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The Summer of 77 news/information/propaganda bulletin from Band July 1977...

Danny Kustow: gtr punk/backing vcls/teen appeal Brian Taylor (The Dolphin): drum delinquent/ no political affiliations Mark Amber: org/pno/renegade hippy T. Robinson: boss Mick Exeter: HGV/hard labour Tim Collins: sound desk/slave labor Colin Bell: wheeling/dealing

GIGS: July 17 chelmsford city tavern Aug 13 bracknell arts centre Aug 18 middlesbro rock gdn. Aug 27 jacksons lane community centre N6 Aug 28 london golden lion + more london dates end of august see time out & NME nearer the time

BOOKINGS handled by Bob Salmons at ITB 01-629-4928

LYRICS to 'Winter of 79' printed in Temporary Hoarding no.1 from (see over). also 'Kum Bak' printed in Gay News no.61 available from GN 25p incl:- 1a, normand gdns/ greyhound rd/ W14 9SB

THANX to Steve Witter who did six weeks hard slog on bass & 2nd vocals in the band May thru July this year for little reward & no money. Excellent musician & good bloke... thanks steve

NOOS: still negotiating a record deal/if it comes of we'll be recording at once & releasing a single -possibly 'Motorway' . if it doesn't come off, fuck 'em - we'll slam in more dates carry on gigging. Whatever happens Jon Miller will be producing first album & Roger Wake engineering/ if neccessary we'll press & market it ourselves this autumn. Other plans - a single of "I shall be released" in aid of Ince if we get dylans permission for changed words/an outlet to market it . The more we hear about frameup of George I nce the more it stinks. There's no way he'll survive even half the sentence in present condition: how come he got that way ? Write to your MP today and demand action/if you don't know about case ring 01-987-6542 & ask for a leaflet. (NB George Davis arrested one week after coming on march to free George Ince...)

The Nashville Rooms For reasons best known to albion agency TRB billed to apear on sat july 2nd. Us, we were working that nite & couldn't possibly have appeared/ told em so months beforehand. Also read with interest we were playing birmingham punkfest on nite of our chelmsford gig, (july 17) noos to us tho it woulda bin great to play with clash. Specially before we all go to jail... looks like it's too late now the heat's on. Meanwhile sorry if ya turned up at the nashvile the other week.

WEIRD GIGS DEPT. Tonypandy Royal Naval Reserve Club, Rhondda Valley/a saturday nite/place already packed when Tim & Mick arrived with truck at 6.00/entire neighbourhood youth swilling pints waiting to hear rock band from london under watchful eyes of village elders who laid it on for 'em/last year's top 20 played at 3 1/2 watts on 1953 vintage record player by 1808 vintage DJ/two or three tables of dope smokers at front/"the polis dont want to hear but we know which boys are doing, it" /+ wouldya believe BINGO halfway thru evening. By allowing certain refreedoms rock/dope) elders had any youth rebellion nicely contained within their scheme of things. Fighting later broke out after "bad language in front of the womenfolk"

AND BACK ON THE INSIDE Paid return visit to old buddies in the nick after our SOUNDS feature which they'd proudly pinned up against the wall. They too smoked dope quite openly during the concert / fumes wafting onto stage all evening. Definite prison hierarchy & black guys sit at back. Special chairs & cushions at front for top privileged cons allowied to help carry gear/talk to band - we never meet yer average man in the cell...

GO SEE BETHNAL Working class london streetband for late 70's well in touch with heat on the street. Young, hard multiracial four-piece that know which side they're on. A touch of minldless sexist humour but remember and be thankful. Best band I've seen for ages/dont miss em... Tom.

IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE DEPT. Democracy was dead / killed by the crisis long before hitler buried it / 6 million unemployed/a hard winter nazis beating up communists / police charging into crowds maddened with hunger & despair. There was no sharp dividing line between the hitler regime & its predecessors that could be recognised at once by every man & woman. january 30th 1933 was as dull & miserable as any other day of the mont. there was no rebellion - no putsch. hitler was simply asked to be prime minister of a coalition government exactly as (before him) br¸ning papen & schleicher had been asked. he began his rule with the dissolution of parliament & the order for general elections to be held in march.

