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	Anarcho-punk
		However, whilst the early punk scene appropriated anarchist imagery mainly for it's 'shock value', the band Crass expounded 'serious' anarchist and pacifist ideas, and were to become a notable influence within various late twentieth century protest movements.
		Many anarcho-punk bands, especially at the local level of unsigned groups, have taken on what is known as a "DIY" ethic: that is, Doing It Yourself, indeed a popular Anarcho-punk slogan reads "DIY not EMI", a reference to a conscious rejection of the major record company of that name.
		Many anarcho-punk bands were showcased on the Bullshit Detector series of LPs released by Crass Records and Resistance Productions Records between 1980 and 1994.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/an/anarcho_punk.html (530 words)

	Blyth Power, On The Viking Station
		Many folk fans will be unfamiliar with Blyth Power and they are far from being a normal, run of the mill, folk band (if indeed they could be called a folk band at all).
		I realise that with this sort of band this is the desired effect, but for folkies (like me!) who like to hear the words, I think that some of the songs could have benefited from a different balance in the final mix.
		The music of Blyth Power might not be to the taste of anyone expecting a typical folk rock band.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_blyth_power.htm (802 words)

	Zounds (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The band met up with fellow anarchists Crass when, legend has it, their van broke down on the road.
		A remixed version of the bands song "This Land" was released in 2001 as a CD single benefit for the McLibel support campaign.
		The name of the band is derived from the old English curse-word "zounds", which is a contraction of "Gods wounds", referring to Christ's crucifixion wounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zounds_(band) (420 words)

	Blyth Power, Paradise Razed / The Bricklayer's Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His own prior history was with anarchist-orientated bands on the Crass record label, including The Mob.
		The present band's name is taken from a class 56 diesel locomotive, adequate enough in its implications of running railroading riot through the musical landscape since 1985.
		One of the first surprises is the great intelligibility of the lyrics for such a hard-rockin‚ band.
	www.greenmanreview.com /blyth.power.htm (719 words)

	Blyth Power Official Website
		With their twentieth anniversary receding into the distance, Blyth Power remains one of the most original and innovative bands around.
		With a catalogue of 130 original compositions to choose from, the band are able to adapt their set to suit their surroundings.
		There is everything in between as well, and it is with a sly sense of mischief that the band will take delight in taunting the least folk-oriented crowd with the sound of accordions, or slipping in a raucous anthem to enliven the atmosphere of a balmy country fayre.
	www.blythpower.co.uk (389 words)

	No Doves Fly Here: The Mob
		Punk music had hit its second wave, and bands like Crass and Conflict were making a political statement with music, turning punk into an anarchist movement - for real, fusing political theory into the lyrics of their music and creating the anrcho-punk genre.
		Some of the other English post punk bands that shared a similiar vision musically and lyrically with The Mob were the Southern Death Cult, UK Decay, Theatre of Hate, and Flux of Pink Indians, not to forget Rudimentary Peni.
		Josef Porter founded and is still fronting Blyth Power, he was also in the anarcho-punk band Zounds.
	www.deathrock.com /mob/about.html (295 words)

	No doves fly here: The Mob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		formed and disbanded during the early UK anarcho-punk scene, the mob defined dirge music in the punk genre with music so competent and unique from the one chord wonder bands, and possibly the most emotional, albeit negative, of any of their contemporaries like crass, conflict, and chumbawamba while still remaining political in their message.
		possibly the only other band to hold a torch to the despair and morbidity of the mob was rudimentary peni, another off-beat post-punk group who often shared the stage with the mob.
		once the mob disbanded, curtis and josef portar formed blyth power who are still going today (without curtis but with josef), a folky rock punk band.
	www.deathrock.com /mob/main.html (205 words)

