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Thursday, September 10, 2009 

Current mood:  excited
We have heard that one of the projects to be funded by the money saved from axing Big Brother will be a 'This Is England' spin-off TV series.
 


The four part series of one hour episodes will be called 'We Were Faces' and will revisit many of the key characters from the film four years later in 1986.

Two episodes have been written so far, with the other two underway. Writing duties are being undertaken by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne (Skins, The Scouting Book For Boys).

Filming is scheduled to start next spring.

Articles mention that Shaun, Lol and Woody will be amongst those that return.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 

Current mood:  angry
Category: Music

I've recently come across the following Nazi crap being sold on iTunes:

Skrewdriver albums:

- Blood and Honour
- White Rider
- Freedom,What Freedom?
- Hail Victory

No Remorse No Retreat albums:

- To Glory We Ride

Final War albums:

- Glory Unending
- We Speak the Truth

Empire Falls albums:

- The Underdogs

Brutal Attack albums:

- Tales of Glory

Doubtless there' a load more but I can't be bothered trawling any further.

Clearly, retailing their music via the massive iTunes store gives these scumbags some mainstream credibility and a means of raising funds, as well as a platform for spreading racist poison.  On the other hand, millions of iTunes subscribers can now check out free 30 second song-clips and hear just how pathetic their songwriting and musicianship is, and how badly produced their 'music' is generally.  The weedy sound that these bands get in the studio never ceases to amaze me.  I am aso naturally disinclined to censorship.  However, I will no longer be rewarding iTunes by buying any music from them. I'll be buying MP3s from Drum and Bass Arena and other sources from now on.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?  PLEASE LET US KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT NAZI ACCESS TO MAINSTREAM MUSIC DISTRIBUTION AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT. 

Does anyone know if there is a campaign organised?
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 

Current mood:Inglourious!

I was lucky enough to get to an Inglourious Basterds preview last week.

 

I’d read a few bad reviews and, not being a massive Tarrantino fan, expected the worst (I walked out of Pulp Fiction and fell asleep during Grindhouse).  But I fucking loved it!

 

Some have called it a Jewish revenge fantasy and Eli Roth has called it ‘kosher porn’.  He’s right, and he’s lucky enough to get a couple of the best ‘money shots’ – remorselessly bashing out the brains of Nazi scum-suckers with his baseball bat.  However, as the old saying goes ‘you don’t have to be Jewish’… to enjoy Inglourious Basterds.  It should tickle the fancy of anti-fascists everywhere.

 

I found the storyline (effectively a ‘parallel universe’ World War II) to be gripping, the performances generally pretty good (OK, so Eli’s a better director than he is actor) and the set pieces well realised.  I even enjoyed the oft-criticised bierkeller scene, which was incredibly tense but with some real moments of humour.  Reminded me a little in places of one of the early pre-embarkation scenes in Das Boot.

 

When I was a kid, my Action Man (dressed in his French Resistance ‘Soldiers of the Century’ uniform of course) was the greatest Nazi killer in the school playground and we constantly played out scenes from films like Kelly’s Heroes, The Eagle Has Landed and The Dirty Dozen.  Basterds is best enjoyed in that same spirit, cos history it aint. 

 

If you want history, go watch Schindlers List, Defiance or Saving Private Ryan.  But if you want to escape reality and enjoy a little guilt-free gratuitous violence, then get down to the Basterds. 

 

Now go get 100 Nazi scalps!

 

PS. I just found this quote on the Stormfront site: “I think Inglorious Basterds looks insulting. My grandmother actually cried seeing the commercial, her father worked at a concentration camp, and many other family members served in the third reich. It looks like all it's about is mocking Hitler and the third reich”. Poor dear, my heart really goes out to you! Boo fuckin' hoo!

 

 
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Friday, July 10, 2009 

Category: Music
The Blaggers were saddened to hear of the death of legendary NME journo Steven Wells (aka Susan Wells aka Swells aka Seething Wells) following his long fight with cancer.

