THE BLACK BELLES

Yesterday I was lucky enough to get hold of free tickets (including free drinks and a coach to and back from Southend -nice!) to go and see a band called the Horrors, but its not them who really caught the attention of my ears it was the band preceeding them, they were a band who I can only describe as great fun live, 'they' being the Black belles (who were placed in the wrong playing order in my mind).

The Black Belles are usually a four piece but their Keyboard player wasnt there last night leaving the band with the usual Drums, Bass, Vocals and Guitar which was fine by me because they sounded great.
 Their 'Goth' look belies a sound that goes beyond any one genre especially any Goth ones, the band were one of those who are unashamed to wear their influences on their sleeves while at the same time managing to create music that is new.

 Even though you can hear sounds ranging from Delta Blues to the Cramps, the Damned  (the drummer has a great Rat Scabies cum White Stripes sound thing going on in her drumming - I hope she doesnt mind me saying that seeing how Jack White is involved with them through his label), through to B-movie Horror music as well as much, much more, and they use it all to create a sound that they can justly call their own.
Its true to say that the band aren't as acomplished as some virtuoso outfits but then they dont have to be, they still sound good, their music is simple (while packing in loads) yet is evocative, spontanious and still exciting live -in short a good live Rock'n'Roll band, playing as it should be done

 I urge people to try and catch this band when ever they come over to our side of the pond next, and I hope they manage to stay together for a good time yet because I can see this band only getting better if they do.
They have a couple of singles out as well as an album (I think), heres a single of theirs to give you an idea of their sound. Enjoy -I did.

BLACK BELLES WHAT CAN I DO?

A GOODBYE TO A DEAD BEASTIE -R.I.P.

Another sad day for good music came last week when the Beastie Boys Adam 'wassisname' died of Cancer (the Punk whacker strikes again), and so to mark the passing of a good musician from a god band Ive decided to post the Beasties classic early E.P from when they were a young Punk band playing the NY Hardcore curcuit in the early 1980's, Im using this E.P because it is the Beastie Boy sound that I knew them from, and suprised me when they changed to become a Def Jam Hip Hop band, even then though they made interesting music.
But enough of that because I want to show you the bands Pollywog stew E.P from 1982.
"take it away fellas"
R.I.P.

..PUSH THE BUTTON, ACTIVATE...

...I DONT CARE 'TO WHAT CHANNEL'? JUST TO ONE THAT HASNT GOT ANY CLASH MUSIC ON IT, COZ ITS PISSING ME OFF HEARING THEM USED IN ADVERTS SO OFTEN.


I'm not a great fan of TV and when I do have it on its usually as background noise when I'm doing something messy that means I cant keep changing the music, such as painting (no Im not an 'Artist', Artists sell work that people like), its my other, other hobby.

Aaanyway, I've had the TV on about five or six times this past two weeks, either as background noise as I said or to watch a DVD (Im a B-movie + old Horror films fan of Geek-God like proportions) and I couldn't help noticing the amount of Clash music I kept hearing on Freeview channels like the cheapo C.24 (ITV4 I think, which occasionally shows my beloved Sweeney or the Professionals hence it being tuned to that otherwise shit channel).

I must admit that it was a bit amusing the first couple of times I heard 'Brand New Cadillac' playing while Clint Eastwood threw punches at everything on the screen that moved, but after those first few times my amusement seriously waned and I began to wonder why we were now hearing CLASH tunes regularly on TV when once there were none?

 It can't be a co-incidence that the amount of Clash tunes that are filling in film and TV show ads has increased since JOE STRUMMER died, the only questions I want to know is why now, who agreed to it all, and have they ever heard the term 'overkill'?

It could be MICK JONES who owns half of the tunes or it could of been Strummers wife looking to feather the family nest and give his kids a decent future (but at the cost of destroying their Dads legacy? there must be other ways).

 I just don't know why or how, but what I do know is that the bands music wasn't appearing on TV before STRUMMERS death because he was saying a firm, 'right-on' "no" to all offers, and he must of turned down a small fortune in doing so over the years.

 By doing that STRUMMER had I reckon proved what a real proper Punky geezer he was who, despite a few career 'burps' during the 1980's still had his heart in the same musically moral place that endeared him to many of us from the late 1970's onwards, and shows us that (wiping tear from my jaded, cataract filled eye)  JOE was still as Punk Rock as the day he...ermmm, wrote 'White Riot' on a Boiler suit....(haven't you got any better examples than that?).

So heres to JOE (again), I will raise the Tea (in my horrid 'Wills & Kate' mug) to him now, and as I take my Meds tonight I will be still thinking of him, until that is, the Meds take effect and I begin to dribble as I'm given one last wipe and put to bed.

WHAT ADVERTISING BOLLOCKS DROPS INTO THE COMMENTS BOX. AND ROLLINS...

Look at the bollocks I've just received (well, bothered to read) in the comments box, according to it I've "just started", 'Just started' my bum, ha!

Anyway read this for some bollocks, it sounds like it was written by Henry Rollins character in the Horror comedy 'FEAST' (actually funny which actually included quite a good performance from Rollins), this is what the Comments box shit reads like anyway, it reads...

"I'm right here to assist get your site off to a great start off. Do not be 1 of these that wished they'd completed it much better the first time, then just take on the task, and cost, of beginning over. Your site reflects what you as well as your business or hobby are all about. I'm in a position to supply low-cost, user-friendly, custom made designed web sites for a wide range of organizations, organizations and teams". 

Wow, and I thought that I wrote a load of rubbish. Then again I don't pretend that I can 'do things for people' and 'get them moving', or whatever shit this 'motivational' doo-doo's offers weak uncertain, gullible people.

Don't ask me what the colouring round some of the writitng is all about, this isn't my computer and blah blah etc. etc. (you know what I mean).
Damn! were this my CompI wouldof been able to use the picture I have of Rollins in Pink Tracky bottoms, oh well.
I met him once at an after gig party, there was about four of five of us including blah blah (don't like to name drop unless its necessary)and Captain Sensible, we were laughing and joking about, lite banter type chat when I said to C.Sensible "cor you still look so young, your turning into the Peter Pan of Punk" (how has he managed to age so well?), upon hearing this, Sensible laughed (and blushed a bit) but mainly laughed at the silly Cliff Richard of Punk comparison, the rest also giggled (it wasn't THAT funny after all), all except Rollins. Rollins had by now crossed his arms in a manner that reminded me of the loud voiced, Slippers and Dressing gown wearing, Rothmans smoking old ladies on the Estate I grew up on (which alone brought a smile to my face, which I think he saw), and he just stood glaring at me while working up the muscular veins on his neck looking 'hard', as if I had just tried to dry hump his Mums favourite Cat -or something.
 I don't know why he took such an obviously dislike and aggressive stance towards me, maybe he thought I was calling  the Captain a nonce or something American slang like, or he thought I wasn't paying enough reverence to the musical 'Heroes' around me, but he was 'giving me the evils' no doubt.
 So I consciously and obviously ignored him and carried prattling on with the others, that didn't cheer him up  any (hehe).
Or maybe I just wasn't paying him enough attention? I don't know why and can only guess. All I can say is that he seemed like a grumpy old prima donna.

GET WELL PENNY RIMBAUD

I would like to send my best wishes and good vibes like to CRASS's PENNY RIMBAUD who has for some time now been fighting a personal battle with Cancer, an enemy as insideous as any physical one.
Heres wishing you all the best for the future Mr Rimbaud. Get well soon XXX.

Writing this has made me realise just what a lazy bugger Ive been over the past few months, Ive barely written a nonsense word sinse I attended the 'LAST SUPPER' gig by STEVE IGNORANT and other ex-CRASS members (which was a corker by the way), thats really lazy!
So Im going to say sorry to all the zillions of readers I have left wanting Globally and try in future not to be so lazy arsed.
P.S. yes that is a Betty Page poster in the backround, I am only human.

51st STATE video for 'NUTS & BOLTS'

Here is a video of a new song by 51st STATE from their latest E.P, (as commented on below) posted here for your aural edification, given to you by me because I love you all so much that I want you to enjoy this as much as I do. Kissy kissy xx.

