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The Ten year anniversary of 'Not Just Bits Of Paper'
Not Just Bits Of Paper is a portal into a world now diminished, a world where the importance of specific bits of paper cannot be...
david1170
Apr 22 min read
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Thoughts Words Action reviews 'Bag of Tricks'
"The book reads like a fever dream, an equally nostalgic love letter and recollection of a subculture that burned brightly and...
david1170
Apr 25 min read
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Guitargonaut - Underground Rock Adventures by Sluggo Cawley
Guitargonaut (gÄ-tär′gÉ™-nôt) An adventurer engaged in a quest. With a guitar. And a constantly evolving idea of how to play it. Sluggo ...
david1170
Apr 21 min read
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Shared love and enthusiasm for the music and comradery
Issuepunkzine #135 has a great review of ‘ The Fire Still Burns ’ by David Gamage. Neil Duncan has been reading the hefty collection of...
david1170
Mar 302 min read
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Nefarious Artists: The Soundtrack: Part Four is live on Razorcake now
Razorcake Podcast #912 with Welly Artcore Nefarious Artists : The Soundtrack: Part Four: 1981 All digitised direct from vinyl with snap,...
david1170
Mar 302 min read
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Diverse and vital
Leon the poet’s debut collection, Sometimes I’m The Bull, Sometimes I’m The China Shop , is a deep dive into the chaos and tenderness of...
david1170
Mar 303 min read
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Anarcho-Punk: Resistance in London book launch at Freedom Press
To celebrate the publication of ' Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-88 ' Freedom Press, Britain's largest anarchist...
david1170
Mar 272 min read
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Alex CF’s Spring Prize Draw
Super talented author, musician and artist, Alex CF is having a fund-raising prize draw and you can win awesome goodies! Â Purchase as...
david1170
Mar 271 min read
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Unleashing a bag of tricks
Film actress, lead vocalist of Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers, and now published author, Ruby Dee Philippa launched her superb new book,...
david1170
Mar 241 min read
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a visceral, courageous dive into the institutions that shape us
A new review of James Domestic’s Poets Day Dream  by the TWA punk-rock blog says that it is; "An outstanding collection of poems, prose,...
david1170
Mar 243 min read
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Saturday's Book fair Shenanigans
On Saturday, Mass Movement's  (podcast and magazine) middle-aged crew left the geeky confines of their podcasting cave  to venture to the...
david1170
Mar 101 min read
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like a brick through a shop window
There are books that whisper, books that sing, and books that hit like a brick through a shop window. Spent  by Paul Case is the latter....
david1170
Mar 104 min read
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james Domestic is back on the road
As part of the celebrations around the publication of his new book, Poets Day Dream , James Domestic is back gigging again after his...
david1170
Mar 42 min read
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Did you hear that?!?
The audiobook of ‘ Three and a Half Minutes of Fame ’ is now published! The book’s author and narrator, Alex Boucher , has shared this:...
david1170
Feb 221 min read
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Street Voice review The Fire Still Burns
Hope Lye of Street Voice UK sent us this review of ' The Fire Still Burns ', the story of the post-punk adventures of more than eighty...
david1170
Feb 222 min read
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In Pursuit of Expression
This collection brings together all of Martin Appleby's small press poetry publications that were released between 2016 and 2024. From...
david1170
Feb 222 min read
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My Altercation with the melodic punk scene
' My Altercation '  weaves together notes and memories to capture the essence of Bandung and Indonesia's HC music scene with a...
david1170
Feb 181 min read
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No longer 'buried underneath rubble eternally'
Local hero and 'Bull in a china shop', Leon the Poet , gets more reviews for his new book... Colchester poet Leon Helsby (aka Leon The...
david1170
Feb 182 min read
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My Punk Rock Life - Another busy weekend for Marla
From the OC to The Valley on 5th and 6th April 2025, It’s going to be a bitchin’ busy weekend for Marla Watson as she promotes her superb...
david1170
Feb 162 min read
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Assassin of Mediocrity - Razorcake reviews the Toxic Shock Records book
When I was a young punk growing up in South Florida, an older friend named Gary Costa gave me a stack of records, including classics...
david1170
Feb 162 min read
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