comment by later on 2009-01-08 23:29:20 +0000
there’s three guys with guns in here and I’m the only one with money fallin’ out of my asshole!
Comment by dust storm on 2009-01-09 00:02:00 +0000
I’d like to listen to that list while flying in low over a herd of cyber clones….
Comment by Bot Girl on 2009-01-09 00:03:05 +0000
that list is pure horny!
Comment by Michael Roth on 2009-01-09 03:52:34 +0000
What a list! I’m familiar with a few of the songs but the others need some investigation. Tracked down Morning Way and am listening to it right now.
Hey Michael K, I agree with you that Slow Death and Pure Mania are great starts to Stewart’s work But I still think Memphis Underground is an accessible “post boot boy” book. My faves, along with Memphis, are still Defiant Pose and Cunt. (of course, I have only read the blurbs on the jackets as reading books is so 20th century …)
Comment by Anna K on 2009-01-09 05:48:02 +0000
I’ve never read any of Stewart’s fiction – the theory is what gets me off. I find the following hexs give me the strongest orgasms on new moons:
- THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: UTOPIAN CURRENTS FROM LETTRISM TO CLASS WAR
the original – accept no substitute - ANARCHIST INTEGRALISM: Aesthetics, Politics and the Après-Garde
a banishing spell. - anything from Re-Action
the last word - Repetitions -A collection of proletarian pleasures ranging from rodent worship to ethical relativism appended with a critique of unicursal reason.
priceless - Marx, Christ & Satan United In Struggle – for which I had to go through Red London trying to find all the quotes. this lead to such a powerful orgasm that i was kicked out of the Foundry, whose toilets I was wanking off in and banned for life. O well
even better of course is the video.
and the post apocalyptic sound of PAKITV aint bad either
http://uk.youtube.com/user/PAKITV
Comment by mistertrippy on 2009-01-09 08:26:12 +0000
Thanks Michael and Anna… you know a lot of work goes into those blurbs so I certainly appreciate them and I’m glad you do too…. wow… zombies a go go in Peckham!
Comment by Belle De Jour on 2009-01-09 08:36:07 +0000
Why not blog a top ten songs about working girls? It might make the comments come together more because then we’d have a topic other than music to focus on….
Comment by ‘l’;'; on 2009-01-09 17:38:32 +0000
top 5 sex workers – in no order
emma – macslefield girl quick fuck for a fiver in a dispersal house filled with people on the run from the cops. my mate had a court appearence int he morning and we went over there whil e deciding whatto do. he called her over asked m to go first. she started taking her trousers off whhen i told her i’d rather lay and chat. she was a student and had a boyfriend. when i asked her if he was selling crack she acted really suprised like how did u know? she asked me for a kiss before i left. they made alot of fucking noise afterwards
rebecca – picked up in spitalfields and we drove out to essex – looking to score pills i think it was. there were 3 boys with us who wet by the name of the wasted hitler youth adn evol psychogeographix. jonny fell lin love with her by the time we got to the a12 and startd fights with anyone else who talked to her. we drove all night justto get nowhere and in the morning we dropped the kids off at the ‘ADOLECENT RESOURCE CENTRE’ where they were on cerfew and drve into town. we went to the tate modern as it opened and planned to graff up the surrealist exhibition but she grabbed the spray off me and tarted graffing up outside- we got arrested as we went in
kate – i met at a psychiatric unit in essex, also into crack but once her fellas small rok finished none of u had cash and we ended up wanderin the streets and she started screaming at cops in the street at tufnell park. when i managed to drag her away, she told me about how she watched her sister slice off her niples the year before and fluchd them dwn the toilet. we ewent back to a squat i had helped to break the week before on highbury corner her boyfriend was pissing me off trying to get off with her and she wanted to sleep so i started coming on to him which shut him up. i didn’t smoke rox for a long time after that
me -not technically a girl but the funniesttime was for this politcian – arranged by these spoilt rich kids who rana hotel in the capital. he asked me to suck his cock but while i’ve had head from men and women many times and the best orgasms have been when men have sucked me off. i don’t enjoy giving head anywhere near i do receiving it – especially off blokes (hetro men are always the best at giving head i reckon) . anyway i think my english accent got him off more and he shot his load over the place before i got my mouth anywhere near it and that was that. and while i never enjoyed taking crack as much as taking it up the crack or indeed watching other people on crack, i did get some great opium aferwards
fuck it thats enough of that. oh before i forger
. . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . .
Police raids in Soho endanger sex workers’ safety
On 18 December, three police officers from Charing Cross Clubs and Vice Unit visited a flat in Romilly Street, Soho, London and issued a written notice against Ms Tracey Ramsey* who works as a receptionist there, that they intend charging her with “controlling prostitution for gain”. Soho has been one of the safest places for women in the sex industry to work. As a receptionist, Ms Ramsey is women’s first line of defence against violent attacks and exploitation. If the police are allowed to proceed against Ms Ramsey, other receptionists will be driven away and women will be forced to work alone. Why are police targeting safe premises?
Details of the raid
The police are familiar with this and other flats in Soho. The police notice claimed that their visit was “to check the welfare of the occupants and to ensure that there are no juveniles or trafficked victims working at the location”. It threatened charges such as: “to keep or to manage, or to act or assist in the management of a brothel”; “controlling prostitution for gain” as well as “causing or inciting child prostitution”. No underage or trafficked women or any evidence of force or coercion was found at the premises, and none had been found during the weekly visits by the police during the whole month of September. This is an abuse of process.
Ms Ramsey is a mother and grandmother and has been in Soho for 30 years.
She is a registered carer for her father who has Alzheirmer’s and suffered a stroke. Her situation is similar to that of many other women who have contacted us recently after being charged with “brothel-keeping” or “controlling”. Many are mothers supporting children; at least three have children with disabilities. One woman started working after the Inland Revenue sent her a £6,000 bill for overpayments of child tax credit. Others are struggling to keep bailiffs at bay following threats of repossession on their home or suffer from ill heath.
New legislation to be announced on 19 January
These raids and prosecutions are aimed at preparing the ground for new legislation being announced on 19 January which would force women into “rehabilitation”, make it easier for the police to close brothels and arrest kerb-crawlers, and make an offence of “paying for sex with a person who is controlled for another person’s gain”. Such measures would force prostitution further urderground, adding to sex workers’ vulnerability and stigma.
What is a brothel?
The word brothel conjures up images of big exploitative establishments.Yet by law two prostitute women sharing premises to work constitute a brothel, even if no force and coercion are involved. Many women prefer to work in such brothels because they offer greater safety, companionship and lower running expenses. Working indoors is 10 times safer than working on the street. Why should women not be allowed to work in this way?
Impact of the raids
Receptionists such as Ms Ramsey face criminalization and imprisonment for up to seven years (increased from six months by New Labour). Immigrant women face deportation; clients face “a hefty fine and a criminal record”.
Police profit directly from raids
Since the Proceeds of Crime Act, raids have become profitable for the police. They receive 25% of any assets confiscated both at the time and from subsequent prosecutions. The Crown Prosecution Service keeps another 25% and the rest goes to the Inland Revenue, ie the government. It is common for the police to seize any money found on the premises. Even if no one is charged, the money is rarely returned as police take advantage of sex workers’ reluctance to go public. Women who have worked for years to put money aside lose not only their livelihood but their home, car, life savings, jewellery, etc. This exploitation by agents of the State is the worst form of theft and pimping. We believe it is a main reason why raids are now high up on the police and government agenda.
Government statistics on trafficking are false
The figures the government is using to justify raids are based on blatantly discredited research which claims that 80% of women working in the sex industry in the UK have been trafficked. Convictions for trafficking are distorted because the UK definition of trafficking for prostitution, unlike trafficking for any other industry, does not mention force or coercion. This enables every woman with a foreign accent to be labelled a victim of trafficking!
Measures that would help women get out of prostitution
The government has done little to address the homelessness, poverty, debt and domestic violence, which were established as key factors driving women into the sex industry. With women’s hourly wages ranging from £5.73 to £11.67, enforcing pay equity would also reduce the number of women working in prostitution. In New Zealand where decriminalisation became law five years ago, sex workers’ criminal records were expunged making it easier for women to leave prostitution if they want to. Sex workers recount being more able to report violence and insist on their rights.