51st STATE NEW RELEASE

One of my favourite current gigging bands at the moment have just released a new E.P.
If anyone wants a taste of the band then just hop over to their MYSPACE page where there are some of their tracks just waiting for you to listen to them.
To get hold of a copy then contact the band at their MYSPACE page at http://www.myspace.com/51ststate1/blog, where copies are available, also available are more tracks by the band for peoples listening pleasure.

Also still available at the site are copies of the semi-recent HSA compilation benifit CD only LP called 'Cider and Soup' which along with 51st STATE also has tracks by the bands,  RAT BANDITS,  SHE SAID SHIT,  DANE HOWELLS & THE INFIRM.
The cost for this compilation is the overly generous price of nothing more but a donation from your pocket or whatever you can afford, considering the quality of the music and its cause its almost a give away, one in the name of a good cause.

Sadly, the band SHE SAID SHIT and the RAT BANDITS have sinse split up, luckily for us though the bands each left behind an LP of their own that are both worth anyones listening time and are worth keeping an eye out for.

Well, what are you waiting for?

DOH! GIGS MISSED AGAIN

I am starting to believe that something outthere doesnt want me to attend gigs because yet again I have recieved info about a gig that I only read on the day after the gig itself, this time it was one with the likes of the INNER TERRESTRIALS and others, to that I say Bollocks!
But Im not too sad of heart because there is more than an few good gigs coming up in the near future, I wont bother listing them because if you arent in the locale of the gig I may be wasting your reading time, none the less I suggest you keep a good look out at known and trusted forums (the ones that dont ask for money) for some great up and coming gigs of all sorts, from the Anarcho types, OI ones and onto the ones trudging the reform trail so there will be something for all tastes.
Speaking of reformed bands rumour has it that a band who can make the claim of being one of the best to have emerged from their start on the Crass label, the band I speak of are the OMEGA TRIBE.
Of all the bands on the reform trail I have to honestly admit that OMEGA TRIBE are one that I would be more than happy to attend gigs by, fingers crossed.

POLY STYRENE'S UFO KRISHNA CONVERSION

I dont know about anyone else but I always wondered how Poly Styrene got to Krishna from Punk but after decades of occasional wondering I've finally found out why.
Poly's road to Hari (-Hari Hari May.-that was terrible!!) Krishna began one night after an after a concert.  X-Ray Spex gig when "the moment that changed me forever... was seeing a Day-glo UFO in Docaster one night.
It was a bright ball of luminouspink, made of energy -like a fireball, everyone else thought I'd lost the plot".
The band may have thought Poly "had lost the plot" because Poly was the only band member to see the UFO and it wasn't reported in any media.
Yet to Poly the experience was so realistic and made her feel like electricity was flowing through her body and it changed her, this soon put her on a road that saw the band split up, Poly diagnosed with Schizophrenia, then as Bi-Polar disorder, while this was going on Poly was putting herself on her own little Grail quest for enlightenment that eventually led her to the doors of the Krishnas where she eventually found peace and happiness.
All in all, it's not what we believe she did or didn't see that night (that the band couldn't), the important thing for Poly was that for her it was as real as going to the shops is to us.
And she was said to be happy, even putting on the odd X-Ray Spex gigs on during the 1980's and 90's, as well as the Roundhouse gig, which knowing what she was suffering from at the time makes the soundman responsible for fucking up the bands last gig even more henios than before, I hoped then that the git never got work again after he ballsed it up so incredibly badly but now I hope hes aware that he fucked up the 'living Wake' gig of a dieing person.
I aint going to speculate about what the ''UFO'' was or wasn't, I'll leave that to you.
As you may of noticed I've a big fan of X-Ray Spex for some time, I must be getting old, I haven't taken the piss, a lot.

DESES ANARCHISTA ANNOUNCEMENT:

THE PEDANTIC ANARCHIST PROMISES THAT HE WILL RETURN, LIKE IT OR NOT.

BIG 'C', THE SILENT 'PUNK WHACKER'?

The last couple of years has seen the passing of quite a few musicians and people from the '77 era due to cancer, from Malcolm Mclaren, to Paul Fox (the Ruts), the Rich Kids guitarist Steve New,X-Ray Spex's Poly Styrene (who's sudden passing makes the last X-Ray Spex's gig sound mans fuck up all the worse, fucking up the last gig of a dieing person, shame on him!), to Dr Feelgood's singer who also lost his fight the same way, also Ari Up's sudden recent death was from the same illness.
Along with some more '77 band members who have lost out to cancer it seems like there really is a cancerous Punk whacker out and about, with molecular ill intent.
I'm not trying to say that someone from the CIA (MI5 or whoever you choose) is behind the deaths of so many people from the same scene at such a relatively young age in such a short space of time, it was too slow a method for a start for them so no conspiracies there as with the 1960's 'counter-culture' was flooded with Herion (that was Johnny Thunders fault in UK Punks case!), but the cluster of deaths of those  '77 era people does seem strange, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was a common outside factor.
I know Dame Lydon gets the blame for many things but even he can't be responsible for this, despite being someone who connects them all, there must be another common denominator.
All the people mentioned played at the Vortex, which makes me think that Asbestos may be the cause of the cancers that has taken them, the London West End is still full of the stuff and is being taken away, slowly.  Another cause could be the old Roxy club, I remember that its 'first' manager Andy Chezowski (you know who I mean so it didn't seem worth looking up the proper spelling of his mouthful of a name) once talking about bands smashing the Asbestos ceiling tiles above the stage as they jumped about while playing their sets, that could account for the close cluster, even if some bands didn't have it together yet as bands many future band members were still there as members of the audience and it was a small venue.
All those from the '77 scene do seem to have died in a reletivly close cluster, they must of had more than one connection, the question is what and where?
The week before last I was even told about other band members who've died, but who's names Ive forgotten because I was on a serious Whiskey razzle at the time, but there was at least three other bands I know of but can't remember their names who had lost members to cancer recently and I know of one member of a band who has recently beaten the big 'C'  himself, thankfully he got lucky (for now, because if Asbestos is the reason it could return any day in another form).
The Roundhouse was also a connection between the bands & people who all played or went there more than once, but they all also played at the old Marquee club (my best bet along with the Vortex because of the fact that the West End was utterly painted in Asbestos).
Those old enough to remember might recall that the campaign to keep the Marguee open was a worse than useless waste of time, despite the petition being signed by many famous musicians who cut their teeth there over 40 years. A place of such pop cultural importance getting knocked down so fast puzzled me at the time but I just thought "typical care nothing developers". The Marquee getting knocked down would of been like turning Abbey Road studios into a rubbish dump but it was, and fast.
The club and the building above it were taken away, down to the last brick and rebuilt completely in a very short time, was that because it had gotten a badly done refit or decorators job in the 1970's that exposed loose asbestos dust to the air where it was breathed in? The stuff was everywhere in most public buildings at the time after all.
The Kensington pub near Olympia station was also closed for a while for that reason if I remember rightly.
Poly Styrene's death coming so soon after Steve New and Ari Up, and from the same illness as well, that took me by surprise and got me thinking about the odd loss of so many people from one scene so closely so young(ish), I doubt we will ever find out the connection or if there really is any but I'm sure there will be some more passings coming soon and it will be a form of cancer I'm sure.
I'm not hoping I'm proved right though.
P.S it was John (wanker) Wayne who coined the term 'big 'C'', his cancerous cause was the radiation that has filled every molocule of the desert he made his dumb Cowboy films in, because it was also where the U.S military arses tested their bombs.

SMILEY CULTURE VIDEO COPYRIGHT CENSORED, CAMPAIGN HARMED?

The record company that owns SMILEY CULTURE's music have been acting like utter gits by taking down copies of SMILEY CULTURES songs from the likes of Youtube using the worst ever timing and bad taste.
The company having SMILEY CULTURES videos deleted at the same time that family and friends who are campaigning for some kind of justice or explaination for his death are looking to advertise their campaign is either deliberate or the record co. are stupid, not only does it give his justice campaign a kick in the knackers, it also stops people from checking out his tunes and potentially buying them, cutting off family from any possible royalties.
Funerals aren't cheap, nor are public justice or freedom of information campaigns, so why have SMILEY CULTURES record co. done that at such a time?
P.S. I am aware that the picture that appeared at the start of the 'R.I.P SMILEY CULTURE' post/video I picked wasn't one of 'SMILEY' himself despite it being on the video, that was a mistake by the video compiler not me, but were not going to see that mistake anymore are we Mr petty record company bean counter, are we? Tight gits.

WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST A HIPPIE

GRATEFUL DEAD EXPOSED AS C.I.A EMPLOYEES.
So, the real truth regarding the long time Pied pipers of American Hippiedom the GRATEFUL DEAD has emerged, the band were in the long term pay of the U.S security services no less, with singer JERRY GARCIA and at least one other known band member (who's name I've forgotten) being long time paid C.I.A stooges. While another member called PHIL LESH, who was originally brought into the band despite having no previous musical experience or ability what so ever, is a long term, high ranking Freemason (the ultimate establishment 'old boys network' club) counting people like the Bush family men and their fellow Republican politicians (also Democrats no doubt), along with U.S Military chiefs and right wing Politicians as his  'brothers'.
Lesh has even had DEAD concerts relocated quickly into Mason Temples with just one quick phone call, a feat that the average Mason is unable to carry out on such short notice, especially if it isn't in their own Lodge/Temple.
This explains how the travelling circus of Hippie drug dealers who were close to the band got such 'pure' drugs and never got busted while making thousands of Dollars at each concert on the tours, and why the U.S drug war battalions only ever arrested poor singled out, homeward bound Hippies on a piecemeal basis instead of raiding the band who were known all over the planet for always carry mountains of Crack and Smack (and other 'sweeties') with them wherever they went, as well as how their followers were able to get such top grade LSD to openly sell off at their free concert tours, the only drug dealers who got busted were ones not connected with the band in any way, or ones who became a liability.
While peaceful events like the mainly drug free annual RAINBOW GATHERINGS are leapt upon and assaulted without mercy by all or many of the U.S's initial loving 'defence' agencies (F.B.I, C.I.A, D.E.A, N.S.A etc. etc.-theres about 18 of them, all with those boyish acronyms!) 'DEAD' gatherings were for years left alone and not treated in the same way as other similar 'Hippie' gatherings
Its now hard and dangerous enough for U.S citizens to grow simple vegetables in their gardens without the fear of an heavily armed, full on D.E.A "hur hur take 'em out" raid, but the 'DEAD' were able to tour the U.S for years without getting 'hassled by the man', man. That's because they were 'The Man', man...
I'm not a Hippie (nah!) nor do I like any of the bands music, but for being a double dealing junkie crackhead liar, I hope the fat Quisling Garcia rots in Hell..
The rest of the band will hopefully soon also be called upon to pay off their interest from the Devils pact they signed up for, and will end up on the 'dark beach', dipping their toes into Satan's eternal lake of burning Pooh alongside Garcia.

ANOTHER SADDO'S COMMENT

Ive received a new comment today (or yesterday, who cares what exact day it was?) to my joke about ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER appearing on BBC radio 4's Woman hour, its asking me "have you got a problem mate?".
Well, I have to say yes, I do have a problem, my problem is trying to understand the reactions of some people to what are obviously not meant to be serious articles, I don't expect everyone to find my sarcasm funny, but I didn't expect it to fly over their heads like a 747 either. I can only assume their mothers smoked while pregnant and once born they were bottle fed on Bovine calf's food instead of their mothers milk.
I couldn't make it more obvious that this Bogzine is meant to be humourous and sarcastic if I tried (and I have, more than once), even the bloody tag line at the top of the page gives a less than subtle hint at ZERO HOUR's approach.
Still, even dumb comments are better than no comments at all, at least it shows me that someone reads this piss taking pile of doo-doo's.
P.S. surprise surprise, no name was given, Anonymous must be a very busy bee, leaving all these snide comments without enough time to leave a name, or he/shes a coward.

DO YOU WANNA MAKE POETRY AT THE BBC

Attila the stockbroker is on BBC radio4's 'Woman's hour' tomorrow (wednesday 30th mar), oh the giddy heights!

R.I.P SMILEY CULTURE

R.I.P  SMILEY CULTURE, WHO 'STABBED HIMSELF TO DEATH' WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING ARRESTED.                     
A big R.I.P goes out to Reggae Toaster SMILEY CULTURE who recently lost his life during a bizarre 'suicide' incident in his own kitchen, while Police were physically attempting to arrest him for his alleged  involvement in a drug dealing ring (his involvement has yet to be proved in court, being dead lessens the issues urgency somewhat I should imagine, although he would of hardly have been the first musician to be involved in drug dealing if true) .
It is the manner of SMILEY's death that has aroused all of the suspicions, due in no small amount to the manner of his death, it's one of those ones which would have the most sceptical person among us questioning their faith. And, with SMILEY supposedly 'stabbing himself to death' while officers were attempting to restrain and arrest him, those sceptics are naturally asking questions, like "how was he able to so freely stab himself while surrounded by a raiding team of Police officers, dressed in stab proof clothing?"

This will be a loss to anyone who was a teen at school during his height, this being top among the all time School yard sound tracks for many.
R.I.P. SMILEY CULTURE

SHOCK, HORROR!
 OUTRAGE AS ZERO HOUR BOGZINE WRITES RARE COMPLIMENTARY, AND (almost) SARCASM FREE GIG REVIEW.
See 'Cut Cameron gig'.

THE PEDANTIC ANARCHIST PRESENTS:

 BORING, UNINTERESTING FACT, N.23
fanzines (so we've been told) are supposed to educate as well as entertain and inform, or so I read once.

Or, how to disrupt a drunk mate from re-telling the same old, eye wateringly boring Pub story that every ones had to suffer a million times before.

I knew from the start of writing this article, that writing about the correct meaning of the circle around the 'A' of the Anarchist symbol is as dull an issue as any that it is possible to raise during a conversation in polite company, to say the least. But bear with me a bit, because you will see that in certain contexts it really is a topic worth writing about. That's if both its widespread misuse and, the copious amount of spare time I have on my hands are anything to go by of course.
Yet, it is a topic that in the future could even possibly be considered to be a deadly new move in the well known, age old traditional martial art of verbal Kung-Fu, by people engaged in verbal combat against the dullard legions of rubbish tale tellers and their  boring, repetitive Pub stories, you know, ones that everyone have heard a zillion times before.
This unique conversational intervention could do nothing less than change the course of Pub talk forever (well, for one Evening, or at least half an hour anyway) alone, through nothing more than the full, robust amount of "err, so what?"and "who gives a toss?" deflective banter powers the topic contains.

'ANARCHIA ADQUE IMUS' (man)

Just so you know (and to get to the point, before you get too bored), the Anarchist symbol in question (as seen on right- durr!) is often accompanied with the slogan "Anarchy and chaos". When this particular slogan is used in combination with the encircled 'A' symbol, it is nothing short of a contradiction in terms to say the least! Oh yes indeedy, it is, no doubt about it.


ANARCHY PEAS AND CHIPS
"What the fuck are you on about?" I hear a disinterested chorus of you all asking simultaneously, followed by comments such as "haven't you got anything useful to do with your time?" and so on. Which is a fair point to raise I suppose.

BIG 'A' LITTLE 'A'
But, I'm going to ignore such rude and willfully ignorant comments, because I want to explain to the obviously intelligent readers here, why the slogan 'Anarchy and chaos' is a nonsense (which is itself one for a later rant) when used alongside the encircled 'A'.  And I'm more than sure these same avid readers will be glad to learn something new, however trivial it may seem at first.

 YAWN 
Before you all get too bored though I'll get to the point. As we all know, the encircled 'A' represents the word 'Anarchy', and (obviously) its symbol was created using the first letter of the word itself. Less well known however, is the meaning of the circle surrounding the letter 'A'. Even less well known than that though, is the fact that the circle (or letter 'O' as it should more correctly be referred to) also has a specific meaning of its own at all.
Just as little known, or cared about to be honest! Is that together, the two letters have a combined meaning other than just the decorative one assumed by many. The circle (or letter 'O') doesn't just have a functional or decorative purpose, as most unthinkingly assume, oh-no no no. Instead, the meaning of the circle, or letter 'O', is no less than a representation of the word and ideals of social 'Order'.
The original idea of the surrounding 'O' is that it's ideals were supposed to be represented and symbolised through their combined use, just as prominently as that of the Anarchist 'A' within it.