Steven supported the band throughout our career and during the early years was the only journo who would touch us!  More than a journalist though, Steven was a good laugh and free with his advice (and political opinions!).

See ya!

I thought this obituary from James Brown in the Guardian got closer to the man than any of the others:

"It is, perhaps, fitting that in the week that the NME editor joined the BBC to develop the multi-platform brand of Top Gear magazine, the most political and confrontational NME writer of the late 1980s and early 1990s should die from cancer. Steven Wells, or Swells as we knew him, was the most impossible person to work with because he knew no form of compromise, had little true interest in music, was narrow-minded and his personal hygiene and dress sense left so much to be desired that the company nurse once appeared and ordered him to remove and burn his stain-covered tracksuit bottoms. Naturally all of this made him a provocative and popular NME writer.

"Swells worked at the NME because it gave him a voice — he had joined at a time when it featured articles about Right To Work Marches and CND and he expected it to stay like that forever. If he had any connection with music, it was as a medium to express political comment and also occasionally to give him an adrenalin rush. If he ever did discover a new band he felt passionate about, it was usually after they'd already had a hit album.

"He smuggled himself into the Live Reviews pages in the mid-80s posing as a woman, Susan Williams, covering the anarchist bands and punk poets of his hometown, Bradford. These were the same acts he was appearing with night by night as ranting poet Seething Wells. His poems were vitriolic rants against Tetley Bittermen, police dogs and leftwing new men. Pretty much anyone who had irritated him appeared in his poems, which appeared alongside others by Joolz Denby and Little Brother in his fanzine Molotov Comics, which was handwritten and illustrated by Jon Langford and Kevin Lycett of the Mekons.

"It is to their credit that the NME didn't fire him when they discovered they'd been duped and the ranting firebrand championing bands like the Sid Presley Experience and Chumbawamba was, in fact, a man.

"Swells had helped me start my fanzine and given me my first NME review to do. He also helped open the door for my staff job there as a 21-year-old. I repaid him by bringing in a generation of fanatical music obsessives and great writers like Steve Lamacq, Bob Stanley, Stuart Maconie and Barbara Ellen and giving them all the work. He welcomed the revolution but not the smaller pay cheques. As an NME writer, he was obsessed with class war, masturbation, dogs, cancer, Jello Biafra and the multiple use of the exclamation mark. His work was littered with it. Almost creating his own language. '(SUBS LEAVE THESE LAST THREE SENTENCES IN)' was a regular sentence in his copy.

"Aside from the surreal comedy column he co-wrote with David Quantick, Swells was increasingly marginalised in a more-music, less–politics NME until he took up the offer of interviewing Phil Collins. Asking questions no one else would dare to, the end result was brilliantly funny and he realised that if he delivered a great interview it would piss the rest of the staff off, which seemed to be his main purpose in life.

"There followed a series of superb interviews with mainstream rock acts, the terminally unhip, the forgotten and the ignored. Anything loud or unhip became his domain, writing cover stories on Def Leppard and T'Pau. He discussed dwarves with Ozzy Osbourne, played tennis with Mike Oldfield and went flying with Gary Numan. They were fantastic articles that kept his NME stock high and helped drive the sales over the 120,000 mark. The irony for this card-carrying SWP member was, the better the paper was, the more money the capitalist bosses made. But his political timing wasn't the greatest. On the day of the poll tax riots in Trafalgar Square he was boating in the Serpentine wondering what the smoke in the distance was.

"You always knew when Swells was in the office, he was like a mad old man in the pub. I never heard him mention 'multi-platform brand development'. But mention Chumbawamba and he could go on for hours."

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Friday, May 29, 2009 

Current mood:  working
This is a another interesting 'Euro election' post from Brett at 'Harry's Place':



Who does ‘The Reverend’ George Hargreaves think he’s kidding?