Rape and violence against sex workers dismissed
The conviction rate for reported rape is a shameful 6%. Sex workers who have been attacked face particular discrimination when seeking justice. Seven women came to the ECP in a two month period reporting rape and other attacks which the police had refused to investigate. One woman was told to gather the evidence herself; another was forced out of her flat by a raid and was violently attacked on the street.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Write protesting that these raids will isolate sex workers from essential support and force women out of the safety of premises onto the streets. Demand an end to the prosecution of women working in the sex industry, including for brothel-keeping and “controlling” if no force or coercion is involved. Please send your complaint to:
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary,
Email: smithj@parliament.uk
Fax: 020 7035 3262
Head of Clubs and Vice
Charing Cross Police Station,
Agar Street
London, WC2N 4JP
Sir John Stephens,
Metropolitan Police Commissioner,
New Scotland Yard, 8-10 Broadway,
London, SW1H 0BG
Please send copies of any letters to:
English Collective of Prostitutes, ecp@allwomencount.net
John McDonnell MP, mcdonnellj@parliament.uk
Richard Faulkner, House of Lords , faulkerro@parliament.uk
Comment by ‘l’;'; on 2009-01-09 17:40:51 +0000
. . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . .
Police raids in Soho endanger sex workers’ safety
On 18 December, three police officers from Charing Cross Clubs and Vice Unit visited a flat in Romilly Street, Soho, London and issued a written notice against Ms Tracey Ramsey* who works as a receptionist there, that they intend charging her with “controlling prostitution for gain”. Soho has been one of the safest places for women in the sex industry to work. As a receptionist, Ms Ramsey is women’s first line of defence against violent attacks and exploitation. If the police are allowed to proceed against Ms Ramsey, other receptionists will be driven away and women will be forced to work alone. Why are police targeting safe premises?
Details of the raid
The police are familiar with this and other flats in Soho. The police notice claimed that their visit was “to check the welfare of the occupants and to ensure that there are no juveniles or trafficked victims working at the location”. It threatened charges such as: “to keep or to manage, or to act or assist in the management of a brothel”; “controlling prostitution for gain” as well as “causing or inciting child prostitution”. No underage or trafficked women or any evidence of force or coercion was found at the premises, and none had been found during the weekly visits by the police during the whole month of September. This is an abuse of process.
Ms Ramsey is a mother and grandmother and has been in Soho for 30 years.
She is a registered carer for her father who has Alzheirmer’s and suffered a stroke. Her situation is similar to that of many other women who have contacted us recently after being charged with “brothel-keeping” or “controlling”. Many are mothers supporting children; at least three have children with disabilities. One woman started working after the Inland Revenue sent her a £6,000 bill for overpayments of child tax credit. Others are struggling to keep bailiffs at bay following threats of repossession on their home or suffer from ill heath.
New legislation to be announced on 19 January
These raids and prosecutions are aimed at preparing the ground for new legislation being announced on 19 January which would force women into “rehabilitation”, make it easier for the police to close brothels and arrest kerb-crawlers, and make an offence of “paying for sex with a person who is controlled for another person’s gain”. Such measures would force prostitution further urderground, adding to sex workers’ vulnerability and stigma.
What is a brothel?
The word brothel conjures up images of big exploitative establishments.Yet by law two prostitute women sharing premises to work constitute a brothel, even if no force and coercion are involved. Many women prefer to work in such brothels because they offer greater safety, companionship and lower running expenses. Working indoors is 10 times safer than working on the street. Why should women not be allowed to work in this way?
Impact of the raids
Receptionists such as Ms Ramsey face criminalization and imprisonment for up to seven years (increased from six months by New Labour). Immigrant women face deportation; clients face “a hefty fine and a criminal record”.
