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The Raincoats (Live @Acklam Hall, London 10th May 1979)

Here's an extraordinary early Raincoats live recording, taped beneath the Westway at Ladbroke Grove's Acklam Hall during their first British tour, shortly before the release of their eponymous debut Rough Trade LP. They were playing as support to Switzerland's ever-vibrant Kleenex, & Cabaret Voltaire were on the bill too, I believe?
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(Mona's faux-pas #1: I had just been given a whole heap pf promo postcards for Odyshape and was at a gig by either Paul Rogers or Paul playing with Talisker and I saw my friend Kent, so I handed him one of the cards not knowing that Gina and him had split up a couple of days before...if looks could kill!)
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Paul White: Time-lapse of a drawing

A time lapse showing the progression of a pencil drawing over 30 hours by artist Paul White.
Film production by Johnny Blank.
More from the artist Paul White here:
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Hunter S. Thompson just sitting around

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"There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Erdogan said. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."
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One more thing...

While normally I wouldn't celebrate anyone's death, for Thatcher I made an exception. A number of glasses of milk were drank the night I heard!

Good night. Go to sleep. May your dreams be beautiful XXX

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This is the last of Exile (at least for the conceivable future.) It's been a blast. Met some great people thru it. (You know who you are.) The 'unreal' world was starting to interfere with the 'real' one and when the two met...well the results were 'interesting'. Time for the flesh and the blood.

- Mona

London anarchist bookshop firebombed

Freedom, London's oldest anarchist bookshop, was firebombed in the early hours of Friday 1st Febuary. Early reports suggest the bookshop on the ground floor and the building's electrics were “seriously damaged”, despite the bookshop having been fitted with metal shutters following a bombing by members of Combat 18, a British neo-fascist group, in 1993. Thankfully, nobody was hurt in last night's attack...
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