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Description Editor: Richard Neville. Design: Jon Goodchild. Writers: Andrew Fisher, Ray Durgnat, David Widgery, Angelo Quattrocchi, Ian Stocks. Artists: Martin Sharp, John Hurford, Phillipe von Mora. Photography: Keith Morris Advertising: Felix Dennis, REN 1330. Typesetting: Jacky Ephgrave, courtesy Thom Keyes. Pushers: Louise Ferrier, Felix Dennis, Anou. This issue produced by Andrew Fisher.

Content: Louise Ferrier colour back issue/subscription page. Anti-war montage. ‘Counter-Authority’ by Peter Buckman. ‘The alH f Remarkable Question’ - Incredible String Band lyric and 2p illustration by Johnny Hurford. Martin Sharp graphics. Flypower. Poverty Cooking by Felix and Anson. ‘The eY ar of the Frog’ by Jule Sachon. ‘Guru to the World’ - John Wilcock in India. ‘We do everything for them…’ - Rupert Anderson on homelessness. Dr Hipocrates (including ‘inflation’ letter featured in Playpower). Homosexuality & the law. David Ramsay Steele on the abolition of Money. ‘Over and Under’ by David Widgery – meditations on cultural politics and Jeff uttN all’s Bomb Culture. A Black bill of rights – LONG LIVE THE EAGLES! ‘Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Mall’ - the ethos of the ICA. Graphic from Nottingham University. Greek Gaols. Ads for Time Out and John & Yoko’s Two Virgins. Cream/Clapton. Interview with Manfred Mann. Deviants LP review by Felix Dennis. ‘Why Isn’t London Jumping’ by Geoffrey Cannon. James Taylor ad and ads for & review of Tiny Tim’s You Are What You Eat.

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e obviously depends ould quickly be said at least as conceived Though the feeling • tat • ; mon with Proudhon, to a • • me. • t • 1. -Bendit, their beliefs are Prms of di- ipli n dogm eryone being members of a fiances with se f the ithout rulers. In other with the 'tally t about universally by revolutiona hich tent' 'anarchism' to flourish: he me sthe e ng to accept it. Not for thet of ne t• ,both believed in the isio olitical Van fference being in the sent sys. •w in the soc rigid or systematic as the analysis of Marx or Bakunin. As a do with the beliefs of those in authority over them — their matter of fact, Cohn-Bendit was locked into a room at the teachers, the police, their families — they feel equally alienated International Conference of Anarchists for disagreeing with from the political Left, with its warring sects, its wild and them, so tolerance is not one of their things. Those who are sometimes incredibly antiquated rhetoric, above all its rigidity. simply anti-authority are individualists,: as members of the Though personallyI believe that for the necessary revolution underground they believe that the first principle is that to take place, a high order of discipline, clarity, organisation, everyone must be free to do their thing. Some try this in small and systematic analysis is necessary, Iwould be the first to say communities, but so far history has proved to be against them. that what the Left is up to seems most of the time to have Most people don't want to go back to bucolic states of little to do with what concerns most people, or to be sadly gambolling innocence with no running water. Whatever the ineffective. canI understand those on whose cooperation a new form of social and political organisation that arises in an revolutionary organisation must depend in a crunch — the affluent society, it has to take for granted the maintenance of young, basically — being as fed up with the Left, at least in living standards. England, as they are with the authorities who are their real There's no point in regressing, though it's worth pointing out enemy. But if what makes a new revolutionary is his attitude that our notions of what is up-to-date and what is out-of-date to authority, not his adherence to one dogma or another, have been largely dictated by the system under which we are what's going to hang him up is how he's to make his ruled. revolution. Obviously he can't get permanently high and The models of the Third World are inappropriate for those simply withdraw. By himself he is virtually powerless, though dedicated to a counter-authoritarian stance. The Chinese the whole point of the movement is individual liberation. He Cultural Revolution is the nearest thing to the permanent can express a fuck-you attitude in clothes, actions, or style, questioning of authority nown to civilisation, but its but such action is limited, for if he steps too far out of line the excesses, at least as kno the West, are too much for the system will simply clobber him. comfort even of the mostt cal activist hina, as in Cuba There are two urgent needs. Given that counter- and other socialist state ople to build a authoritarianism — and Iwish someone would provide a good revolutionary state from re eold on. No such word for it — is what unites today's potential revolutionaries, unity exists in advanced alliance between it is up to the political Left, with its vast experience in 'workers an 'intellectuals , ed anfl/ proven in agitation, to prove that organisation, analysis, and programmes France and lyI in campaigns their- brevi able of being effective in bringing about a revolutionary much as for it violence, see erogetive ch will not deteriorate into quasi-Stalinism, as few militants both camps. nary coallti befall- sornany of the socialist countries. simply isn't on specially c ass'idfair*no I Those - w • al, simpl c t- -authoritarians, on the other , be considered- , ply as ed Wait ripe hand, have an equa ask. They urgently need to revolution. Th,o nlos system are tho nderstand that the of—repression they are constantly who depend upon it fo resenting the ountering, and 'are so against, are all linked to the state interferes are profoun 6 system we I. s-oot that we suffer under a anti-revolution eo-capitalist stet is eculiar and c •rship, because there's a lot that of the co em depends. All they we're allo pd t Cu ,e is permitted directly to want is more. challtiVk balan e of p• een those who govern and

It is this desir that have so badly those fwh are governed, ' -erwhat the system is all shaken the sy the young n about. We can protest and wear funny clothes, but when we radicals, which h break-up of the ste want a say in making the decisions that directly affect us, liberal facade, has sis. T ether at school, university, or work, we get no joy at all. when the 'workers d ich had sileto be counter-authoritarian cannot be- series of isolated conceded in some w doing so the co rs. They're all the same fight,' ich to be won mechanisms of product' nding to a halt. r i es a totally different life-style, un able under this The inflation that was in ermination of the "tem. The struggle is pol ich ay you look it consumers not to suffer m ring class could, of an the trouble is those involv n politics aren't course, lead to an explosiv e probable result will breaking through the credi ter. be the advent of a repre on regime. The political It's not possible trYTOery op c. Th ave been crises Left is simply unprepare to lead a revolution. They have not of authority beiqre,-trid the g have never been able to spelt out what they want qd cpre about, because they think take advantage of them. What cal Left has done in that would be authoritar to attract the support of the America and Europe has been v ing, and it's; changed massively disgruntled — all of the consumers, white- the climate of protest, but not the c d ions or the balance of and blue-collar workers, rs, ci servants, 4teachers, power which occasioned it. The ITO hopeful thing is the state and local officials, nd polkimen — a really young: the kids at scho h in France and clear statement of the d obj e of revolution is America are rejecting all forms city and fighting in the vitally necessary. It doesn to it runs counter to streets with their ageing colleague at university. Soon these the dearly-cherished print gmatism, and because kids are going to be in the majority everywhere. There has no one on the Left is ce e revolutionary state ' never.; been a ter potential for revolution, but they are would be run, let alone br ng. going to make •t us, and if we don't do the right thing All this leaves the most r ry section — those who are now, we 'r' on the wrong side of the barricades — against Authority — unm While they don't want much to the lositi 7 1 4 No MOVED nit 5 WHO MOVED •THe WFIrrE ERN WEN 6114m EL AND DAL WERE SrANDING_BET MO • VVICIF THE_ EVENING GROWING vED pspot4tog The P7NE WOODS THATACHED Foe THE SAIL THERES SOMETHING FORGOTTEN TNT To own( 1TI ECKLEs oF R.Ray ARE

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SPIRIT, their desire to right KNOW if they never attend? I hold a correspondence theory ARONGS; but NOT their fray- of the truth, ie. a statement is A check-up on HOTELS and rrentation or lack of PURPOSE. true if it corresponds to the facts. boarding-houses in Conference As a MYSTIC I can DO what I What are the facts, how do we 'RESORTS' will REVEAL the MUST for a troubled SOUL; the decide? The only way of arriving sarre narres year after year. The Establishment can't OPPOSE NE at facts is to put forward theories agenda is PONDEROUS. The OR DESTROY rre or try INFLIJ that attempt to explain experience. effect on Harold and George: NIL. ENCE. But that is AFFINITY, These theories if they are to be individual from person to person.• To succeed at all the STUDENTS more than merely heuristic must trust UNITE, win over the apathetic be capable of being rigorously If the WORLD aes CHAOS, isol- WORKERS and ORGANISE. I discussion. These requirements ated changes would be possible with them 1 KNOWaMat they want as far as I know are never met by (as OZ illustrates). But if it is to pull down, Mat they want to anyone who is in favour of revolu- ORGANISED CHAOS for the build. tions. Their behaviour in this benefit of the IICNEY-CHANG-- regard seems to me to be what ERS, what then? Theycansit But surely they KNOW that psychologists call 'displacement back at the CENTRE and srrile 'Work for the WORKERS' nvans activity. They are unable to at what happens at the EXTRE- the SANE and is rare COIVFORT- satisfy some basic drive and vent WS. You have Arrerica's )48 LE, enables I* rates to ignore their frustration by lashing out THINK-TANK and BRITAIN e, ignbre VIETNAM ignore wildly at everything in sight. That GERMWARFARE. NVIIGERIA and scream' 'Mike them they are unable to satisfy these You have SCIENCE and BASTARDS VIORK'. drives may be due to childhood INTELLECT prostituted by AsaAs MYSTIC, I accept de BONO experiences, lack of love, educa- FINANCE and GOVERNMENT— and his LATERAL THINKING tion, or indeed society as a whole. with ABSOLUTE CONTROL of The student trust reject him I But there is no guarantee that NI3ss Odle. As God in above, I accept BABA in foto But advise: can only KNOWabout Student violent revolution will resolve Dear OZ, the ESTABLISHMENT first, our RIOTS, BLACK GHETTOES, NEWMORL D later. either their own frustrations or When WILL IT stop printing VIETNAM APPLACHIA, if they more importantly anyone else's. 'Periodic Clarifications of Editor- The LAST PLACE youth can go to let re. Do the STUDENTS and No one doubts that revolutions ial Policy'; when WILL Pete seek HELP or UNDERSTANDING TARIO ALI KNOWthis? change things, the question is Stansill stop impressing nobody is MUM and DAD, Principal STAFF are they improved? Do we not in 'tactical rationality, politico- Don't the STUDENTS KNOW Fifty years of practise (NOT for with reality only change our masters that TUC and LABOUR PARTY MONEY) have TAUGHT NE emotional solidaritY, ultimate ideas? Then again comes the ecstasy and popular,static notions CONFERENCES, are SOPS for SOMETHING. the APATHETIC; tradiurrs for the question which ideas are nearer of history;' when WILL the ALEX DUTHI /selling of TORY LEGISLATION truth? Sociological questions Deviants stop pretending to iihich could have iigiusecqtE V- 49 High Street ,Should be treated as scientific The Voice Of The Undergro DLUTION had it Come frdm Innerleithen questions to be resolved by the (available at any brailehqf OWES? Don't they SEENthat Peeislesshire scientific methods of testing and Smiths?); when WILL Midd Scotland rational public discussion. Those do 't rock the boat' leaves the Earth stop putting up their V W4CKEYS where they who advocate violent revolution prices; when WILL John Wilcock are conderming to death and PLACED? Dear Sir, stop including comic strip two- Injury rrany innocent people in headed Japanese lesbians in L t ILLUSTRATE: as a I amproirp VI to write to you by the hope, and it is nothing more, Other Scenes; when WILL Black 8— iEVER in SOCIALISM/ Rogall's tter (OZ 151 about that things will be better after- Dwarf stop printing Che posters/ backed them. As a CHRONIC Janies letter (OZ 14) on revolu- wards. The argurrents for revolutio memoirs/diaries/collected sayings SICK KORKER I LIVE on four tion. I regard mast of this sudden- tion, such as they are, all have and similar crap; when WILL pounds ten, PAY for five essential ly fashionable talk on this subject an authoritarian, anti-deirocratic somebody tell Simon Stable that ' MEDICINES, where last year I as little mare than hysterical bias. I regard democracy not nobody's interested in his phoney paid NOTHING. More IRONIC rorrenticism deriving ultirretely primarily as meaning rule by the fortnightly 'Top Ten Under- still: I retired as a SICK labourer, from the anti-national philosophy majority but as being an institu- of Hegel, (as pointed out ground Hit LP's,' plastic dream the DUNCE in n' class at School by Karl tionalised device to prevent as an Popper machine and abysmal column, draws seventy pounds PLUS more than 20 years ago.) tyranny. To stop the strong W, and is justly FAMOUS for when WILL anybody ever 'come It would be interesting to know bullying the weak, and safeguard- never having opened his MOUTH along and do their thing' in an what attitude Mr Rogall and all ing the rights of minorities, that in the COMVIONS! Arts Lab as devoid of creative those who think like him have to is what democracy should be atmosphere as a British Railways THAT, I feel, illustrates the a seldom mentioned thing called about. Otherwise you are involved waiting room Wien?. . . Wien SOCIAL ISMand sincerity of the truth. in paradoxes of the sort 'what if Pellen Personal and ilitn it 'OUR BOYS'. the majority decide they want to CAN Be Done stop advertising in If, following Marxist writers like After years of experience of be ruled by a dictator' etc. 0 Z . . . you know. . . Never. Karl Mannheim, he holds that BRANCHES and CONFERENCES Love, everybody's conciousness is a Mabe capitalist society is not the I can assure STUDENTS or MLI- pp 'it-of social relations' this finest society that the wit and TANTS that POLICY NOT decided Felix true of himself as it is of any- best aspiratiwof man can at BRANCH LEVEL; less than 2 44 Windsworth Bridge Road one else, 'proletarian' or 'capital- devise, but4 maybe neither is percent of MEM3E RS actually S146 ist'. If this is so from the stand- a socialist onerle, I am not ruling ATTEND. They have BINGO, out a spiritual development of overtire, a coupon to fill up, a point of truth Mr Rogall's argu- mankind that has nothing to do ments for revolution are to be Dear OZ, MATCH they can't miss. These with social organisation—a taken no more seriously than those Can a TEEN-AGE PENSIONER are the PRIORITIES. POLICY is communion of saints? in favour of the status quo. Pre- bridge the gap between Youth handed DOVIN. sumably along with most Marxist and Age, Us and Them Student ,Conferences are PLACES I can Yours sincerely, writers he regards myself as one and LABOURER? Or can a Bed- take the wife to for a bloody good of the select band of mystical David Hall evilled SCOTS MYSTIC "Point expenses-paid holiday! brothers who have been vouch- 346 London Road the Wry"? What do my friends THE safed a vision of social reality St Albans I LOVE their EDUCATION, their AC)RKERS 'want. How can 1 devoid of unconcious bias. Herts OZ, bread is so vital that within authority. If and when the new Wayland Brown think we're all mason we will accept any advert- order(order —see!) has been frVry tlhitehouses? Wth Richard You had this fantastic two page established will not these 11,bItzer, you should have taken I CANT ESCAPE MY PASSION ising revenue that we can. We are banks' etc reappear 'overground' the advice you got after his first DRIVES. Perfect very beautiful, rot in a position to refuse say to take the place of the old capi- article. With the amount of poetic I guess and perfect then £12 from the army". talist banks also the 'co-ordinators' information he gleans from every this stupid HO! HO! HO! at the will reappear as the governemnt. word of every song, our pop-song bottom of the page. So, kick this sadism thing OZ before it becomes a habit. Let's Back to square one! writers must be disguised univer- I know you know and you should sity professors or something. have more of the type of beauti- This example of the illogicality know I know. ful and incredibly endowed of the vihole movement to- Tristan Kbod ymph such as formed the back It took the edge of the whole work gether with this incessant scurry- gound to the Pellen Products Roundowy House it was like it had never been done. ing around after novelty and advertised in OZ 9. Perhaps I'm Colston's School You don't have to give us the sensual stimulation means but now out of fashion in still think- Stapleton knowing nod you almost got the one thing to me decadence and ing that you can't be both pro- Bristol not evolution as you seem to insensitivity award. XX beauty and pro-violence. John & Irene think. Dear OZ, Yours sincerely, Quote from the article: 'it is better In reference to your m3gazine of Ian Nichol to light one small candle than November, we think it was an out Dear Friends, 25 Coronation Road curse the universe for its darkness' and out con. East Grinstead I feel I mist expresss disapproval Well maybe the candle has been Sussex of the sadistic nature of the lit but it seems to me that it has So far we have enjoyed most pictorial section of the advertise- been placed on the altar of nega- copies of your magazine, so we Dear Sir, would be very grateful if you ment for Magnophall in your last tion. edition (15). Sadism is the I have never been able to estab- would refund our money. I remain dear sir with hopes fascism of sex and merely another lish satisfacL rily whether you lot Luv dashed variation of the violence you want authority to remain or not. Linda &Jerry yours sincerely condemned in yoru Pornography One article in your magazine Stephen Timothy Ruillin-un of Violence issue (OZ 10). serves to reinforce my puzzlement Dear OZ, at the chaotic way your minds I hope that OZ will not raise the ps pelase print I'd like to see the In you last edition you said more seem to run ie. "down on the same plea as Tony Elliott, editor reaction of your readers and any visually, than you could ever Farm' of the pseudo-progressive maga- defense they may care to propose! have done otherwise zine . .Unit .. (Whose adverts In this article we were treated to you have carried in the past), did John Christopher Plekefield the joys of communal living and Dear OZ, in reply to my criticism some the supposedly ensuing rebirth of months ago of the inclusion in individualists. OZ 15 has been the best that periodical of career advertise- yet. I did find myself in disa- This was all very good and proper ments for notorious juggermants greerrent with two articles, how but then the authors advocated of industry and commerce and ever. As far as 'Barricades arouno OTHER 'Underground Banks', 'Trus,t even the armed forces! His reply the small screen' goes, surely if Funds' and worst of all that was as follows:— you hate a television programme omnipresent phrase 'co-ordina- you don't watch it—or does UCKER "In any little magazine the tion of efforts' in other words—

