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Johna

THERE ARE ENOUGH RESOURSES IN THE WORLD FOR THE NEEDY ,BUT NOT FOR THE GREEDY!

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Myspace Contact Tables , hosting by Imgdump.nethttp://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p134/soldieran t1960/leedssaveourclub23.jpgMyspace Contact Tables , hosting by Imgdump.nethttp://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p134/soldieran t1960/leedssaveourclub23.jpgUnderwater table tennis,playing for leeds united,might get a game now lol!watching leeds united if i don't get a game[season ticket holder].won it in an unlucky bag lol! line dancing on a horse.Car boot sales ,when i can get up.Museaums.Love being around good people ,seems to be very few left? Can't be bothered with life's silly games of materialism,power, greed and competitiveness.It divides, rather then unites people.customising clothes, knicking samples for my own choons, voluntary work. The biggest influence in my life was the Punk movement in the 70's & inparticular Adam & the ants who i used to travel round the country watching.Punk gave people the confidence to be anything they wanted .It was classless,genderless,it was a bout the individual ,but not in a selfish way.It was a diverse sub culture full of diverse individuals.Punk ended for me when the the OI! movement started.that was a celabration of the worst aspects of being working class,it wanted people to remain trapped in the working class culture not help people escape class.It became everything punk was against.It was not about the individual .punk became a uniform with mohawks tartan bondage pants ,leather jackets & docs.all the bands sounded the same 90 miles an hour thrash,.everybody had the same mantra it was mind numbigly boring. Punk according to the Sun newspaper.That appears to still be the case to day? Iam working class myself & proud of a lot of the traditions of being working class.but that doesn't mean you can't improve your life & it also proved that we could just as creative given the chance & add to the rich tapestry of english culture instead of just being the dogs bodies& slacves of the mmasters.Oi rejected this with it's inverted snobbery The history of punk jumps from the pistols & the Clash to the Exploited, & the Cockney rejects etc. all the creativity of the different bands in between that have been forgotten. Punk was a state of mind not a fashion, it had attitude, it was a way of life 24/7. It's turned from a positive image to a negative one when people thought it was punk to became a useless junkie like Vicious being violent instead of being able to communicate . basically punk became dumbed down,for thicko's & losers & how the media had potrayed punks from the beginning.

I'd like to meet:

this event will also double as the old punks xmas partylayoutiI would like to meet the real me and the person i will spend the rest of my life good people.Elaine Cassidy, Jenny Foulds[Heather from 2000 acres of sky].Samantha Morton,louise Delamere.Julie Walters,lucy montgomery, Sean Bonniwell.Welly and the boys from Norwich.All the old faces in London Town.All the other people are dead ,but iam sure il bump into them some where. Janis Joplin Marx brothers Don Revie Mathew Ashman Billy Bremner Mahatma Gandhi Martin Luther king Nick Drake Oscar Wilde Goucho marx Hitler Stalin Jack the ripper Tsar Nicholas 11 and after watching a recent doc on Ronnie laine ,he seems a decent guy My old NIEGHBOUR Ann AND people who are going to be part of my future life. iam still waiting for a school reunion invatation from cannon fodder comphrehensive.The only person who did anything worth mentioning was Andrea Dunbar.she wrote rita ,sue and bob to. quite remarkable considering she only turned up once a year. i would have loved to have read the original script.mind you she captured our school and the area remarkably. she was also in the terminal stupid form ,of which i was a great contributor to the chaos and dysfunctional atmosphere.

Music:

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Movies:

Thunder rock,murder in the first,dead peots society ,name of the rose,clockwork orange,triumph of the will,marx brothers,misissippi burning,filth and the fury,Micheal Collins.Bad boy Bubby,punk in London,Holocaust,the Punk Rock movie,Riot on Sunset Strip.Psych Out,jaws,Odessa file,christianne f.Shawshank Redemption,Dance with a stranger old b/w films.better scripts and actors.prefer films which take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions rather then movies with plenty of action and effects and little substance

Television:

