John Eden: BM Box 3641, London, WC1N 3XX, England UK
Archive for the ‘general’ Category.
“I’ve got friends all over the world… none in this country, but all over the world!”
Tony Hancock - The Radio Ham
I’ve still got mixed feelings about this, but:
http://www.myspace.com/johneden
I am currently adopting a grumpy old man policy of only adding people I have heard of before, so drop me a message if you have a wacky pseudonym.
It has also emerged that Daddy Freddy is no longer the entrant in the Guiness Book of Records for “world’s fastest rapper, the”. (See comments again).
But I must stress that this doesn’t detract IN ANY WAY from his standing as a shining star in the uncarved firmament. It was never about the speed, but the words and delivery in my book. 
It has emerged that Simon Reynolds and me have been dealing with entirely different Bob Dickinsons. (See comments)
“Daddy has a hundred eyeballs. And he eats them.”
- Graffitti recently found in my bathroom, written in washable crayon.
My email went down for a few days last week.
If you emailed me and haven’t had a reply, then please resend it.
Still Fighting Thatcher* dept:
Mark K-Punk article about On-U Sound over at Fact Magazine, including contributions from Mark Stewart and Adrian Sherwood.
‘We need to push and shove and throw things’
“In the 80s he founded Class War, whose newspaper featured photos of beaten-up policemen. He went on Bash the Rich marches and was labelled Britain’s most dangerous man. Now a grandad with a dodgy brick-throwing arm, Ian Bone still believes in violent action to overthrow the state. Emine Saner meets him.”
Green Galloway on the new Crass book, Rubella Ballet, Goths.
*”Still Fighting Thatcher” is a song by Hard Skin.
Still Fighting RSI dept:
Beyond The Implode: October Listening Post and satanic memories.
Paul Autonomic’s new blog deeptime, including a new link to Paul Meme’s Dubstep Sufferah vol 2 mix (downloads of which took his site off-air after a couple of days!).
Matt Woebot interviews Dave Nodz and gets him to design a Woebot t-shirt!
Don’t forget the UK Reggae Dancehall Events at the Deptford Albany Tomorrow.
A month or so ago I got an email from Bob Dickinson, the original keyboard player (and violinist!) in Magazine, before Dave Formula replaced him. Dickinson was from an avant-garde classical background: when he saw the famous notice in the Manchester Virgin store from Devoto looking to recruit members, he had “just finished doing a 6-hour version of Gavin Bryar’s ‘Sinking of the Titanic’ at the Peterloo Gallery (with Dick Witts)”.
http://blissout.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_blissout_archive.html#115514034502880773
I interviewed Bob Dickinson nearly a decade ago and had no idea about any of this. Or rather, I interviewed a Bob Dickinson who I now believe is the same one.
In the mid-90s, before the proliferation of the internet - a lot of people seemed to have access to DTP stuff and photocopying. There was an explosion of zines of all sorts of hues. I gravitated towards a kind of post- situ/neoist/mail art/occulture ultra-left milieu which included things like the Association of Autonomous Astronauts at its more accessible end, and the Equi Phallic and Neoist alliances at the other. I can’t begin to tell you how prolific and energised that scene was. Some of the texts are anthologised in Stewart Home’s Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism (Serpents Tail) , alas without their graphics.
The East London Section of the London Psychogeographical Association combined left-communism and paganism and inspired a large network of similar groups across the world, as well as novellists such as Iain Sinclair.
Manchester Area Psychogeographic produced a number of one-sheet newsletters. The “group” at that stage seemed to consist only of Bob Dickinson (as was the case with many of the groups in the scene) and I interviewed him for a zine of mine that ended up not being printed. I did put all of it and some other M.A.P. texts online, though.
Bob also produced a show for BBC Radio 4 about zines which featured some of my efforts. He got a mention in Radio 1 DJ Mark Radcliffe’s book in relation to producing his show I think as well.
A renaissance man, if it is all the same one, and the connections seem to be all in place (MAP wrote about early Factory and I think Nico in Manchester…)
Since then psychogeography has become a massive industry, as an academic discipline on the one hand, and as a more literary version of tourism on the other. Both of these scenarios have attempted to remove the more confrontational aspects which made psychogeography so appealing in the first place.
A welcome return to blogging for the man like Dubversion (formerly of Pounding System).
Matt B presents his Blogariddims mix, with some great electronica, dubstep and 21st Century reggae. All of the series has been wicked…
Crucial dancehall mix from Computerstyle.org - check his “Like A Thunder” mix as well if you haven’t - double barrel lickshot!!!
Dubbing in Tokyo blog from occasional commentor Downpressor.
Belated greetings to Doppelganger.
My BASH review on Dissensus.
So much to do, so little wrist-time. Been listening to a lot of records and reading a lot of pulp fiction. i hope I’ll be able to tell you about it at some point.
Concluding the “blonde chicks and reggae” theme…Aswad meets Diana Windsor Uptown.
How about a caption competition?