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FROM THE 600K r UPAGAINSt THE WALL_ MOTHERFUCKER'-t....NS Dear Sir, simultaneity of experience all but films, since this rethink your categories. not just to a picture on a is the better medium To my surprise I find myself What a bloody con, wall but to a whole magazine. (as the Surrealists and prepared to ignore the what a take, my precious If you have difficulty with Dadists themselves realised) gaucheries, the illiterate 3/- back and if I were a Sharp's narrative collage for the network of images Sharp spelling, the word subscriber I would divorce what problems will you along which one's mind balloons that sometimes you: the chorus of rage not have with Paolozzi's travels non serially, skipping read as if they were written and incomprehension that 'Moon Strips Empire News'? to and fro in time, that by Andre Breton's bastard greeted Martin Sharp's I suspect that the complainers he wishes to project. But child out of Grandma Moses 'Magic Theatre' must have are the sort of people who the unalterable fact is that Cuba lets loose his gratified everyone on Oz will parrot the belief that this network could not be bouquet of flowers except the accountant. a wired up discotheque made with WORDS. upon the shoulder of a For what on earth can is an information-processing Since magazines are sorceress rich from heaven's rile that groovily pliant centre, while thinking that words about other words teddy bear, the modish feeding alights a dove, a collage is not. The reason to be read in a stack of end of the underground and similar bits of hippie of course, is that we have lines from left to right audience? Not pot, not embarassment.) magic cliche, communications and back again, magazines denunciations of the Greek None of that will matter which is selectively applied: shouldn't do Sharp's kind colonels or General De ina few year's time; what discotheques, T. V. and of work; Gaulle, not flowers and does matter, and makes the press communicate, or should they? Why not tittles: no matter how the 'Magic Thetre' the only but art objects do not: rupture the medium to first class issue of Oz in the challenging a magazine we have different expectations look at it? Or do the protesters last sixteen, is that at last may start out to be, it will for them: they sit on the imagine that spidery little a magazine has broken the usually end by offering wall,look pretty and go cartoons about flower power 'idees recues' to an audience mould in a lyrical and up in value. Martin Sharp, are all that graphic design decisive way. As a frequent which buys to see its attitudes whatever his talents as can do for Oz? In the non-reader I can promise confirmed; this is as true a painter may be thought 'Magic Theatre' Sharp has you that the readers Oz of Oz as of the Observer to be, is more affected assembled one of the loses through such an experiment Colour Supplement or by this problem than most richest banks of images are no loss. the Watchtower. Thus of his contemporaries; that halever appeared gentlemen you feel it right and in a sense it is the in a magazine; and if your that the Times should change subject of the 'Magic Theatre'. response to that is to say its editorial policy but Perhaps, in the end, he that it is therefore not wrong that Oz shquld change will not make collages at a magazine at all, you should Robert Hughes its format; experimenting with the magazine amounts to vivisection of your infinitely Id we valuable leisure tirneiowst illions of the soothing but tribal man identification-points that us yet crop up in a normal issue tat a le of Oz and make the readers pow. into a happy family are Luton, missing from the 'Magic ; step Theatre',or, more precisely, taken concealed by a change the of medium. I find it cigint ironical that an audience very which, at parties, prides !pt to itself on being 'avant garde' %%maid should be thrown by a scale: mode of presenting images nehtt- which has been central thl be to modern art since John Hartfield and Max Ernst .1 sec developed collage fifty match years ago. This is old stuff. :ill be Only its application to power a magazine, in the extended fats to form that Sharp has given 5 ours.

it, is new -that is, new to England; in Germany and An-erica it ;les tried in the 20's. Mat is owe, I think it doubly ironical that readers who, at a guess, spend at least some of their time echoing the usual cliches about instantaneous communication across the dfrir global village, the death Sae.? of the written word and eaft, the M being the M should PE7 Or, feel such hostility towards P Re, P( one of the first serious, lave to clic on the day the instantaneous result of eating of the Tree of Knowl- re-4-N though flawed, attempts ON /9 Af( lge. According to God, edge would be death; according to the serpent (at least PII3R to apply the idea of f ' WE'VE HAD HORSE POWER; GAS POWER, ATOMIC POWER, BLACK POWER, FLOWER POWER — AND NOW, THERE'S

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HOW DO YOU USE THIS NEWLY-DISCOVERED MICRO POWER SOURCE? BUILD A FLY POWERED AIRPLANE! HORIZONTAL -r1, STABILIZER ---' (optional)

FTER YEARS of swatting, spray- ing, etc., we've finally found a use for the common housefly! The right fly can become the powerplant for the wildest, craziest gadget-glider you ever saw. Here's how .... 1. First, out to the local garbage can. With net, plastic bag or whatever, catch the biggest, fattest, fly you can find. Put fly into a container and place in refrigerator to cool. 2. Get a small piece of balsa or Styrofoam strip. To this piece, glue a tiny verticle fin, as shown. 3. Using another strip of balsa, glue a leading edge spar to the fuselage strip. Then get a piece of tissue (wrapping or silk) and make a tiny airfoil wing. Glue the front edge of the tissue to the balsa spar. Let dry. 4. Touch a dab of Contact cement to the front edge of the fuselage, as shown. 5. Take fly out of refrigerator. He may look dead, but he's just stiff from the cold, which makes it easy to dab a tiny bit of contact cement on his bottom and glue him to the plane. It takes a few seconds for the fly to warm up and start moving. Then, after a few unsuccessful attempts, he'll take off, dragging the miniature plane. The added weight will tire him quickly and, for the first time in his short life, he'll find he can glid e! As he becomes more expert, you get a great demonstration of FLY POWER. Try it ... It's a riot!

S Whitt Field a-- 2 INCHES Liberation News Service 13 Beggar Stew Cracked Egg Omelette Ingredients: Total cost about 9'M an omelette. Cooking thre around 5 mins. Ask the butcher, (the shabbiest shops usually sell the best meat), Ingredients for a shillings worth of mutton neck. Get to Sainsburys early one morning and ask for half a dozen Rob the supermarket of one large carrot and an onion—those who cracked eggs—they're usually sold out by the afternoon, so be live near a street market or in the Covent Garden area will be able warned. They'll cost between 1/3d and 1/6d a dozen. to pick up these for free—otherwise go to the local Co:op grocer. They serve so many old age pensioners with miniscule quantities of Method vegtables and fruit, (I once heard an elderly lady demand, and get, Recrack three of the eggs into a cup and whip with a half cup of half a large cooking apple), that the assistant is less likely to milk, (optional), until creamy. Add % teaspoonful of salt and snigger condescendingly or refuse to serve you. %teaspoonful of pepper. Pour this mixture into a hot frying pan Finally, you'll need one large tablespoonful of cornflour or plain which has been greased with a little marg or oil, stirring with a fork flour to thicken, one oxo cube, one and a half pints of tap water, until nearly set, then fold over and slide out of pan. Don't leave salt, pepper and mustard and a pinch of mixed herbs, (the latter too long-45 seconds to a minute at the outside. Some people not being essential but at sixpence a packet, worth their weight in prefer to grill the top before eating. cannabis). Omelette has countless variations: — Method Bacon Omelette Fry chopped up rasher of bacon in pan; remove Chop up the Hu tton into medium sized chunks; slice and chop bits with any surplus fat; cook omelette and add bacon just before onion 'and carrot—not too small or they will dissolve; mix up oxo folding over. into a paste with a little water in a cup, then repeat process with Herb Omelette Sprinkle a handful of mixed herbs into the egg cornflour in: a seperate cup. Boil up neat, vegetables, cornflour before you beat up. and oxo in the water, stirring as you do so, reducing heat until gently simmering. Add salt and pepper to taste plus a teaspoonful Potato Omelette Any left over cooked potato? Fry them quickly, of mustard if you have any. Sprinkle on herbs. Simmer for at in an little fat as possible and then pour on usual omelette mixture. least an hour, two hours if you can wait that long. Don't try to fold over, it will be too thick. Golden Rule You'll find you can put almost anything into an omelette—tomatoe, grated cheese, mushrooms, hash, onions, even marmalade or jam if A stew boiled is a stew spoiled. Simmer gently and stir spasmodically. you've got a sweet tooth. Golden Rule Speed is vital. Nothing tastes worse than burnt egg. Don't use too much grease and make sure pan is really hot.

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John Wilcock, in India. Other Scenes. confidently assumed by all that 'the miles northwest of Pondicherry Mother will solve them.' stretching inland from the coast In the ashram's main building, to three inland lakes. on Rue d'Orleans, which also houses On the city's master plan in the The heart and soul of Pondi- the reception center, is Sri Aurobindo's ashram's office it looks like a galaxy cherry is the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, grave, always covered with flowers and of stars swirling around a central plaza. focal point for pilgrims not only surrounded by meditative disciples, and a Auroville's planners talk from India but from all parts of the framed portrait of both himself and ambitiously of such projects as world. It is an unusual ashrgm in the the Mother, both looking about 40 monorails, moving sidewalks and sense that its buildings are spread all years old and wearing halos. Sri closed-circuit-TV channels which are over the town and some of its businesses Aurobindo, after a productive life hard to visualize in the context of the provide employment and services for of writing & inspiration, died on site's present condition: scattered patches other residents of Pondicherry. Dec 5, 1950; the Mother, who lives of scrub & palm trees sprinkled across It includes, for example, more or less in seclusion, is now 91 the red soil plains. its own laundry, perfumery, having been born (a Pisces!) on Instead of building the printing press and travel agency Feb 21, 1878. community's core and spreading out as well as bakery, tailors, furniture Four times each year—on Feb from there, Auroville is being factory, oil mill and handmade 21, April 24, Aug 15 and Nov 24— constructed randomly at several points paper workshop. the Mother appears on her balcony within the 15-mile perimeter, to allow Right on the town's major and gives general darshan (a sort of maximum potential for individual square, is a building containing papal blessing)—to the assembled effort and different ideas. Within ten the ashram's central kitchen and crowds, who come from all over years, it is hoped, people from all over there each day almost everybody the world for the occasion. The the world will have added their who wants a meal can drop by rest of the time she utters her contributions to the site including between 11.15 am and 12-30 pm pronouncements & preferences trade or display pavilions from and line up for a simple vegetarian indirectly preferring to make her different nations and Indian states. lunch sitting crosslegged on the decisions on new applicants, Many kinds of light industry and floor to eat stainless silver bowls appointments, etc., by studying manufacturing are planned or of rice, curry, yoghurt, bread and photographs of would-be adherents. anticipated—flour & cattle food plants, fruit. Theoretically non-members are Theoretically ashram members are electronics,leather goods, carpets, supposed to contribute but nobody entitled to a personal audience canning factory, etc., and a university presses for the donation. with the Mother on their individual is also scheduled. Sri Aurobindo, born in Calcutta birthdays. Despite these far-reaching plans on Aug 15, 1872 (a Leo!) was edu- Membership in the ashram is for an industrial estate it is hoped to cated at Cambridge, England, and as a currently about 1500, including a maintain 'a close harmony with nature' writer and revolutionary became couple of hundred foreigners, and so that the community will also be involved in the extremist wing of some of them—an Austrian hotel basically rural with orchards, dairy the Indian Independence Movement chef, a former soap company and such crops as rice, groundnuts, early in the century. Jailed by the executive, a one-time Madison mangoes, olives, grapes, dates, British for his involvement in a bomb Avenue designer—were extremely soybean and avocados. plot (1908) he studied yoga and successful in their earlier careers. The Indian newspapers have referred meditation during his year in prison One wealthy ex-Bostonian now to the project as 'the first world city' which, and by 1910 was in Pondicherry occupies a remote island off the when completed within ten years, continuing his silent divinations and Coromandel Coast growing and will have a population of 50, 000. rejecting political overtures from processing the ashram's coconut crop. The principles of Auroville will the increasingly active Ensconsed in the biggest of the be those that guide the ashram: independence parties. ashram's numerous guesthouses at integrated living and working together Four years later a remarkable any given time are scores of inter- of people who seek 'a higher conscious- French woman arrived in this little national hippies of all ages, some ness'. Although all are welcome, with the French town just south of Madras on wearing the gaudy regalia & beads proviso that 'endurance & perseverance India's east coast and fell immediately of Haight-Ashbury, others with are essential,: it is felt by the under his spell. She returned to France shoulder length hair and ankle- community's planners that 'only those later in the year but came back to clinging Indian dhoti. who feel they can work in a spirit of Pondicherry in 1920, married Aurobindo With the success of its experiment self dedication can successfully and since 1926 has been in complete in international harmony assured, the confront the inner and outer problems charge of the ashram and all its Sri Aurobindo ashram began to which will at every step appear at the activities under the name of the think in more ambitious terms of an personal collective level.' Mother Everybody connected with international city in which people But perhaps a much quoted the ashram in any way, and many of the of all races could live and work aphorism of the Mother puts it more other people in the town, refer to her together. Such a city—Auroville succinctly: 'You are richer with the reverently in this way and in so far as (City of Dawn)—is now planned wealth you give than the wealth you any problems or doubts arise it is for a 10,000-acre site three or four keep in your possession.' 17 !

