CONFLICT AND OMEGA TRIBE will play a three-city mini-tour of Scotland in July 2019.
Friday 12 July 2019
Bannermans Bar, Edinburgh
with Happy Spastic and S3.6.9
Doors 7.30pm | £12.50
Saturday 13 July 2019
The Tunnels, Aberdeen
with The Signal and S3.6.9
Doors 8pm | £12.50
Sunday 14 July 2019
Ivory Blacks, Glasgow
with Frinetix and S3.6.9
Doors 5.30pm | £12.50
Tickets are now on sale for all gigs from Tickets Scotland and Ruffneck Red Promotions.
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STEVE IGNORANT HAS announced the first dates of Slice of Life’s upcoming ‘Don’t Turn Away’ tour, which will showcase new material from the band’s shortly-to-be-released new Don’t Turn Away album.
Further details will be made available on Ignorant’s web site as these are confirmed.
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‘And He Was Cut Down’
Poetry reading, Music event
Penny Rimbaud and Eve Libertine with Kate Shortt
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 19:00-20:00
Abney Park, 215 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16 0LH
[Advance tickets] – £15 / £12 concs, includes a complimentary wine.
Entry at the main gates on Stoke Newington High St from 18:15-18:45. Latecomers will not be admitted.
And He Was Cut Down
An exclusive performance in the Abney Park Chapel for World Poetry Day, ‘And He Was Cut Down’, an epic poem by Penny Rimbaud, charts the fate of the risen saviour and those who rose beside him only to be cast away in the retreat from grace. Throughout the poem, Mary Magdalene pleads that there could and should have been a better way. ‘He was the wanderer, but my shadow pinned him down. He was the shaman, I the She. He was powerless against me, ripped and ragged by my force.’ Feminist in its instinct, this is an impassioned plea that human kindness might find its many ways of expression beyond the rebukes of cruel chastity and oblique prophesy. ‘He died yet would not die. She laid but could not lie nor cradle his body through time.’
Performed by Penny Rimbaud and Eve Libertine continuing a creative partnership forged when both were members of Crass. They will be joined on stage by cellist extraordinaire, Kate Shortt, in what promises to be a memorable and thought-provoking evening.
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Conflict, Overload, The Blissetts, Dead Mob
The Old Brewery, 7 Station Rd, Watford WD17 1ET
Saturday 13 April 2019
£12.50 advance
[Facebook event]
Conflict are an English anarcho-punk band originally based around Eltham in South London that formed in 1981. They have been described as the world’s most influential anarcho-punk band, along with Crass. They influenced the punk movement with their non-conventional approach to music and philosophy. Fierce, tense, cajoling and militant, the reverberation alone is enough to provoke an emotional response. They can be looked on as a combination of what The Clash and Crass could have been, all over a ferocious punk band. The history of rock music has always been intertwined with that of protest, from Bob Marley to Public Enemy, the Stones to the Pistols, etc. Conflict delivers the sound of timeless rebellion.
Conflict, Emissaries of Syn
The Tivoli Venue, Brunswick Rd, Buckley, Flintshire CH7 2EF
Saturday 16 March 2019
[Facebook event] | [Tickets]
Conflict, Dawn Ray’d, Bite Back, Falaun
DROP The Dumbulls Gallery, Dublin street, Liverpool L3 7DT
£10.00 on door
Friday 15 March 2019
[Facebook event]
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Entry Points: Resonating Punk, Performance and Art
Stevphen Shukaitis, Penny Rimbaud, Dharma and Awk Wah
Minor Compositions / Ujikaji Records, 2019.
Art-media project exploring resonances between punk and performance in the UK and Southeast Asia
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, as members of the performance art group EXIT, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher turned to creating outside of the gallery system and artistic conventions. Taking inspiration from eastern philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Taoism, they searched for ways to push beyond the boundaries of Western art practices and rationalities. This resonates with Redza Piyadasa and Suleiman Esa’s 1974 manifesto and exhibition Towards a Mystical Reality, which likewise sought to find a way out of the limitations of modernist art practices and rationalities. Entry Points takes up Piyadasa’s statement that art does not exist in time but only has entry points. What entry points might we find in the resonances between different attempts to utilize conceptual and performative gestures as a way to escape from the constraints one is faced with, aesthetically and politically?
Contains an essay by Stevphen Shukaitis, a dialogue between Shukaitis and Penny Rimbaud, and a recording of an improvised performance by Dharma and Awk Wah responding to footage of the Stop the City Protests.
Stevphen Shukaitis is a cultural theorist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. Penny Rimbaud, is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT co-founded the seminal anarchist punk band Crass. Dharma was the guitarist of The Observatory for the first 7 albums. In 2013, he released his solo debut, Intergranular Space. Awk Wah is the solo project of Shark Fung, a prolific Mandopop songwriter in his youth who later spent time playing drums in band like Engineered Beautiful Blood, Amino Acid Orchestra and I\D. 52 pages, Risograph printed artist book with CD Edition of 200
The text is freely available to read online on the Scribd platform, while the book and CD can be purchased from Minor Compositions.
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SLICE OF LIFE, INTERROBANG? AND Headsticks share rotating ‘top billing’ over three dates this April, with gigs in Leeds (18 April), Newcastle-under-Lyme (19 April) and Nottingham (20 April) in a mini-tour organised by Both Eyes Open.
Ticket for all three shows can be bought in advance online from Gigantic.com. Anyone purchasing tickets to all three days will be given a limited edition gift upon presentation of all three ticket stubs at The Maze gig in Nottingham.
Interrobang / Slice of Life / Headsticks
18 April 2019
Brudenell Social Club
Leeds LS6 1NY
Slice of Life / Headsticks / Interrobang?
19 April 2019
The Rigger
Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 1BT
Headsticks / Interrobang? / Slice of Life / Jessie from Eastfield
20 April 2019
The Maze
Nottingham NG1 3FT
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THE A-HEADS album Ash to the Soil secures a limited edition vinyl re-release later this month, courtesy of the German Mad Butcher Records label.
The twelve-track album was originally a DIY vinyl and CD release and was first issued in 2009. A total of 250 copies of the album will be re-pressed by Mad Butcher Records.
A-Heads
Ash to the Soil
2009
http://commerce.madbutcher.de/
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Rich Cross. 2017. 'Fifteen shades of grey', in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), And All Around Was Darkness, Itchy Monkey Press, pp.218-227. ISBN 978-1-291-74025-7.
Rich Cross. 2016. '"Stop the City showed another possibility": Mobilisation and Movement in Anarcho-Punk', in Matt Worley and Mike Dines (eds.), The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music - 1979-1984, Minor Compositions: Colchester / New York / Port Watson. ISBN 978-1-57027-318-6 [ Free eBook download | Print copy available to buy from Minor Compositions ]
Rich Cross. 2016. '"Why do you think that they are laughing?", in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), 'Some of Us Scream Some of Us Shout': Myths, Folklore and Epic Tales of the Anarcho, (Itchy Monkey Press) [ Buy from Active Distribution or Situation Press ]
AK Press – Revolution by the Book