Feb. 1st: goering issues decree against communist propaganda Feb. 3rd: emergency decree 'for protection of the german people' against all anti-fascist forces Feb 7th: nazi officials appointed to home office (ministry of interior) Feb 9th: all police officers who did not wholeheartedly support hitler asked to resign from their posts Feb 13th: all republican civil servants in high positions dismissed Feb 15th: nazis appointed to police in place of such republicans as had been forced to resign Feb 17th: the Terror officially sanctioned. goering orders police to use firearms 'at own discretion' Feb. 27th: reichstag burened down/ communists blamed/party banned by official decree Feb 28th: thousands of cormmunist party members including MP's arrested & sent to prison/ concentration camps or just murdered. Meanwhile entire communist/socialist/ labour press closed down March 5th: general election, 288 nazi seats/326 non-nazi seats Communist vote 'illegal' therefore 81 seats invalid. nazis claim absolute majority May 17th: in last pathetic attempt to save their party social democrats vote unanimously with nazis on foreign policy. nazis show merely contempt & little leniency ... June 23rd. social democrats officially banned. suffer same fate us communists a few months before. nazis tollerated their liberal compromise only as long, as they considered it useful for their own ends July 14th: re-organisation of political parties prohibited. nazis now only legal party in germany November 1933: general election 92.2% of electorate vote nazi 7.8% have courage to abstain etc.(polling booth set up at Dachau - at that time populated entirely by political prisoners/ mostly communists. later officially announced majority had voted for hitler...) from 'Hammer or Anvil' Evelyn Anderson, 1945 all you downtrodden people always bear the brunt just sit back on your fat backside till you havta face the Front wait till the bullyboys get you don't make no kinda sense and pretty soon gonna be no room for sitting on the fence you better decide which side you're on

LOVE MUSIC - HATE RACISM support Rock Against Racism gigs & publications: Temporary Hoarding nos 1 & 2 available from RAR 30p ea.incl - 6 cottons gdns london E2

RIGHT ON SISTERS Spare Rib magazine for women: 45p incl: 27 clerkenwell clo london EC1 Nat. Abortion Campaign: 01-485-4303 Woman's Right to Choose: O1-359-5209 YOU have the right to choose what you do with your body/ not some pig of a politician or priest... fight for women's rights

HOMOSEXUALS Gay Switchboard: 01-837-7324 is a 24hr info/advice service for gay women and men

ARRESTED dont kid yourself it can' t happen to you/ anybody can get arrested anytime for almost anything/guilty or not. Memorise this number - 01-289-1123. You're legally allowed one phone call/politely & firmly refuse to make any statement until you've spoken to RELEASE or a solicitor - this is your right

THE SUMMER OF 77 doesn't end here - the heat's just beginning. keep the belief/stick to the street/ dont believe a word They tell you. Next bulletin + general TRB info from: linda Cooke XX montpelier grove Kentish Twon London XXX. Send stamps if you can afford it - she can't.

THE SUMMER OF ' 77: PART II news/information/propaganda bulletin from 28 july 1977 (part I still available - see over )

LINEUP Danny: 1959 gibson les paul custom Brian: premier kit/paiste cymbals Mark: mutilated hammond T2/wurlitzer electric piano Tom: obsolete yamaha bass Tim: sunn 8 channel desk Mick: ford 35cet luton Colin: GPO executive telephone

GIGS IN AUGUST 13th bracknell arts centre 14th saffron walden 8 bells 15th london music machine ('orrible & overpriced - dont go !! ) 18th birmingham rebecca's 25th high wycombe nags head 27th london jackson's lane community centre N6 29th london gelectric cinema: gig/discussion on politics/music 29th london golden lion (free) 30th Iondon brecknock (free) NB some of these changed since last bulletin: allways check gigs in NME Time Out etc. if in doubt phone venue.

BOOKINGS: Bob Salmons (ITB ) 01-629-4928

INCE: Commons debate on george ince last wed / front page of evening noos / TV special / xtensive coverage in grauniad / opening of yet another official enquiry... & yet another round of Home Office Bullshit to delay things as long as possible. They aim to let him out on parole Sometime next year - that way *we shut up & sit down *conviction stays upheld *they save face... & good ol British Justice does it again. they say there'll be a new enquiry they say there's bin a slight mistake & while they write reports we've heard it all before Just get him out before it' s all too late...