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At this moment there are 100,000 said it made him sick to see such homes.' Why not put them in ships?' people without homes in this country; a suffering. The Leader of the Labour The LCC bought a convent and put tenth of them are wandering the streets Party (a Mr. Gaitskell) went personally seventy families in it. They invented the f London now. There is really nothing to visit a number of the reception mobile home and placed thousands of more I have to say about the subject — centres in which those newly rendered them on empty sites all over the metro- the rest of this article is mere wordy and homeless were placed. The Conserva- polis. indignant elaboration. tives who know how to avoid a hiding But still the figures crept remorse- There was a time — between to nothing took a responsible investiga- lessly upwards. While the fuss was at its October 1961 and August 1962 — when tory line; Sir Percy Rugg Conservative height the LCC used to announce the the problem of homelessness in British leader on the LCC suggested a non-party figures once a month. The monthly cities received a sudden gush of public approach to the problem and stressed score used to arouse the kind of fascin- articulation. The LCC which was the `the danger of allowing the awful human ated anxiety that the balance of pay- body which governed London before problem of London's homeless families ments figures do at the present time. the big reorganisation of the early six- to become a football to be kicked Just before Christmas 1961 the LCC ties, announced that the winter of around the political arena.' However the had counted about 3000 and soon 1961-62 was presenting them with an blame was generally held to lie with the afterwards lost hope that the number unprecedented and unexplained increase dreaded Rent Act of 1957 which had would drop much below that level. But in the number of men and women who destroyed security of tenure for hun- by May the following year there were had nowhere to live and who were dreds of thousands of flat-dwellers and 3700 and by the following Christmas dependent on welfare accommodation the government of the day received an 4000 seemed inexorable. But by the for mere protection against the unrelenting drubbing from a string of next winter the level reached was elements. They had somehow found gentlemen (and not a few ladies) who around the 5000 mark, and the winter beds to accommodate 3,000 people and today adorn the commanding heights of , after that 6000. The feverish attention were frightened of the consequences of British official political life. paid by the new Labour Government to a further increase. In the late fifties they The television and press coverage the housing problem in the early had only had to worry about a thousand was overpowering in its concern for the months had some effect; after eviction such unfortunates. misery of the homeless and fearless in was made illegal and the new rent There was a huge public outcry at its determination to uncover the facts. officer system instituted for dealing the time. It seemed incredible that at It takes many hours, even today, to with rents, the figures actually dropped the high-point of what in those days wade through the files for 1961 and back to the 6000 level — after climbing they used to call the affluent society 1962 marked 'homeless.' There was the up to 7000. There was no doubt that there could be people — 'ordinary family that lived in a parked car at for a short period by running extremely decent people', the Times leader called Edmonton for six weeks. There was a hard indeed the new administration was them — who could not afford the price woman who actually had a baby in a able to stay at the same spot. But of a roof over their heads. Many of hurriedly-erected tent made of two gradually, after 'Cathy Come Home' was them were not poor, but had fallen broomsticks and a sheet. There was a transmitted for the second time on BBC victim to eviction-happy landlords, or councillor who appealed to the land- television, the swinging dose of con- had families too large to accommodate lords in his area not to carry out a series science-letting had simply reached its easily; there were women whose hus- of threatened evictions until Christmas limit. The Shelter organisation was born bands had deserted them or gone to was over. Encouraged by the mood of and thereafter its brilliant publicity gaol; some of them were feckless prob- the country, tenants banded together techniques added a truly professional lem-ridden people who defaulted on and fought against evictions; there were touch to the coverage; if you look their rent. several cases of tenants barricading through the files for the more recent In the days before the Labour themselves against bailiffs. The Minister years you will find how profoundly Government came to power in Britain in of Housing Dr. Charles Hill was booed Shelter has cast its beneficent shadow 1964 there was a very vigorous Parlia- and heckled all over the country. His over the problem. Pragmatism has filled mentary opposition, eager to find some- house was besieged by angry evictees. the aching gap in the liberal conscience; thing to vent its righteous indignation The Times letter column at that instead of bleating about the problem over. The issue of homelessness came period contained a number of laughable you can do something about it. The readily to hand. Mr. Robert Mellish and unheeded suggestions for sudden figures in London went up to the 8000 (later to become the minister respons- and dramatic removal of the problem. level in the winter of 1966-67 and at the ible for Housing in the London area) `Homeless may be given underground end of March 1968, according to an 19

