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The Adventures of the Son of Exploding Sausage

Once upon a time it was common for quirky independent short films to play theatrically in Britain as support to a main feature. But this wasn’t the case for The Adventures of the Son of Exploding Sausage (1969), a quirky thirteen-plus-minute short that starred the Bonzo Dog Band. David Kerekes discusses the matter with Sausage writer/editor/director, David Korr.

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How Sweet To Be An Idiot

David Kerekes bids a fond farewell to Neil Innes, the impish figure behind some well-known acts, including Monty Python, the Rutles, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

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News and Book Excerpts

My Favourite Dictators And Why

Dictators may be among the worst people in history, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t laugh at them. In My Favourite Dictators, CHRIS MIKUL tells the stories of eleven of the twentieth century’s most colourful and reviled human beings. Here he explains how and why he came to write his book, and who is in it. Illustations by Glenn Smith.

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Music

Singalongacharlie: The Music of Charles Manson

While everyone knows of ‘Charles Manson’ few have actually listened to his recordings. Music is the glue that sticks Manson to his friends, his fellow travellers, his ‘Family’, his enemies. In this essay, Mark Goodall reflects on Manson in context of his music. This in anticipation of Quentin Tarantino’s Manson movie and Jordan Peele’s Us.

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Interviews

Finding Antonio

One of the most controversial artists of the British adult comic movement in the 1970s and 1980s, ANTONIO GHURA created and self-published some of the funniest, most outrageous comics ever to make it into print. In this archive article/interview, David Kerekes discusses Antonio’s work and Underground publishing in Great Britain at a time when obscenity busts were commonplace.

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News and Book Excerpts

Twin Donut, Or A Note From The Author

It took John Szpunar over twenty years to write this book. He thought it would be about a New York filmmaker, Joel M. Reed. It kind of is.

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News and Book Excerpts

Magic Morning Wood

“It’s amateur in the extreme, and not 100% what I would do if left to my own devices,” so says Clive Davies of his new podcast.

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Music

Re-jigging Know Your Enemy

‘I want to present a kind of alternative universe version of the record’. Stephen Lee Naish talks Manic Street Peachers.

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News and Book Excerpts

The Silent Walk

Eight months after the Grenfell high-rise tragedy in London, H. E. Sawyer joins the monthly walk that is part memorial, part silent protest.

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Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton

Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton

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