NOOS: ins/outs our record contrax drag on & on & on - our motto remains IBIWISI (i believe it when i see it) borrowed off cafe society who inherited it from march hare (1st-ever casualties in long line of konk victims ). but when the record deal finally does get signed we'll give ya inside dirt on past few months' events. Unethical ? you bet.

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD...for many months TRB couldn't get gig at rock garden apparently cos they didn't wanna attract "those sort of people" to their nice club - or so we wos told. A paranoid Colin kept this from the press in case other clubs got same idea. Eventually got booked (not thru change of heart so much as change of booking agency) at rock gdn resulting in july 13 gig when 184 of "those sorta people" (this means you) parted with their quids/ sweated in cellar till 11.30 buying xpensive drinx / cheered for an hour / & missed last tube home. Rock Gdn well pleased so wot wos all this about a ban. Surely nothing to do with naughty ol' NEMS agency now was it ?? Anyhow the free gigs at end of august are for everyone who's paid to see the band this sumner with all our thanx.

WIEIRD GIGS Dept. R.Q.Drayson(headmaster of Stowe public school) stops his car beside '2 scruffy young outsiders' ambling unconcernedly across 2 miles of grounds to reach school buildings... "did you want something" purrs drayson "yes, we're gaing to the TRB concert" "sorry" sez the hed "it's a private function - for the school only" "yes" say Tarka & Wynn "we know" & amble on unconcerned as ever... meanwhile as tom/tim/mick roll up in truck some 14 yr old sgueaks "i think the gwoop are here - some longhaired louts have just awwived" while school band in nearby rehearsal room belt out pistols god save the queen with venom. As in prison audience confined to seats for concert / incredible audience response to word from world outside: cheers / whistles / shouts of "white wiot". Many kids defy ban / stand up to pogo / only to get dragged outside(by hair) by shirtsleeved master wearing earplugs. S'funny - even privileged young of ruling classes all set for a riot of their own... dont you worry, i'm alright jack we've never had it so good there's plenty of grouse at the country house we're eating as we should hugh's at Sandhurst, everything safe with Perkins running the farm half a dozen shotguns in the landrover ready for the call to arms...

IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE Dept. Extracts from NF members bulletin november 1974 'all members (but particularly organisers) are asked to send to head office all copies of all leaflets booklets/ magazines/ newspapers which attack the NF... letters attacking the NF in any local paper should also be sent in appropriately marked... names & addresses of known leftwing extremists actively promoting anti-NF activity within trade unions should be supplied. organisers should keep their own crossreference filing system on hostile organisations & individuals operational in their districts & should arrange for such activists (including street sellers of extreme leftwing publications) to be photographed & the photographs filed...' source: pp17203 'The National Front' by Martin Walker (Fontana)

THANX to Marco Gmys for * lending us his orange graphic amp * not breaking our legs when it got nicked with our other gear in may * holding out this long while we save up to get him a new one...

BRIAN' S CORNER: 'PHINARIUM NOOS' by public demand & general editorial inadequacies this new addition to TRB bulletins will be reproduced from vast collection of witty ditties for the teeny weenies by our very own brian taylor. Reluctantly & on promise of a day at the seaside he has submitted this short medley of popular adaptions to ease you in: rudolf the red nosed dolphin had a very shiny fin rudolph the rednosed dolphin had a dolphinette called Lin sometimes it's hard to be norweigan giving all your love to just one norse but if you get-bored sitting by the fjord drop some barbituates in your sauce ( from 'stand by your Dane' ) i'm dreaming of a big bustle just like the one Flo used to wear when she walked - she 'd rustle the boys knew she'd sussed-all(groan) that's why they tore out all their hair. we're riding along in the back of an 'E' type as th' speedcops pass us by theyre flashing their- lights theyre blowing their whistles as we poke ' em in the eye Hey ho... i've broken his nose Woopee... i've fractured his knee we're riding along in the back of an 'E' type being followed by the SPG

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OPERATOR GET ME THE HOTLINE Arrested: make no statement & call *RELEASE: 01-289-1123(you're entitled to one phone call)also gen.legal/ med. /drug problems during office hours. * GAY SWITCHBOARD: 01-837-7324( 24hrs) * NATIONAL ABORTION CAMPAIGN need you - one day you may need them - fight for women' s rights NAC: 01-485-4303 * A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE: 01-359-5209 * BIT alternative info: 01-229-8219 * FREE GEORGE INCE campaign: 01-987-6542