AN.O.K
So, 'Anarchy and Order' or, 'Order and Anarchy', is what is represented by the symbol, the meaning behind the two letters when combined in the style that we are all familiar with.
Now, tell me, is this not one of, if not the most boring political articles you've ever read, or heard about for that matter? Either recently or from the past? (as befitting any decent political article I must add).
While I'm at it, I also challenge anyone to tell me if they had ever read anything about this subject anywhere else? Or, anything like it as boring as this is in any other Zine, Mag or website, other than than in an issue of GREEN ANARCHIST? (of course) which is exempt from being referenced due to them long being the undisputed masters of the art.
As some may know, GREEN ANARCHIST magazine specialised in such articles. Sometimes filling whole issues whilst only actually writing about two or three topics! And so, sinse it is upon the gigantic shoulders of the GREEN ANARCHIST writers which we respectfully stand on in regards to this article, they are exempt!

I tell you this because it is one of those dull factoids that very rarely ever gets mentioned, even when the Beer has been liberally flowing for some time and the chat has turned to slurred, repetitive nonsense, this topic almost never comes up. For some reason, age old questions such as  "...Kelly Brooke or Cheryl Cole?" are more popular banter topics (just so you know, Kelly Brooke is the answer I reckon).
Anyway, here is your lucky chance to inject a dull new fact into the usual slurred, Beered up 'heard it all before' conversations You'll have nothing less than a fresh dull topic that you can throw into the mix of the same old predictable banter, hopefully allowing you to cut off the mate who is oh-so predictably about to tell everyone the usual same old story about the time he....blah blah etc.etc.
You know the one, the one he blah blah blah, boringly repeats every time he's had a pint.
So, this little known but amazingly dull factoid may possibly possess no-less than the power to delay the dull bores whilst they are in the middle of their expulsion of verbal excrement as it is being loosed, if not distract him all together, So mind numbingly uninteresting is this fact.
Its worth a try if nothing else.
Written by 'Deses Anarchista'.
P.S. the whole article could of been written using only eight or nine words.

ANARCHO FOLKO live clip

As promised (in a review that I haven't finished writing yet), here is the first in a sort of occasional series of videos from some of the bands that had played the 20 band 'CUT CAMERON FESTIVAL' in Taunton a few weeks ago.
This lot are called 'ANARCHO FOLKO' and the tune named 'YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE'.
Enjoy.
Salutations also go out to the Bassist who wore a wonderfully silly Fish costume for the gig (what else?)

(this is a live recording remember, a free, better, 'recorded' version is also available on MP3. To find it, links can be found on youtube among others).

NEW YORK DOLLS 'ALL DOLLED UP' DVD

Last week I popped into the Help the Aged charity shop round the corner from my Mums, previously I had been able to get hold of some good VHS's, like the ones made by the British UFO  group M.U.F.O.N (it takes all sorts) as well as videos and DVD's on other related odd subjects, but my last visit produced something even better.

For the princely sum of only two pounds I was able to purchase a great DVD of the NEW YORK DOLLS, called 'All Dolled up' the DVD was a mixture of clips of the band in the dressing room, interviews, TV clips as well as lots of live songs recorded at venues in New York, L.A and Florida (I think). Recorded in 1973 and 74, the DVD shows the band when they were at their height and sees them playing at their best
On the sad side the film also shows Johnny Thunders as he visibly goes from being a fit, active, mouthy and energetic young man into a quiet, skinny, ill looking mash head.
All in all though I recomend this DVD to anyone who comes across it, the music is blistering pre-Punk rock and the bands fashions are worth a laugh as well.
There is also an interview (advert for his bar) by Handsome Dick Manitoba (of the Dictators) talking to the DVD's creator Bob Gruen.

RICH PISTOL

One of the few pleasures left living in an area such as Ladbroke grove is that every so often a known (to some anyway) musician is seen around the area for some reason or other, having a few recording studios and record labels based in the area helps. Ive seen and met the likes of your JELLO BIAFRA's, occasonal SEX PISTOLS, Damned and CLAS's to name a few. This time it was a SEX PISTOL that I bumped into today as I was off to the shops this morning.
The PISTOL in question was Glen Matlock, he of the PISTOLS and RICH KIDS, asking him about the fairly recent RICH KIDS one-off reform gig I discovered that ill guitarist STEVE NEW had recently lost his struggle and shuffled of his mortal coil a couple of months ago.
 He was a good guitarist as well as being comparitably young, sadly, he joins a frighteningly growing list of celestial Harp strummers and Percussionists who have recently also gone to join the Heavenly band list.
R.I.P STEVE NEW.
Heres our attempt at a tribute, its the RICH KIDS debut single 'Rich kids'.

TAUNTON CUT CAMERON PUNK FESTIVAL -review.

"I HAVE SEEN THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND IT IS GOOD"*

CUT CAMERON FESTIVAL PUNK ALL DAYER review.
As anyone who reads ZERO HOUR on anything resembling a regular basis will know, there aren't many gig reviews here, and when there is, its usually just to moan about 'this or that' which went wrong during the evening in question. Plus, your super-duper stagger away ZERO HOUR is of the general opinion that gig reviews (like many interviews) aren't really that interesting in themselves, unless the gig (or interview) in question is an eventful, standout one, for whatever reason. Funnily enough, a bit like the one featured here for instance. Except, for once I've got nothing but good things to say about this gig.
The gig in question was an all dayer featuring around twenty odd bands situated on stages on two floors. Called 'Anarchists against the cuts', the gig took place at a pub that looked apt, being a mock Castle called The Winchester Arms, it happened on the weekend of the 29th of January in the Somerset (for strangers to the A303 and map illiterates) town Taunton, Somerset.

In the lead up to the gig I was a bit apprehensive about the size of the large line-up, I was a bit worried that I might find myself stuck in that Dante-esque level of musical hell reserved for unlucky Punk Rock fans, stuck listening to bands they can't bear on the best of days (I'm sure we've all been there, or had a glimpse of it, however briefly) after all-it's not too often that one can be expected to like all the bands on a line-up. So, it would be an under statement to say that I was a bit worried that I might be stuck in a seemingly never ending gig with bad bands playing life stretching age long sets of sound-alike tunes.
Yet, I could not have been so more, or utterly and happily wrong, in every case, and have been so pleased about it.
It wasn't just the big line-up of so many bands (which in itself was no mean feat) that made the day what it was. The organisers had also thought of just about everything else, as well as the great music, there was also a large selection of great, free home made food from the lovely cooks of  The BRISTOL VEGANS who cooked up a great range of different foods, meanwhile, there were stalls that also offered various books, Pamphlets and leaflets for  people to read while they were eating.
Not only that, there was even a space given over where free footwear and clothing was available.

Back to the music though,   The size of the band list alone makes a straight 'so-and-so played first with a set of blah blah' approach to reviewing the day a bad idea, so I'm just going to go with a 'from top of my head' writing style
So here goes....  Watching the bands at the upstairs stage from my decent vantage point at the side I was able to watch the bands comfortably without my line of sight being ruined by people standing in front of my short arse legs, so I was able to see each band almost unhindered and was (luckily) also in a good place as far as the sound was concerned, getting the best of the sound
  Of the bands themselves, the sheer range of different, individual styles just of the bands alone would of made the gig worth attending, the wide variety played by the bands kept the music interesting all day, with every taste catered for.
So many bands played that day that I don't want to try and name them all here because I don't wish to accidentally leave any out, or review ones I didn't really see, nor do I want to get any bands unfairly mixed up for obvious reasons, because they all deserve the same proverbial slap on the back for jobs well done, along with everyone else involved. I also had to make a decision about what stage to watch, either that or spend half the gig running up and down the stairs trying to catch as much of every band as possible.

