TOP TEN GIGS & FESTIVALS SO FAR

Galaxy Theatre, Auckland, 1991

Annandale Hotel, Sydney, 1993

Schokoladen, East Berlin (with Barnstormer) 2001-2015

25th Anniversary Gig, Komedia, Brighton 2005

Rivoli, Toronto, 1989

Glastonbury, 1983 – 2015 (every year there has been one)

East Germany (Summer Song Festival/Political Song Festival & Tour) 1986-1990

Vancouver Folk Festival, 1989-2005 (sporadically)

Glastonwick, 1996-2015 (every year of course!)

Beautiful Days, Devon, 2010

 

TOP TEN ALBUMS

THE CLASH – The Clash

T.REX – Electric Warrior

JOHN CALE – Paris 1919

DOCTORS OF MADNESS – Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground & Nico

DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

CULTURE – Two Sevens Clash

RANCID - And Out Come The Wolves

NEWTOWN NEUROTICS – Beggars Can Be Choosers

JACQUES BREL – Les Marquises

 

THREE NOTABLE ARGUMENTS NOT MENTIONED IN THIS BOOK

  • PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE (right wing journalist, former editor of the Sunday Telegraph) on Radio 4’s ‘Midweek’, sometime in the 90s
  • BERNARD INGHAM, Thatcher’s former press officer, on a TV discussion programme, ditto
  • The one I’d have had with BOB GELDOF if they’d let me near him, Melbourne, 1993

 

FIVE SORTS OF PEOPLE I CAN’T STAND

  • Wealthy right wingers who whine about how working class their background is
  • Poor right wingers - Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • Patronising poetry snobs
  • The contemptable plutocrats on and off the pitch who are wrecking modern football and society in general
  • Racists and fascists (that includes the religious sort)

DISCOGRAPHY

All UK releases except where stated

 

SOLO

1981 Phasing Out Capitalism cassette (No Wonder)

1982 Rough, Raw and Ranting EP with Seething Wells (Radical Wallpaper)

1982 Cocktails EP (Cherry Red)

1983 Ranting at the Nation LP (Cherry Red)

1984 Sawdust and Empire LP (Anagram)

1984 Radio Rap! EP (Cherry Red)

1984 Livingstone Rap! EP (Cherry Red Ken)

1987 Libyan Students from Hell! LP (Plastic Head)

1988 Scornflakes LP/cassette (Probe Plus)

1990 (Canada) Live at the Rivoli LP/cassette (Festival)

1991 Donkey’s Years CD/LP/cassette (Musidisc)

1992 (Germany) This Is Free Europe CD/LP/single (Terz)

1993 (Australia) 668-Neighbour of the Beast CD/cassette (Larrikin)

1993 (Germany) Live auf St.Pauli CD (Terz)

1993 Attila the Stockbroker’s Greatest Hits cassette (Roundhead)

1999 Poems Ancient & Modern CD (Roundhead/Mad Butcher)

1999 The Pen & The Sword CD (Roundhead/Mad Butcher)

2003 Live in Belfast CD (Roundhead)

2005 Tom Hark (We Want Falmer) EP - with Seagulls Ska (Skint)

2007 (Norway) Spirit of Revolution vinyl EP with Patrik Fitzgerald (Crispin Glover)

2007 (Norway) Live In Norway CD (Crispin Glover)

2008 Spirit of the Age compilation CD (Roundhead)

2010 (Germany) Disestablished 1980 song compilation CD (Mad Butcher)

2012 The Long Goodbye/Never Too Late EP (Roundhead)

2015 Live at the Greys (Roundhead/Mad Butcher)

 

With JOHN OTWAY

1991 Cheryl - a Rock Opera CD/cassette (Strikeback)

 

With BARNSTORMER

1995 Renaissancecore cassette (Roundhead)

1995 (Germany) Sarajevo EP (Mad Butcher)

1996 The Siege of Shoreham CD/cass (Roundhead)

1998 Live in Hamburg cassette (Roundhead)

1999 (Germany) The Siege of Shoreham CD (Puffotter Platten) and LP (East Side Records)

2000 Just One Life (Roundhead)

2000 (Germany) Just One Life LP (Teenage Rebel Records)

2004 Zero Tolerance (Roundhead)

2004 (Germany) Zero Tolerance LP (East Side Records)

2004 Baghdad Ska - split single with Bomb Factory (Repeat Records)

2012 Bankers & Looters CD (Mad Butcher)

2012 (Holland) Bankers & Looters LP (Hupseeln Records)

 

With SEAGULLS SKA

2005 Tom Hark (We Want Falmer) EP - Reached number 17 in the UK Top 40 on 9th January 2005

 

TRACKS ON COMPILATIONS

I’ve definitely had tracks on over a hundred compilation LPs and CDs over the years. I’ll mention just three: ‘A Bang & A Wimpy’ on ‘Pillows & Prayers’ (Cherry Red) which has sold well in excess of 100,000 copies to date, ‘Russians in the DHSS’ on ‘Burning Ambitions - a History of Punk (Cherry Red) and ‘This Is Free Europe’ which has been on many anti fascist compilations in mainland Europe.

 

MUSICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Bass player with Contingent 1979 and 2007 - date: album ‘Destinee Fragile’ (2011) Fiddle player on albums by my friends TV Smith, Blyth Power, Robb Johnson, The King Blues and loads more I can’t remember right now…

 

BOOKS

1986 Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (Unwin)

1992 Scornflakes (Bloodaxe)

1998 The Rat-Tailed Maggot and Other Poems (Roundhead Publications)

2001 Goldstone Ghosts (Roundhead Publications)

2008 My Poetic Licence (Roundhead Publications)

2010 The Long Goodbye (Roundhead Publications)

2014 UK Gin Dependence Party and Other Peculiarities (Roundhead Publications)

2015 Arguments Yard (Cherry Red Books)

 

DVD

Live at the Heartland Café, 2004