His election billboards - thrown up in an area of South London with a high concentration of black evangelical/pentecostal churches - cynically exploit the fear of electoral gains for the BNP in order to get him into the Euro Parliament. The truth is a small sectarian party like his doesn’t have a hope in hell of “stopping the BNP”. Arguably, all he can ’achieve’ is to dilute the vote of parties that can! But what he really hopes will happen that he will get a sufficient ‘proportion’ to secure a seat for himself. It’s quite a gamble, but the stakes are high - and they have nothing to do with the BNP. They have everything to do with giving fundamentalist Christians another foghorn in the EU. 
But, if Hargreaves takes his Christian Party’s manifesto to Brussels - if you’re a woman, or gay, or a non-Christian… well, let’s just say on many of these issues it may as well be a seat occupied by a BNP thug.

The BNP’s manifesto contains these three promises (or threats, from my perspective):

- a commitment to the values of traditional Westernised Christianity.
- [to stop] the attack on the traditional family
- to abolish all laws against discrimination in employment

Coincidentally, these points are echoed almost precisely by The Christian Party.

George Hargreaves was one of the leaders - wearing a preposterous orange jumpsuit - rallying the crowds of hate-mongers protesting outside Parliament last year when the government made it illegal for gay people to lose their jobs or be denied a room in a hotel because of their sexual orientation.

The Christian Party would use Hargreaves’s seat as a megaphone to attack human rights legislation that gave women control of their own bodies, single women their autonomy, and which protected lesbians and gay people from unfair discrimination. Non-Christians would be made to feel alien: the Christian Party’s manifest begins with a call for ”A Christian Europe”. Isn’t that the BNP’s job half done?

If you’re a woman, a non-christian or gay, Hargreaves and his loons are the BNP. On issues such as these, The Christian party and the BNP speak the same language. Which is convenient for them since they’re on the same page, singing from the same hymn-sheet.

UPDATE:

A recent ICM poll shows that after the three big parties, the Greens, UKIP, the SNP and Plaid Cymru all offer credible challenges to the BNP (who don’t seem to be doing very well at all - though we should never be complacent). Hargreaves and his fundies don’t even register - which makes his extravagant claim “We can beat the BNP, the other parties can’t” a big fat porkie!
Currently listening:
Volk
By Laibach
Release date: 2006-10-23
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 

Current mood:Fighting spirit!
Category: News and Politics

We have just received a copy of the BNP election broadcast for the forthcoming European elections (4 June in the UK).  Please check it out below.


Please send this video to all your friends.

Thanks to 'Hope not Hate' and 'Harry's Place':

"The BNP pretend to have changed. But they’re the same old Nazi-loving racists that we’ve fought - and beaten - before. To win this time we need to mobilise the thousands and thousands of people who support us and are willing to contribute to our campaign - so watch the video, share it with your friends and then get them to sign up for HOPE not hate."

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/

Currently watching:
Doctor Who - The Deadly Assassin [DVD] [1976]
Release date: 2009-05-11
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Saturday, May 09, 2009 

Current mood:  blah
Category: Parties and Nightlife
The Blaggers are pleased to announce that, this Summer, they will be appearing at the Endorse It! festival in Dorset, UK.

We are currently scheduled to play on the main stage at 6pm on the Saturday (8 August) - but this is inevitably subject to change.  Updates  will be updated to Myspace.

This year's line up also includes:

PAMA INTERNATIONAL, MIKEY DREAD, DREADZONE, ZION TRAIN, ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER, PRONGHORN, INNER TERESTRIALS, EAT STATIC, SHAM 69, BACK TO THE PLANET, TOFU LOVE FROGS

Jump Up!



