tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post4852905457878820434..comments2024-03-29T06:51:03.388+00:00Comments on TPQ: Current 93 + Nurse With Wound: Live ReviewAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-20541958663056522752018-10-25T15:42:04.605+01:002018-10-25T15:42:04.605+01:00I don't think her political views were too dee...I don't think her political views were too deeply held, she was young and angry and flitting between youth cults (punk to skin) looking for belonging, something easy to do in England in the 80s where culture rather than politics was what people were really playing about with and still are. Yes, Crane didn‘t ‘come out’ till he had Aids and was looking to integrate himself into the gay PaulJPMNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490820633744341867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-20296814249932821752018-10-24T23:26:25.786+01:002018-10-24T23:26:25.786+01:00"She...got into Blood and Honour and had been..."She...got into Blood and Honour and had been a hard core anarchist."<br /><br />Classic example of the horse shoe theory right there!<br /><br />I can't help but think that Crane dismissing his past was a way for him to integrate himself into the gay community. I'm sure that he knew if Ian Stuart Donaldson and co had found out about his sexuality while still involved with the Christopher Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236891604706531905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59992288400917451942018-10-24T20:22:01.446+01:002018-10-24T20:22:01.446+01:00Thing is I wasn‘t really going for the films, more...Thing is I wasn‘t really going for the films, more the all night club in the foyer. Nicky Crane was at the gay all nighters there and it was just accepted because life outside did not apply inside. That was many years before he outed himself. I met him through his skinhead ‘girlfriend’ who lived in the same hostel as me in Bayswater in 1988. She was a ‘sex worker’ who got into Blood and Honour PaulJPMNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509217787466468416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-60155689719114581022018-10-23T21:32:19.117+01:002018-10-23T21:32:19.117+01:00PJ MN,
Funnily enough, Mark Kermode says the same...PJ MN,<br /><br />Funnily enough, Mark Kermode says the same thing about the Scala clientele! You don't really get that nowadays, as everything is sold to us via online advertising and the plethora of lifestyle websites plugging even the most obscure film. Back then, you really had to research this stuff and scan Time Out for any possible sign of an Alejandro Jodorowsky double bill. <br /><brChristopher Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236891604706531905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-88462192451542983472018-10-23T10:30:30.636+01:002018-10-23T10:30:30.636+01:00Hello Christopher
I used to go to all nighters in...Hello Christopher<br /><br />I used to go to all nighters in The Scala in the 80s. There was usually an alt 80s music club in the foyer and a mix of people who would avoid each other in the outside world which made for an odd compelling atmosphere. Euston is another station near Kings Cross where people like myself arrived into London to start a new life in the 80s and before that as teenager to PaulJPMNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490820633744341867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-75056291265164451062018-10-22T22:05:23.337+01:002018-10-22T22:05:23.337+01:00The Pet Shop Boys also immortalised the place in t...The Pet Shop Boys also immortalised the place in their song 'Kings Cross', where it serves as a critique of Thatcherism and a kind of hope (as most trains from the North of England ended their journeys in Kings Cross, so this is where most escaping their homes would have landed in London).<br /><br />The Scala Cinema was another lifeline for many, as they would regularly show John Waters Christopher Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236891604706531905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-79775270892350690712018-10-22T11:45:42.482+01:002018-10-22T11:45:42.482+01:00Kings Cross is very much the star of the 1955 Eali...Kings Cross is very much the star of the 1955 Ealing comedy ‘The Lady Killers‘, one of the best British films ever made. The skinhead association came because in the 80s there was a hotel in Argyle Sq with fascist links where the late Ian Stuart Donaldson of Skrewdriver lived for a time. There was also a pub near the station where fascist skins would gather on a Sunday in 86/87 and shout abuse PaulJPMNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490820633744341867noreply@blogger.com