Rising damp,black books,dear john,2000 acres of sky,spooks,who do you think you are.leauge of gentlemen,still game,underground music docs /gigs,documentaries,gritty social dramas,especially with a psychological edge to them, or were people overcome adversity.who dunnits,our friends in the north whoe's line is it anyway,wire in the blood,have i got news for you

Books:

factual books.football,histoty,biographyies,true crime. Don't bother with news papers.They are all politically motivated,or the news ,to depressing

Heroes:

no more heroes any more!real heroes are people who are willing to sacrafice themselves for the wellbeing others before themselves.like roal wallenberg,martin luther king,gandi,oscar shindler,nelson mandela.and skippy People who have had an impact on my life. Don Revie and Leeds UnitedStuart goddard. Viv and Malcs clothes .sex and seditionaries Friends and Enemies Family and Girlfriends John Lydon. Just glad i learned all about false prophets and the falability of mankind before Alan Smith upset all those people who believed in him and joined the enemy.it still hurt though!JUDAS! Just watched a programme called This World about modern day heroes.Dr Ali and his staff in bagdad hospital.What tremendous courage and humanity in dealing with the everyday chaos and carnage of Irag.Maybe if everybody got out of there who isn't iragi they might find peace ? they certianly deserve it Also i would include Abdul Haq an afhganistani who told the americans he could sort his own country out,without the need to invade them but the americans keep believing other unreliable sources instead.He was killed by ?

My Blog

Bradford punks anti nazi gig Victoria Park 78

  :namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Victoria park Anti Nazi gig 78 ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  With t...
Posted by Johna on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:32:00 PST

Sex Pistols Huddersfield Ivanoe’s Xmas Day dec 77

SEX PISTOLS HUDDERSFIELD XMAS DAY 1977 When i lived in , and knocked about in London in the late 70s,early 80s  i used to bump into loads of famous faces. Lemmy was out every time we went out. B...
Posted by Johna on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:21:00 PST

king kurt Palm Cove Bradford 83

King kurt palm cove bradford 83 Palm Cove! another great kk event.My friend Barnzley went to have his hair cut on stage and they cut is wart off ,which was on the back of his head.There was blood eve...
Posted by Johna on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:19:00 PST

Mark Almond story

Mark Almond story Category: Music Hi was in London a while ago now. I was stood outside reckless records in berwick street in soho.I looked round and Mark Almond was stood next to me. He had is yes ...
Posted by Johna on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:18:00 PST

Adam & The Ants Birmingham Digbeth Civic Hall 14/7/79

Adam &the Ants Birmingham.Digbeth Civic hall 14/7/79 ..> ..> ..> ADAM AND THE ANTS: DIGBETH CIVIC HALL 14/7/79It was the 2nd night of the Zerox tour, having played Retford Porterhouse the nig...
Posted by Johna on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:14:00 PST

king kurt Warwick Uni 83

king kurt warwick uni83 king kurt played Warwick uni in 83.This place had a reputation for having a mad bar manager, who would take no shit.About 30 of us travelled up from london.When we got there w...
Posted by Johna on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:12:00 PST

Nick Cave the wanker part 1& 2 & Julian Cope

The Nick Cave story, "my perspective" lol Another tale from the archives. I used top work at the Bradford university in the late 80's ,early 90s.I used to do the security for the bands with my mate.Wh...
Posted by Johna on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST

crass SLF & mad house

I have left this in it's original email form It's in response to my thoughts on Crass & SLF's It relating to an ongoing discussion on the onemickjones site about Lydon & Strummer. The memorie...
Posted by Johna on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:47:00 PST

southern death cult Windermere 83

Southern death cult  Windermere 83? ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  I was reminded about this gig at a recent old punk revival get together Everyon...
Posted by Johna on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:21:00 PST

HAS ANYONE GOT ANY PUNK OR ADAM & THE ANTS MEMORABILIA?

..> HAS ANY ONE GOT ANY ADAM ..7 THE ANTS OR PUNK MEMORABILIA? CAN ANY ONE HELP WITH THE ANTS! PLEASE READ! Body: Hi peeps ! iam back! i need help please read. Body: I have finally , i hope sorted...
Posted by Johna on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:13:00 PST