1989-2009

NEW EUROPEANS

A CULTURE FOR TODAY

remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall 

THE XX ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL IS SUCH AN EVOCATIVE EVENT FOR US YOUNG (NEW) EUROPEANS. HERE'S A VERY SPECIAL POST ABOUT COLD WAR, SOMETHING BETWEEN DIPLOMACY AND MUSIC, TO REMEMBER A NONSENSE AND MENACING HISTORICAL PERIOD FOR EUROPE. THE FOLLOWING LINK WILL AUTHORIZE YOU TO DOWNLOAD A SILLY REINTERPRETATION AND MERGING OF URSS AND U.S.A. NATIONAL ANTHEMS AS THEY WERE A  COMMON ENEMY OF THE COLD WAR'S YOUNG EUROPEANS
 
UrsSA - Prhemm

KIMONO PUNK 1989 II

KIMONO PUNK 1989 "SARDONIC REGIME"

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1. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
2. ORDINARY LEATHERISM
3. MENISCO GRRRLS TELEPHONE

4. MODERN FLOOR TOM INCHES
5. REJYKIAVIK ANTIFUHRER GESTAPO 
6. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

7. THE MARCHHCRAM EHT
8. UGRO-AUSTRIAN FASHION WEEK

9. XOXOXO

10. 80s ENERGI MEGA DISTRICT

11. HUMAN YOUNG RACE
12. HITCHCOCK LOGORRHEIC CRICKET 

LION ROOL SHAKA FOOL

FRANCO ROSSO, BORN OF ITALIAN PARANTAGE, WENT TO LONDON AT THE AGE OF NINE AND EXPERIENCED MUCH OF THE HOSTILITY AND DISTRUST BLACK IMMIGRANTS WERE EXPERIENCING TOO. AFTER ENTERING CAMBERWELL SCHOOL OF ART, HIS INTEREST IN FILM DEVELOPED. IN 1980, AFTER HIS FIRST CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE WITH JAMAICAN POET LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, HE DIRECTED A FILM ABOUT BLACK YOUTH GROWING UP IN SOUTH LONDON, CALLED BABYLON. SET IN ON THE STREETS OF LEWISHAM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THATCHER ERA, THE MOVIE CAPTURES THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A REGGAE SOUND SYSTEM CONSISTING OF BLUE (BRINDSLEY FORDE OF ASWAD) AND HIS MATES. 

THE MOVIE WAS CO-WRITTEN BY MARTIN STELLMAN (WRITER OF QUADROPHENIA) AND STARRED BRIAN BOVELL, VICTOR ROMERO EVANS AND TREVOR LAIRD (THE "BLUES' PUSHER" IN QUADROPHENIA) AS "BEEFY". THE MOVIE PRESENTS A PORTAIT OF THE YOUNG BLACK COMMUNITY IN LONDON, WIDELY DIFFERENT FROM THE TABLOID STEREOTYPE AND IT'S THE STORY OF ITAL LION, THE FILM'S FICTIONAL SOUND SYSTEM RUN BY A GROUP OF FRIENDS, VS. SHAKA'S SOUND SYTEM (THE BEST IN REAL 80S BRITISH REGGAE MUSIC).

"TO THE EAST AFRICA, TO THE WEST JAMAICA, FIRST BABYLON. TO THE NORTH, ENGLAND, SECOND BABYLON. BABYLONIAN  TRIANGLE OFCAPTIVITY"

THE WORD "BABYLON" IS A MNEMONIC FOR OPRESSION, IN ALL ITS MANIFESTATIONS, SPIRALLING DOWN FROM A MONETARIST, MIDDLE-CALSS GOVERNMENT, THROUGH SUSPICIOUS POLICE PATROL CARS, INTOLERANT AND UNDULY VIOLENT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO SOMETHING AS GLUM AS A DOCKED WAGE PACKET. ROSSO DOES NOT ONLY PORTRAITS BLACK YOUTH CONDITION IN 1980, BUT ALSO UNDERLINES THE CONTRADDICTIONS AND INTERNAL FIGHTS OF THEIR COMMUNITY.

 (WHITE LADY): "LOOK AT YOU ALL, GOOD FOR NOTHING, NOISY, STINKING FILTH, LAZY, YOU'RE EVERYWHERE, JUNGLEBUNNIES. THIS WAS A LOVELY AREA BEFORE YOU CAME HERE, LOVELY...FUCK OFF BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY, JUNGLEBUNNIES" 

WARRIOR CHARGE - ASWAD

 

BEEFY: "THIS IS MY FUCKING COUNTRY LADY AND IT'S NEVER BEEN FUCKING LOVELY, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A TIP FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, SO DON'T FUCKING TELL ME, RIGHT, 'CAUSE I NEVER DONE IT, IT WASN'T MY RIGHT...

NO EUROPE WITHOUT CONTAMINATION

"NO EUROPE WITHOUT CONTAMINATION" SHOULD BE A COMMON STATEMENT FOR ALL THE INHABITANTS OF OUR CONTINENT. THE CASELY-HAYFORD SS 2010 COLLECTION CALLED "JOURNEY THROUGH THE KINGS LAND" STARTS HERE APPROACHING THEIR THIRD COLLECTION TOGETHER, FATHER JOHN AND HIS SON CHARLIE DECIDED TO DOCUMENT THE TRANS-CULTURAL MIX ON KINGSLAND RD IN SHOREDITCH. THE SAY IT ENABLED THEM TO WORK WITH THE "HAND EMBROIDERY AND PRINT INSPIRED BY THE TURKISH ARTISANS AT ONE END OF THE KINGSLAND, STRONG COLOURED MIXES OF THE AFRICAN COMMUNITY FROM THE OTHER, AS WELL AS FUSING THE SIGNATURE ARISTOCRATIC STYLE OF NEWLY LANDED PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS AND THE CLEAN STREAMLINED MODERNISTIC SPORTSWEAR OF LONDON RUDEBOYS". THIS IS WHAT MAKES CASELY-HAYFORD SS10 COLLECTION SO EXCITING AND SPONTANEOUSLY MODERN. THIS IS THE APPROACH ALL EUROPEANS SHOULD ASSUME, STARTING FROM ART, MUSIC AND FASHION TO HELP INCORPORATING THIS VALUE INTO OUR SOCIETY.

Dean's perspective. 

KIMONO PUNK 1989 I

  

KIMONO PUNK 1989 "FUCK ELITISM"

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1. 1968 GENDERCIDE PUNK SCREAMS
2. ATHLETICO MILITARY ANTHEM

3. SCOTTISH POST-CABARET NAUSEA ANTICS

4. SHORT LIVED ROBOTIC YOUTH

5. KITCHEN APPLIANCES FOR INDUSTRIAL CRISIS

6. LOOPING PHANTASMAGORICAL DEPRESSION

7. CHAMPIONS BASS DRUM'S IMPERIALISM

8. INDUSTRIAL AVANT-GARDE GADGETS

9. LOST POST-WAR PETTICOATS' DREAMS

10. XXX MASTURBATION

11. URSS ROCKABILLY CURFEW

12. SECRET INTERCONTINENTAL FRENDSHIPS

THANKS TO ALL THE EUROPEANS WHO JOINED THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. HERE'S A LIST OF OUR FAVOURITES: Alex Bartolomei, Kex Glozier, Dean Mayo Davies, Phil Bush, Martyn Bal, Jonjo, Katie Eary, Brett Lloyd, Joe Lean, Luca C, Danilo Milic.