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Currently listening:
DJ Hype Presents Drum 'n' Bass Essentials
By Various Artists
Release date: 2009-03-30
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Can't wait for Tarantino's gratuitous bloodbath of nazi scum? Well, here's the trailer.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcoPxyxpE9A
Currently listening:
Andy C Presents Nightlife 4
By Various Artists
Release date: 2008-05-05
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 

Current mood:  angry
Category: News and Politics
This article was recently in The Guardian about the increasing intrusion of the police FORCE into every aspect of our lives.  For those that spout the naive mantra "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", it's a pity that Jean Charles De'Menezes is unable to give his opinion...

Thanks to Sunny Hundal.

In a recently introduced piece of bureaucracy, the Metropolitan police have started requiring live event producers across London to fill in the innocuous sounding "Form 696".

Here's the catch: it requires four pages of information from event organisers 14 days before it takes place. If you need to make last-minute changes – tough luck, the event can't go ahead. The Met police not only want to know the type of music to be played, but also names, aliases, phone numbers and addresses of performers. It will not only make putting on live bands very difficult for small venues, but also spell the end of impromptu open mic sessions.

This latest incarnation of police bureaucracy hasn't come out of nowhere. It even asks event promoters to provide details of their target audience, a further sign of the way it's been racialising music across London for a while.
I was, until recently, a regular at a monthly club night before the police suddenly started strictly enforcing ID checks. This wasn't merely to ensure I was above the required 18 years of age. Not only was everyone required to provide visual identification, but they also had to be logged in a computer database – otherwise none of us could go in. Everyone's driving licences were scanned through a machine and recorded on a computer, with no indication of how long the police would store the information for.

When I objected, the (white) club promoter was quite frank with me. He said the police had said they were "concerned" that the venue played "black and Asian music" and hence wanted added security. Any sort of trouble is extremely rare at this night. Yet their reasoning was that if any fight broke out, they could track everyone at the event if necessary.

Form 696 explicitly singles out musical styles such as R&B, bashment, garage or styles including MCs/DJs as examples of genres that have to be stated if put on. It also required event producers to state the likely racial profile of people attending. When accusations of racial profiling were inevitably raised by the music industry, the Met changed the wording to ask who it was targeted at.

One London council has already invoked prevention of terrorism in its licensing guidelines for live events.

Will people speak out only when live event-goers are asked for fingerprints and retina scans – all maintained on a database for "their own security"?

UK Music chief Feargal Sharkey recently told a Commons select committee that this policy had already been used to pull the plug on an afternoon charity concert of school bands in a public park, organised by a local councillor: "Live music is now a threat to the prevention of terrorism."

As Martin Rawlings, director of the Pub and Beer Association, rightly told a newspaper a couple of months ago:

"I know of licensees faced with this saying they are just not going to put live music on. Form 696 is being used only in London so far, but there are similar things going on around the country, where the police are asking publicans to sign various protocols. It has gone too far, frankly."

It has. You can sign the No 10 petition; write to your MP about it; or join the Facebook group.

Save live events, oppose police authoritarianism! You know it makes sense.

You couldn't make it up!
Currently watching:
Dead Man's Shoes [2004]
Release date: 2005-03-21
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 

Current mood:hyped
Category: Parties and Nightlife

Hopefully, everyone is getting their arses up to Blackpool for the massive REBELLION punk fest.

We are playing (as The Blaggers) on Saturday 9 August at 10pm in The Pavillion.

This is gonna be a massive gig, so get there early!

We're followed by The Vibrators and then the Varukers.  The Stage Bottles (ft Olaf and Marcel of Blaggers AKA / The Blaggers) will be playing before us (also in The Pavillion) at 8pm.

Brendan (Blaggers' designer) will also be exhibiting a number of photos at the Art Gallery in the venue.  This is a collection of photographs taken in derelict buildings in the UK midlands - truly dark and doomy subject matter.  Brendan recently won an architectural photography competition in Rotterdam.

If anyone wants to meet up in Blackpool during the festival, get in contact.

See you there you fukkerz!

 

Currently listening:
Through the Looking Glass
Release date: 2008-07-29
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