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tower •- r- \ wton!,... kwraue \ •/,- h 1 p(. I A CALL 7 0' 4, ,D nqwerilt riven ill PAr ere is workers and utfileir a n I) o tear: 4p problem ti 9000 people% temporary accom- erhaps - this is •surelyI a technical b t Otifiii0 a collec- todatiVim by local authorities after uestion - canp6dnefit from a peribd in t ity ohnisery tha i .. - el i g visib'y in rendered homeless. But in the last hostel c 'ty ut the numbers b ore qr112telyJes. two years Shelter has provided nearly re, ; being swe d present with It is 'however wAtIt'PR nting o Paae(seven Itinditiul) homes in various housands iher who are quite d of the ways in which heNsoci I parts of the country for th ormal' a are ft the victims of so_ Tverffrilapie* wo If out i dyed thousand homeless ple racial discrimination and illegal eviction. the horolleSs., Atoti n ostel the Britain. The probabilitz is at ' They may be large families but they are condilndils of overcrowdi g are such *Dice of itain"rroaless' hasc- filftenecessar yVeverty-stricken. that dill motheii3Often hav .where lb eded,e. in ouplp_qf ye s of ifigeni s store food; there are rats and mice. blic relations in nOTefen coping with iei 9ftER there ispohotto itgavailable for inciea in nielleft of homeless days on enct.EiNcay /ttrAtintisp eFe families white-'c p16tely taking the unsurprisingly is fetidd any off 't e heat out ofithe struaiti itically. mother!! keep eir c c i oreneie p Even senior mem ers of the he ent re time side eir tinyroom : - Labour Golernmen have een eager to ct.- t em here they ha indi dual ro - o contribute publicly to e work of hich is designed to c ter for their iteVe them etch' disea s fr m Ater. Har4102Ailson himself has taken 4elfar , society begins-- e a form of other hildren. en you re. Ise th re part in a Shelte publicity stunt. Having revenge upon the hapless family unit. In re thing u to fo i score "boa at the waosparts jttAggigkarpApch ny time livin insi this. sangle Id Ube AU , IC &grace inc re by of. London, a h me e fam first wouse4 you b •n to rasp it ne e- e horn , they have fail dis- 6e forced tO' miles wracking the experience can be for ov4it'S iffisliiMalechn ue for o Pixt omen are afire§ who lirti SehlOkdr, WIttl aiing wit the problem; n hout ith • ren inside the occasionalh s n latl sci#A rrassment:-. v call • • A. n ation while the worker to brirmoo err amiliei with- poirwilhe .Nyell-heeled to CO tribute fend or themselves. In out any immediate hope of rehousing. pennie 104h se. We are no discus- Labfr.1414,1-62 there The local doctors refuse to call at the us' roblefilitthich resents were 12000 men sleeping in London pace allgrefuse reresister ients n intra ab hallenge to 'vilised hostels whosseCegposse home of their e the hostel eir ddress. overnm e part of th world. Wie sanoei`tth fialait are known to 1 al state schoo r admit t eo,are d ussin 0 -mere be sleepin in the o en air or i railway c ildren . Local y'er , unsurpr proteetio wind, snow and rain staticis, elict "Mous . The i ly, • fre' uvfw g to give- Jo s for ordi ry people in one of the be astoundi g. °tide, rein 'the. 0 a wretche wealthies societiaRiiiu tierifirMistory. the enlarge y room ss'of homeles ss feeds o itself. ye are t talking about the provision e ef tit visited . an there r ce tly sta bed h r of centrally-heated self-contained homes proviled an 1 diate., r mi der of sblintsancl t 1pf yisn at economic rents; we are not talking pictu r f an eig teenth c nt yo slave split up; the resu t o course was inevit- Alma overevoyiAng or slum clearance: ship, us under score 01 :p ple in ably that her children were taken away. we are talking about working men and dou6 b s in gle rem.eo it was a ihecttate pamtlm gifts the expensive- Wholve no e -= s n- bad night. No one was particularly to nesS of the (tbsiontaftelestsafinvpitese g td_ lay th it chi en' to r t: ' blame. No one was able to cope with families is incalculable. The cost of 11ii. Lon n of ouvse de:i a the deadening task. Of course there is hospitals, mental homes, children s iznificant nu ber o proble fare; es alstc much hcgtetnab bdififtiodatidit That is homes, elfare emoskess and ho.Ernnot e wit modern life, th ight h erful, run y lly tra' d borstal t fining for the Children, p he - sheer or anisati n- f ly al d e s, with e for e policew k mutt 'be Many time dgerand th arran t- 'tient of a y to. le in. But e ry bor t11 an the roc o providing a flat . P outing Even when ey a sit stern. A - Le,* c ion CPA• RPM) roPerty th will Initigt e • .ily sign a s m to d al with ,t e e ists„P we& th dal saiews an y 61-1110(3 e ter u' In the emb rs o ciety wh ave reach i d te11 sca al as a stra 've Pract not pax„ng fe" t or .1 I 1. ' I e- e lo t .of soc' I retchedness c ntinu to grow.st eople 20 purchase difficulties; they need a well in the 1' t o the knowle ge that you bably imagine that an improvement as taken place in the situation of the Newington Lodge has been scheduled common, in particular, the way they homeless since the days of the really for demolition for a considerable time. enclose a problem and shut it off from massive publicity; few realise that the In any case it is not in accord with real public attention. They absorb old workhouses which have been used as modern standards.' indignation into helpfulness. They are hostels for the homeless have not been It is hardly necessary to complete the lightning conductors for guilt and removed. The newer hostels and the story. 'The Lodge' is still used to hopelessness alike. They surround a recently acquired welfare accommoda- house the homeless of Southwark — or problem with a cottonwool of needless tion are employed to deal with the some of them. Most of its inhabitants complexity, and at the same time of increase in numbers. are people who have been evicted for spurious professionalism. Take for instance the story of non-payment of rent. They are split But above all they separate giver Newington Lodge, the borough of families, the fathers still being refused from receiver, helper from helped, Southwark's hostel for the homeless, a admission to the hostel. 'Of course, we agitators from deprived. The homeless former workhouse which now stands arc trying hard to close the place down,' are placed upon a kind of pedestal in half-derelict in the midst of one of the warden will tell you. The women are the advertising columns rather than the London's huge areas of rebuilding. Once not given facilities for cooking for them- news pages. The enlightened tTe television reporters used to cluster selves. 'We do everything for them' the supposed to worship and dignify them round the gate waylaying inmates in hard-pressed hostel staff will explain. leper-like with gifts, and the result is order to extract from them the story of The story of the homeless is the that they are separated utterly from our their plight. Politicians used to thunder tip only of an iceberg of resentment and understanding. The homeless are not forth at public meetings in the area frustration, that lies thinly concealed different from the housed; they have about the sickening iniquities which had under a coating of pragmatic concern merely become victims of the system led to the rising figures of homelessness. and attention. Liberal pragmatism and one way rather than another. The home- Enterprising reporters used to smuggle middle class charity can be seen to be less are not available to be coped with. themselves into the hostel in order to not poles apart; they are allies in a It is their indignation not yours which bring the world the inside story of sense. They have a great deal in really matters. misery, frustration and despair. 12 January 1962 (Guardian) 'The LCC is however determined to go ahead with its plans to close Newington Lodge and all the other homeless family units in the old institutions from which husbands have had to be excluded.' 2 May 1962 (Guardian) 'One result of the increase in the number of families for which the LCC is having to provide shelter is that it has proved impossible to abide by the decision to close the criticised emergency accommodation in the old institution premises such as Newington Lodge in Southwark.' 31 August 1963 (Guardian) 'The LCC is still trying to close its unloved institu- tion of Newington Lodge .. . it is hoped plIM=■11 to have ready by October a new recep- tion centre.' 10 July 1964 (Guardian) `Hopes of finally closing Newington Lodge, Southwark, as a reception centre for homeless families have been 000001,0000* defeated.' 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'Dear Dr Schoenfeld: and sudden death through overdosage. It's absolutely amazing. We make love A couple of weeks ago my girlfriend and Heroin users quickly become heroin he ejaculates and still pulls out with a I got loaded and were making love. She addicts. Nineteen known deaths have hard-on and wants to start all over told me that she wanted to show me been caused in the last year by inhala- again, leaving no time in between. something new that would be a real tion of freon gases from glass chiller aerosol cans. He could do this all night, if it weren't thrill to me. She said that one of her for my getting sore. It bothers me be- old boyfriends like to have her to do it If any readers doubt that the practices cause I recall reading sometime ago to him often, so without knowing what mentioned in the letters above are about a physical ailment causing a it was, I agreed to let her try it. harmful, I should point out firstly that perpetual hard-on. I also recall it What she did was to stretch my scrotum more bacteria exist in the mouth than supposedly causes great pain to the out tightly, then she took a pair of in any other body orifice. Our skin is male, not to mention the soreness it finger nail clippers and cut a small hole a natural barrier to bacteria and other can cause the female. in the sac. I began to get scared then microorganisms which are not normally but she said not to worry, it was fun found in the bladder or scrotum. Infec- ANSWER: Priapism, an abnormal state and didn't hurt much. Next she stuck tions of the bladder (cystitis may cont- of continuous erection of the penis, can a small plastic straw into the hole in my inue up the urethra to the kidneys). be caused by several diseases or by sac and started blowing air into it. Infections of the scrotum? Not a trauma to the spinal cord. The condi- pleasant prospect. Even more dangerous tion is commonly observed when a man My sac got bigger than a baseball, but is the possibility of an air embolism. is hung (literally—not as described in surprisingly it didn't hurt much and Air forced into a closed tissue space underground classified ads). felt kind of good. I began to worry may enter the blood stream, go the that it might burst so she stopped heart, lungs or brain and cause sudden One of Balzac's Ribald Tales concerns blowing and removed the straw. Then death or a stroke. a woman who brings a hanged man she quickly put a piece of adhesive tape back to life through an unusual method over the hole to keep the air in. Then of resuscitation. QUESTION: I have a `condition' which we continued with intercourse and I But your boyfriend is not diseased—you had a climax that was out of this world. seems to worry my husband more than myself. Ever since my teens my inner just turn him on. The use of a lubricant Afterwards she removed the tape from or minor vaginal lips have hung outside may prevent or relieve soreness. my scrotum and squeezed the air out of my major lips. with her hand. Then she dabbed my QUESTION: In the showers I notice scrotum with rubbing alcohol (to pre- Because they are not neatly within the all iery fat men have a penis barely an vent infection she said) and retaped the major lips my husband believes this inch long. Why? hole. When she put the alcohol on it could indicate some disorder. What do you think? ANSWER: An aroused (angered) burned like hell. The next day my colleague stoutly maintains this is a false penis was swollen to about double its ANSWER: There is nothing abnormal observation, caused, no doubt by lack normal size and it itched like hell, but of familiarity with obese people. In- two days later it was OK again. What about the labia minora protruding through the labia major?. Why some of creased fat tissue covering the base of I want to know is could this practice the penis accounts for this belief. Have cause me any harm? And what caused my best friends ... my penis to swell the next day?' you ever read about Fatty Arbuckle. QUESTION: Could you please explain Dear Dr Schoenfeld: what inverted nipples are and what, if My girl friend was experimenting and anything, is the cure? blew a large quantity of air into my ANSWER: Inverted nipples turn in urethra. Well, she says it feels great to her to feel that balloon strike bottom. External rather than out. The condition is rather I do get a thrill from it, albeit a maso- urethral common and should cause no concern chistic one because, God, it hurts. Can orifice unless it occurs after puberty. Preg- this form of fun in any way injure me? nancy may cause them to evert. I've also seen a picture of a suction Write soon, cause I don't want to stop device used to evert the nipples similar unless it might really hurt me.' to those used to stimulate the flow of breast milk. Some gynecologists ANSWER: I hesitated for a long time suggest having a close friend suck in- before deciding to print the above verted nipples at least once daily to letters about very literal `blow' jobbs. Vaginal cause eversion. Find someone trying to They appear in print only to point out orifice kick cigarette addiction. Hymen that pleasurable sensations should be The external genital organs weighed against potential dangers. The labia have been drawn apart. To use drugs as an example, shooting (amphetamine) undoubtedly gives QUESTION: Please don't laugh—I'm great immediate pleasure, but at the serious! My boyfriend has a perpetual Dr Schoenfeld welcomes your questions. potential price of hepatitis, thromboph- hard-on. He is 23 and I've never met Write to him at PO Box 9002. Berkeley, lebitis,detrioration of the personality anyone like him. California. Mark your letter: OZ. 23 • together in a club?-That is a nutter of opinion.' Bill Lawren andar and Beni, nn Pogrund- Questioned about his earlier evidence that he Editor-i icf and a reports of the Ran ad never heard jokes about homosexuality Daily M Johan nesbo rg-- charged w between prisoners and warders, Mr Goodwin of contravening Set,44 said he had eard jokes occasionally among ns Act; publis prisoners, more or less than outside prison'. 4 Lion. t homosexuality was rife . fo amend the Immorality Act, 1957, to possession or custody of any article which is intended to be pm of allegations us used to give sexual satisf ction to a female in an unnatural Prison itions p r Kentrid said that a prisoner called manner; to make pun' the commission of sexual acts was th earlier by th to had Oen evidence-that between persons of the sex; and to repeal section 10 i 'sons and that o of Act No. 2 98 taL ... Mr Goodw notorious in the prison for ..‘ o The state is e having limn xual tende)eies. against homose arliament but ot yet bee Immorality Amendment Act BE IT ENACTED the State Presid d. State witness a state witness House of Assembly of the Republic knowledge of w espread acts of Early in 1968, the Soo t fric r overn- follows:— horn ality 'de ving evidence on ment drafted a amendin t t mmoral- other is itions. Evidence ity Act of 19 *aking punisha the 1. The Is hereby inserted in the Immorality 'Afai of a ruling possession or fay of any e which is Act, 195 !Ted to as the principal Act), after - that with d in news- intended to ised to give ual satisfaction section 18: paper reports, to a femal -in'an unnatural ner; to make -Possession rson who has in his possession or pun e,co ission xual acts or custody The surprise of any cust article other than a contraceptive in the trial's third week was at e same article whi nded to be used to give sexual satis- the judge allowed newspapers to publish tIltr•-• r words male andfcmate hom xual- which is fact female in an unnatural manner, shall be name of former convict 1 larold I °lin _Goodwin intended to it offence.". to be outlawed and punishable Ily law. be used to - Phis cane after the defence submitte ot only will it increase drastical e give sex Goodwin was 'well known/to say not satisfa penalities for the offence, but it will make ous'. Goodwin, wli ftI'. • nown , throughout to a fern lesbianism an offence for the first time. in an ...Southt Africa as 'be • testified twice unnatural manner. during the week's hearing. 'The Government itself iS not entirely happy 'the Bill, or aboui the rigitt-wing His evidenceevidence raised the question of whether behind it. Thisknowledge alMfcgsgqf the 2. The following section is hereby inserted in the principal homosexuality was practisein Pretoria jail. consequence of T as encouraged the Act after section 20: He ied it was rife but raterill cross-exami- homosexual commun to brieflawyers to "Sexual 20A. (I) A male person who commits any admittted being connected with a present their case to Tarlfamentary offences since his release wh the defence between immoral, increcent or unnatural act with another Select Committee st e Bill. persons of male person or a female person who commits an for hoino s. the same. such act with another female person shall be guilty Club Charade sex. of an offence. - (2) In the application of the provisions of sub- It so happens tha odwin is the secretary of a cl section (1) 'unnatural act' includes any act com- 1-1 was employed as a secretary of a .urg called mitted by a male person with another male person sked what type of people were Charade. or by a female person with another female person and calculated to stimulate sexual passion or to bers of the club, he said it was a matter On the 22nd 1968 he wrote a give sexual satisfaction.". o inion and he was 'not prepared to state letter to r of Justice. I quote ion'. It was a mixed membership of from a p py of the letter: women. Mr Kentridge for the 3. Section 22 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the 'Dear S . substitution for paragraph (a) of the following paragraph: a Major van Zyl of the CID had ial licinorandum on behalf of I am lub which is limited "(a) in the case of an offence referred to in section 2, 18A, th an Police to the Parliament- ex ith homosexual or [or] 20 (1) (a) or 20A (1), to imprisonment for a ary ttee investigating the matter 1 den es.' period not exceeCiee years with or without a of horn fine not exceeding six hundred rand in addition to on to express the fears of his member's such imprisonment, or wi-ere it is proved that the Good ot given evidence be- sir willingness to make their views person convicted kept a brothel and that unlawful fore t ee and had not own to the Select Committee, and ends carnal intercourse took place in such brothel to his submi emor m although he the letter by assuring the Minister of his co- knowledge between a white female and a coloured sent a letter to the Min operation at all times. male or between a coloured female and a white male, fJustic for a period not exceeding seven years with or without was not prepared to naves' e conte of I quote the last paragraph from the Minister's a fine not exceeding one olousand rand in addition this letter. It did concern his club. private secretary in reply to Goodwin. to such imprisonment;". 'Let's not beat about the bush. Was 'The Minister also desires me to assure you 4. Section 10 of the Act "To amend the law relative to the club for homosexuals?' I will neither that your society need not have the slightest trial 1.nd pmishment of the Crimes of Rape and Indecent confirm or deny that.' fear of being branded or 'listed' as you call it!' Assault and Conduct" (Act No. 22 of 1898 (Natal)), is hereby He ag reed that men sometimes danced repealed. together at the club, but said he had no You can draw your own conclusions as to why 'Babyface' Goodwin subsequently owledge of th • 4- 5. This Act shall be called the Immorality Amendment Act le turned state witness and lied in the witness 1968. r it ordin n to dance box. WITCHSEASON TAKES CARE OF YOUR HEAD

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8DAVID RAMSAY STEELE 400 BC: Hey all you thirsty 1652: There shall be no buying 1968: The Abolition of Money. people, though you've got no and selling ... If any man or The abolition of pay housing, pay money, come to the water. Buy family want grain or other media, pay transportation, pay corn without money and eat. Buy provisions, they may go to the food, pay education, pay wine without money and milk storehouse and fetch without clothing, pay medical help and without price. (Isaiah). money. (Gerrard Winstanley). pay toilets. A society which works towards and actively promotes the concept of "Pll unemployment" . (Yippie election leaflet).

Abolition of Money! Down through themselves keep the scarcity in effects of the patents system, the waste

