Saturday 21 January 2012




A single cartoon that I managed to dig out. It features a retro mod at a time dudes were writing their life stories on their clothes. They do it directly onto their bodies these days. But there was nothing like a soiled Parka with lots of Biro script across the back. I was trying to think when I first encounter this particular fashion and I guess it was in the Twisted Wheel in Manchester, where we listened to some great American black blues players usually backed by four white British teenagers. They also hung out in St Ives in Cornwall where I tripped over Donovan in a shelter at the top of a cliff It was where piles of Folky, Bloozy rough sleepers used to spend the summer. The locals still call them beatniks in those days.

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