You'll probably enjoy the Jerry novels. Moorcock is far better in this field than grinding out sword-and-sorcery nonsense like the Elric series.
Anyway...
amon düül ii - legendary krautrock outfit from Munich, kind of indirectly responsible for Hawkwind too. You may be interested to know they originated from a commune which also had key members of the Baader-Meinhoff group amongst their number...
van der graaf generator - equally legendary British prog outfit, with Peter Hammill on overwrought vocals and infinitely better lyrics than most of the competition were knocking out at the time. Despite being prog, they were much loved by the likes of John Lydon and Mark E. Smith among others. Not to be confused with a Van De Graaff Generator, which is an extremely cool piece of kit in its own right (it appears that the band couldn't spell when they formed at the University of Manchester).
anti id cards - you may have heard of the British government's plan to issue citizens with compulsory ID cards and register all their details on a database, so they can fight terror. Or is it crime? Or immigration? Whatever the case I want no part of it; hopefully the current government may see sense, though wasn't that a Gloucester Old Spot I just saw flying past the window? More chance of the scheme being defeated by good old cost-effectiveness and batshit-insane IT policies than other methods though.
not voting labour - see above, also see under "the war against terror", the abolition of student grants, the whole murky sleaze about cash for honours, the exhortations to embrace "Britishness"; I could go on. And where this sticks in the craw is that it's being executed by a nominally "Labour" government; the mixture of social authoritarianism and bending over for big business is what I expected from the Thatcherites, and indeed some of the new laws being passed at the rate of almost one per day are far, far harsher than even the most rabid of the Thatcherites would have dreamed of implementing in the '80s. New Labour; putting the "national" back in "socialism" since 1997.
great cheese - dates back from when I used to hang around on usenet before it fell to the barbarians. A private joke in one of my home newsgroups, along with "HORSE". You had to be there I guess. Anyway... I have GREAT CHEESE!
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Anyway...
amon düül ii - legendary krautrock outfit from Munich, kind of indirectly responsible for Hawkwind too. You may be interested to know they originated from a commune which also had key members of the Baader-Meinhoff group amongst their number...
van der graaf generator - equally legendary British prog outfit, with Peter Hammill on overwrought vocals and infinitely better lyrics than most of the competition were knocking out at the time. Despite being prog, they were much loved by the likes of John Lydon and Mark E. Smith among others. Not to be confused with a Van De Graaff Generator, which is an extremely cool piece of kit in its own right (it appears that the band couldn't spell when they formed at the University of Manchester).
anti id cards - you may have heard of the British government's plan to issue citizens with compulsory ID cards and register all their details on a database, so they can fight terror. Or is it crime? Or immigration? Whatever the case I want no part of it; hopefully the current government may see sense, though wasn't that a Gloucester Old Spot I just saw flying past the window? More chance of the scheme being defeated by good old cost-effectiveness and batshit-insane IT policies than other methods though.
not voting labour - see above, also see under "the war against terror", the abolition of student grants, the whole murky sleaze about cash for honours, the exhortations to embrace "Britishness"; I could go on. And where this sticks in the craw is that it's being executed by a nominally "Labour" government; the mixture of social authoritarianism and bending over for big business is what I expected from the Thatcherites, and indeed some of the new laws being passed at the rate of almost one per day are far, far harsher than even the most rabid of the Thatcherites would have dreamed of implementing in the '80s. New Labour; putting the "national" back in "socialism" since 1997.
great cheese - dates back from when I used to hang around on usenet before it fell to the barbarians. A private joke in one of my home newsgroups, along with "HORSE". You had to be there I guess. Anyway... I have GREAT CHEESE!