BACKGROUND biased selection of reviews / interviews / features on TRB still available everything unfavorable / obscure / plain silly ruthlessly suppressed - Jan 29 NME: notorious julie burchill feature that started it all. Feb 5 NME: short review at breknok Feb 10 Gay News 112 : review Mar 19 NME: tom reviewing singles Apr 16 SOUNDS: feature on chelmsford prison gig Jun 3 SOUNDS: J.Gill's ludicrously biased review at red cow Jun 16 Gay News 121: ICA review Jul 23 Record Mirror: review of rock garden Jul 23 Tribune: 'politics of punk' political overview of TRB August Album Tracking: TRB feature - by Mike Flood Page, Brian Deer's 'Tribune' piece reveals that Tom lacks 'clear marxist perspective that distinguishes the true revolutianary from the agents of imperialism' ...just thought you'd like to know

NEXT BULLETIN whenever we got some thing to tell ya /tom feels like it/ whenever, linda cooke's compiling mailing list of known TRB sympathisers & subversives so please pass on forwarding addresses where we can reach you/ meantime if ya wanna write to us we wanna hear from you & will even write back: send a stamp tho cos we're all broke & too proud to beg c/o linda cooke 25 montpelier grove london NW5 (also for part I of this bulletin, T-shirt enqiries etc. etc. ) *keep the belief/stick to the street / don't believe a word They tell you...

THE SUMMER OF 77 news/ propaganda bulletin from tom robinson band: 15 august 77

DANNY KUSTOW: gtr punk/bckng vc BRIAN TAYLOR: drm dolphin/ " " MARK AMBLER: org/pno/frnd Of earth TOM ROBINSON: bass/vcl/ego COLIN BELL: mister ten percent MICK EXETER: HGV license (poetic) TIM COLLINS: mixing/stirring etc tim collins is leaving us today for Better Things - thanx timmy for all you've done & bin thru (Tonypandy!) over & above the call of duty... best of british ol son

GIGS Aug 15th london music machine 25th high wycombe nags head 26th hope & anchor upper st. N1 27th london jacksons lane community centre(benefit) highgate tube 28th london other cinema 29th london golden lion (free) 30th london brecknock (free) Sep. 1st birkenhead mr digby 2nd middlesbro rock gdn 3rd leeds fford grn hotel

B00KINGS: Bob Salmons(ITB)01 -629-4928 NB always check gigs in press before turning up: NME usually most accurate because listings deadline later than SOUNDS etc. If in doubt phone venue.

* Other Cinema gig last in series of sunday night film/ music/ discussion events put on by music for socialism Film is 'sympathy for the devil' by jean-luc godard (includes shots of stones recording) but be warned: very long and very obscure... discussion is on machismo/ sexism in rock however - which shoud be good.

NOOS: last week the TRB signed to EMI records not unfortunately for vast sums of loot but £30 a week each + some equipment. wish it was a 'six figure sum' though... actually we wos just busy signing with Jet Records (which woulda meant vast sums of loot) when about 200 people from EMI came charging down the brecknock to see us & bought us A MEAL afterwards. Danny kustow hadn't eaten for a week so we signed with EMI instead. fumed fretted all over their A&R office for an afternoon while lawyers wrangled over details before contracts were ready. mick mobbs(the man who brought fear & loathing to manchester sq. by signing & choked when his directors fired em) drew up the folloving to save time: "We the tom robinson band agree to make you EMI records a lot of fucking money. read and agreed... The Tom Robinson Band." of fact, final contract we signed said more or less the same thing but in more words... BACK ON THE INSIDE i went to visit george ince in the scrubs a couple of weeks ago(aug 3) He has dawn/gaunt look of someone who's been very ill, but hes been putting on weight again & getting much better in recent weeks. seemed quite on the ball & his hands now hardly shakinh at all. he'd just been given a job in kitchens & was well pleased. i found him gentle & unassuming - you wouldn't think he was the most famous prisoner in britain: doesn't seem aware of it himself guess it doesn't mean too much when you get back to your cell after visiting hours. unable to believe he'll ever get back out now after 5 yrs fit-ups/ bungling/lies/ mistreatment /falsehopes & bitter disappointments - all on account of something he never did in the first place... if you've been following the case write to your MP now & demand action. if not ring 01-987-6542 and ask for a leaflet.('Free George Ince' stickers and posters also available ). If you don' t know who your MP is, ring up the house of commons and ask!!! What do we want? JUSTICE, who for? GEORGE INCE. When do we want it? NOW -tom.

