For anyone interested in Victor Grayson I’ve started to update the old website https://t.co/SjXazJp1Nh and will be putting some more useful stuff for researchers on there.
Last night I watched a doc where kids in the favelas with nothing to their name were playing football on the streets and having a great time, but you’re telling me that ours have literally no option but to watch YouTube cos services have been cut. Get real.
Peak indie! My 2006 gig list:
23 Jan 2006 — Bedouin Soundclash + Vernon Maytone
Barfly Liverpool — £8
24 Feb 2006 — Student Music Awards — Dogs
Liverpool Academy 2 — £3 students / £5 guests
7 Apr 2006 — We Are Scientists + Forward Russia!
Manchester Academy — £10.50
8 Apr 2006 — The Subways + The Dodgems
Carling Academy Liverpool — £8.50
5 May 2006 — The Kooks + The Automatic
Carling Academy Liverpool — £9
1 Jun 2006 — Alice Cooper
Villa Marina, Isle of Man
7 Oct 2006 — Yourcodenameis:milo (+ Dogs, The Vernons, Jack Afro, Little Ze)
Zanzibar Club Liverpool — £6
20 Oct 2006 — Guillemots + The Last Town Chorus
Carling Academy Liverpool — £10
24 Oct 2006 — Nine Black Alps / NME Rock ’n’ Roll Riot Tour
with The Fratellis, The Horrors, The Maccabees & Larrikin Love
Carling Academy Liverpool — £10.50
25 Oct 2006 — The Raconteurs
Mountford Hall Liverpool — £17.50
6 Nov 2006 — Babyshambles + The Holloways
Carling Academy Liverpool — £16
21 Nov 2006 — Primal Scream + The View
Liverpool Academy — £17.50
25 Nov 2006 — Dirty Pretty Things + Larrikin Love + Hot Club de Paris
Mountford Hall Liverpool — £12.50
11 Dec 2006 — The Zutons + Candie Payne
Liverpool University — £15
100 years ago today and the Evening News reports the aftermath of the collapse of the General Strike.
There were reports of a failure to pay strike pay and a passing donkey greeted “Good afternoon, TUC”.
At a dockers meeting in Liverpool a speaker shouted “Get back to your work; every man for himself” whilst emergency staff were still operating some of London’s power stations.
@PaulEmbery@NicDakin55 Healey wouldn’t have passed a selection process nowadays. In fact he probably would have been expelled for his previous membership of the communist party or his speech at the ‘45 conference.
@allandray08@richardmarcj Thanks Alan. I’m just fine tuning it. Currently redoing a chapter on Clynes’ refusal to grant asylum to Trotsky and the associated fallout. I’ve written far too much as usual!
100 years ago today The British Gazette, Churchill’s emergency strike newspaper, announced the collapse of the General Strike. Printed for only 8 days, it became the government’s propaganda weapon in Britain’s greatest industrial crisis.
It’s the centenary of the General Strike and I’ve found some old newspapers in my haphazard archive. First off The British Worker issue 2 from Thursday May 6th 1926:
The British Worker was the official newspaper of the TUC during the General Strike. The paper was created almost overnight as a lone voice with the rest of the mainstream press firmly against the strike. This was from Thursday evening, the third day of the strike.