UNAMENDED LINE UP LIST

I only wish I could give a correct version of the amended line-up to give the bands their dues, instead Ive just reprinted a line-up list that is pretty spot on as far as the bands upstairs goes, but its best to just know the names of these young bands for future reference, knowing that they are all good bands. Although I can't remember the names of the bands I saw, it would only be fair to mention the ones I do remember the names of,  for various reasons, all of them for good reasons. They were ANARCHO FOLKO, SPANNER, VIRUS, FIREPIT COLLECTIVE and 51st STATE (watch for them in the future). Sorry though, but well done to all the bands who deserved a mention but who's names I forgot or didn't get the names of so left out. You deserve better!
Every band that day were honest to God good ones, and even better, the gig didn't need the added attraction of a bunch of old farts propping up the line-up just to pull the punters in. It's a credit to the organisers that unlike many of the gigs we see nowadays,  this one wasn't  dependent on 'old fart headliners' to hold the gig together. The only 'old' band on the bill were the re-formed VIRUS who, to their credit played half way down the bill during the day and didn't grandstand in any way.
The gig, organised by OLD HAT/ANONYMOUS PRODUCTIONS (who did a sterling job) was as I said, on two floors and had bands playing all day on both stages, there were so many good bands that I had trouble knowing where to go next, go to the  upstairs stage or the downstairs one?
  I didn't want to miss any of the bands because the quality of music on both stages was so good, but I had to make a decision and decided to concentrate on the bands upstairs, going downstairs when possible, (such as when the great '51st STATE' band played) and I wasn't disappointed for one moment.
The various bands themselves played almost every different style that's associated with what can be considered part of the 'punk' genre, from straight-on shouty Hardcore to Oi ,'normal' Punk, Folk, Acoustic, Ska and even 60's style Garage/Surf Punk.
Hearing so many great bands made me remember whats it feels like being a kiddie at Christmas again, I really didn't expect to see so many bands, Little less enjoy them all! I didn't know where to turn next, there were so many.
Initially, I have to admit that before I left London for the gig I did had have some pre-gig niggling doubts that some -meaning lots of) the bands may not be good enough to be able to pass muster, what with it being a long day an all. 
But I am pleased to say that I could not of been more wrong.
It has to be said, that musically Taunton hasn't historically been considered a happening center of the live music scene, and that could of once been the case. That was until three young men decided to create a much needed live Punk and music scene for the Taunton and surrounding areas. And, in just three years, off their own backs what they have achieved is nothing less than brilliant, (so I was told by a number of people, telling me"we owe them" and that "if it wasn't for them there wouldn't be a live scene in Taunton" etc. etc. (if you read that bit chaps ignore it because I'd hate to let it get to your ego). Basically they are Punk Rock. And what it  should all be about,Independence not Corporatism, they are an example. 
Good on them and I hope they do well, they deserve it.Ten out of ten is my verdict.
The rest is and will be, history.
*Quote by Butthead from 'Beavis and...'

WELCOME BACK GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN

Now its time to let a new generation see what a git you are Jerry and why a song was written about you, I'm sure your old mucca Jello is thrilled your back, and sales of  DEAD KENNEDYS music will probally go up as a result of your (mis)rule I shouldn't wonder.
I don't doubt you also share Arnies views on the so-called "girlie men" in U.S politics. Which begs the question, why oh why did they ever vote for that idiotic, Hitler loving cabbage eater in the first place? because they liked the first Predator film? What other possible reason on Earth could there be?.
Anyway, it's a good excuse to hear a good tune.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT ZERO HOUR HAS NEVER HAD A 'DONATIONS' BEGGING BOX OR ANY ADVERTS (well, ones that I put up anyway, some Adscum have tried to sell Vaginal mucus cream via a comments box but I wont count that one).

CUT CAMERON FESTIVAL

Apart from the good cause, good music, food, and a good time (I reckon anyway).
The fact that it isnt a line up full of old farts is also an added attraction.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN

Fuck me, Ive been doing this shit for eleven years now. Christ on a bike.

THE KNOW IT ALL IN NAPPIES

ZERO HOUR recieved a lovely Xmas prezzie this year in the form of a 'sarcastic' remark in reply to the "WHAT IS 'POST PUNK'? ITS A SHIT MEAN-NOTHING TAGLINE" article below that even managed to elevate the limited writing skills of yours truely it was so bad.

I am not going to defend myself against the comment, theres no point, why should I when it made me smile?
so instead I am going to repeat the accusation below for all to see, just in case the comment was missed by anyone.
The comments author was named 'Anonymous' unsurprisingly. I know Im digressing, but why are all those people who leave critical comments onweb sites always known by that moniker? Do they fear a world wide web based virtual bogey man whos able to jump out of the sites they are Trolling to attack them? One thats going to 'get them' if they are brave enough to leave a name? (at the moment though its more likely that they are imagining themselves to be digital warriors in 'Anonymous', Wikileaks alleged secret legion of' laptop Ninja's).

I also have a sneaking suspicion (nah!) that the commenter took issue with the way I singled out those young people who go back to old records and apply new musical name tags and Genres to them, despite of what world the musicians were turning in at the time of their recordings, or their then influences and recording reasons. Some people just dont like it when bands dont sit neatly into pre-made style boxs and (God forbid) show a bit of originality, so a genre or box is by need, made for them out of some obsessive compulsion. And 'Post Punk' has grown to be the favourite catch all for those who have to gather their records and/or CD's in a certain manner at all tmes.

But, if your reading this 'Anon' (can I call you Anon? Really, may I?), stop taking music so seriously eh deary? It's not all about the image and what 'type' the bands are, and dont become so indignant when people take the piss, what do you expect? Rock'n'Roll is supposed to be about having a good time (while sometimes using it as a meduim with which to make protests and highlight social comme..yawn.....zzzz...eh where was I?), Ahem, yes. Its not about sitting in your lightless, airless tissue strewn, Jizm fume filled bedroom, making obsessive lists of  acceptable 'Genres'. Unless you like Echo and the Bunnymen or Jesus and Mary chain, of course.

Anyway here's the oh so painfull remark that upon first read had srtuck me like a bolt of lightning through the heart it was so personally hurtful, and that it had been added to a quote of my own which was taken out of its context so that the insult could be made was in itself like a stab in the Buttock. Oh woe.

Anonymous said...

"...stop trying to be such arrogant know-alls about a scene that happened when they were in nappies..." Talking about yourself there.

So that was it...."Talking about yourself there".... Wow, that was harsh, it may take some time to get over that one.
To be honest, I was secretly flattered to be considered or thought of as being young.
Me, and my sparse, thinning folicles only wish it were true.
Happy new year 'Anon' you silly sod, now lighten up.
I like bringing in the new year with a smile.

HO HO HO.

 What 'tune' could be better at this time of year than this ditty from Eppings finest export? Ho Ho Ho.

COMMENTS

If your going to comment then please leave some kind of name, I dont expect a full real one, its just that with so many using 'Anonymous' I cant reply to any because it will be hard to know what one Im replying to, even if its only to beg for more flattery.
Even if the comments are just for abusive reasons, I cant thank you for bothering to comment or insult you back if you dont leave a name of any kind. Fuck, just make one up.
The fact that you bother to insult me is good enough for me, at least I know Im not doing this for no-one.

WHAT IS 'POST PUNK'? ITS A SHIT MEAN-NOTHING TAGLINE

Looking around Youtube in my idle hours looking at videos and listening to music I have been struck by the amount of people who are determined to keep pushing the label 'Post Punk' onto bands.
I can only assume that the people who use this meaningless term are either youngsters who were not around for the early bands, or they are the type who likes to keep his/her record collection in a certain order.
It bugs me because I see these people decide what is and what isnt Punk based on nothing more than either its year of release, or the records speed, if it was made after 78 and isnt played in the speeded up 1.2.3.4 style then it isnt Punk to them. Ive even had someone agrue with me saying Devo's 'Mongoloid/Jocko Homo' single was a 'post punk' single, even though it was recorded in ;ate 75 and released in the U.S in 77, they may of became an Electro pop band but they nailed the colours to the Punk flag when it forst appeared.
the same goes for bands like Television, they are also 'Post Punk' according to these young revisionists.
Their idea of 'Post Punk' seems to start in 1978/79 and includes every band that dont play sub-Ramones music, they dont understand that punk was supposed to be about a return to the simplistic Rock'n'Roll of the past, the stuff they grew up with on the radio. To these revisionists you can only be a Punk band if you sing about Anarchy, being working class or wanting a riot.
They judge Post Punk as roughly starting when the music press got bored of it and went looking for the next 'thing' (while thinking that the music mags ignoring punk was a sign that the last person had left the Punk room and turned off the lights, as if all punk related stuff just stopped one day), the silly sods dont think about how bands like Crass, Discgarge and the Exploited were out selling the bands who were top of the pop charts at the same time (but were not added to the pop charts because Indie labels had different distribution outlets, except a few labels).
Punk, from 78/79 to the early and mid 1980's was selling more records, and were putting on gigs in bigger halls that they could ever imagine in 1977, the Punk scene was at its healthiest at a time when the music press were trying their best to ignore it and declare it dead.
Next time you are on you tube and you see someone use the term 'Post Punk', tell them that they are know-nothing idiots who need to really look into musical history instead of just buying the same old music mag anniversary Punk issues that come out every five years (that all ignore bands that kept the scene going after 78/79), open their ears to the musical diversity that made early Punk so interesting. stop trying to be such arrogant know-alls about a scene that happened when they were in nappies.
And lastly, listen to the music and be inspired by it, fair enough, but stylistically, make something that you can claim is all your own, instead of just dressing up like someones Dad did 30 years ago.

