sex and violence
I love a good headline, but I’m disappointed that the Standard missed drugs out of the equation – “Girls Guns and Ganja” has a much better ring to it…
Found this clipping in an old fanzine – if anyone has the full article, please get in touch.
you know that’s why we love it
I had that very copy until a couple of years ago…
I had that very copy until a couple of years ago…
Ah good stuff – I guess it was all the hysteria about Buju and Shabba?
Pretty much, with sensationalist reportage on violence in London – did I mention this in the Ninjaman piece in Woofah? Though I may have attributed it to the Daily Mail
The general tone was the Yardies are coming….and bringing their guns and slackness to the capital.
Yeah the ES has always had a bee in its bonnet about yardies…
looks like there is a follow up piece from the Independent by Lloyd Bradley here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/using-guns-thats-nothing-to-do-with-any-sort-of-music-a-man-was-hurt-in-a-shooting-at-a-ragga-concert-is-violence-taking-over-lloyd-bradley-looks-for-some-answers-1456075.html
Yeah, it wasn’t very popular at all back then, ha ha!
I do miss my copy of “Gun Mi Carry” by WickerMan though…