	Neil's Blyth Power Gallery
		Well, as the band are soon to play their final gig, I felt I should dig out some of my old photos and share them with the world.
		After all, if the band keep going, I may eventually get a picture of him where his face isn't obscured by a microphone.
		The band are to play a final gig at the Duchess of York in Leeds on the 18th of September, before Joseph embarks on a solo career.
	www.neverland77.freeserve.co.uk /blyth.htm (156 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Carmelite Order
		In theory, at least, the power of the general was almost unlimited but in practice he could not afford to disregard the wishes of the provinces and provincials.
		The acts of the chapter (unedited) are silent as to the nuns, but it is known from the correspondence of St. Teresa that she received orders to choose one of her convents their to remain, and to abstain from further foundations.
		John of Christ Crucified, one of the first band of missioners sent out to Persia met with a hostile reception in the neighbourhood of Moscow, and was thrown into a dungeon where he remained for three years.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03354a.htm (17684 words)

	anarcho-punk - Anarchopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anarcho-punk (sometimes known as peace-punk) is a subgenre of the punk rock movement consisting of groups and bands promoting specifically ideas.
		However, while the early punk scene appropriated anarchist imagery mainly for its shock value, the band Crass expounded serious anarchist and pacifist ideas, and were to become a notable influence within various late-twentieth century protest movements.
		He feels that the anarcho-punks were actually representative of true punk, while the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned etc. were in fact nothing more than 'music business puppets'.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /anarcho-punk (511 words)

	Epinions.com - Steerpykes musical hall of fame (in response to Jaguardogs write-off challenge) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With a career spanning twenty years most of which have been spent in the back of a Transit van, Blyth Power have attempted to take over the world using only the chords of A, D and E and on the way have produced over a dozen original albums.
		The band were heavily into the works of H.P. Lovecraft, wild west imagery and strange haircuts, it makes you wonder what their home town of Stevenage was like to grow up in to have thrown together such a group.
		Although known for their over the top performances, eccentric musical creations, in band bickering and spending more money than the national debt of Brazil, they created some great music, and were the reason punk had something to kick back at.
	www.epinions.com /content_4394164356 (1588 words)

	History of the Symphonic Band (3 of 3) - M.U. UniverBand Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When the Band ceased to be a marching band, they turned to more serious music, expanding the program to three major concerts each year as well as playing at all home basketball games and other special functions.
		In 1953 band members were privileged to participate in the State All-College Band conducted by Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman for MENC - the Music Educators' National Convention at the Milwaukee Auditorium.
		In November '76 the Band was thrilled to be a part of Marquette's winning the NCAA Championship at Atlanta, GA and in March '82 were proud to be invited as "the" band to play for the BIG TEN - ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE "Super Shoot-out" in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
	www.marquette.edu /band/hist_Sym3.html (638 words)

	Who Rules America: Social Cohesion & the Bohemian Grove
		The Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre virgin redwood grove in Northern California, 75 miles north of San Francisco (map), where the rich, the powerful, and their entourage visit with each other during the last two weeks of July while camping out in cabins and tents.
		It's a place where the powerful relax, enjoy each other's company, and get to know some of the artists, entertainers, and professors who are included to give the occasion a thin veneer of cultural and intellectual pretension.
		The Bohemian Grove, and other watering holes and social clubs, are relevant to the study of power because they are evidence for the class cohesiveness that is one prerequisite for class domination.
	sociology.ucsc.edu /whorulesamerica/power/bohemian_grove.html (15258 words)

	A Chumbawamba FAQ
		Many band members were then working at regular jobs, and the communal money situation was beginning to blur--everyone still put money in the communal money jar, but most band members started retaining and spending their own money.
		Also, various band members were not present at various gigs, as they stayed at home being parents to their infants (it's nice to see at least one band with their priorities straight).
		Band members have sometimes commented that the songs should have been done better, but nevertheless it remains one of the most interesting chapters in the band's long and varied musical history.
	www.geocities.com /thetropics/cabana/7272/cwfaq.html (16859 words)

	sons of selina - gig 108 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Teething problems having only rehearsed the new set 3 times and coping with Blyth Power's 'chunky' PA took 3 or 4 songs to even themselves out, but the performance was enough to prove that the forthcoming tour is going to be frightening to say the least!
		With the sound now OK and the band suitably wound up, the Sons ripped through their set with frightening results.
		Incidentally, 4Q (pre-SOS punk band featuring Neil and Cumi) supposed to play a gig with Blyth Power in 1988 at the Normal College in Bangor, but the gig was stopped due to 4Q's bad reputation.
	members.aol.com /soselina/108.htm (996 words)

