A month in Bologna with @sethnotes.bsky.social: archives, Bifo, Sonic Belligeranza records ft AAA, psychographic walking tours with DJ Balli & The Mekons, and the excellent company of @grafton9.net
Monday I return to London for my dissertation write up - sad!
DOPE Magazine 30 - Summer 2025
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‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ *
by Seth Dresden Wheeler (@sethnotes.bsky.social)
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Article: 👉 dopemag.org/articles-1/-do-they-think-guitars-and-microphones-are-just-fucking-toys-
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Support: 👉 dopemag.org/support 👈
FANZINET
mappatura della Rete delle Fanzine italiane originate dalla subcultura punk/nuovo rock negli anni 80.
www.paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/f...
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Thank you comrade!! ❤️
Get involved! 👇❤️🖤
maydayrooms.org/anarcho-punk...
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Flogging run-off, stapled zines,
collated on the window sill
Twenty pences in my jeans,
cash goes to the printing bill
Collated on the window sill,
written with a young fan’s passion
Cash goes to the printing bill
and booze and fags and anti-fashion
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from Lighting Rigged by Janine Booth
… by the time the Pistols split - a movement had arisen to answer their call - CRASS lead the way - lighting a touch paper igniting a cultural revolution - the effects still felt today
The CRASS poster below was pasted outside London’s infamous Roxy Club 👇
I love this photo
Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977
John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …
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Book Talk - Wages of Dreamwork at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social
Saturday April 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
housmans.com/event/book-t...
London event with Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss "The Wages of Dreamwork"
On this day in 1871, French troops sided with the people that they were sent to repress against the generals and the oligarchs who sought to dominate them. This set off a revolutionary chain reaction that changed the course of history.
Such things do happen.
crimethinc.com/arch18
From another revolt in France, but nonetheless fitting and true when thinking on the commune -
‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very heaven’
Eternal
In good company
Boycott Watkins Media
A Statement of Solidarity Signed by Authors and Affiliates of Repeater and Zer0 Books 👇
xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/b...
Archivio Autonomia / Radio di Movimento
Materiale proveniente da Radio Onda Rossa, Radio Blackout, Radio Alice, Radio Specchio Rosso, Radio Sherwood, Radio Tupac, Radio Faraci, Radio Sud, Radio Alternativa Popolare, Radio Popolare, Radio Città Futura Torino, Canale 96.
archive.org/details/auto...
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Sniffing Glue - 1977
I’ll be talking at this at MayDay Rooms - Wed 26th - 6.30 pm
Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤
The Call to Arms.
Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977
For a decade or two, the music press acted as a popular alternate curriculum, introducing a generation or two to radical politics, wider reading and alternate/submerged histories.
If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.
It was fantastic. There was a set from Jerry Dammers also. Exhibition is also great - as is the accompanying publication - check it out when you’re down
A great evening out with the MayDay Rooms crew for the launch party of Mick Jone’s pop culture archive - yes that Mick Jones. A good turn out from the west London punky/reggae milieu (and their kids) with excellent sets by Dennis Bovell and Tessa Pollitt. We danced our fucking socks off
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Appel's fellow delegate and hijacker was Berlin's Club #Dada cofounder Franz Jung.
The boat was the Senator Schroder, which has it's own wiki page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator...
Appel's autobiography gives an account fo the journey:
libcom.org/article/auto...
Traumfabrik Via Clavature 20
archive.org/details/trau...
Un viaggio attraverso la Bologna rivoluzionaria degli anni `70
The 1975 track ‘La mela di Odessa (1920)’ by the Italian prog-rock act Area is loosely inspired by Jan Appel’s hijacking of a boat in order to reach Soviet Russia to attend the 3rd World Congress of the Communist International
Prog pirate councilism👇
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf1D...
A great interview between Chuang journal and members of Endnotes Journal- unpacking the history of Endnotes and the international exchange it was part of/helped to facilitate
Well worth the read 👇
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
More archival gold from the MayDay Rooms huge eco-anarchist collection
Pictured👇MayDay’s large collection of Fifth Estate Journals - dating from 1977 to 2004
Actualise Industrial Collapse Motherfuckers!