WEIRD GIGS Dept. we played leicester university may ball(in june) where none of those big butch Real Men students would take on task of looking after band when we arrived. Seems they'd heard we played a song about homosexuality and didnt want to get themselves, er CONTAMINATED - right ? Macho buncha pigs - they shoulda bin so lucky. Anyhow they pressganged this woman student into taking care of us because she'd be, er SAFE - right ? Wrong. She + nameless member of band took shine to each each other & disappeared for an hour after the gig. just goes to show... you can' t believe EVERYTHING you read & hear now can you?

FOR INSTANCE: loony on lewisham anti-NF march with squeezy bottle of ammonia. Law spotted him, did nothing, then thinking he was gonna spray our lot. Wrong. And 6 SWP guys hadta jump on him - they knew who'd be blamed next day. Last thing we need is an NF martyr: for christsake dont come on demos armed.

IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE Dept. And you thought pakistani kids were getting a rough time at hands of NF: last month after civil unrest / riots pakistan security forces took over from ineffectual govt. to restore order to country. With religious fundamentalism unheard of for years the martial law regime introduced following code of islamic punishment. *Theft: death by hanging or amputation of left hand 'done by a qualified sugeon under local anaesthetic in public or in gaol as directed' *Student agitators: five years imprisonment, or whipping *Insulting or molesting women: ten years imprisonment - or whipping *Resisting police: death. Yes folks, it's all happening only a plane ride away in sunny Pakistan right at this very moment BRIAN'S CORNER: 'phinarium noos i would like to thank profusely all those who gave my last piece a definite vote of confidence by voting it 'about average'. i've decided to avoid telling you about my towed away car, nite on a park bench, my visit to the family planning (oh i do hope - i'm not pregnant cos i'm not married etc. ) but instead i'll just try & bullshit my way through a few more yards of tripewriter ribbon: only one sonet this week i'm afraid cos times are very hard.

"dotty lotty your so grotty savoir faire of a full up potty but let him go for goodness sake you're as delicate as a pomme leg break its mighty sore that handful there good job he's a bouncer at mothercare cos without those things you hold so tight he'd never make it thru- the nite." one final point this week: interesting quote from family planning fanzine: 3,000 yrs ago the chinese were known to swallow 28 tadpoles as a form of contraception. 800,000,000 chinese today suggests little succes

RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON I want to see the bright lights tonight' - forgotten 1974 masterpiece on island records. Coupla years ago Colin worked for thompsons' management & took me to see em. must admit hated it & walked out, but this album is a gem. R.Thompson comes from traditional english/folkie/ bearded/ beerswilling/ homeknit/ finger-in-the-ear background & miraculously, he SURVIVED to make this grim bleak & timeless album - a vision of english working life stretching across the centuries: his characters could be living in 1890 or 1980 - the themes of love / misery / oppression / poverty / faith / betrayal / drunkenness / heartbreak stay the same. Simple penetrating lyrics, utterly economical, haunting images - true to centuries-old traditions yet totally original. Same true of his spiky fender guitar playing & folorn vocals from Linda... takes two/three listenings to get over their nasal folksy intonations but worth it for gripping power of the songs. Music to slash wrists by. tom.

GENERAL LONDON INFO: BIT alternative information Ol-229 8219 A WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE abortion rights in danger Ol-359-5209 National abortion Campaign O1-485-4303 In world threatened by overpopulation & food shortage anyone that tells you abortion & homosexuality are anti social hasta be off their fucking rockers. Fight for womens rights. Spare Rib magazine for women 45p inc. from 27 clerkenwell close london EC1 HOMOSEXUALS gay 01 -837-7324 is a 24hr info/advice service for women & men. gay news: fortnightly newspaper from 1a normand gds greyhound rd W14(35p.)

