THE EDITORS OF Not Just Bits of Paper, a compendium of writing on the original anarcho-punk wave which offers a participant’s eye view of events, has been republished in an updated edition to mark the tenth anniversary of its release.

The original edition of Not Just Bits of Paper was published back in 2014.

The 2024 edition is printed in full-colour, and has been extended to include an additional thirty-seven pages – including two new chapters, and an extra selection of posters and flyers.

The new edition is currently available in print format from Amazon, but may also be made available from other outlets in due course.

The original book from 2014 had 230 pages, but this revised edition has a whopping 267 pages.

This book in its original 2014 form sold over eight hundred copies.

Greg and myself would both like to thank all the buyers of those books. No money has ever been made by either of us during the publishing life of that 2014 book. We were not interested in any payments; we were interested in publishing an excellent book at a cheap price; and we still are!

This revised edition of the book has an extra thirty seven pages of posters and flyers to look at, and also within those extra pages are two great new chapters written by Tim Voss and Mick ‘Skinner’ Baker about their respective teenage punk bands, Necro and Virus V1.

The black and white edition has been upgraded exactly as the full colour edition has been, so they are both the same books cover design-wise and pages-wise except of course, one is in colour and the other black and white.

The full cover edition has an olive with grey text cover. The black and white version has a black with grey text cover.

Greg and myself would like to dedicate this anthology of recollections and memories to the heroes of the anarcho-punk movement: the pamphleteers, the flyer and poster artists, the squatters, the young punks who put gigs on in the local village hall, and also the young punks who formed bands that no one ever heard of outside their local scenes. You were all a small part of the movement that inspired so many. Thank you to all those persons unknown.

— Michael Baxter and Greg Bull

Gregory Bull and Micky Penguin (eds.). 2025. Not Just Bits Of Paper: Tenth Year Anniversary – Full Colour Edition. ISBN: 9798335404563. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DF61T5M5.