ARI UP OF THE SLITS DIES

News has just come out that SLITS singer Ari Up has died aged 48, the news was broken on J.Lydons website which said that she died of a "serious illness". The Guardian paper has reported that the illness was cancer.
R.I.P ARI UP.
Here is a clip from Jubliee coupled with a clip from Don Letts 1977 Punk Rock film.

THE 'RAMASONS'?

WERE THE RAMONES FREEMASONS???
For no reason at all the other day other than having some well earnt time to waste I was watching a documentary about the naming of streets in the U.S.A. (of all things! days off nowadays just dont seem to have that same excitement that they had in times past, I suspect its a ploy to get the young unemployed away from the TV in the daytime and off to their fated, Burger flipping jobs).

 RAMONING THE SQUARE...? 
Why I was watching that show and not another channel I dont know, but I suspect that I was maybe half hoping that the N.Y street named after Joey Ramone would get a mention, although for the life of me I dont know why it would of been, boredom I 'spose.  And yet, in an odd roundabout way I kind of got my wish, I think...

HIRAM IS A PUNK ROCKER
Anyway! just as I had had enough of the rather dull show and was about to flip over the channel, the Narrater said a most interesting thing, he said that in the U.S. it was almost impossible to get a street named after yourself unless you were a Freemason, and usually one of note, although occasionally a 'civilian' person who had invented something like a life saving instrument with beneficial global implications has one named after them, but that was it.
"...have to be a Freemason? hmmm!" I thought, "but Joey Ramone has a street named after him..." Did that mean that brudda Joey was a widows son who has ridden the Donkeys back?

"  ...GABBA GABBA, WE ACCEPT YOU ONE OF US.."
On the face of it, I couldnt see New York citys elder Fathers considering him a suitable candidate for such a honour, being the singer from a Punk band who are famous for singing 'objectable' songs about glue sniffing and drug abuse? (plus oral sex for Heroin money, beating children with baseball bats, and physical & mental retardations being just a few topics among their wide ranging subject matter). I couldnt see the bands image being suitable enough to grant their singer such an esoteric accolade.
Not knowing anything about how the street got named after Joey I could be massively wrong and it was maybe voted for by New Yorkers or something like that, if anyone knows how the street got Joey Ramones name they are welcome to let me know.

A peek at what Joey Ramone might of possibly looked like had he been granted the years, lost the retention of his hair, put a bit of weight on and grew a 'Tasche.


BLITZKRIEG BOAZ
So, do we have the beginnings of a new but a bit crap Conspiracy theory? one that doesnt contain an apocalyptic ending and instead is really rather boring?
 Were Joey and his "Bruddas" ('brother' being a common term amongst fellow Masons) performing Cabbalistic Rituals live on stage, just as Madonna has recently 'confessed' to performing at her concerts, (this after people had been laughed at for some time for suggesting that she was doing so)? we dont know. What we do know is that guitarist Johnny was a rabid 'Dubya' fan and was totally sucked in by all the propaganda lies that justified the medical aid sanctions and the 1st Gulf war, supporting it unconditionally, leading to a series of arguments between himself and the more Libertarian leaning 'right on' Joey.
The plot thickens.
Ooooh. creepy.

'HIT ME' -THE LIFE AND RHYMES OF IAN DURY.

THE LIFE AND RHYMES OF IAN DURY Plotline written by MARK WHITE with music written by IAN DURY and the BLOCKHEADS.

I dont go to the Theatre very often, although when I do go I usually enjoy myself, and this trip to the Garrick in Londons west end was no exception.
The show was only on for a three day run while the main show at the Theatre was on a break, or something... anyway, this gave the two man show about IAN DURY three days to show London what had been generating such good reviews where it was first shown at Edinboroughs annual Festival.
The show, written by lead actor Mark White, was based upon the writings and stories of Dury himself, as well as that of his long term minder. and was as funny as it was good.
Along the way the narration changed from the Dury character to that of his minder, and also used were Dury songs that helped to make points or to begin them  (as well as entertain).
The show was set in Durys front room sinse, as a "mustard" he wasnt a get up and go whenever he felt like it person. It was also the place where a lot of the two characters banter took place, so it was a setting set.
The show covered the years from the early Stiff Records era till Durys death, and featured parts of Durys life that had an impact on the outside world, my favourite part was when 1982 was declared "the year of the disabled", this 'year of sympathy' wasnt one of Durys loves and was the insperation behind one of his greater tracks 'Spasticus Autisticus'.
Ironically even though Dury was a "mustard" (as he kept referring to himself) and the song was about living with disability in an 'abled' world, the song was banned! It was alright for an abled person to present a cute girl in a wheel chair with an award but  a disabled person singing about it like it is, was deemed a bit too much reality for the general public, 'bad taste an' all that'.
The irony was not lost on Dury who also commented that sinse 1982 was 'The year of the disabled', did that mean that all the disabled people were not going to be disabled anymore in 1983? or was the world going to change for them when Big Ben struck 12 for the new year of 83? I suspect that these questions were partly the reason Dury's "Spastic anthem" was not allowed the airplay it deserved.
The shows set looked like it had been made for a smaller stage and thats because it had, but they used the set to its best and it didnt detract from the show which was well written, funny and dare I say it...heart warming, I came out loving Dury even more than I did when I entered the Theatre.
And if that wasnt all, I got to accidentally kick Jason Donovan in the back of the ankle by mistake as I misjudged a step going in, he was in the queue right in front of me, Im sure I once said that if I ever met him I would give him what for...but that was when that whole Kylie crap was going on and as one of a million empty threats I issue every day I wasnt going to remember what I was going to do to him, so I let him off.
If this play ever gets to have a proper run I advise everyone to go and see it, and have a pukka night out, in a Theatre, with lots of swearing (I lost count of the number of ''cunts'' flying round the stage), and some great tunes sung live by the lead actor who not only looks the part but also sings them well.

A NOT VERY DISCIPLINED DISCIPLINE

I have met the band DISCIPLINE quite a few times and found them to be very nice blokes, I thought they were quite easy going, but after the news I have heard I have had to revise that view a tad.
The problem is that one of them has acted in a less than disciplined or gentlemanly manner. As I was saying, I thought  they were all nice chaps, unfortunatly I had to change my mind when it turned out that one of them had taken a blunt instrument to his wife and decorated his home with her while in a rage (what a rage!), I cant remember if his children were involved (as victims I mean) I hope not. The member in question is now staying at his Majesties pleasure and wont be seeing the outside world for some time to come.
A nasty business all round, a throughly bad show all round.

THE FOOTBALL CLASH

I honestly couldn't care less about the world cup, apart from the boring game there is all the cynical money making, the cleaning up of local whores in readiness of drunk, randy foreigners and the thousands who were evicted brutally from their homes to make way for the stadia.
Then there is the bloody flags, usually I like flags, the English ST Georges flag especially is a great example of a  brilliant yet simple design, filling the space while not over-aweing it.
Watching the ad film repeatedly isnt much fun either, but today I found space in my heart to like a bit of this world cup, and the reason was the BBC who are (as we speak which is why Im doing this) using THE CLASH and their 'I'm so bored with the U.S.A.' tune to advertise the coming game. Great choice.
     (THE CLASH LIVE, JOE WAS PROUD OF OUR HOOLIGANS)

The game is about to start and England have just gone through 'God save the queen', and Im happy to say that although the team tried to mumble along in time they didnt know a verse between them, and Mr Potato-man, goiter faced Rooney didnt try at all because he cant think tactics, stand and sing at the same time, if he tried he would fall over, such a badly wired brain cant process so many different kinds of task at one time.
Ooh, England have just scored one! Im not supposed to say this but if the U.S. team won it would be a hoot, all those weeping beer bellies staggering home at closing time would be sure to cause Biblical amounts of large scale damage and blood would flow in the Tiber.
If only Joe were here now.