	Ancient Civilizations
		If man power alone were used it would have required so many men hauling and tugging that they would have been in one another's way.
		Cortez and his small band of less than four hundred soldiers at first could not believe their eyes when looking down on the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan; they marveled at the beauty and orderliness of this great city of perhaps five hundred thousand to one million people.
		Darwin expressed his confident hope that the more "civilized" races of men, and by this he meant the European races, would, through the process of evolution, replace and exterminate the less civilized races, and with their extinction evolution would be advanced.
	www.thedarwinpapers.com /oldsite/number11/Darwin11.htm (15192 words)

	Browse by Label: MESSTHETICS
		The legend has grown, and today the Homosexuals are arguably the most acclaimed-and-least-heard band of the postpunk era.
		Where they churned out vinyl-worthy D.I.Y. punk tunes by the score, and unlike most bands that did make it to vinyl -- who necessarily spent much of their money on pressing and printing -- the 'Circus were free to blow it all on recording.
		A bad case of writer's block spelled the end of the band in 1982, and partner/bassist/chief electrician Protag went on to Blyth Power, ATV?and the resurrected Zounds.
	www.forcedexposure.com /labels/messthetics.html (573 words)

	wob music \| biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Travelling extensively with a trusty acoustic guitar, the "astonishingly bouncy talent machine" (Rock 'n' Reel), was spotted at venues all over England, gaining ecstatic audience reactions from crowds more used to punk rock than acoustic music.
		At the end of 1990 he joined the ranks of agit-folk-rockers Blyth Power, a band described by Folk Roots, as "a national treasure".
		March 1996 saw Wob travelling to Australia to tour with the Killjoys, a band often heard on Neighbours and Home and Away.
	www.wobmusic.com /biog.html (312 words)

	Studio music: Power acoustic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Links Mad Dogs and Englishmen Blyth Power P.O. Box 255 Harrogate HG1 5ZL Tel: 01423 552342 Mobile: 07901 898473 E-mail: Blyth Power With their twentieth anniversary receding into the distance, Blyth Power remains one of the most original and innovative bandsto suit their surroundings.
		With a whole range of both acoustic and electric songs, Blyth Power can settle comfortably into the tidy seated arena of ana tailor made selection that can vary from the gentle acoustic arpeggios of Burning Joan to the full-on punk rock assault
		Here are some general comments about acoustic bass guitars that appeared on the newsgroups: ultimate goal of my life,I got rid of it,and now have an acoustic/electric bass guitar to satisfy my folkloric urges.No pain....No pain.
	studio-musicians.net /guitars/acoustic/power-acoustic.html (540 words)

	CD Reviews E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Poetical, personal lyrics portraying the trials of tour breakdowns, fear of flying, celebrity double standards, marketed rebellion, 1970s TV and the Thames Valley police getting their just deserts One of the most unique punk bands of recent years and one whose appeal covers a broad spectrum.
		For fellow train spotters and fans of the band's previous two full-lengthers; it's generally accepted by both current and ex-members alike, that this album is the best so far!
		Recorded when the band were a mere 3-piece (and, at the time, three-quarters of THE BUS STATION LOONIES!), containing such modern-day masterpieces as "The Cult of Ted Moult", "Three Chords Good, Four Chords Bad", "Cancer of the Universe", "Port Talbot Transport Police" and, of course, "Fare Dodging".
	www.ruptured-ambitions.freeservers.com /page18.html (378 words)

	Darren Tansley of Jack's Family - UK based female fronted metal band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Darren has been in bands since he was at school and has played with a bizarre mixture of musicians from Blur guitarist (now solo) Graham Coxon to Rock Bitch lead vocalist Julie Worland.
		It was in 1998 while playing with the Wickermen that he met Kelly and she joined the band soon after, the two becoming great travelling partners.
		He continues to update the website and help out with day to day running of the band as well as enjoying the freedom to play his piano as loudly and hysterically as he wants.
	www.jacksfamily.co.uk /darren.htm (365 words)

	Band Bio; Chumbawamba - Musician Forums
		Gathered from various parts of the North, the band were allergic to the egos and screaming tantrums which punctuate most pop culture.
		The band found it increasingly difficult to run a record label and a band, especially since they had no intentions of becoming "businessmen".
		Working with an established label made the band realise that they'd been naive' in their assumption that an old friendship would make for a better working relationship.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=264001 (3391 words)

	Rugger Bugger Discs - main page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I've been doing it since I was 17 and playing in bands since I was 12.
		I loved and believed in that band and spent a lot of time, energy and money on them and all they did was take records to sell on tour and never pay for them.
		All the records are up for licence as long as it can be sorted out with the bands.
	tribe.imapunk.com /rb.html (630 words)

	Anagram Records : Blyth Power
		This release contains eighteen highlights from their ten year career selected from the first five Blyth Power albums written and recorded between 1984 and 1994.
		When drummer, lead singer and songwriter Josef Porta met Curtis Youe in 1983, this meeting signalled the birth of a band named after a steam engine, Blyth Power.
		Porta’s eloquent lyrics, coupled with a punk influenced mixture of folk and rock drew analogies from England’s history, such as Watt Tyler and Oliver Cromwell’s army, to the state of present day politics.
	www.cherryred.co.uk /anagram/artists/blythpower.htm (142 words)

	Punk Planet Forums : Zounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		posted February 13, 2005 02:28 PM the "different guy on bass" is Protag, who used to be in Blyth Power for years.
		Blyth are the band formed by Joseph Porter after he left....Zounds.
		They were never as explicitly political as Crass though, and had a wider range of sounds (Subvert = 300mph smash the state heavy guitars, Dancing = Weill and Brecht).
	punkplanet.com /cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=004728 (293 words)

	Preserved Diesels - News & Updates
		The Mirlees power unit from 37903, which is currently at Crewe awaiting scrapping, has been installed into 37901 at Llangollen and the diesel group are working flat out the have the loco running for this weekend of the gala week.
		The power unit destined for 56097 was started up for the first time since completion of its overhaul yesterday.
		Photos from the DPS Railtour are here, unfortunately 55019 was failed on arrival at Craigentinny with a faulty govenor on one power unit and the return working was hauled by 67013 with the Deltic dead on the rear.
	www.preserved-diesels.co.uk /news/2005.htm (12300 words)

	Musical Calendar for February 21
		In 1951 he joined soprano saxophonist Claude Aubert's band and in 1960 he assumed its leadership.
		During the early Seventies the band was reduced to the trio format with Romano Cavicchiolo (dm) and the former band guitarist Alain Du Bois on bass.
		In 1928, he replaced Johnny Hodges in the Chick Webb band; From 1931-'32, worked with Elmer Snowden; 1941-'42 with Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy Orch.; 1943-'34 with Lionel Hampton, and for most of 1934-41 with his own groups.
	nfo.net /calendar/feb21.htm (946 words)

	Zounds: Events
		are quite happy for anybody to record any show the band performs for their own listening pleasure.
		If people want to swap these tapes, or give them away we are totally cool about that too.
		And the blatant profiteering is distasteful to us and exploitative of people who like the band.
	www.zoundsonline.co.uk /events.html (135 words)

	House of Lords - Carmichael and Another v. National Power Plc.
		Carmichael began to accept work as guides at Blyth Power Stations in Northumberland in 1989.
		By a majority (Kennedy L.J. dissenting) the Court of Appeal allowed their appeal [1998] I.C.R. National Power appeal by leave of your Lordships' House.
		"I am pleased to note that you are agreeable to be employed by the C.E.G.B. at Blyth "A" and "B" Power Stations on a casual as required basis as a station guide.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199900/ldjudgmt/jd991118/car.htm (3085 words)

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