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        1970s nightmares part 3: wading through the stiffs to get to Rachel Sweet
        
        
          
- 5 Live Stiffs
 - Aberdeen
 - Any Trouble
 - Be-Stiff
 - Bill Legend
 - Blockheads
 - Camden
 - Chris Clark
 - Dave Edmunds
 - Dirty Looks
 - Dr Feelgood
 - Dusty Springfield
 - Eddie & The Hot Rods
 - Elvis Costello
 - Greenslade
 - Heart Of The City
 - I Knew The Bride
 - Ian Dury
 - Inverness
 - Joe "King" Carrasco
 - Jona Lewie
 - Larry Wallis
 - Legend
 - Lene Lovich
 - London
 - Lulu
 - Mickey Jupp
 - Mystery Dance
 - Nick Lowe
 - Pin A Medal On Mary
 - Pink Fairies
 - Police Car
 - Rachel Sweet
 - Siouxsie Sioux
 - Son Of Stiff
 - Sylvie Vartan
 - T. Rex
 - Ten Pole Tudor
 - The Equators
 - The Lyceum
 - The Roundhouse
 - The Strand
 - Truckstop Queen
 - Waiting For The End Of The World
 - Whole Wide World
 - Wreckless Eric
 
 - 
        1970s nightmares part 2: forgotten bands, hopeless causes & the search for the missing chord
        
        
          
- 1977
 - 1978
 - Amsterdam Hilton Hotel
 - Arista Records
 - Aswad
 - Barba O'Reilly
 - Bethnal
 - Bethnal Green
 - Billy Jenkins
 - Bird
 - burlesque
 - central London
 - Charlie Parker
 - Clive Davis
 - Crash Landing
 - east London
 - Giorgio Moroder
 - Gloria Mundi
 - Hammersmith Odeon
 - Herman Brood
 - Ian Trimmer
 - John Eden
 - Johnny Kidd
 - Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
 - Lou Reed
 - Lyceum Ballroom
 - Matumbi
 - Melody Maker
 - Misty In Roots
 - Motorhead
 - New York
 - Nina Hagen
 - Paul Weller
 - Pete Townshend
 - Roger Daltrey
 - Sham 69
 - Soho
 - Steel Appeal
 - Steel Pulse
 - The Beatles
 - The Jam
 - The Marquee
 - The Mission
 - The Pirates
 - The Pleasers
 - The Strand
 - The Sun
 - The Vapors
 - The Vibrators
 - The Virgin Prunes
 - The Who
 - Ultravox!
 - Uncarved
 - Wardour Street
 - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place
 - Who We Gonna Blame
 - Wilko Johnson
 - Wire
 
 - 
        1970s nightmares part 1: seeing Sting & The Police unannounced at a punk gig
        
        
          
- 1979
 - 4th Reich
 - Adam and the Ants
 - Adam Ant
 - Back To Zero
 - Bobby's Girl
 - Brain James All Stars
 - Brian James and the Brains
 - Camden
 - central London
 - Charing Cross
 - Chelase
 - Cuddly Toys
 - Damned
 - Dead Boys
 - Destroy All Monsters
 - Do It The French Way
 - Eater
 - Electric Ballroom
 - Global Village
 - John Cale
 - London
 - Lyceum Ballroom
 - Madness
 - Margaret Thatcher
 - Mark E. Smith
 - Marseille
 - Music Machine
 - Notre Dame Hall
 - Packet of Three
 - Pure Hell
 - purple hearts
 - Raped
 - Secret Affair
 - Sex Pistols
 - Slaughter and the Dogs
 - Soho
 - South Kensington
 - Squeeze
 - Stiff Little Fingers
 - Sting
 - Terence Conran
 - The Chords
 - The Dictators
 - The Fall
 - The Lurkers
 - The Marquee
 - The Members
 - The Mods
 - The Nashville
 - The Police
 - The Specials
 - The Strand
 - The Vapors
 - UK Subs
 - Wardour Street
 - west London
 
 - 
        Yoko Ono, Gustav Metzger and me…
        
        
          
- A Foundation
 - Apple Records
 - Bayerischer Rundfunk
 - Bayern 2
 - Bottoms
 - Chicks On Speed
 - Cut
 - E.H. Hereford University Center
 - Elephant's Memory
 - Fluxus
 - Four
 - Gustav Metzger
 - International Fluxhibition #3
 - John Lennon
 - Justin Hoffmann
 - Liverpool
 - Liverpool Biennial
 - Melissa Logan
 - New York
 - Old Rope
 - Power Boogie
 - Richard Di Lello
 - Satan's Bed
 - Score for Fluxhibition #3
 - Skyladders
 - St Lukes
 - Stewart Home
 - The Gallery
 - The Longest Cocktail Party
 - Tracey Emin
 - Tribute To Gustav Metzger
 - University of Texas at Arlington
 - Whitney Museum
 - Yoko Ono
 - YouTube
 
 - 
        Nick Hornby never had days like these!
        
