Culture (222)
Bovver Boys and Gothic Girls – Playground Society and Children’s Comics of the 70s, Part One of Two
Written by Peter Jachimiak
Went to college, studied art / To be an artist, make a start
Studied hard, gained my degree / But no one seemed to notice me …
Tried cartoons and comic books / Dirty postcards, woman’s looks
Here was where the money lay / Classic art has had its day
The Creation, ‘Painter Man’, 1966.
Bish, Bash, Bosh – Growing Up in 70s Aggro Britain, Part Two of Two
Written by Peter Jachimiak
‘Come in from school / My head buzzing with rules’
Jook, ‘Crazy Kids’, 1974.
I'd just finished watching Jeff Stelling and his clan mutter over a vidiprinter, it was a decent day. One of them days where you can actually take your jacket off and not feel like you've made a bad decision, which is pretty rare for Bradford.
Bish, Bash, Bosh – Growing Up in 70s Aggro Britain, Part One of Two
Written by Peter Jachimiak
‘Yes, I’m in Aggravation Place / Where the pressure takes the smile off every face’
Jook, ‘Aggravation Place’, 1978
The Intolerable Incarceration Of Prisoner 11810 (Bastoy Prison Norway)
Written by Piers Hernu
Can a prison possibly justify treating its inmates with saunas, sun beds and deck chairs if that prison has the lowest reoffending rate in Europe? Live reports from Norway on the penal system that runs contrary to all our instincts – but achieves everything we could wish for An inmate convicted of murder sunbathes outside the wooden cottage where he lives.