the ages this wild and visionary slogan existence. The only excuse for money is , of effort through duplication of has been whispered by a subversive few. that there is not enough wealth to go activities by competing firms or nations Ever since human beings discovered round — but it is the money system — these are just a few of the ways in cash, they have hated it and tried to rid which makes sure there cannot be which profits cause waste. themselves of it — whilst their own enough to go round. By abolishing What this amounts to is that ninety actions have kept it alive. In this money we create the conditions where per cent (a conservative estimate) of respect, money is like syphilis. money is unnecessary. effort expended by human beings today Today the whisper has become a If we made a list of all those is entirely pointless, does not the shout — though still the shout of a tiny occupations which would be slightest bit of good to anybody. So it is minority. Tomorrow it will be the roar unnecessary in a Moneyless World, jobs quite ridiculous to talk about "how to of the crowd, the major topic of people now have to do which are make sure people work if they're not discussion in every pub and coffee entirely useless from a human point of paid for it." If less than ten per cent of house, factory and office. view, we might begin as follows: the population worked, and the other The abolition of money is an ancient Customs officer, Security guard, ninety per cent stayed at home dream, the most radical demand of Locksmith, Wages clerk, Tax assessor, watching telly, we'd be no worse off every social revolution for centuries Advertising m an, Stockbroker, than we are now. past. We must not suppose that it is Insurance agent, Ticket puncher, But there would be no need for them therefore destined to remain a Utopia, Salesman, Accountant, Slot machine to watch telly all the time, because that the wheel will simply turn full emptier, Industrial spy, Bank manager, without the profit system work could circle once more. Today there is an before we realized the magnitude of be made enjoyable. Playing tennis, entirely new element in the situation: what was involved. And these are writing poems or climbing mountains Plenty. merely the jobs which are wholly and are not essentially any more enjoyable All previous societies have been utterly useless. Nearly all occupations than building houses, growing food or rationed societies, based on scarcity of involve something to do with costing or programming computors. The only food, clothing and shelter. The modern selling. Now we should see that the reason we think of some things as world is also a society of scarcity, but phrase "Abolition of Money" is just "leisure" and others as "work" is with a difference. Today's shortages are shorthand for immense, sweeping, root because we get used to doing some unnecessary; today's scarcity is and branch changes in society. The things because we want to and others artificial. More than that: scarcity abolition of money means the abolition because we have to. Prostitutes despise achieved at the expense of strenuous of wages and profits, nations and love. We are all prostitutes. In a effort, ingenious organization and the frontiers, rich and poor, armies and Moneyless World work would be most sophisticated planning. prisons. It means that all work will be recreation and art. That work which is The world is haunted by a spectre — entirely voluntary. unavoidably unhealthy or unpleasant, the spectre of Abundance. Only by Of course, the itemizing of those jobs such as coalmining, would be automated planned waste and destruction on a which are financial does not end the immediately. Needless to say, the only colossal scale can the terrifying threat of catalogue of waste. Apart from reason these things aren't done by Plenty be averted. astronomical sums spent on the Space machines at present is because it is Money means rationing. It is only Race, and the well-known scandal of considered more important to lower the useful when there are shortages to be huge arms production, we have to costs of the employer than to lower the rationed. No one can buy or sell air: ifs realise that all production is carried on unhappiness of his slaves. free because there is plenty of it around. purely for profit. The profit motive The money system is obsolete and Food, clothing, shelter and often runs completely counter to antihuman. So what should we do about entertainment should be free as air. But human need. "Built-in obsolescence" it? In years to come, with the increasing 26 the means of rationing scarcity (planned shoddiness), the restrictive education and increasing misery of modern life, together with growing The defenders of this insane society, it with many of them might play Bingo; squalor in the midst of growing plenty, is they who stand accused, they who eventually more and more would aim at we can expect the Abolition of Money have to supply the arguments — higher things. to be treated more and more as a serious arguments for poverty and enslavement What is wrong with this projection? issue, to be inserted into more and more in a world of Plethora! Many things, but chiefly two. First, it heads. The great mass of individuals will All theoretical constructions which fails to take account of the systematic first ridicule, then dare to imagine relate to wages, prices, profits and taxes nature of society. Second, it assumes (Fantasy is the first act of rebellion — are ghosts from the past, as absurdly that present-day society exhibits a Freud), then overthrow. outdated as the quibbles about how harmony of interests. In the meantime, as w(-11 as many angels could dance on the point In the first place, Lomas says: "Why propagating the notion of a Moneyless of a needle. "Incomes policy" is are these people working? They are not World, those of us who see its necessity irrelevant — we want the abolition of working for the sake of production, for have a responsibility to sort our own incomes. "Fighting crime" is irrelevant the truth is that if they were removed ideas out, in order that we may present — we want the abolition of the law. production could be increased beyond an intelligible and principled case. We "Workers' control" is irrelevant — we measure." He concludes that they are must stop thinking of the Moneyless want the abolition of "workers." "Black working because of their attitudes, the World as an "ultimate aim" with no Power" is irrelevant — we want the attitudes of their employers, the effect upon our actions now. We must abolition of power over people. "The attitudes of the rest of society. But the realise that the Abolition of Money is national interest" is irrelevant — we fact of the matter is that these workers THE immediate demand. A practical want the abolition of nations. are working for the sake of production proposition and an urgent necessity — And let no one raise the banal cry: — not the production of goods but the not something to be vaguely "worked what are you going to put in their production of profits. The reason why towards." place? As though we would say to a things are "made with great ingenuity to Unfortunately those who want the research scientist: "And when you've wear out" is not because of the Moneyless World frequently wade in a cured Cancer, what are you going to put attitudes of the people involved. The mire of mystification. Above all it is in its place?" management may think it's criminal but necessary to understand the workings of Then there is the myth of the they are paid to organize things so as to this society, capitalist society (Moscow, small-scale. We cannot go back to being optimize profits. If they produced razor Washington and Peking are all in the peasants and we should not want to. blades to last for centuries, the firm same boat) if we are to know how to Keeping several thousand million people would go broke. It is not the attitudes destroy it. alive on this planet necessitates railways, which are crucial, but economic For example there is a commonly oil wells, steel mills. Only by intricate interests. If a teetotaller owns shares in held view that Automation is going to organization and large-scale productive a brewery, it does not make the booze settle all our worries, that money will techniques can we maintain our less potent. expire automatically as part of a Abundance. Do not be afraid of Which brings us to the second point. natural process of evolution." This is machines. It is not machines which Today's world is a jungle of conflicting quite wrong. As pointed out above, this enslave, but Capital, in whose service vested interests. The Abolition of society only automates to increase machines are employed, McLuhan Money will represent the liberation of profits and for no other reason. represents the beginning of the New slaves, yes — but also the dispossession Employers even take machines out and Consciousness of man-made artifacts. of masters, i.e., the employing class. We put workers back in — if they find that Computors are warm and cuddly cannot view the government as an labour-power is cheaper. Any gain from creatures. We will have a beautiful time impartial panel which looks after the automation these days is more than with them. best interests of everybody; it is an cancelled out by the waste explosion. Many of the worst errors which instrument used by one set of people to Do not imagine that the slight increases retard the development of the New oppress another. in living standards of the last twenty Consciousness, the Consciousness of On one point Herbert Lomas is years are the beginning of a smooth Plenty, are to be found in Herbert correct. The movement for the transition to Abundance. Another huge Lomas piece on "The Workless Abolition of Money must be political, world slump is approaching. Society" in International Times/43. because when we destroy money we A different illusion, also popular, is This at least has the merit that someone destroy the basis of the power of our that cash can be abolished by example, is of Minn forward a rase for the removal rulers. They are unlikely to take kindly by opening giveaway shops or by of money in specific terms. to this, so we must organize politically starting small moneyless communities Unfortunately, they are specific to remove them. which are parasitical upon the main non-starters. For the moment though, what is body of society. These experiments According to Herbert Lomas, a needed is more discussion and greater accomplish little. Those people, for political party is to be formed which understanding. We must be confident instance, who open stores to give and will take power and proceed as follows. that the movement will grow. We must receive books without payment, face a Useless workers in industry will think, argue, and think again — but predictable result: a large stock of lousy gradually be laid off and paid for not never lose consciousness of that one, books. working. The process will be extended simple, astounding fact: Plenty is here. These projects stem partly from a until money can be abolished. In the The Moneyless World is not an ultimate belief that we need to prove something. meantime, those being paid for doing millenium. We need it now. Relax. We don't need to prove anything. nothing will do what they like. To begin 27

'The England I know and the hardeyed disinterest and glare of Nuttall's gut wrenchings will make nd I s an England of sus erfect sense. There are not two things; tG . gym/raw, ple nt mongrel race in an IT are con this with t which he wa rgarrts1 on. 4401` ■ be ids to I sense ement' R subse tta e action is not ext ntingent, Sum T unde an-mor or having but internal and col' What is I.. e is an land undiscovered, liarrgu I ,is stispic is of the happe nge the its p 'le are vi by sarcastic, k limit cubs a rej cts those way words; we use tea and-are ngt at young th osmic: 'I an effect on rselves. In is thi the trough be n the end They grew-up in a ► of chip sho library books bei .'verdue, racing os the uitless non-con mity and bicycle clips, Journ Spac an at such a t e n ning of VS between tend to look like char out o . • element in and Vietn between cartoons. They grew u • "I ) . thaet/map is nature gary Paris '68 a•riod and based themlelve% on a it eis aolute of being stranded in ble, cock's Half HiaUr than th n Show; ep ;;• r- than a psychic ially politically. they knew how to tit attempt tioardy',,,raa egewhich gets such a ooking back Id petty crime andjro form in press these days, K rightly see as that it too l ess, grammar school it was.tri • ess a core of man's s;trijrings and t turni r politica race to get expelletl %nd„,gPtIbeu he away from NOti6ipl". it and see thr serious business of 'buying . a Trio 0 e compassionate but' ior to t e nuttyness - Joe and a girl. I could "never see t otv t majority of the ground a is s plays, „Duchling people could stomach t ie Underground; best of talking about N D ness of the ew British Movie, it was precious and they were cynical, it meetin pop and ny metropolitan smugness of Swinging was pretty and they were ugly in an getting b in Finchley these responses differed only English way, it was American or author has a si lcohol habit gree of self-deciet. Hopefully Australian and they were British, it wa' is reassuring), the r of St. Ma eats of 1968 signal a new future, exhibitionist and prone to delerium and the Field4rad jazz ubs near N om4tliing more than the brisk

they were stoic and ran a mile if they Line Tube ,Statio and the Y merchandising of '63- '67, perhaps we thought someone was putting it on. Communist League•fiir .. •t ent can put the pillow over the cage of pop Occassionally there are explana- Its reviewers h tere and get on to something that really tions of how the two could meet. Ray 'Those w know t nbhave g matters. Gosling, then billed as the talking nu trai:ef eter Fr f the b - This is, I think, the sense of what teenager, wrote one in 1962 called Sum ofsle:.skho left the ist Pdliy writers like David Mercer, Dennis , Total. Jeff Nuttall wrote another in over Hunga,ry of his Potter, Adrian Mitchell are about and all 1968. It's called Bomb Culture, and is a piece his terrible need *end of of who's work is very specific about the quite brilliant social history of this Nuttall's. Dennis Pottf.. a 33 a perils of that period and the values of a

decade. It starts in the pre CND bedridden veteran of CN r , i and theraputic lunacy. Nuttall's conclusions wonderland of the first of David the BBC, reviewed Bomb 'th a hover, as the book, between I Mercer's plays, of George Melly and sense of agonising r, r , hich tough-sentimental hero and poetic Trad bef ore The was almost beyond • 1:■.,0.1 itical juvenile delingquent; the one 0 b se r ve r-and-th is-evenings-Art-Critic, wide boys, noticeaNisly ,. z in the headmasterly, the other half barmy with that magic time when Alistair McIntyre Sunday Beast w' • ess is in fact phallic energy. He seems doomed to be was still a Trotskyist, when John Berger mostly Belli• ammered the saying 'lets at last get down to business'

wrote for the New Statesman, and Cyril book. From t iemic- critical greasy the main message of his My Own Mag

Davies and not John Mayall was the pole, even for a critic who has annexed editorials and post Trafalgar Square. father of British Blues. Nuttall stays 'extremism' as his analytic territory, oration letters to Anarchy. But one is outside the Underground's mental Nuttall is too frantic, too painful, not followed by the suspicion that, to use bathysphere and the awesomely well enough adjusted to the insanity of Nuttall's own words: 'the most hot photogenic world of the hippies; he the present. Lowell and Plath are blooded insurrectionists hold their role senses this is bourgeois romanticism and allowed close to the edge, they are after of opposition to a thoroughly secure serves mainly as a way out of the all Americans, Nuttall's hangups are not establishment more important than the nastyness of bourgeois utility. Behind permitted. overthrow of that establishment'. For much as the idea of revolution in 28 the flowers he partially glimpses the For those of us who are still angry, general compells him, any attempt to academic muscle bending, boyos and organise politically is seen as comic surfing prose and premonitions of social opera Leninism (which of course it disintegration, James eventually argues sometimes is). He guotes a caricature of himself into a remarkably poky little a Stalinist from Lessing's Golden corner; revolutionary politics are Notebook as if that proves it. Instead he boneheaded because boneheads prefers the garbled halls of verbal sometimes talk about them, hippies anarchism, particularly the tiny Chicago should grow up, art is forever. James is group around Bernard Marzalek and certainly right to be appalled at the their paler versions in this country, cultural landscape of rank mediocrity, Cuddon's Cosmopolitan Review and he is wrong to see it as the necessary Heatwave (now joined by King Mob product of industrialism or those Echo, the organ of soon-to-be- identified as the underground when it is fash ionable-Situationa I ism ). All these rather the specific result of the nature groups enjoy a good deal of of British society and the class that violence-in-the-head and revolutionary dominates it. bop prosody and find political or What is in fact happening is the economic theory not worth bothering convergence of a dissident and political with; its Wifey who runs American and intelligensia with a mass and rebellious the telly; beer and mental homes which youth movement. The previous keep us anaethetised. emmergence of such a genuinely The same enthusiasm for subversive intellectual movement were apocalyptic rhetoric without any of the fin-de-sieacle Bohemianism and, dangers attendant to revolutionary between wars, Stalinism. The 1890s of comrnittment is visable in the ludicrous Beardsley, Wilde and McKintosh ended over-priase for Mailer's last two reports in Boer War jingoism; it remains the by precisely the people who could'nt souce of most of the visual plunderings see a word of what 'The America of the underground. The Red Thirties Dream' was about. Clive James writing scarcely existed and the swift in OZ 14 finds it fairly easy to mock repatriation of most if its intellectuals this sort of language politics. He to bourgeois society after the advances the familiar proposition that Molotov- Ribbentropp Pact all revolutions lead to new tyrannies, demonstrates this, but the Foreign that these days things are simply too Languages Publishing House prose is still RATE FOR ONE YEAR complex anyway and anyway it might perfectly intact in the arthritic language UK £2.12.0d upset the bourgeoisie 'the custodian of of Black Dwarf editorials and VSC US SURFACE £3.10.0d civilisation in Europe'. Instead he offers speakers. US AIR £4.10.0d hippy fabianism, 'the only way to fight What happened in the era between City Hall is by providing an alternative the end of CND and the beginning of OTHER £3.10.0d mode of existence and keep it running what can be called with justice, the long enough for the industrial complex period of revolutionary politics, was the to become humanised by penetration emmergence of both bohemians and and example', in the mean time the revolutionaries alongside. The kind of Academy will remain the Keeper of the foklorique anarchism of the true standard of the 'one literature'. In underground's politics is an essential fact his political condescension is largely stage just as Narodnikism was prior to IT 27 ENDELL ST. LONDON WC2. misplaced because although hippies Bolshevism. 'Where there is revolution don't take a very acute interest in there is anarchy, the first stirring, the NAME political theory there are many who do, first cry, the first position before of whom Mr. James, if his citation of organisation begins. We must greet and ADDRESS Hannah Arendt as a political authority welcome anarchy. is anything to go by, is likely to be 'It is not the sword of revolution largely ignorant. only its herald. But the herald performs As for the 'one literature', it is a genuine service,' Peter Sedgwick. This precisely a conscious rejection of is the meaning of the history Nuttall revolutionary politics in one stem of witnesses; 'The path that leads from English literary criticism (see Leavis's moral reasoning to political action is Scrutiny, a Retrospect) which has strewn with our dead selves,' Andre produced this exaggerated concern for Malraux. Cambridge and specifically the English Tripos as the supreme validiction of literature and human culture. For all the David Widgery 29 1 We demand, full employment for all black people living in the United Kingdom.

ack , people are being discriminated against in 'ettPotoi :negated to jobs that the white man no longer en tirbregt they are well qualified for better jobs.

r housing conditions for all black people and a catiori'-bf houses for our people. bite lafiitlords are qt giving us housing 'fit for human being's. • nd an end i9 police brutality and the persecution of our

We know that i3ro Michael, Obi, Gideon and Peter Martin, have been imprison , r5f;(;ause, they dared to speak out for freedom.

4 We demand 4eedoni for all black people in prison. We know tha vAnot been given fair trials because of the very n em.

5 We- demand tha all ople be tried by their own Peer Group as is written in the M gna Carta. We knew that white jury men and women are ignorant of the varous dialects of the black people in this country. How could a black man have a fair trial if the members of the jury cannot understand his means of expression?

6 We demand education for our people that exposes the true nature of this racist society. We demand education that teachers us our true role in the present day society. We know that this educational system is detrimental to the free growth of our black children and impedes the creation of the new Black Man.