UNWANTED ADVERTS -A REVENGE?

A hell of a lot of adverts have been coming here to ZERO HOUR, needless to say they are all, without exception unwanted.
 I don't care what they are selling, I do not have adverts here, unless it is for a small label and/or band who are giving something away for free (which isnt often to be honest). Items like the (then) new CDLP, 45 single and a T-SHIRT from the great WANGDANGO, which funnily enough went unclaimed in the end. Some years later I still wear the t-shirt and have occasionally listened to the CD myself*. Great band live, shame they split up.
Anyway if these unwanted email adverts keep appearing I shall publish their addresses and I hope that you, like I, will use the addresses to share your wisdom and irregular thoughts with them as regularly as possible, while giving ZERO HOUR the odd mention so that they know who is responsible and why. They shall get a warning beforehand from ZERO HOUR so they wont be able to claim ignorance.
I hope I can rely on your help should I need it, and if I do then please tell everyone you know who would happily like to help me try to annoy an annoying lot of professional spamming bastards.
I thank you.
* Although the T-shirt is worn and out of shape the CD is still in very good condition and will still be given away to the first person who can be bothered to find the original offer and let me know what it was (Ive forgotten myself), if I still have the 45 single that will also come with the CD, the single is unplayed as I have a copy of my own, so if its still there its in mint condition, I hope.

"...LOLLIPOP, LOLLIPOP..OOH LOLLIPOP.." whats going on there then?

Am I the only one who has watched the new/current advert for computer makers DELL and seen what appears to be some kind of subtle sub-text going on in the ad, well above and beyond the sale of new computers?
Let me explain what I am trying to say, and the best way to do that is by going through the adverts content itself, not all of it, that'd be too boring, but just the important bits that seem to have the most hidden-meaning laden scenes (at the start really).
Lets start naturally where most people usually start, at the start. The ad begins with a man in faded denim overalls, sailor boy hat and checked shirt who has just finished standing upright, while he effects an erect, happy worker style standing position he breaks into a big smile, while simultaniously breaking joyously into the chorus of a song with lyrics that contain the words "Lollipop, Lollipop -ooh, Lolli-Lolli-Lollipop.."
This first man is then joined by a second who, judging by the position he appeared to come from as he rose, has just come from the rough direction of the feet of man number one. Man number two is also in a state of partial undress, brazenly buttoning up his overalls as he stands, the second man looks kindly at the first,

(PHOTO, A SUSPICIOUSLY TAPERING PRODUCT FROM DELL'S ELITE 'LOLLIPOP SQUAD')

 catches his eye and, with a knowing wink, joyfully joins in to the chorus of "Ooh-Lollipop".
The two men are then joined by a crew of others, who are, like men number's one and two, also dressed up in the same Logger/Bronski Beat look-a-like outfits, although a couple are dressed slightly differently, in the style of the labourer out of Village People. But instead of them all singing a weepy Electro-pop song about running away from home, a traditionally bigoted, embittered and outraged working class father, and a sad mum who snifflingly packs her son a Tupparware box of freshly made fish paste sandwiches for the sad, reflective train ride to London;  instead we get a growing chorus of  "Ooh-Lollipop..." from our crew of  electronic...Loggers?? (I could be wrong but I didnt think that 'Logger chic' had been adopted as the average uniform in silicon valley).
All the while this is happening, the strange phallic machines that our happy, singing crew is manning dutifully, are doing nothing but constantly dropping (excreting?) colourful, tapering semi-solid liquid shapes that one would only usually associate with a dogs morning walk, but our small army of ...Loggers(?) just stand at their work stations and smile knowingly at each other while still singing about "Lollipops".
There is then something going on with lots of colours flying around the heads of the singing workers but this all seems perfectly normal to our 19th century Village People/Barber shop singers who just carry on with their Lollipop song.
 I don't pretend to understand the hidden context to all of the many adverts I see, but I am sure that this advert has one. As I said earlier, there is just something I just can't put my finger on.

Ive been away, will be back though.

DROPKICK THE FAINT

If your bored and looking for something to help pass a minute or two you could do worse than (admittedly you could also do a lot better as well but we'll ignore that for now) go for an online 100% punk rocker video game, one where you take a running dropkick at The Faint no less, set to 'Da Morfeys'you can take a run up and do a dropkick in the name of having a pop at pop loving bands.
Find the game at http://www.dropkickthefaint.com/
How can anyone say punk is dead?

THATS MR GARFIELD TO YOU

The telly was on in the backround today and as I glanced up I saw that Henry Rollins (nee Garfield) has made an appearance on the show 'Sons of Anarchy'. In the clip I saw, Henry was facing up to Ron Pearlman and it struck me that Hellboy Ron is a tall bloke, our Henry must of been standing on one big box (cue further jokes about ladders, nosebleeds and fear of heights).

IS MALCOM McCLAREN A STOOGE OF THE EVIL N.W.O. 'ILLUMINATI' ?

I've been staying up for too long at nights watching 'conspiracy' videos and I am sure that I have stumbled upon a set of subtle clues that might lead to the (almost) unbelievable conclusion that... Malky Poo's McClaren is a member of the New World Order, and quite possibly a high ranking member of that most evil of secret societies... 'The Illuminati'.
This shocking expose I am about to reveal has come after many years of listening  to various 'off-shoot' records by various members of the Sex Pistols as well as the band itself, which in itself isn't enough to make a case for anything. But when combined with the machinations of McClaren over the years, and the New World Order's grand scheme, first completed with the creation of the European super state, and now their next part of their dastardly plan to turn the U.S., Mexico and Canada into another super country with it's own Rothchild's owned currency called the 'Amexada', it all makes sense (sort of).
It is well known that the NWO has it's evil plans under way to introduce 'free healthcare' into the U.S, this Red plan by Socialists in the Fascist Illuminatti are determined to push the healthcare plan through congress so that all U.S. citizens will be forced to under-go treatment by government Doctors, forcing every citizen to have an R.D.I.F. tracking chip inserted into their bodies every time they need help. If this Bill gets approved by those Bilderberger lackeys in Congress then every U.S. citizen will be forced by the national guard to go to their Doctor's and have a cocktail of various untested or tried chemicals every winter.

The citizen will have no choice, they will be forced to have those injections, just like in Europe, and we can see what free healthcare has done to all those Socialists and Communists in Europe, and in England especially, when those Brits open their mouths. The damage caused by those red Nazi Illuminatists to the Brit teeth can be seen by all, thats how blatent and overt they have become over the past few years, the horrors of British teeth being all off white, funny shapes and not totally in line, kind of natural looking in fact -is obviously a clear NWO plot.
But I digress. What did McClaren have to do with the NWO? you ask. Well he helped to lay the path for the NWO to take over the minds of the youth and subtly indroctrinated them into the NWO's Socialistic neo-con, Communist new order by first getting the disperate masses to believe that it is O.K to live under the yoke of the red, commie, Jesuit trained Muslim fascists of the new world order, by using pop music and it's attendant fashions, also making them question their parents taste in music, horridly pattened jumpers and nylon slacks.
Most damningly for 'Malky', was his planting of Karl Marx's face as well as swastika's on the clothes he made and sold, as well as also dressing up the New York Dolls in red latex trousers; just before they split up.
Thats how the NWO indoctronate the youth intop the ways of commie Nazism,like they have done to Hipper Hoppers like 34p (50cent as he is known by his FED 'handlers'),  how else??
Wake up before it's too late .....(I got bored and couldn't be bothered to carry this on, sorry).

*I should add that this is old (and a bit rubbish really)  and I only put it up coz Malcolm has popped his bondage clogs.

NO FUTURE FOR MALCOLM

I've just heard that Malcolm McLaren has turned his boots skyward after cancer took him aged sixty four, that isn't an old age for being old.