ROCK AGAINST RACISM badges/ stickers/ T-Shirts/posters/ + Temporary Hoarding news sheet from: RAR 6 cottons gdns london E2.(Temp.hoarding no 1 includes lyrics to winter of 79 ' price 30p inc .) Love music - hate racism.

ARRESTED Don't kid yourself: it can happen to any of us anytime any of Them feel like it - don't havta be guilty or anything like that. Say nothing & caII RELEASE 01-289-1123... whatever tell you, make no statement till you've spoken to Release. This is your right.

TILL THE NEXT TIME... keep the belief/ stick to the street/ stay in touch/ don't believe a word THEY tell you in their news... we can be reached c/o linda cooke, 25 montpelier gro . NW5. Should be a single of 'Motorway; by end of sept. See ya.

THE FALL OF 77 news/infomation/propaganda bulletin from tom robinson band 11.9.77

DANNY KUSTOW: guiarist & foxhound BRIAN TAYLOR: drummer and dolphin MARK AMBLER: organist & whalesaver TOM ROBINSON: bassist and boss COLIN BELL: wheeler and dealer MICK EXETER : 6 month's hard labour - aided & abetted by PETE (ave yer seen me tattooes) WARD from barnsley

GIGS rest of sept we'll be recording xcept the 30th when we do a one-off at J.B.s club in Dudley. after that the first two weeks in october run: 4th London 100 Club 5th Crewe North Staffs Poly 6th BIRKENHEAD Mr Digby's again 7th LIVERPOOL Eric's 8th LEICESTER University (ho ho) 12th WOLVERHAMPTON lafayette 14th MANCHESTER Review (at Rafters) + loads more we'll put in nextt bulletin. Gigs sometimes get changed around / cancelled/ added - always check NME gig guide: they got the latest deadline so usually most - accurate. if in doubt phone venue.

BOOKINGS handled by Bob Salmons at ITB agency: 01-629-4928 Colin (how are YOU) Bell would only admit to being 22 when given birthday bumps at dingewalls dancehall last night by yrs trly + Rich Kids tho his birth certificate actually sez 11.9.52. Colin has worked with me in one sense or another ever since fireworks nite 1975 and he's bin with the TRB from beginning. Handled bookings/ hassles/ contrax/ dirty work & bin responsible for every bit of publicity & coverage the band's ever had. Just for the record in all the time ive known him he's never asked for a penny in commission or payment & he's only just now gon on thirty quid a week same as the rest of us. Happy Birthday mate from all of us. tom.

NOOS Anarchy in high wycombe / bummers in birkenhead / ignomony in ipswich / brain damage at the breknok / madness in midlesbrough / lesbians in leeds / a million takes of motorway / mobbs still unsatisfied / banned & unbanned in bracknell / mentioned in / guess what in a guest house... plus roy butterfield turning up at coventrv with a loada mates who wouldn't believe that he was the legendary Anton Mauve we keep on about... he's gotta noo band so watch out pistols. Far as we know motorway / i shall be released still due out as single around end of sept xcept we still haven't ...Uh...recorded it to Their satisfaction yet. Notwithstanding a coupla days with the island mobile down the Who's studio at Shepperton (ho yus v. big time now y'know). Dontcha worry, we set to in ernest nex toosday onwards not to mention 3rd time lucky an all that. Meantime should be something in this week's NME & pete silverton's doing a piece for SOUNDS pretty soon.

WEIRD GIGS Dept. Scenes of seaside insanity in sunny scarborough when robinson was unleashed with bottle of poppers among unsuspecting population of Penthouse Club who were definitely Not Ready for amyl nitrate. No sir. First to fall was the disc (hey man what IS that stuff) jockey- collapsing in helpless heap of giggles half way thru pretty vacant, shortly to be followed by burly bouncers / barstaff punks & punters.. plus the fifty odd(!) people who crammed into dressing rm. after gig unaware of what was in store for them. Sheer havoc

INCE George Henry Ince married Doris Grey at 2.36 pm wednesday 7th sept at hamersmith registry office. place packed with police/ press/ parasites/ people like us/ plus loyal dosen or so who help dolly in her battle to free george year in year out. (stand by yor man nothing!) necks craned for glimpse of The Man in the lite grey suit quiet and dignified amidst the bedlam of flash-' bulbs/ jostling/ plainclothes screws/ people shaking his hand while he had only ten precious minutes with the woman he went to prison for... (as one whisper would have it.) champagne corks popping and every one having a whale of a time xcept there's no bubbly for george no sir its straight back to his cell in the scrubs with handcuffs for mister ince. Never mind, its only another ten years isn't it... or is it? Another (yes another) special report on George Ince Case due out any day now... any day now... any day now...

IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE Dept. Remember the Hull prison riot on TV this time last year -,men on rooftops in hoods protesting about violence and inhuman conditions ?? eventually came down after promises of no violence from screws and TV cameras went away ... "... first we were met by the 'reception' group/given a quick examination by the doctor/ then asked to get our property sorted out. then whisked off by couple of screws to be well roughed up, out of sight of the processing area - mostly this was digs in the ribs, kicks in the balls, hair pulled, shins kicked - mild stuff compared to what was to follow. we were taken off to undamaged areas, in various parts of the prison and banged up in single cells, all in a row. very soon the first group of screws arrived - about a dozen of them the start of the systematic beatings that were to continue till sunday afternoon. they split up into groups of about 4 or 5, and worked their way up the line of cells. either they would charge into a cell push the prisoner onto the floor, and kick him into a corner, and carry on for 5, 10 minutes or longer. or they would drag you out, with your arms and legs flailing and hurl you against a wall, landing blows to the head, back, legs and kidneys anywhere that was exposed. when being beaten like this you instinctively roll yourself into a ball like position - legs tucked in, arms trying to shield the head... some cons shouted abuse at their attackers, some just rolled into a ball and were silent except for screams and gasps of pain. this session continued up to about 8.00pm saturday morning brought the first food since we came down from the roof; plates of hot food being smashed into our faces. then back to the cells for another session along the same lines as friday night. the beatings on saturday began after breakfast and continued into late afternoon. sunday, I was handcuffed, pushed and kicked down the stairs by a jeering group of screws, taken to another prison and immediately locked up in solitary." source: "Hull 76" 30p from PROP (prisoners rights organisation) 339a Finchley Road London NW3.

GENERAL LONDON INFO WOMENS RIGHTS: National Abortion Campaign 01 485 4303. Abortion Rights in Danger 01 359 5209. Spare Rib Magazine for women 45p inc. from 27 clerkenwell close,london EC1 HOMOSEXUALS: Gay Switchboard 01-837-7324 - 24 hr info/advice for women and men. Gay News - fortnightly newspaper from la Normand gds, greyhound rd., Wl4. 35p ROCK AGAINST RACISM: Temporary Hoarding Newssheet from RAR 6 cottons gds, london e2, + badges/ stickers/ T shirts/ posters. IF ARRESTED: don't give a statement and call RELEASE 01 289 1123 also deal with gen legal/ med/ drug probs during office hours. BIT alternative info: 01 229 8219 FREE GEORGE INCE CAMPAIGN 01 987 6542

BRIANS CORNER/ PHINARIUM NOOS Ladies and Gentlefolk Roll up,Roll Up. Here we are again at the nice clean Marquee in seedy Soho where the red lights shine so bright they obscure the places of horizontal refreshment that they advertise. However on the horizon there is a bright spot DOLL FINN (+trb) is in town. Wow this is gonna be a good night. Witizizmz that stick in the mind like condensation to kustowws underpnnts. Be sure not to miss the coprafiliation supplied in the stage act and see the magnificent DOLL FINN dive 40 ft from the GPO tower into a pudding bowl over flowing with state custard. Surely a night to remember. (bullshit ed.)

TILL OCTOBER thanx for your letters - as ever if ya wanna write to any of us we wanna hear from you. A.L.A means all letters answered though SAE does help, EMI promise noo loada stickers/ badges/ T shirts ASAP but then I.B.I.W.I.S.I. right ? they are printing noo flash bulletin designed by RED WEDGE (who do temporary hoarding etc.) for sending to press promoters etc., but we're gonna steal a couple a thousand and give em to linda for you lot. ready by end of month complete with photos/ biogs/ lyrics to Up Against the Wall. send a big SAE to linda cooke, 25 montpelier grove, london NW5 nearer the time + she'll do the rest. meantime keep the belief, stick to the streets, stay in touch and don't believe a word THEY tell you.