30 LONG LIVE THE EAGLES !

Onceuponatime, an outfit called the Ho! -- peasant Gulley Jimson, no? In' Institute of Contemporary Arts carried Truffaut's Jules et Jim film Jim tells on its smallscale, select, thoughtful Jules the story of Apollinaire, so the operations on a first floor in Dover ICA production has Guillaume the Street. Its gallery was its lecture room Ho! spitting image of Jim. With a was its bar. Some said it was cliqueish, Strangelove arm. Homage to Truffaut, and it did have its own wavelength, but to Kubrick? No, secondhand, thinking, it was a neat, economical, functional Banalities. The play is as full of format. It was nicely balanced between Ho CM Mall fashionable cliches as of fashionable a Surrealist inheritance and The gospel according to Ho Chi Mall spades. high-powered intellectuality, it was What made Apollinaire go openmindedly eclectic yet Jstablishment? His headwound. Why selfrespectingly selective. It dealt in new was he The Outsider? Being a foreign directions and in what was good of its born Jew. Why should we identify with kind. him? Because he was so vulnerable to What policy one wondered, could women and yet full of sexy joie de back the choice of new Mall premises, vivre. What was the Wound in His Soul? where no exhibition can cover its costs All Women Were His Mother, a Haughty unless the visitors come pouring in like Blonde. And when he goes for a jaunt the rushhour in the tube? It's now on an automobile (to show how modern apparent The ICA has set itself to he was) it makes period noises and does appeal to (I) any foundation which will things like get flat tyres. All the jokey respond to the snob appeal of its past things that seemed new in that 1950 reputation and its new address, like the' British comedy, Genevieve. Sweet Arts Council, or Sidney Bernstein, or Genevieve. Twenty years on ,the ICA the Gulbenkian Foundation, or Apple, borrow from Ealing comedy in a bid for and (2) the box-office, with a what? Aunt Edna? vengeance. It's pop or bust. Every word spoken or read, For such a strategy the time seems proclaim the authors, is from ripe. A new public is appearing. Old Apollinaire. So what? Such 'fidelity' is brow-barriers are crumbling. All the treachery when the lines are selected by mini-skirted secretaries and discotheque minds working on the same principles, dollies have learnt to limbo to Vivaldi of two-bit pseudo-psychology and from UFO and from echochamber ingratiating martyrology, as the soundprocessing to hear structureless novelists who wrote Moulin Rouge, Lust sound for its own sake. For Life and The Agony and the So appetising is the grab-allcomers Ecstasy. Who bothers so little about theory that an old showbusiness axiom Apollinaire's poetry (as opposed to his warns against it. Choose your public, brand-image) that they get a cl►anning and write for it. Don't try and sit on actor to speak it with indigestible seven stools at once. You can't be, flatness. Who are so mesmerised by simultaneously, Queen and Petticoat. If chronological pedantry that they think you're eclectic you'll appeal only to the Lumiere programme is an evocation eclectics, and there may not be many of of Paris ca. 1900? them. Of course, an axiom is only a rule The play is a structureless of thumb, Overlap areas exist. The succession of stagings that had ceased to Obsessive Image romped around in one. be avant-garde on the West End stage Pitfalls there are, when you try and well before Joan littlewood. The only be a Royal Pop Academy, critic who liked it was Harold Hobson, Tate-cum-hep-Tate-cum-art and that's no accident. He knows what's -discotheque-laboratory. With such a safely banal when he sees it. massive rent wrapped like a millstone The ancillary exhibition included round your neck 'it's not so easy to many artworks commissioned in swim between Scylla the love-all, homage to Apollinaire. 'In homage to' is grab-all `nonselectivity of the current cant for derivative hackwork, trendhound — and Charybdis — the `using the pretext of.' The notion of slack, lowest-common-denominator commissiong little, quick, light artworks. imbecility exemplified by the artworks from trendy people is as Apollinaire production. transparent as it's pitiable. It's the art Apollinaire. Ah — la belle epoque. machine producing little objects to keep Ah, la vie de boheme. Ah, les filles des itself going. It's the small change of bordels. Ah, le Douanier Rousseau, ze FLUORESCENT CHRYSANTHEMUM consumer society. The Wimpyburgers of divine innocent, ze — 'ow you call 'eem? Until 26 Jan. art. It's jobs for the boys. It's 31 commission you if I think you're with terse, valuable magazine. The new Anti-History of Anti-Art! Buy the it.' It's another little one-man Arts Magazine is distended by the same Anti-Art Bulletin! Objects! Institutes! Council using the ICA to build up its ragbag indiscrimination that made the New! Revolutionary! It's All little sub-empire. It's an old boy net Apollinaire productions so pitiably Happenings! Newnewnew nownownow! because it's a matter of flip whim, of opportunistic. Now it rambles on about Wow, zoom, bingbangbollicks! The idle fancy, devoid of merit. The Hornsey, Czechoslovakia, about pseudo-primitivism of the worst pop-art shunting aside, for the sake of the everything discussed, typically, in The conceals the snatch-and-grab Apollinaire piece, of John Arden's play, Observer, and here it gets, not analysis, provocativeness of art which offers about which its author protested, is a but little inspirational blazons of nothing but the illusion of defying art. case in point. In the first place, the excited me-tooism. A two-page poem At a time when the standards of the old Apollinaire piece should have been scolds Guatemalan intellectuals whose ICA are more desperately needed than offered to theatre groups whose director minds fiddle while the third world ever, the newlook ICA like a rotten was not the play's co-author. For burns. So just what does Apollinaire tonsil, becomes a centre of infection. obvious reasons. For everybody's sake. have to offer them? What would it have Guevara, Paris, Hornsey, all came As it is, when one thinks that the mattered if his anniversary had been as if on cue, just as flower power began co-author was once script editor of the celebrated only by The London wilting, to give the same old magazines Royal Shakespeare Theatre, one is Magazine and all the other usuals? Or if another set of slogans, of innovations, tempted to suppose, either, that he's it hadn't been celebrated at all? (So of trends. It's impossible to respect the besotted by his involvement in his play Apollinaire was a pornographer! So Coldstreams and others, who, so now, or that the Royal Shakespeare what? Today everybody's a isolated in and insulated by the Theatre covered up for his remarkable pornographer. So he welcomed the new! establishment that they don't know absence of acumen then. So what? Since pop art everyone what's happening outside it any longer, The ICA Bulletin was once a small, welcomes the new. It's the only way but who soldier on with integrity about bourgeois art can throw up sensational what they do sense or glimpse. It's not See Back Cover nothings fast enough to make progress so easy to respect the Mr Facing Both look like liberation). Ways whb preach spontaneity out of Two issues devoted to the one mouth and commission hackwork Cybernetic exhibition were a welcome with the other, or who cry 'Shit to return to thought, in a magazine whose myself!' in confident expectation for level of universal raving is now almost their revolutionary radicalism. on a par with The Beatles Monthly The ICA may get its grants fro m Book. The ICA raves so obsessively it's goodnatured or prestige-hunting sectors reduced the very notion of enthusiasm of the bourgeoisie. It may also make to abject tedium. The idea of much trendy todo about reconciling repudiation also. 'Shit to Institutes of fine art and pop art and pop fine art and Contemporary Art!' chant the avant-garde pop and avant-garde pop Apollinaire chorus, thus proving that fine anti-art and even revolutionary `Shit' doesn't mean a thing either, bayonets before cultural butter. To because the cry is meant to keep you reconcile both strategies has, one must coming and keep paying its admit, the courage of bluff. One would establishment-sized rent. You can enjoy admire that bluff if behind it were what that little sensation of superiority, of one senses behind the operations of a jolly twinge of refusal, which snobbery Diaghilev or a Darwin, a profound always sells to those who pay for their respect for art, and artists, a sensitivity seat. In trendy mouths, all these of response, as well as all the survival `revolutionary' slogans mean is: mechanisms of showmanship, conning `Anyone for tennis?'. Revolution, like and all the rest. The ICA's old style tennis, is offered as a Nice Change. The integrity remains, in three of the four ICA, meanwhile, will revolve itself ever exhibitions since its move to the Mall. more firmly into the Mall. The filmshows have performed the Increasingly the worst in the old function, which the BFI still refuses as art establishment, the insecurely placed far as it dare,, of accommodating the within it, cashing in on the experimental. Thanks to the ICA, many revolutionary rave-up. Increasingly the American phenomena have at last been attack on art is also an attack on seen here. And so on and so forth. It integrity in the name of the mass would be a great pity if so much that's produced, easily consumed, throwaway, so promising were stunted or lost knicknack objects. Consume faster! because of a too-bold strategy were EDNESDAY TAN 29 consume everything! don't think about sabotaged by clumsy tactics, by a cheap, WINDMILL. CAMEO-MOUI-IN anything! Buy art! Buy anti-art! But opportunistic tone, by the sacrifice of ot the Windmill fromlim30 non-alt! You too can be a collector! integrity to an ambition altogether out 32 Buy A History of Anti-Art! Buy an of its league. •

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A which one must hear to know, the e stone ro rich once boatload of secret police called heaviest vibe on earth, the God eight no s twelve, then KIP arrive, dreaded gang of in the White House very en, now t ty, we are psychopaths — from the sadisti- definitely is on their side, the erly cold nwashed and cally selfish oligarchy which world of my prison is shuddering underfed, eve ere there is robots them to their nameless and they are crushing me. They sickneg, and feeble old unknown commander to the know, they tell me, that John doctor who a rs two afternoon lowest functionary, these Wilcock visited me at Seven a week for 1,5 of us has no specialists in mendacity and Towers in June, and that he pub- medicine in h g. Like the duplicity,.beaters of feet lished his 'Other Scenes' jointly Seige of Stali d. Under those and shockers of balls, with this issue of OZ, and that conditions th f us with our pubic-hair pluckers and I had handed Wilcock this heads still par ogether kidney-kickers, extractors of message, they'd compared it spend most of r time chasing blood-soaked confesans, these with my other wpitings they'd the vibes of vi ce out of the perpetrators of the CIA's dream busted through the years and air, for life lik at is of a better world. They call me their language-spdcialists impossible eve or the sane, into the usual cold barren agreed it had to be mine and and an erupti n such sad office and we're face-to-face would certainly swear to it in hopelew might destroy again, come certain cool this `court', and anyway I was the us all time but any expert in analyzing only foreigner in Seven Towers KIP visi d again, off these confrontations would see through those months, etc, etc, their OZ kick , but wanting to the colour of fear in my aura, now please sign this 'admission' know who wa blishing those even after 38 months in these and 'all might be forgiven'. I things and b rding them with caves and dungeons and still did what one learns to do: those petition ames and standing. remarked upon the strange addresses, wh rganization A copy of OZ lies opened on the coincidence in all of this, if were they co ted with, were lemonwood table separating us. It the positions were reversed I'd they Commu ? Dope freaks? is open to a published message I- no doubt believe the same as They wanted Is; 'friends' had smuggled, out of Prison of they, but sorry I couldn't sign would not do. e American Seven Towers in Sal niki a few it, it wasn't me. Crazy Embassy aiwa ent a man with months before. Shock. There is a laughter. I shot a look which them, not to ect me (an `name withheld' printed under it, meant that all the tortures and infantile ilium destroyed two it has been on sale in London deaths in Greece could not make smashed kidn and a face- only four days, but through me sign anything,anywhere for stabbing befo but to plug some unimaginable fuzz-sorcery anyone, that I could be taken my answers in their worldwide they've already arrived in the apart piece by piece and fuzz network classify some middle of the Agean Sea to NEVER sign a contract for five more of the u rground mind as confront me with it. Smuggling more years in malnutrition's `enemy'. No political information out of kitchens and they believed me, February co and King prison is five years if they although I do not know even now Constantine, exiled in Rome, feel polite, and 'accident' or if I flashed them the truth, pardons me o f my exile in `escape' if they do not. It's all nobody can ever know. Greece. Madn Flight into the same, five years added to Three more months pass in frozen Rome, five da with the CIA for my 31/2 is death, one cannot live misty prison-silence, another `reorientation' ' ights with the through osmosis acid and will- deadly winter. New arrivals Living Theatre otal acid, WATCHTONN I '.R immersed in the acid of the bad bad bad. Bt.It finally the is and what should be done about tramp with hob-nailed boots, We earth. Freedom. We must quickly,. Greek Jesus hadI arrived in the it. How is it there? Bad, baby, do not threaten you, only the invent a new Ian guage to handle body of Andreas Papodreau and he very bad, like the dark side of 'you' from whom you are dealing the infinity of fa,bulous feelings set off Sigma vf brations which your nightmare moon. When and Our political propaganda is which live in the use white-light rolled back and forth through the hi:4151 koingloWid? simply. to give' you a knowledge o realms beyond NA,fords. Impossible ignorant terrific d streets and know perhaps too much to walk yoeirselves,itpart of your inner to communicate the power of a multiplied. The 'riest-Palace- safely through the streets about beings which you do not yet knot walk in the park , alone and Wealthy—CIA-- olice --Military how it happened and what it is, exists,.and from which you must

floating free, all senses on interests which !ad always but the form which the ending live with (aid integrity and OPEN, somebod y's cut the strin operated Grewb to suit their will take I cannot envision. I in freedom when you come to on my balloon. There's no privac, own obscene pieasures felt the only know that it will end when terms evith yOur discovery. And in prison, even whenthen asleep or threat, and togcether they the America that we know ends, if y annot find your way we masturbating, the eye of the launched the Ju nta upon the ople who are arc :Ding to lock you in State is always a t the keyhole. people in it's cosvn name, ther and co • camps and mutilate