I was in one of his video's once in about 1982/3, it was the first video made in the U.K. to feature Hip Hop 'dancing'. The video, for a song called Soweto (I think) was filmed under the then newly erected tent in Portobello market on a saturday morning, which I didn't think was the best idea in the world, I thought me and the others would maybe get some stick for the then novel way we were supposed to dance but I didn't expect to be pelted with fruit as well as getting non stop heckling, young local kids were having a field day chucking fruit at us while we desperatley tried to do our best attempting the difficult 'Hip Hop' dance moves that we had been taught only half an hour before filming started, while doing our best not to burst out laughing (as well as fighting the urge to run away through sheer embarressment).
I have to admit that being a young punk rocker I was a little bit in awe of him when the day began, by the end of the day my opinion of him had changed somewhat, mainly because he managed to ponce most of my megre pack of ten fags, and he drank all my mates tea after asking for a sip then walking away with the cup only to hand it back empty!
Despite the liberties 'Malky walky' took and the yoot lobbing oranges and tomatoes at us it was a fun day and we had a right good laugh, plus I was in a video dancing Hippity Hop as an official 'McLarenette' (I still have the 'McLarenette' t-shirt we were all given to wear for the video). Me, one of the first British people to do so in a British made and set music video, shame it was only made for use on the saturday morning Tiswaz replacement programme called 'The Saturday show''.

Having said that, I will be raising a can for Malcolm tonight (and it's given me an excuse to put this Sex Pistols video up which also features Malcolm getting arrested in fine punk style).

DEADLINE -'LAST NIGHT' VIDEO

I haven't had a computer for a few months now but I am back with a new one, no thanks to the divvy computer company who lost mine while supposedly fixing it. Thankfully my computer was still under warranty and after some pissing about by them I was finally given a cheque to buy a new computer, luckily the money covered enough to buy a new and even better computer than the one I was getting fixed, three months of waiting and hearing the same old excuses from the computer company ended up paying off well for me, which is a surprise for my own usually unlucky self.
So to celebrate (ahem) I've decided to put this tune up, mainly because I like it but also because it's late at the moment and I'm too tired to do anything else.

FUCKING ADVERTS

I'm going to start off with an old joke about how the only advert I ever enjoyed looking at was Gaye Advert, now where was I? Oh yeah, adverts,I have been receiving loads of adverts for viagra and porn in the comments.
The person who has put me on a list of places to send these fucking annoying and unwanted porn/viagra website address adverts is a slag of the lowest order, I wish I could pooh in his/her cereal.
But I can't, oh well, not even any Valium adverts either, I might take a look at one of them. Thinking about it, if I keep getting those annoying viagra/porn etc. ad's then I am going to bloody well need them.

START YOUR DAY THE PUNK ROCK WAY

The amount of ad's using punk to sell their goods is growing by the day (well, not quite that fast but you get my meaning), it's gotten so bad that it is now possible to leave the house in the morning with a full punk belly full of breakfast, almost.
So, now when a person wishes to spit, insult hippies and hate the other 99% all day long with a full belly, all they have to do is get a couple of slices of Hovis 'No more heroes' Stranglers bread, toast it and spread on a slab of Johnny Rotten approved butter and viola! Your very own punker breakfast.
If you wish to have a nice relaxing bout of lung burning afterwards I'm sure that the SubHumans could provide a good cancerous brand of fags, and Crass would provide the tea (who else?).

Yes, I know it's daft.

WHO SAID GEORGE W BUSH WASNT UP TO THE JOB?

....."Gog and Magog are at work in the middle east...The biblical prophesies are being fulfilled...This confrontation is willed by God who wants to use this conflict to erase his peoples enemies before a new age begins".
Then American President George 'Dubya' Bush jr, driving force behind the Iraqi invasion in a 2003 telephone call to then French president Jacques Chirac when asking for French troops to join in attacking Iraq, quoted in his autobiography.

CLIMATEGATE

HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO TELL THE TRUTH FROM THE BOLLOCKS WHEN IT COMES FROM THE IPCC CLIMATE CHANGE PANEL???

Oh deary me, those pesky scientists have been caught doing naughty things yet again, what is wrong with them? they are always trying to find ways to topple the earth for their own ends by whatever means possible, now this time DR Madmanstein and his cadre of esteemed, maniacal white coated professers have taken over the enviorement protest issue, specifically the global warming 'scene'.
The IPCC (the group in charge of global warming) calls to the world that "the debate is over" concerning global warming, it's causes and the solutions are not resting on such firm foundations as it once seemed to be doing in the wake of all the leaked emails from the international panel in charge of  monitoring global warming that detail how the panel has been telling us untruth after untruth. It has become hard to believe anything that comes out of their collective press release.
The panel's claims of melting ice caps, dieing, stranded Polar bears, and the end of skiing on icy mountains in the northern hemisphere are sounding like the prostentations of just another huckster charity who make wild speculations and claims in order to squeeze any amount of money out of us in any way they can, their claims of melting ice caps have been shown to be nothing more than seasonal melting, the Polar bears 'stranded' on a shrinking ice block were actually found to be floating just meters from firm ground (Polar bears can also swim anything up to 100 miles if they have to) and the panels members have been caught making up claims about our impending doom from the top of their heads while hiding scientific data that contradicted them, no matter how important. It could also mean that correct, important, even life saving data released by the IPCC is ignored or disgarded out of hand because they might not be believed (who believes or gives serious time to a known liar??).
I for one always had questions about the whole issue, it's not that I don't believe the world is warming up because I do (according to NASA, other planets in our solar system are also experiencing climate warming), it's why and how that I question (-and no I don't have all the answers).
It's those pesky little nagging things like the 400-odd year long 'Maunder minnimum' or the 'little ice age' as it's other wise known, that happened during the middle ages, enabling people to hold ice fairs on the four foot thick ice of the frozen Thames. Or situations like the Romans growing wine grapes around the vicinity of Hadrians wall (imagine tyneside wine??!), or the known historical temprature variations recorded throughout the centuries etc.).
The whole global warming issue just appeared out of nowhere fully formed and with it's own catastrophic deadlines, 100% definite causes and a complete cause, and with it reason and fault that is unshakable and unwilling to compensate any new findings if they do not fit to the rigid dogmatic template 100%, like some planned out religion with a rigid and zealous zeal, ignoring newly discovered sacred writings that may shed light on the movements 'truth' information which could possibility upset the status and comfort of it's preists.
What (else) made me question the whole issue was finding out that in the U.S. alone (a country supposedly sceptical to the issue) there had been over one thousand new 'global warming' taxes introduced, while at the same time not actually seriously doing anything new to combat global warming. That, and the way politicians use the threat of global warming as a stick to beat us with (and a halo for them to wear) yet despite meeting after meeting all they have agreed on is a way to pass the pollution around to the countries with the most money, effectivley using pollution as a bargining tool for those in big petro and chemical companies and such like while leveeing large fines on the poorer countries who cannot afford the carbon caps, and so end up on the wrong end of fines for pollution, a truely one sided affair that smacks of old time colonial methods.
Like I said above, I don't doubt that we are experiencing weather changes, what I doubt is the IPCC and the way they have conducted business, the way they work has led them open to critisism, the method of just popping out of nowhere and in to the public arena brandishing a cast iron set of results that they said were infallible also led to suspicion, and the way that they have stifled the many and any scientists or critics, famous and peer respected both, who disagreed with their findings was obviously also going to create big time suspision, as were using photographs and quotes for public comsumption, taken from other sources that were used wildly out of context.
All that added to the extravangent lifestyles led by some of those high up in the climate change lobby don't help either, for example there is the board member (and sometime public face of the campaign) who demands that a big car come every day to drive him the two minute distance from his residence to his office, despite them being within spitting distance of eachother. And I needn't mention the many emails detailing the (often succsseful) attempts to deceive the public with false, doctored and suppressed data over a long period of time.
The IPCC has treated the public as fools, and their arrogance is going to come back and haunt them for quite a while. They need to be open and honest and this is the time. Otherwise the IPCC will forever look just like another waste of money rouge department or quango who release fake information just so that they can carry on living in nice homes while enjoying large research grants given  them to investigate the false science they propogate.