Stuck Inn IX: Stuckism and Punk
Punk lost its way as a London fashion in 1976, but revived in 1977, when young boys and girls walked around small town shopping precincts wearing safety pins and razor blade necklaces. Some of them stopped doing this, when they discovered punk. 1873 was a good year for punk. Damien Hirst was a punk at heart, and became a stuckist. Vivienne Westwood’s Active Resistance manifesto is a pompous rehash of The Stuckists manifesto eight years too late. But thanks anyway.
By Charles Thomson and Paul Harvey.
Wyldfire: An interview with Evie Wyld
I often get asked about writing in male voices. It wasn’t something I set out to do particularly with much thought that I was a woman and so therefore a male voice would not be my natural writing voice. Writers make stuff up, it’s sort of the job in fiction, and it seems bizarre that people see writing as the opposite sex as such a leap of imagination, but writing about being chased by a shark is just a run-of-the-mill experience everyone has and can access. That said, yes, it was hard, but no harder than if I’d written a straightforward story one person in one place and time, I don’t think.
By Alan Kelly.
Degenerate sweethearts & rebel scum
Tonight in London, 3:AM along with The Beat, Blackheath Books, Grievous Jones and Tangerine Press present Kevin Williamson, Steve Finbow, Lee Rourke, Darran Anderson, Paul Ewen, Joseph Ridgwell, Vic Templar and many, many more in a night of rock ‘n’ roll. Saturday 3 July @ 7.00pm, The Coach & Horses, 29 Greek Street, Soho