Now each simpl e walk in the • attempting to perpetrate the massacring the children of Viet you$, d souls, we shall streets is a blind ing parade of illusion that th c: said Junta was Nam cannot be expected to sire e Ci• E YOUR MINDS. miracles. EVER ' YTHING is an working in it's own name to produce Senators and Presidents This-0111e ipovement you feel all orgasm. Malanga makes a film 'continue the en slavement brutili- who really care that most of the around you"apd which you canno called Recording ; Zone Operator zation and mys tification of the people in Greece eat garlic and undetstan14e vibration in the the reincarnatio i of Drakos, Greek people. bread for lunch. Akajaajjklivrtss you so, the Inx executed ccl lmate. There are a cou pie of thousand So Greece will begin to free )) ft* you a3h At with your Everything's too , public, Rome is prisoners in exille prisons with itself when America understands swads,bot cannot kill, and which such a village, beisted again. no court at all i n their future, what freedom is, and not before-T is groWinwitilit will ungulf Forty months in prison, forty but the Greek Justice-head is So I say something now to certaiiii EVERYTMNG. And I tell you to days' out, buste again for bash. nothing if not t ricky. I've lived people who have proved that they that the-infoimation gleaned Everybody's conaplaining about di e in eleven differ(int prisons ther read this magazine. To those from all thOse years about Litton Prison of the Sk y Queen in Rom and all of them are full of absurd political police who Industrie's-connection with the but to me it's a first class political prisonipcs condemned of kept busting me on the streets CIA and the CIA's operations in hotel — some fo ad, a bed actual 'crimes' and sent to of Rome and asking those funny Greece-, etc, is written and doctors to reps' ke old criminal prison: therefore they questions, and the police in signed in six long and careful wounds, music, oks, letters, a do not count as political Paris who did the same, and to copies and rests with six very sympathetic and telligent judge prisoners, but t hey are, friend, the crew-cut philosopher who strong and.able men. You can named Giovanni who released us thousands. And the Red Cross goes cornered me on Tee outside of eradicate:me if you must have after six months without a trial to Leros and issues a devastating Brussells and spoke French like vengeance, but as for stopping and thus saved y ears, said we'd report of the di et, sanitation, a lifetime in Iowa tempered by the retease of my deadly data, broken the law tbut committed etc. The food a nd services which ten years in Washington and you cannot do that, you have crime, setting ur a howl in t scandalized the world were far polished off his education by moved too late. We have had a Vatican press an d destroying. better than any food or services six months at the Berlitz school collective vision of what human Giovanni's caree r. I ever saw in a criminal prison. to learn French) and was freedottkis.really all about and Now it's London1, in heaven' Nobody knows definitely about obviously an American CIA have beektillen-sorne idea of what upper regions an d grooving a that or suppose $ that it exists operative riding the Tee in is passtill67 :-4.411ye intend to with our friends .People ask me because the fuc king Red Cross Belgium arid flashing funny live those dam. Now. Right many different types of question doesn't go theni because the badges there to question me now. about what is gc ing on in Greece poor people ho'vering and cowering oddly. To the British Customs like what the he do they THINK in dark corners of their minds officers who were actually inside are classi Pied and con- is going on in G .eece? How man political police who examined my times do they hEore to hear it, in victed as 'crimi:aal' instead of correspondence for three hours how many ways from how many 'political'. and told me that personally they people? Greece was never The deception: 3 which the didn't care how many Greek free. I was busted there in 1964 reactionary CI -controlled colonels I killed — 'it isn't our and my first 50 jail-friends had totalitarian stat e gives the show' — to these people and the been falsely con victed of world as informcation become ever others in my future, I say a X-crime which vvas a pretext more sophistica.ted and deadly as couple of things: to cover politica1 sins which the truth of wh o they are and We do not kill people, that is

could not be panecuted in their their aims and t he horrible mind- your game and the only one you , Own names. Eve rybody was crushing nature of the fraud they understand, nor do we have a tortured system itically even have unleased u pon the world telephone nor a secret organiza- then, just generailly speaking it becomes ever ITm ore difficult to tional chart nor any formal was the most twisted social conceal. They s peak of freedom, connection at all with each system anywher e after 20 years but they are thu.:mselves enslaved other, but there are many total American political military by their own m inds. By the dark millions of us, we are all economic and n oral control, and, forces which gitre them their around you, everywhere, even even before that it was always twisted definiti ,ons of what life under the very ground you

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Appie Recor6d Predentd Two Virgin Yoio Ono — Jotjn Lennon (U4nidbeb Mt4dic No. I) on Track RecorOd OUT NOW A section devoted to the Pop thing, the first of a series. The Electric Circus is dead.

"The Cream is splitting because 50% "My future plans are not as vague as "Whatever I do now is going to be me personal withdrawal and 50% musical they were: they are getting tighter. because I have been in the other kind difference. I really don't think I could I've got to cut an album sooner or of situation too long. Whether or not play with a band anymore; it just does later which will have different kinds of I am going to be a failure doing me is not appeal to me to do that kind of backing groups. George has opened beside the point, because I've never thing anymore. It was a big virtuoso my eyes to the fact that you can do done it yet. Even with produc;ng I kick. I want to ley back. George whatever'you want on record. I have want to work with the producer but I Harrison and I have clicked a lot to- not realised that before. I have always want as much say as he has." gether because we are both guitarists been very inhibited in the studio, very and we've thought that we might pro- limited the different ways to approach Clapton. duce an album between the two of us. a song, whereas George says it doesn't He's got more to lose by it. We want matter you can use strings or whatever. to keep his name off it because any- So I'll do lots of different things like body who hears anything about the strings and brass and small groups. I Beatles today is bad news. If it got play with him privately. He wouldn't out that George and I were hanging do a record because he doesn't like his out together we would be queers in the playing that much, that's not true, he press. " wouldn't do it because he would be frightgned of inhibiting me." Ian Stocks talks to MANFRED MANN, one of the stayers on the British pop scene. You've been heard to say that you think that music tracks whatever. Let's get it straig t it's not something l',m for your TV jingles are better than anything you've done hung up on -- Ijust find Ienjoy the short fragments of with the Manfred Mann group.. . music, and occasionally one is very proud, and a lot of the Well I'm not saying that everything is better, but time I'm saying, that's nice, that's a really happy sound. certainly the best things are better than the things we It's not like doing a pop track you don't like that lasts do as a group. Somehow its generally better music. for three minutes and takes twelve hours to record — these It's got to do with the fact that the group works as only take two hours in the studio. five people — who are together because the group is It's been said that you're leaving pop? successful — you get trapped into working in a certain Yes, in a very odd sort of way. The Manfred Mann group way. But Mike Hugg and Ido the commercials together isn't doing public appearances any more — so Mike Hugg and — so we are able to use other musicians who are better I are getting involved in our own sort of thing. So I suited to the sort of music we want to produce. guess in that sense we're not involved in it anymore. So you and Mike Hugg virtually produce the commercials? Has this anything to do with the changing nature of pop? We write them, and play on them ... and we get some Yes, there's only one way to think of pop in general — it's guys we like. They aren't all great, some of them are music which sells to the masses. But now a lot of people corny, and kind of sweet in their own simple way. are interested in a new sort of music, that's called pop And we don't take the whole thing too seriously .... because it derives from pop and because a lot of the people it's not a great artistic thing, but some of the music doing it don't want to appear contrived, and there isn't —like for the Woodpecker commercials last year and another name. the Crunchie commercials for next year—stand on their It's not popular with the masses, so now there are two own as pure music. Like this Crunchie commercial markets — the pop market, where everybody goes out and buys that has chocolate being poured over the head of a statue hit records — and a kind of semi underground market — the —the track we're using in that one is completely oAople who huy Cream LP's, people who dig Jethro Tull and free improvisation on melatron flute, piano and wind Brian Auger. People are lister dist, fur 1,PliPr mimic, even chimes that came up one afternoon. There's only though I don't think it is necessarily better music. 191/2 seconds of it on the track but it's exactly what we Mike Hugg and myself have our own thing going — which wanted to do and we're very happy about it. talk to you about but not to anyone else. Normally I don't And of course — it's very well paid, I can see it as like to talk about the thing I'm doing — so many people do it a future career. And Ireally find the whole scene very and it never transpires. Ours is not a blues thing at all,

enjoyable. I know a lot of underground people put though I know there's a big market for blues at the moment-- advertising down — but we manage to work with a lot of we don't have a big ravey blues vocalist — just us chanting really nice creative blokes. in the background and Mike Hugg singing nicely in a Fry's Turkish Delight, which have always had a rather gentle way. An LP for Lyn Dobson. I've put a lot of money corny dated track—we've done that over and now it's sort into the studio time. It's an odd sort of mixture — a of pagan chant with soprano sax solo over the top. Ithink bit of blues, a bit of pop, Ornette Coleman, with avant garde it's really good. jazz to the fore. Can you see advertising as a sort of art form? A lot of people are getting involved in the scene, with a No, music is an art form, film is an art form and lot of synthesis, like the record with Lyn we're doing in occasionally people get together and make nice things — there now. What is that music? There's indian sitar that turns like the Hamlet commercials, which are great. Some into a bit of a jazz solo, there's bass and drums like they advertising transcends its own thing, and stands up on its play behind Ornette Coleman and John Coltraine — it's just own as something worth looking at and listening to — totally music, with elements that could come from pop records. It's apart from the fact that its meant to be selling cider or a long way away from pop, but you could put a little melody on it and a vocal and it wouldn't be far away. What do you think of music that's arisen through the There's funny kind of thing happening that I can't name Underground? Do you have any particular affiliation with the Undergroung? It's the sort I don't listen to al all, though the sort of I have no idea what the underground is. Is it giving away thing I play would fall within that bracket. I like some of flowers and love? — that's probably a very dated view . Or is the things I've heard — the Mothers of Invention, the Band, it the generally violent approach? -- worshipping Che Guevara but I don't have the LP's so I can't say that's what I and occupying factories and schools, concerned with like. I listen to the Beach Boys, Tamla Motown and Stevie overthrowing our evil capitalist community. Even though I Wonder — purely for my own enjoyment, not trying to get like the people in it and sympathise with the attitude, I high or stoned on it or anything. The big freakout guitar disagree with both as political philosophy. I'm not a solos just disturbs me. I don't like it, I don't enjoy it. If pacifist or r evolutionary, but I have to take these people I want to be serious I put on Bach, or Ornette Coleman. seriously because that's what they want.. The generation I certainly would'nt go out and buy the Grateful Dead or the that's rebelling today is in a sad state and devoid of Fugs. philosophy. It's not that we must change things and For years I've yearned to come off stage, and for people who overthrow evil without anything to put in it's place. Marx like good music to say 'Christ wasn't that great, those worked out a practical system which was a very very guys are good'. For years it's been 'Oh I enjoyed the show,' wonderful way of organising society. Now that's been in or 'I havent enjoyed the show' more likely, or screaming practice in Russia for fifty years. But how can today's at the singer, which has very little to do with me genuine socialists look at those places and not see that its personally, or the respect I want as a musician. If you're lead to a heavy bureaucratic repressive state,Cuba is just in the public eye you want some genuine respect for the one pathetic hope. I can't believe that Che Guevara is in turning out something which is genuinely good, or at least any way relevant to England today. If you have a real to be judged as either 'They can't make it' or 'They personal or social or artistic conscience then you must see can'. But for years I feel I've avoided the issue, I've that the system's been found wanting — not because the been involved in something where I've been judged by system is wrong but because people are people and a little something that wasn't me anyway. I'm not putting it down— bureaucrat will always be a little bureaucrat. I've enjoyed it and enjoyed playing in the group and I can't agree with the underground, I'm a terrible realist. pop music — I've learnt a lot from it. I just don't think I don't even think I fit into the people of the pop world. that it's the only thing I can do. If I want to play I Perhaps I'm taking the underground too seriously and it's can't go round and play 'Ha said the clown' can I? just some load of people who've been given a title. I think I have to play something else. really it's a very sheltered generation.

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r to ec Dir — ions t duc Pro MM i DISPOSABLE/The Deviants, Stable ants have clutched and nurtured this SLP7001. title, using it with some considerable One feels it would be almDst absurd success as a springboard for publicity to indulge in a strictly logical review of and promotional purposes. Whether reviews the Deviants new albumwhen the very without it they would have managed existence of both group and record is to raise the bread to independantly practically an illogical, if inevitable, record and distribute even their first reality. Neither the Deviants nor their LP, Ptoof, is by now irrelevant and all music invite logical explanation, not- that should be at issue is whether the withstanding the recent concentration group have anything original or valid Of interest within the straight British to offer in the 13 tracks of pure Brit- press on the London underground/ ish underground music that constitutes freak/I-was-a-week-end-hippy scene, Disposable. which alone ensured the inevitability Cuts like Sparrows and Wires, Normal- and emergence of an Underground ity Jam and Somewhere to Go, say Group In Chief. Consciously or other- they haven't': The lyrics are for the wise, (I suspect the former), the Devi- most part pretentious, artificial, clumsily metered and badly sung. With the exception of Dick Heckstall- Smith, who is only credited with play- ing on Fire in the City and arranging Guaranteed to Bleed, there isn't one outstanding musician to be found within the nineteen assorted people t f credited as performing on the album. OK so who needs outstanding musi- cians in a 'mean and filthy' band like the Deviants whose main objective is to tell it, (wait for it), like it is, (like the Mothers, Fugs and Doors have told it presumably?), 'stories of the hung up, the strung up and paranoid 20th century.' So where's the significance a of Pappa-oo-mao-mao, the best number on the LP incidentally, Sydney B Goode, without a single credit to the Chuck Berry original, and Blind Joe McTurk's Last Session, a 77 second satirical comment on obscure American country blues artists and their recordings. Where's the signific- ance of Farren's Last Man, an utterly predictable collection of out-dated sound effects, boring lyrics and medio- cre arrangement. The only possible answer is that the entire album is an incredibly cunning joke, calculated from start to finish as a poke in the balls at every potential -- 74i record buyer. But if this was the \ N,/ intention then why package it so inexpertly—everyone knows it's the graphics that sell LPs these days. Isn't it?

