Walking down the lonely street
Afraid of all the people you’ll meet
Telephone’s ring in an upstairs room
Grey clouds mist over your open wound
The streets are full of foreigners
Faces you don’t understand
Their evil sneers look down on you
You’re on computer scan
Category: 1987
*John Otway – Mr C’s, Poole, Dorset, UK – 16th October 1987
*Crowforce, Farkle Family – Mr C’s, Poole, Dorset, UK – 15th October 1987
Graffiti Pop Art Heroes – 6th October 1987
Pop art pictures graffitied on the wall
Spray paint politics always on the ball
Now sold out to the popular cause
Plenty of money in painting the walls
Alleykat – 4th October 1987
Fighting for freedom in alleys of tin pan
Dodge or destroy everything you can
Cat amongst pigeons or a boy amongst men?
It’s time to start the shooting again
22nd Oct 2021 – Fatty and I would play this game for hours on end on my old Commodore 64, stoned, drunk or sober.
*Meat Puppets, Lightning Strike, Crows – Klub Foot, Hammersmith, London, UK – 19th September 1987
Deathtrip (Excerpts from Michael Ryan’s Diary) – 12th September 1987
Watched the movie on the video
I wanna go out and down to skid row
Yeah baby, you bring out the Manson in me
I don’t need your psychiatry
I got sixteen rounds of ammunition
I’m set for my expedition
In my see-through world of pain
Someone’s gonna remember my name
Believe me, you don’t wanna live
You were born to die on my trip
How do I stop the buzzing sound
Maybe the answer lies in the town
I’m getting cold, I need a fire
I’m feeling like a crazy live wire
Let’s find the kids in school
Let them see my real world
Trapped at all directions
I want you in my collection
It’s time to die and I’m next
They’ll remember, and what I left
On August 19, 1987, Michael Ryan embarked on a shooting rampage through his hometown, known as the Hungerford massacre. It was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting by a single individual in British history and led to major changes in UK firearm laws.
*Acid Daze Festival – Finsbury Park, London, UK – 23rd August 1987
(Hawkwind, Dr and the Medics, Pink Fairies, Naz Nomad, Gaye Bykers, Pop Will Eat Itself, Voodoo Child, Ozric Tentacles)
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