LINKS
Music Links
Strummerville - The Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music
http://
www.strummerville.co.uk
TV Smith (Adverts, Explorers, now an inspiring solo performer
and good mate)
http://www.tvsmith.com
Rancid
If you love the Clash you really should check out this lot: the best band I've heard for ages...
http://www.rancidrancid.com
The Fish Brothers
Unclassifiable music hall punk rock and three fifths of Barnstormer!
http://www.thefishbrothers.com
Joe Strummer 1952-2002
Another great Clash website
http://www.theclash.org.uk
Otway
Legend, microstar and sometime double act partner
http://www.johnotway.com
The Men They Couldn't Hang
http://www.tmtch.net
Billy Bragg
http://www.billybragg.co.uk
Blyth Power
Astonishing, original, unique!
http://www.blythpower.co.uk
The Official Mick Thomas Website
http://www.mickthomas.com
Newtown Neurotics
My cultural companions through the 1980s!
http://www.neurotics.org.uk
Chumbawamba
http://www.chumba.com
Half Man Half Biscuit
http://www.hmhb.co.uk
New Model Army
http://www.newmodelarmy.org
Wob
supremely energetic singer-songwriter with great tunes
http://www.wobmusic.com
Robb Johnson
http://www.robbjohnson.co.uk
Horch
'Baroque n Roll' from East Germany! - The nearest thing to Barnstormer you'll ever find...medieval rock
(though they would see themselves nearer Jethro Tull than The Clash I guess)
http://www.gruppe-horch.de
David Rovics
Excellent US radical songwriter
http://www.davidrovics.com
Nick Burbridge
Great Brighton songwriter, former leader of the legendary McDermott's two Hours
http://www.burbridgearts.org
Philip Jeays
Brilliant cabaret singer-songwriter, unique in this country, the English Brel!
http://www.jeays.com
Rory Ellis
Great Melbourne singer/songwriter from the same streets as Mick Thomas
http://www.roryellis.com
The Punk History of Brighton
http://www.punkbrighton.co.uk
East Side Records
German label which has released 2 Barnstormer albums on vinyl
http://www.eastsiderecords.de
Political Links
IWCA (Independent Working Class Association)
Standing a candidate in the London Mayoral Election and looking 10 for sponsors in each borough.
A brave attempt by progressive people to fill the vacuum left by New Labouršs betrayal of what was once their core constituency, the vacuum that fascists such as the BNP are currently
trying to exploit..
http://www.iwca.info
Working Class Movement Library
A national collection of British and Irish radical/labour/socialist
movements with archives that stretch from Thomas Paine in the 1790s to the
present day. WCML welcomes visitors and researchers and also donations of new
archive material, including CDs, DVDs, videos, tapes as well as books, pamphlets and posters.
http://www.wcml.org.uk
Peace Not War
Great activists' site
http://www.peace.fm
Beer Links
The Evening Star in Brighton
Home of the best real ale on the planet!
http://www.darkstarbrewing.co.uk
The Duke of Wellington, Shoreham
Legendary Shoreham pub, now run by Rob Jones formerly of Dark Star Brewery
http://www.dukeofwellingtonbrewhouse.co.uk
Pubology
Drinking In History!
http://www.pubology.com/
Poetry Links
Martin Newell
http://www.martinnewell.co.uk
Football Poets
http://www.footballpoets.org
Benjamin Zephaniah
He turned it down and he was right!
http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com
Luke Wright
Rising star of the performance poetry scene!
http://www.lukewright.co.uk
Computer Links
Matthew the Mac Man
If you, like me, have a Mac, donšt understand computers, live in Brighton and need help, Matthew
the Mac Man is your man (don't worry, he's not a Macc Lad, he's kind, polite and sober!)
http://www.themac-man.co.uk/
Football Links
Brighton and Hove Albion
http://www.seagulls.co.uk
FC St.Pauli:
http://www.fcstpauli.de/
St Pauli UK Fans' Forum
http://stpaulifansuk.forumup.co.uk/