        
          
- Bassett Road
 - BBC4
 - Bexhill-On-Sea
 - BlogCatalog
 - Caribbean Carnival
 - Charles Bukowski
 - Discogs
 - Eddie Bo
 - global village trucking co
 - Greasy Truckers Live At Dingwalls Dance Hall
 - Julia Callan-Thompson
 - Ken Kesey
 - King Mob
 - London Is The Place For Me
 - Nick Hornby
 - Paul Smith
 - Pure Mania
 - Russ Henderson
 - Sony
 - Stewart Home
 - Technorati
 - Ward 34
 
 - Shake and shimmy with the credit crunch, it's a groove sensation!
 - 
        Chicks On Speed piss all over the dead futurists at Tate Modern
        
        
          
- Art Rules
 - Carlo Carrà
 - Chicks On Speed
 - Cutting The Edge
 - Filippo Tomasso Marinetti
 - Futurism
 - Futurist Manifestos
 - Georges Braque
 - Giacomo Balla
 - Italy
 - Jacques Villon
 - London
 - Marcel Duchamp
 - Michael Jackson
 - moonwalking
 - neoism
 - Neoist Manifestos
 - Orphism
 - Pablo Picasso
 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon
 - Russian Cubo-Futurism
 - Tate Modern
 - Three Stooges
 - Umberto Boccioni
 - Vorticism
 
 - Steven Wells RIP
 - 
        Ibiza in the beatnik & hippie eras
        
        
          
- A Wedding
 - Barbet Schroeder
 - Bart Hugues
 - Bruno de Galzain
 - Charlotte Rampling
 - Christmas At Home With Nina And Frederik
 - Clifford Irving
 - Damien Enright
 - Davy Graham
 - Elmyr de Hory
 - Frederik Van Pallandt
 - George Andrews
 - Groupie
 - Henry Wolf
 - Howard Hughes
 - Howard Marks
 - I Listen to the Ocean
 - I Would Amor Her
 - Ibiza
 - Irma Kurtz
 - Jan Cremer
 - Jenny Fabian
 - Julia Callan-Thompson
 - Lester Waldman
 - Little Donkey
 - Longtime Boy
 - Manumission
 - More
 - Mr Nice
 - Nancy Hennings
 - Nico
 - Nina and Frederik
 - Nina and Frederik No. 2
 - Nina Van Pallandt
 - O.C. and Stiggs
 - Oh Sinner Man
 - Pink Floyd
 - Quintet
 - Robert Altman
 - Rolling Stones
 - Simon Vinkenoog
 - Sippin’ Cider
 - Sucu Sucu
 - Terence Stamp
 - Terry Thomas
 - The Beatles
 - The Book of Grass
 - The Long Goodbye
 - Tibetan Bells
 - UFO
 - White Christmas
 
 - 
        What Can It All Mean?
        
        
          
- Adrienne Posta
 - Adventures of a Plumbers's Mate
 - Adventures of a Private Eye
 - Adventures of a Taxi Driver
 - Beat Dis
 - Bomb The Bass
 - Bread
 - Cherry Cherry
 - Damned
 - Damned Damned Damned
 - Denzil Dennis
 - Flirtations
 - Gordon Lightfoot
 - Groupie Girl
 - Herman Kelly
 - Hot Butter
 - How Can You Tell Me?
 - If You Could Read My Mind
 - Illegal Art
 - Jah Screechy
 - Johnny 'Guitar' Watson
 - Johnyy Reggae
 - Jonathan King
 - Let's Dance To The Drummer's Beat
 - Lobo
 - Lol Coxhill
 - Mama We're All Crazee Now
 - Me & You & A Dog Named Boo
 - Michael West
 - Music For Pleasure
 - Neil Diamond
 - Nothing To Fear
 - Once I Had A Love
 - Popcorn
 - Rebel MC
 - Screamtime
 - Slade
 - Sounds Like The Flirtations
 - South London Gallery
 - Stanley Long
 - Steinski
 - Street Tough
 - The Foundry
 - The Lessons of Rap
 - The Mixtures
 - The Piglets
 - The Pushbike Song
 - Walk & Skank
 - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective