The Hippies Now Wear Black

Articles, presentations and papers by the author include the following (materials with clickable titles are available in full-text):

Journal articles

• 2017. ‘Gee Vaucher: Introspective [review]’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 6, Number 1 [forthcoming].
• 2017. ‘Vi Day, Another Winter of Discontent Festival, The Dome, The Boston Arms, London, 19 February 2017 [review]’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 6, Number 1 [forthcoming].
• 2017. ‘Being reflective about Introspective: An interview with Stevphen Shukaitis’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 6, Number 1 [forthcoming].
• 2016. ‘The Art of Crass exhibition [review]’, Punk & Post-Punk, Volume 5, Number 2, pp.205-209. 10.1386/punk.5.2.205_5.
• 2014. ‘”Take the Toys from the Boys”: Gender, Generation and Anarchist Intent in the Work of Poison Girls’, Punk & Post-Punk, Vol 3, Number 2, pp.117-145 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/punk.3.2.117_1
• 2010. ‘There Is No Authority But Yourself’: The Individual and the Collective in British Anarcho-Punk. Music and Politics, Volume IV, Issue 2, Summer. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mp.9460447.0004.203
• 2004. ‘The Hippies Now Wear Black: Crass and anarcho-punk, 1977-1984’, Socialist History, No 26, pp.25-44

Book chapters and contributions

• 2017. ‘When John met Clem’, All Around Was Darkness [forthcoming]
• 2017. ‘Fifteen shades of grey’, All Around Was Darkness [forthcoming]
• 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 ]
• 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 ]
• 2015. ‘Crass Exeter September 1982’, in Gregory Bull and Mickey ‘Penguin’ (eds.), Not Just Bits of Paper, Perdam Babylonis Nomen Publications, pp.36-40. ISBN-10: 1505703387; ISBN-13: 9781505703382 [ Buy book from the Situation Press shop ]
• 2014. ‘British Anarchism in the era of Thatcherism’, in Evan Smith and Matthew Worley (eds.), Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956 (Manchester: Manchester University Press) [ See MUP catalogue entry for details of the book ]

Presentations, seminar and conference papers

• 2015. ‘”Movements are systems, and systems kill”: the reluctant collectivity of anarcho-punk’, Youth, Politics and Identity Symposium, [The Subcultures Network – AHRC Networking Project: Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change], University of Surrey, 31 March
• 2013. ‘You’ll Never Beat the System by Bombing Number 10’: Perceptions of the Utility of Political Violence in Anarcho-Punk, 1977-1987, No Sir, I Won’t conference, Oxford Brookes University, 28 June
• 2002. ‘The Politics of Punk’. Paper given at Sources of Radicalism seminar, University of Manchester, 11 May
• 2001. ‘Yes that’s right, punk is dead: Crass and the anarcho-punk critique’. Paper given at No Future conference, University of Wolverhampton, 21 September
• 2000. ‘The Politics of Crass and Anarcho-Punk’, presentation for Riotous Assembly meeting, Manchester, 7 March
• 1999. ‘Anarchism and Punk Rock’, presentation for WEA course on Anarchism, Manchester, November
• 1999. ‘Stop the City: A history’. Paper given at Riotous Assembly meeting, Manchester, 1 June

Newspaper and magazine articles

• 2014. ‘What Does Moving Online Mean For Freedom?‘, Freedom [online], 2 April http://freedomnews.org.uk/what-does-moving-online-mean-for-freedom/
• 2013. ‘London’s Burning’ [30th anniversary retrospective on ‘Stop the City’], Freedom, September, p11
• 2013. ‘Debating the legacy of anarcho-punk’ [report on the ‘No Sir, I Won’t’ conference], Freedom, June, p7
• 2011. [Review of The Rest is Propaganda], Freedom, 16 July
• 2007. [Review of The Story of Crass and The Day The Country Died], Freedom, 27 April (also republished in the Reviews library of libcom.org)
• 2004. [Review of Love Songs, Crass lyric anthology], Freedom, 26 June
• 2002. A Compelling Call to Action [Review of ‘Killing Time’ film performance at the British Film Institute], Freedom, 29 June

Online

• 2017. Lance d’Boyle (1940-2017): “The war isn’t over yet”, The Hippies Now Wear Black, 20 March, https://thehippiesnowwearblack.org.uk/2017/03/20/lance-dboyle-1940-2017/
• 2016. Vi Subversa and Poison Girls: An Appreciation, The Hippies Now Wear Black, 12 March, https://thehippiesnowwearblack.org.uk/2016/03/12/vi-subversa-and-poison-girls-an-appreciation/

Other interviews and extracts

• Alistair Livingston. 2014. ‘Everyone was an anarchist’, greengalloway, 10 March [includes an extract from the ‘Stop the City’ article in Freedom]
• Erin Yanke. 2014.’Poison Girls’, Maximum RocknRoll, No 379, December [includes extracts from the ‘Stop the City’ article in Freedom]
• Ian Glasper. 2006. ‘Metro Youth’, in The Day the Country Died, London: Cherry Red, pp.227-230.
• Lance Hahn. 2002. ‘”There’s too much on my mind”: The Story of Metro Youth / Sanction’, Maximum RocknRoll, No 224, January [interview on band histories]