Police profit directly from raids
Since the Proceeds of Crime Act, raids have become profitable for the police. They receive 25% of any assets confiscated both at the time and from subsequent prosecutions. The Crown Prosecution Service keeps another 25% and the rest goes to the Inland Revenue, ie the government. It is common for the police to seize any money found on the premises. Even if no one is charged, the money is rarely returned as police take advantage of sex workers’ reluctance to go public. Women who have worked for years to put money aside lose not only their livelihood but their home, car, life savings, jewellery, etc. This exploitation by agents of the State is the worst form of theft and pimping. We believe it is a main reason why raids are now high up on the police and government agenda.
Government statistics on trafficking are false
The figures the government is using to justify raids are based on blatantly discredited research which claims that 80% of women working in the sex industry in the UK have been trafficked. Convictions for trafficking are distorted because the UK definition of trafficking for prostitution, unlike trafficking for any other industry, does not mention force or coercion. This enables every woman with a foreign accent to be labelled a victim of trafficking!
Measures that would help women get out of prostitution
The government has done little to address the homelessness, poverty, debt and domestic violence, which were established as key factors driving women into the sex industry. With women’s hourly wages ranging from £5.73 to £11.67, enforcing pay equity would also reduce the number of women working in prostitution. In New Zealand where decriminalisation became law five years ago, sex workers’ criminal records were expunged making it easier for women to leave prostitution if they want to. Sex workers recount being more able to report violence and insist on their rights.
Rape and violence against sex workers dismissed
The conviction rate for reported rape is a shameful 6%. Sex workers who have been attacked face particular discrimination when seeking justice. Seven women came to the ECP in a two month period reporting rape and other attacks which the police had refused to investigate. One woman was told to gather the evidence herself; another was forced out of her flat by a raid and was violently attacked on the street.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Write protesting that these raids will isolate sex workers from essential support and force women out of the safety of premises onto the streets. Demand an end to the prosecution of women working in the sex industry, including for brothel-keeping and “controlling” if no force or coercion is involved. Please send your complaint to:
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary,
Email: smithj@parliament.uk
Fax: 020 7035 3262
Head of Clubs and Vice
Charing Cross Police Station,
Agar Street
London, WC2N 4JP
Sir John Stephens,
Metropolitan Police Commissioner,
New Scotland Yard, 8-10 Broadway,
London, SW1H 0BG
Please send copies of any letters to:
English Collective of Prostitutes, ecp@allwomencount.net
John McDonnell MP, mcdonnellj@parliament.uk
Richard Faulkner, House of Lords , faulkerro@parliament.uk
Comment by mistertrippy on 2009-01-09 21:58:42 +0000
Thanks for alerting us to this, I’m sure lots of people will be checking this out….
Comment by Michael Roth on 2009-01-10 04:35:08 +0000
Right on Anna K, those theory titles are certainly a groove sensation. My personal fave remains Neoism, Plagiarism & Praxis.
Comment by Observe on 2009-01-10 09:15:29 +0000
my playlist as a young 14 year old in late 1977 — I just found it again.
Yeah Yeah Yeah :Vibrators
Into the Future: Vibrators
Motorhead : Motorhead
No One : Johnny Moped
Foggy Road : Prince Far I
Message to the King : Prince Far I/Culture
Janie Jones : The Clash
Satellite : Sex Pistols
No Fun :Sex Pistols
MPLA : Tappa Zukie ( Click 45 , not the album mix )
Don’t get Crazy : Tappa Zukie
Train to Rhodesia : Big Youth/Barrington Spence
White Line Fever : Motorhead
2OTH Century Boy : T Rex
Is it Love? : T Rex
Identity/Bondage: X Ray Spex
MC5 :Kick out the Jams
Big Youth : Jim Screechie
Comment by Observe on 2009-01-10 09:27:12 +0000
Love Love Love
Comment by mistertrippy on 2009-01-10 11:09:42 +0000
Love Is All Around – The Troggs not Wet Wet Wet!
Comment by Observe on 2009-01-11 01:04:53 +0000
Oh, I can’t control myself.
Comment by mistertrippy on 2009-01-11 15:31:54 +0000
Oh that was The Troggs at their best, alongside covers of stuff like Them’s I Can Only Give You Everything…..