Felix Dennis 40 PLAYBACK/The Apple Tree Theatre, Hewson deliberately chose to leave out anies to float blues su bsidiaries here. Verve import, FTS3042. that puts this debut release into a c tely, the mediocrity shown of its own. The tightly reined, bea ost of these subsiduaries fully timed use of brass and orchestra r choice of imported release The Apple Tree Theatre say their thing backing, together with uncluttered ar been matched o with an even combination of sad amus- chorus work and frugal double tracking of their home-gr ing sexy sound and articulate a vision all serve to keep the spotlight firmly —the Peter Green j of the new scene. Songs Garfunkle on Mr Taylor, whose singing, while it cken Shack LP se would like crampin between acid pieces may be limited in range is nevertheless pies. pieces of conversation. refreshingly unaffected and sincere. As you read this, another indepe In the beginning the shouting boring Practically all the tracks are linked, company will be making its debut actor is thrown out by the whispering usually by studio musicians using release, not with an acceptable trendy prompter and the applause . Hewson arrangements, and pehaps blues breaking banci but with a little ing. it is because of this that on first hearing recorded American harp player and a A randy young square stalks the album tends to sound vaguely half forgotten English guitarist. The Cole Porter town looking for 'samey' throu0out. It took me at company, Undlip) ' und Recording misunderstood conversation wi how half a tliftlien playthroUghs before Enterprises, t advtaan •e he head cuts his fantasy back to non- I began to realise how subtley intricate visiting AmeriC n Blues reality which is maybe reality and cuts Carolina In My Mind, Sun- combine the talents& ddy who's crazy' shi nshine apd Something's Waters and Otis Russ Walter Two lorLy drivers spin a radio dial Wro , really web. Many of the songs `Shakey' Hors° • artin Stone of the searchi*for banality between the are highly personal, introvert compo- =Down static. Itithere but everything's taint- sitions, the la 4 track on the first side, band. The resu Southern ed so it gives way to a search for some Something In The Way She Moves, for Comfort, is an re of STP amongst the impressive list of example. Here, Taylor sings quietly, strengths and weaknesses. While it drugs they carry in the cab. alone, sided only by his acoustic guitar contains sustained interest--vocal playing in perhaps the most moving tracks not only from Shakey but from Theatre can be an artkulate dream and impressive piece of the whole Jesse Lewis and Jerome Arnold who sequence trapping and repeating the collection. also play drums and bass respectively, sounds of the technological society. plus a twelve minute raga extempor- The Apple Tree Theatre playback Knocking Round the Zoo, tha hardest rock number included, has outstanding isation by Stone—it seems unsure of is what they can rerrember from their lyrics: - 'Just knocking round the zoo its own identity, often giving the imp- experience. Most pop keeps its senti- on a thrusday afternoon/There's bars resssion that the technical production ments behind a web of imagery and on all the windows and they're count- and mixing owe more to enthusiasm double meaning. Spoken words on up the spoons/Now my friends all than to professional skill. s, however short can be very come to see me they point at me and . 'I've got blisters on my fing- But the band really wails on occasions, stare/Said he's just like the rest of us an effective shout of pissed off especially Shakey with his shouting, so what's he doing in there?/...' virile harp. o:- tracks like I Need My test at first. By the 20th time its s Is Just A Bad Dream is a eaningless and annoying. Baby, and the Jimmie Roger's Walking ve bar,interesting for its By Myself, while Martin storms into e whispered, shouted, sc eided discordant violins and his own on Jesse's Found Me A New voices of the past and the n ion, in a number that might Love and triumphs throughout his moment have a place. The erwise been slightly below the complex personal trip Netti Netti. Theatre mix them with enoug h nally high standards set by the I will avoid the inevitable comparison sounds to make the whole perform- e album. with Butterfields East West, (on which ance bite. ifficult to bag this recording. It Jerome Arnold provided an equally Bryan Willis isn't folk-rock or progressive pop, it sympathetic bass line), and mention a isn't acidic or electric blues; it's a long again only the mixing, which at times JAMES TAYLOR/Janes Taylor, Apple, playing record by James Taylor. I hope resembles nothing so much as a novice Sapcor 3 (stere )), Apcor 3 (mono). and I'm sure, that it's the first of many. producer's demonstration kit--an orgy Here is a fine album Jarres Taylor's Felix Dennis of reversed tapes, superimposed effects songs have a convening lyrical quality, and double tracking. This apart, the words saying what they irean/rrean- Southern Comfort deserves to sell, ing what they say, never lapsing into SOUTHERN CONFORT/Wal ter `Shakey' both on its own merits, which are con- artificial imagergy and contrasting perf- Ilotom& Martin Stone siderable if spasmodic, and as an en- ectly, (at times almost too perfectly), Two of the sparse benefits produced by couragement to the aforementioned with Peter Asher's involved but sensa- the recent British boom in blues have subsidiaries to make a concerted effort tive production. Oddly, it's not so been the release of a number of inter- in raising the standard of their future much what's gone into the arrange- esting American imports and the British and imported blues releases. ments, as what Asher and Richard attempts of some major record comp- MJ McDonnell 41 PEWTER SUITOR Tyrannosaurus Rex, Regal Late last year Time Out's ad manager, John Zonophone. RZ 3016. Leaver, reviewed a non-existent album 'Heavy Jelly' by the Heavy Jelly. The review set Haven't I heard it before? No I haven't ... out to send up the worst members of 'PeeIlan' it's Pewter Suitor and like all other 'Rex pop intelligentsia but inevitably created a numbers can't readily be distinguished from completely straight demand in record stores the last, words as usual arc reduced to all over London. Time Out decided to phonetic mutations. But why can't they evolve continue the story by running another full this sound of theirs? On the lines of page advertisement for the group in their familiarity breeding contempt this similarity next issue. begets boredom, if a listenable boredom. About this time they also agreed to let Perhaps the limitation is that they are two four well known blues musicians use the people trying to be a group instead of title for a forthcoming non commercial two people. experimental blues album, which, for Anyway, whatever they're doing it's at least contractual reasons, would have to be peculiar to Tyrannosaurus Rex and in mild recorded anonymously. doses, single tracks as opposed to entire Suddenly there are Heavy Jellies everywhere. albums, can be incredibly effective. Heavy Jelly at the Albert Flail just before Don't confuse their music with the garbage Christmas and a rush-released Island single excreted by the pop machine. This folk/rock from a group calling themselves, surprise, experiment has an urgency and potential surprise, Heavy Jelly. Chris Blackwell of peculiarly valid in these days of the Hump, Island Records lept in quickly it seems. Who O'Connor and the Archies. are these Island new boys. Shades of Spooky KEN CORE Tooth? The single displays all the worst aspeets of today's blues/pop sound, computer formulated and market researched to supply a growing demand. Amanda & the Heavenly Jellie at the Meanwhile Granada is reported to have been Albert Hall. approached about a film starring Fleavy Jelly.

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• • •as titey say •In Chess problems). kilTe.: hmgs are worse` ttla'rr b :etween 8 and 11.30. Inconing Radio 3. 8.25: Handel. 10.10; fore the evenements". London,, elephone call. "Hi Geoffrey? Haydn. 1 1.15: Close Down. talking with Andy Wickham, nford. Where's it jumping?" Radio 4. 10.00; The world in Friglish A&R man and company . "That's my question . Pause 1965. 11.02: A book at bed- freak at Warners. He's thinking •, or arrnserrent. "There's some- time. 1145: Set-vice from the of settling here with Phil Ochs, 4hing in Hampstead; no, two Bull Ring, Birmingham. 12.00: California has gbne horribly :! scenes. Forget them. Perhaps Big Ben. 1 2.02; Forecast for rotten. London, Talking with" '- n Fulham... " Outgoing calls. coastal waters. I 2.05; Close Stanley Mouse, the designer, and `Hi. This is Geoffrey. Alan ? Down. Bob Seidemann, the photograph,. .Peter? Malcolm? Jo? Joe? er. They've settled here, becaus live? Stuart? David?) What's Close Down. Close Down. Close of evil vibrations in California. le scene?" "I thought I'd stay Down. Tonite let's all make love London again, at Apple. Roc • n (I was going to ask you/Not in London. There's nothing Scully and Danny Rivkin, w eeling too good tonight/Quiet better to do. and there's pretty work with the Grateful Dead . cene tonight etc)". much nothing eke to do. either. "I'd like to stay here a long Extract from television and radio And yet, here are some recent time, and cool out in a sane -; rogrammes. BBCI. 9.05; The foreign scenes. Hamburg, office s scene. Let's the get the Dead. ound Barrier (old movie). 11.0; of Deutsche Grammophon. llorst and the Angels here and have ilia Black and Frankie Howerd. Schmolzi, chief A&R man -I year's party." 11.50; The end of the year in come to London every four The image of London is that i landaff Cathedral. 12.01 Weeks to get my hair cut, and to is the world's most free city. Scottish New Year. BBC2. 10.30; breathe your air. Everyone in Cone on a visit, see the shop Why man creates (film). 11.00; London is free; everything is see the people in the streets, s Pick of the Year review. ITV. possible. Hamburg is dead." the records on sale,,meet nice 10.30; Love Story. 11.30; A Paris, flat of Philippe Paringaux. people, and the image is preserv-, show for Hogmanay. Radio 1. chief writer for Rock and Folk ed. Think of what is possible in 9.15; As you like it (no, not the. magazine. Philippe: "I envy you. London; sure. I think anything'i .akespeare). 10.00; Late nigh In London, you can do anything. possible. But what's really , a. 11.31; Night ride in Glas Everyone is on the scene. every w. Radio 2. As Radio 1 (!;t thing's moving. Paris has been ns, 4<-)c? ,,cf s pt.-.1\P" (ON 4c `\-, &`' ,g2=>c... , xo c09 oc-• je s-.0 ,, ii ES nanti \-.€ Noo c0 44‘40 Ar _ 4r lige ecords Ltd 3 SavIle Row London W1 Telephony 01-73482432 Tel Apcort London 44 pening; what's for real; what big scene, but not yet. And And we are in our tents, too. makes you exhilerated to be others. Where's the electricity? here; what nukes you feel in But notice. These are either One simple answer: it's in the air. your political gut, your sensual private people, like all those you Turn on the television or the gut, your being (all the sane know, or else are underground. radio, and there's electricity. But thing)that here is movement? And by definition, an under- the air waves might as well be %here's the electricity? Do you ground presupposes apathy or static, for all they do to our sense it? oppression above; we know all minds; they do less for us, and about that. London is a city for our parents, and for our Good people,in London: ther:. which leaves you alone, which is grandparents, than electric light. are plenty. Caroline Coon, and a fresh sensation coming in from Turn back to that New Year's Release. Tine Out. Jim Haynes Paris, Hamburg, New York, Los Eve list of television and radio and the Arts Lab., The Round Angeles. But you are left alone. programmes. Just one evening, House, some nights. IT. OZ. The underground flourishes: sure: but a special, public evening Apple, we would like to think; underground. It is left alone. when everyone is caught up by Derek and George, anyway. Joe Where's the electricity? the traditional urge to get stoned Boyd and the Incredibles. Jo (old and or new style). A time Bergman, with the Stones. The Down memory lane. Remember the rave at Alexandra Palace? of dancing in the streets, of a At Olympia? Remember the sense of community, of good poetry fest at the Albert Hall? thoughts and renewal. UFO: those were good days. Re- And what did we get? Nothing member the two good Saturdays new. Nothing to do with being in Hyde Park last summer, with in London. It's either the usual "Tantalising Maggie" wreathed mixture, or else reminiscence, or in the trees? Hogmanay (like in 1965, 1960, Do you remember ... This must 1955, 1950 ). Or else the BBC's favourite word: Close be a joke. What's armory doing Down. in 1968? The Beatles are in their ICA is friendly: Mke Kustow has tents. The Stones are in their Yes, British broadcasting has a the chance to pull off a really tents. Mddle Earth is being hurt. high reputation. Yes, we are

45 very used to it. Get un-used to 'Is Toni' Palmer an gal. There is a private member's it. Think about it. Think about Oh, lie w e Bill at present before Parliament the opportunities. Get enraged. unity. wife's' L. , which. if carried, will allow the What has broadcasting to do with a gat ing the *Greater London Council to run us? Nothing. at the moment. nzarve howjhanY its own radio stations.' The buzz Everything, as it should be.. I shots h t Arough is that 1i1 on inay,c4culate that don't jitst mean us as freaks. COMM So I Ony 's Ate watt(' Me leitleal young avant-garde intellectuals, drop- train peasan *;Votes 41 0 if he'allows comm- outs, the fringe, post-beats, extra- ing. . an '1,celt ercial rldio: in which case Radio Parliamentary opposition. or But I ha Ft to drol London will be..un the air in a whoever we are. I mean us as I had art in Oranada's'. --year's time. Orelse, if the Con- people, I mean our friends as sh Ir? you rrlu,sLlervatives are elect9d in 1970, people, I mean our families as CO c 'then they will bring the Bill for-

people, I mean everyone we sh •- ward and pass it, for broadcasting don't know as poeple, I mean to start in 1971. Of course, if Britain, and, specifically, Lond- Again, dt>ywi lane. Re- Wilson says no, and is elected in on. Wake up! We are being me r R Go? No, 1970, then no Radio London swindled. Our lives are being it t that401)d. But it lived, yet. But let's think to it happen- slowed down. London is being a dead. What's wrong with ing. rendered invisible. La o rWeekend Television? Because here is the key to make To get even more specific, 1 m told, planning a nun en-ended studio London jump. An equivalent of ing about television. Londo American FM stations. The GLC the hub of the world in rock row, prime time, but a 'show whemmajything that plan four channels, which is per- music. I don't mean rock fect thinking. Also, their prime as pop entertainment, bu ps willIPrmien to jump, and hers 'information teed- motive is to bring people into windo'w to change; the in London and to promote what's of Paris, Chicago, Columbia; sh i will put the the creator of the new post- accelerate happening in London; also, they'll combine the roles of the scientific, post-technologt elerate. A ubject, which government and the 1TA relative age; the sounds that tett to co rical television, giving to live. Also, fashion, se any existing eta,( entertainment? comp franchises, and tak- the same, and proper way info* f profits. And, as I visual equivalent of rock i ?! doe ntary?!!) and so will fe to the richness see' . best Radio London -here, again, London leads t will be the most commercial. world. And so I'm not mere. chow p through Loud- biggest ideas factory in using rock and fashion I. Mere is a demand for good pies of the state of te1 .. ' ids We would all run this but as the indica* of ould be the new music rock music on radio. The BBC of movement irrtelevision. yles, the new life, the will never fill this gap. 2. What's ew politics. We need it, and on in London? Not just times of Once again, we'v sed t ndon Weekend Television need showings,. but who's in town, what we get. I can .en bri Grainger and Humphrey what are they thinking, what are myself to list the shoivs. Th ere is it? they doing? 3. What's happening all geared to the market' in now? Evening papers are hours crass sense of the word, just as bout radio. But not behind: radio can tell it instantly, Radio 1 and Radio 2 are. Ther out the BBC. The not by formal news programmes, no-one in television thinkin rmanently trapped in but by flashes. 4. Who are the So what we get is what the of which the Music- people? Let's hear their voices. producers imagine we won't , Needle Time, its Not those of 'experts' wheeled dislike: the old-definition lowes .service concept, the in and out to give their half- common denominator stuff, witai ic Service fraud synd- formed views, but of people who tinsel trappings and go-jo girls. rome, itiktpart. Forget the BBC. live their thoughts. Certainly Television is parasitic on what Recall, doWri memory lane again, there are thousands in London. happens to sell best, week b o, again, the pir- Perhaps millions. Do you know week: and that's no ,-,efinitio good as we rem- anyone who you are sure has of anything. Especially because , they lived, and nothing to say? I don't. But rock (pop, if you like) is not but, hut, their current television and radio Denmark Street—remember the ities arc now burst work on the principle that only old sheet-music sales char b a a few hundred people are fit to is the visi side of tel use Harold Wilson is thinking speak. Let us all speak with each explosio king commercial readio other.

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