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Saturday, 28 December 2019
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Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Naked Raygun ,Straight Edge vs Nazi Skins
Back in the late eighties before I had discovered rave, I was a skater and used to attend some hardcore gigs put on by the Kronstadt Klub, one of the most memorable was in a crypt of a church! the Headliners were Naked Raygun supported by No Means No and a local British punk band.
When we arrived at the venue,there were bus loads of British straight edge skinheads from Birmingham who had come to support No Means No.There were also a large contingent of far right skins with Nazi symbols dubious tattoos. Me and my small group of skaters mates stuck out like a sore thumb in our with our skateboards and wearing skate rags and caps.
As No Means No begin to play the straight edgers began to slam dance but soon enough the Nazi Skins began to attack them and the straight edgers refused to fight back. Very soon the straight edgers had all left dancefloor, blood flowing bruised and blackeyed.My friends and I were in shock at what we had witnessed.
The local punk band followed and the nazi skins continued to slam dance but even they were unsure of what to make of the steadfast commitment of the straight edgers to non violence.
By the time Naked Raygun had taken the stage the lead singer sporting Rupert the Bear tartan yellow trousers the all the skins were slamming away together having achieved an uneasy truce, even we skaters joined in.
When we arrived at the venue,there were bus loads of British straight edge skinheads from Birmingham who had come to support No Means No.There were also a large contingent of far right skins with Nazi symbols dubious tattoos. Me and my small group of skaters mates stuck out like a sore thumb in our with our skateboards and wearing skate rags and caps.
As No Means No begin to play the straight edgers began to slam dance but soon enough the Nazi Skins began to attack them and the straight edgers refused to fight back. Very soon the straight edgers had all left dancefloor, blood flowing bruised and blackeyed.My friends and I were in shock at what we had witnessed.
The local punk band followed and the nazi skins continued to slam dance but even they were unsure of what to make of the steadfast commitment of the straight edgers to non violence.
By the time Naked Raygun had taken the stage the lead singer sporting Rupert the Bear tartan yellow trousers the all the skins were slamming away together having achieved an uneasy truce, even we skaters joined in.
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Monday, 18 November 2019
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Sunday, 10 November 2019
Saturday, 9 November 2019
Steve Double Steve
I blogged about the Double L previously however For some time a Double Steve thing has been reoccurring in my conciousness. Perhaps the first time I noticed it was in relation the writer who uses the name Stephen King .Stephen means "crowned one" in Greek so his pen name is essentially "King King" .
In an interview I was listening to today with Rowetta of Happy Mondays by Carl Loben of the Drum Monkeys. I was made aware of two Steve Mac's with a Bristol connection; one (a white guy) & record producer the other (a black guy), house DJ and record producer. This reminded me of Steve Jackson (Gamer) and Steve Jackson (Kiss fm DJ)
And a few other DJ/Producers named Steve .
Kiss fm in its heyday had a few other "DJ Doubles" on Black & White tip ; Colin Favour/Colin Dale and Matt Black/Matt White.
I've blogged elsewhere on my own "White Steve" alias given to me by my Kung Fu teacher to differentiate me from "Black Steve"
In regards to my real name I've never actually met any one with the same name. But in the aforementioned Rowetta interview they also mentioned the well known music journalist named "Stephen" who shares my surname. I was always aware of him as I was a regular reader of NME in my teens but he never really impacted my life.
Which leads on to the next event which I sometimes wonder ever really happened, it was seems so absurd. I was in my 1st year of University , It was the early nineties, and around the time I settled on the use of my JSteveKane alias. I had been to a club night entitled "innersense" at a place called the lazerdrome in Peckham Rye with a friend. We had just got back to East London after quite a hard night partying when we were stopped by the Police. Whilst we had done nothing wrong we were nervous and even more so, after the initial questions had been answered and checks carried out and we were still not free to move on.There was much talk on the police radio and the focus was clearly on me.In the end we were allowed to go, but not before the officer explained the reason for the hold up was I apparently share the same name as a "political dissident" of interest in regard to the delicate situation in Northern Ireland.
In regards to my real name I've never actually met any one with the same name. But in the aforementioned Rowetta interview they also mentioned the well known music journalist named "Stephen" who shares my surname. I was always aware of him as I was a regular reader of NME in my teens but he never really impacted my life.
Which leads on to the next event which I sometimes wonder ever really happened, it was seems so absurd. I was in my 1st year of University , It was the early nineties, and around the time I settled on the use of my JSteveKane alias. I had been to a club night entitled "innersense" at a place called the lazerdrome in Peckham Rye with a friend. We had just got back to East London after quite a hard night partying when we were stopped by the Police. Whilst we had done nothing wrong we were nervous and even more so, after the initial questions had been answered and checks carried out and we were still not free to move on.There was much talk on the police radio and the focus was clearly on me.In the end we were allowed to go, but not before the officer explained the reason for the hold up was I apparently share the same name as a "political dissident" of interest in regard to the delicate situation in Northern Ireland.
Years later my Steve/Laserdrome connection came back to haunt me after a particularly heavy night out I caught a night bus home that terminated in Peckham Rye meaning a walk to Forest Hill, but as I stumbled off the night bus I looked up to see the long since derelict laserdrome the security screening accompied by signage with "secured by Stephen Kane" written on.
Strange indeed! I've blogged elsewhere in relation to the Double Steve / Stephen Strange.
Recently the BBC TV series Small Axe directed by Steve McQueen reminded me of the movie legend of the same name who I only ever watched in "The great escape"
Recently the BBC TV series Small Axe directed by Steve McQueen reminded me of the movie legend of the same name who I only ever watched in "The great escape"
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Saturday, 28 September 2019
Respira / Spirit / YHWH
A number of years ago my Kung Fu/Tai Chi /Buddhist Master introduced me to the breath counting method of meditation.He would also occasionally talk about the concept of Chi. I was originally attracted to his class by the phrase "Learn to focus your mind,body and spirit as one force." On a poster advertising his class.
A few years later whilst practising Capoeira and learning Portuguese,I became aware of the Portuguese word for breath. to breath = respira.
Perhaps for those who speak Latin based languages the connection between "Respira" to the word "Espritu" / "Spirit" is so obvious it may not even be conscious. who knows?
Perhaps for those who speak Latin based languages the connection between "Respira" to the word "Espritu" / "Spirit" is so obvious it may not even be conscious. who knows?
But it was neither conscious or obvious to me.
In Latin based languages the Holy Spirit = Espiritu Santo
I knew that in Judaism (and some other religions) there is a tradition of not speaking the sacred word for God . I knew that in Hebrew this is "Yahweh" abbreviated YHWH without the vowels (The Tetragramaton) but I only recently learnt that pronounced in this form it is equivalent to the sound of ones own breath / spirit
