Whilst we are on the subject of Iceland...
). Active during the turbulent years 1918-1921, the army consisted largely of peasants and workers and numbered between 15,000 and 110,000.
On last week's Morrissey Desert Island Discs post we acknowledged the difficulty of selecting just eight records after a lifetime of following pop music. If it is hard enough for us mere mortals imagine the difficulty faced by John Peel when he was castaway in January 1990 (20 years ago? ridiculous).
I wouldn't normally post something this new, but I doubt that it's widely available outside Russia.
Alan Moore said: If we were to take out all the leaders tomorrow, and put them up against a wall and shoot them— and it’s a lovely thought, so let me just dwell on that for a moment before I dismiss it—but if we were to do that, society would probably collapse, because the majority of people have had thousands of years of being conditioned to depend upon leadership from a source outside themselves. That has become a crutch to an awful lot of people, and if you were to simply kick it away, then those people would simply fall over and take society with them. In order for any workable and realistic state of anarchy to be achieved, you will obviously have to educate people—and educate them massively—towards a state where they could actually take responsibility for their own actions and simultaneously be aware that they are acting in a wider group: that they must allow other people within that group to take responsibility for their own actions. Which on a small scale, as it works in families or in groups of friends, doesn’t seem to be that implausible, but it would take an awful lot of education to get people to think about living their lives in that way. And obviously, no government, no state, is ever going to educate people to the point where the state itself would become irrelevant. So if people are going to be educated to the point where they can take responsibility for their own laws and their own actions and become, to my mind, fully actualized human beings, then it will have to come from some source other than the state or government.
Appearances can be deceptive, and Bradford (who actually came from Blackburn) looked more like the feisty Redskins than the sensitive observers of eighties working class life that they were. They epitomised the socialist minded indie bands that followed in the wake of The Smiths. It does, indeed , take guts to be gentle and kind. Shouting Quietly is itself a phrase which to me sums up the discontent that was common amongst young, creative working class people after ten years of Thatcher. Criminally overlooked.
Ian Michael Hodgson - vocals, guitar
Ewan Butler - guitar
John Baulcombe - keyboards
Jos Murphy - bass
Mark Andrew McVitie - drums
КИНО (Kino)
Алиса (Alisa)
Странные игры (Strange Games)
Sorry for the delay in bringing you this -
During the first quarter of the twentieth century the revolutionary zeal of the sailors of the Russian Fleet was impressive.
Cock Jockeys? No fucking way!
Often overlooked, Felt were one of the coolest acts on the independent scene in the 1980’s.
These were the scenes in the Welsh market town of Cwmgrwfi this morning as crowds of people consumed with morbid curiosity descended on the bedsit of local man Sylvester Sylvestre.
, is well known for his potent homebrewed aubergine cider. Yesterday as he sliced open an aubergine he was astounded to see that the seeds clearly depicted a circled A.
Dear person,
Every now and then something remarkable comes along.
She began recording this, her first album in August 1977 although two tracks had been recorded during the summer of 1975..jpg)
