The People’s Republic of Workington
The connection of all this to the Attack! Book rants and Swells is obvious and genuine. The politics of CND, Right To Work, Support the Miners, Class War, Masturbation, Northern Punk and anarchist bands is pushed through this tale of every day working class mayhem. All of that and more seethes through the writing and its register. It’s great to have this full frontal agenda back again. The credit crunch helps to do this, just as in the same way it’s bringing great music back into the hands of the moneyless and jobless. It’s a book that reminds us of what comes next.
Richard Marshall on Stanley Manly‘s Workington Dynamo.
Oh, the glamour!
One of the most surprising things about editing this site over the years has been the sheer number of people who’ve asked if they can ‘intern’ for us. Having an office from which they could intern would be a start really. However, if you’d be into a web internship where you work from your own […]
Candy’s Man
Six years have passed and Candy is still pissed that LeRoy Felt didn’t get THE CHAIR. She wants to see that retard fry. She wants sparks. She wants all the lights in the county dimming from the strain on the electrical grid. She paid her ticket in grief and now she just wants to see her damn show so she can finally go home to Shakespeare, MS and live the life of peace and beauty to which she is entitled. But LeRoy Felt got off with life in the state penitentiary for the man he’d killed. Her man. So after the trial Candy visited once a month just to look at LeRoy Felt, just to sit on the other side of the dirty glass and stare holes in him and let it be known that out here in the world there is still one woman — one woman by God — who remembers LeRoy Felt is alive when he should be dead, dead, dead by all that is just and holy.
By Jeff Crook.
Wrong-headed notions for right-minded people
If you were particularly a fan of 1990s slacker bible Deadline then you might be interested to know that several of its leading editors and contributors can be found online (with plenty of art goodness, to boot.) Alan Martin has a pretty comprehensive site and blog, while Brendan McCarthy is in his own strange world […]
The Missing Links
Tony Millionaire‘s Iron Man. * Jeffrey Brown illustrates a line from a Brandon Scott Gorrell poem. * Did you see the Muumuu House spread in the (now defunct) Plan B magazine? * Seattle Times talk to Thurston Moore about The Eternal: “It’s the kind of music I think any music supervisor could use in a […]