'THIS CHARGED'
Photographic Diary of U.K. Punk
1980 -1985
I have been 'working' on this for about 3-4 years (on but mostly 'off') and am a little nearer getting there.....
here is how it is shaping up now in 2011....
(1) I have scanned and photo-shopped all of my Live Gig Photographs of Punk bands (all in hi-resolution!)
(2) I have scanned a fair amount of bands cutting collections..all high resolution too...and I mean everything..!! (this includes...Tickets, T-Shirts, Flyers, Plectrums, Set-Lists, Posters etc!)
(3) I have written every day of my (Teeny-Tiney Spidery-Creepy-Crawley) Punk Diary out on a computer for the years 1980 and 1981.....I have done 2/3's of 1982 and about half of 1983...also a few months of 1984.
...so as you can see it is a lot and most people with 'just' that above would wet their Punk-Nappies for years....it takes about 20 minutes to read a 'gig-days' diary of mine...anything to do with Punk....it is in there....who is playing and who has left what band...what they are releasing etc..I jotted it all down...also the stoopid things we got up to aswell are all in there...when I went squatting it went a bit wild and mayhemic for a year or so...!!
So as you can see it is 'work in motion' although sometimes it lays dormant for 6 months...or 9 at last count...!!!
I will get it finished...maybe printed as a 'book' or sell it as a Volume of CD's...although as you can gather these can and will be bootlegged and stole from me...and handed around......thats why the incentive is not so strong...the thought of me slaving away for 5-10 years on and off just for a 'punk' to burn my copy of a 'book' and give it away makes me livid...its like...respect this guy who has done this...give him something back y'know...he is not asking much for his time and work...I have 'friends' that say 'get your shit outta my house' but then would burn a CD of my book with no second thought...sometimes it works both ways....you can't have both sides.
I will continue to do it 'on and off' and will see how far it goes....what will it contain...???
'THIS CHARGED'
(the book)
all the below are never seen memorabilia
600-700 Live U.K. Gig Photographs of bands
900-1000 Photographs of U.K. Punk Rockers and Punkettes
Every scanned image of all my cuttings
(perhaps 10,000 - 20,000 which include Posters, Tickets, Flyers, T-Shirts, My record collection, Plectrums, Set-Lists, Autographs and the odd one of people in bands offstage too)
Every single day of my Punk-Diary from 1981-1985 (Inclusive)
thats nearly 2000 days...!!!
...so what would I be charging for all of the above.....whatever price it would be worth it easily, wouldn't it....?
Acquiring all of my stuff would be impossible....about half of it is unique to me...end of story.
I havn't decided yet...first I have to finish it....so if you know of a book publisher or person that could help me with a financial incentive to kick-start this (charged) for real...then get in touch (on my contact page) I would work towards it if it meant eating up my present life for a bit of financial payback for all the hoarding, moving and putting up with my stuff being carted and shifted from pillar-to-post in the past.
...The end is (not) near but it could be...!!!
.....as Cal would say
"Thankyou and gudnite"
here is how it is shaping up now in 2011....
(1) I have scanned and photo-shopped all of my Live Gig Photographs of Punk bands (all in hi-resolution!)
(2) I have scanned a fair amount of bands cutting collections..all high resolution too...and I mean everything..!! (this includes...Tickets, T-Shirts, Flyers, Plectrums, Set-Lists, Posters etc!)
(3) I have written every day of my (Teeny-Tiney Spidery-Creepy-Crawley) Punk Diary out on a computer for the years 1980 and 1981.....I have done 2/3's of 1982 and about half of 1983...also a few months of 1984.
...so as you can see it is a lot and most people with 'just' that above would wet their Punk-Nappies for years....it takes about 20 minutes to read a 'gig-days' diary of mine...anything to do with Punk....it is in there....who is playing and who has left what band...what they are releasing etc..I jotted it all down...also the stoopid things we got up to aswell are all in there...when I went squatting it went a bit wild and mayhemic for a year or so...!!
So as you can see it is 'work in motion' although sometimes it lays dormant for 6 months...or 9 at last count...!!!
I will get it finished...maybe printed as a 'book' or sell it as a Volume of CD's...although as you can gather these can and will be bootlegged and stole from me...and handed around......thats why the incentive is not so strong...the thought of me slaving away for 5-10 years on and off just for a 'punk' to burn my copy of a 'book' and give it away makes me livid...its like...respect this guy who has done this...give him something back y'know...he is not asking much for his time and work...I have 'friends' that say 'get your shit outta my house' but then would burn a CD of my book with no second thought...sometimes it works both ways....you can't have both sides.
I will continue to do it 'on and off' and will see how far it goes....what will it contain...???
'THIS CHARGED'
(the book)
all the below are never seen memorabilia
600-700 Live U.K. Gig Photographs of bands
900-1000 Photographs of U.K. Punk Rockers and Punkettes
Every scanned image of all my cuttings
(perhaps 10,000 - 20,000 which include Posters, Tickets, Flyers, T-Shirts, My record collection, Plectrums, Set-Lists, Autographs and the odd one of people in bands offstage too)
Every single day of my Punk-Diary from 1981-1985 (Inclusive)
thats nearly 2000 days...!!!
...so what would I be charging for all of the above.....whatever price it would be worth it easily, wouldn't it....?
Acquiring all of my stuff would be impossible....about half of it is unique to me...end of story.
I havn't decided yet...first I have to finish it....so if you know of a book publisher or person that could help me with a financial incentive to kick-start this (charged) for real...then get in touch (on my contact page) I would work towards it if it meant eating up my present life for a bit of financial payback for all the hoarding, moving and putting up with my stuff being carted and shifted from pillar-to-post in the past.
...The end is (not) near but it could be...!!!
.....as Cal would say
"Thankyou and gudnite"