Creeping Stupidity (the day the racists came to town)
The day started bright and early yesterday (by a Sunday's standards) when we arrived in Brighton city centre at half eleven in order to counter-demonstrate against the 'March for England' (who are basically the EDL in a bad wig). We met up with some like-minded anarchists and assorted anti-fascists at our tactically chosen meeting point of The Clock Tower at the bottom of Queen's Road, decided upon for its difficulty to kettle and central location meaning it was easy to quickly reach any of the possible routes the march was due to take, and were disappointed to...Read more...
Vegan sausage, spinach and mustard mash, yorkshire puddings, cauliflower cheese and onion gravy
Warning: I am really crap at being accurate with measurements and times!
Yorkshire puddings
Preheat your oven as hot as it will go, with bun tins/muffin moulds/yorkshire pudding tins with a layer of oil in it.
Whisk 115g plain flour, 1tsp salt and 1 heaped tsp of gram (chickpea) flour with 1/2pt soy milk (unsweetened!) until there's no lumps (should be quite a thin batter)
When the oil is so hot it's smoking, pour a small amount (I get 8 YPs out of this batter, they rise a lot...
If you've ever been to a Good Lookin' South gig, or before that, a Born Free? DIY gig, you may have noticed a bit of paper on the table by the door (not the one with the door tax on it, or the piles of unsold zines) with a few suggestions on how to, and how not to act. That would be our safe space policy, or to use it's alternative name, the "Don't be a Dick" policy.
It's a sad fact that we still feel it's necessary to have this notice, but unfortunately the punk scene, and...
I'm clearly in a generous mood, or perhaps I'm just smug that the pseudo-anarchist, major label, misogynist, arseholes of The King Blues have finally split up after making the UK punk scene suffer their naïve, ill thought out politics, so I've decided to give away a few free copies of Good Lookin' South.
As if their music and attitude wasn't enough to make you hate The King Blues, let's not forget how Itch treated former band members and his ex partner and their child. What a dick.
Image credit: @PaulGrahamRaven
Only a couple of weeks to wait until this gig, a benefit for Brighton Punx Picnic 2012, which is in turn a benefit for Brighton Anti-Fascists, Sussex Hunt Sabs and Autonomous Spaces. Featuring Ephemeral Foetus, Husbands n Knives, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Greed Force and Matt Black and The Emulsions - it's all kicking off at The Hydrant on 13th April 2012.
Admission is £3 un/minimum waged, £4 everyone else which is a recession busting 80p per band, or even less if you're skint. Bring along a few extra pennies though, because I'll be bringing the Good Lookin' South...