Radical Brighton

Title: Attila
Date: 1971 issue 4
Number of Pages: 6
Format: local press
Keywords: Brighton; calendars; political; social
Created By: Bill Butler
Place Created: Brighton
Related Collections: Alternative Brighton

 

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ATTILA
Why Attila

Well, Attila was a pretty great guy, in his own way. Things that may or may not be true about him include: l) when he came to Rome with his wild men the leaders (Popes & suchlike) plead­ed with him to spare the Holy City. He came all over sudden deafness & did a great job of Urban Renewal. 2) He finally married as a fairly old man & dropped dead of the pleasure of his wedding night. 3) He was buried with his treasure. 4) Legend has it that Attila was an avatar of Christ…I come not with peace but a sword·  5)Another legend says that he’s coming again. Roll on, the Hun!

BUSTS

It’s been a bad week for porn busts. Inspector Clemnt &’is merry men visited Unicorn & took away copies of the Little Red Schoolbook (52 of them). No summons as yet, but it’ll come.

Watch for it.

g: a sh’op in the Baysv1ater Road was done today (.Friday) for sell­

ing the new comics from IT.

& the main Red Schoolbook case has now been put back to the end of June. Richard Handyside, the publisher, has been granted legal aid. 1-!hish will be helpful, since i.t appears at this writing that the publishers who were so loud (and so public in their support of him a, few weeks ago) have backed down in favor ofcomonsense & balance sheets. (Where have I heard that argument before?) 1

GRATEFUL DEAD

Have definitely cancelled at Glastonbury. The Festival is still on·, hov1somever.

SUCK

The D.P.P. is trying hard to get a case together to prosecute

a London shop for SUCK., Europe’s First Sex Newspaper. Trouble

is, he can’t actually find the paper itself. Gosh all fish-hooks, Charlie, some days nothing goes right;

ROYAL ASSASSINATION

Detectives are taking seriously a threat by extremist elements to cancel their proposed assassination of the Queen a d other (as yet un-named) members of the Royal Family.

COUP OF THE VIEEK

The bomb hoaxer in Australia v1ho v1allt d :J.I;J.ay ‘IIith over t\-10

hundre.d thousand quid. \A/ell don , Private Enterprise! DRUGS ADVISORY SERVICE

Brighton Drugs Advisory Service urgently needs Books, Mags, Leaflets••••• nything relating to drugs. Bread and/or furniture needed to equip an office. They will advise parents, heads,

TECH. COLLEGE SCANDAL?

attila 3.

sat. 29 may 71

to see what all the fuss is about at

carpets in the President’s Office? Expensive banquets? Cocktail cabinets

o in the Executive Suite? Yes, indeedy, Fred. But then, you can see the same thing any day at Number lO••••.(if you

J can get inside•

.• Secret meetings? Arbitrary decisio, taken by the Executive?

c1 p {J -Both are 1t!ell-known feat-

p “””;J ures of “adult” life

· 1 ‘-.. in Parliament & at ..

Buckingham Palace.

\t/HY IS TOM FORESTER BITCHING ABOUT ALL ‘ THIS? Corne on, Torn•…•University is ./ ” supposed to fit you for life in

“THE REAL \rJORLD”•••.•& the real

world is the one where such deals

are cornrnonplace•••••where the

meetings are secret…••”for your o\lm good”.– .

Maybe that’s why he’s bitching. IN DARKEST l:fDRTHING

A 1·1eekend of fun 8:.&omes 1 /20 June.

Vith ths followin promised••••. PINK FAIRIES FRIENDS will be down to do their

HA·\/K\’/.IN thing. AGITPROP might show.

‘liGHTY BABY

GYPSY

THIRI) 1/0RLD \<JAR

HELP YOURSELF

CASTLE

REDHEAD YORKE , SIMON PURDY

BIG BEN TURNER

BEGGARS DEATH

DAVE RUSSELL

FREE FREE FREE FREE

Vrious POETS will poet.

AXIS EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE.

NOTICE BOAR/D•••.•wld the following call Al at Wqrthing 38891 or Worthing

201767 with a view to doing theithing

at the Festival….. (

Trafalgar Street Vegetarian Tom

Infinity Macro. Food Supply

Jim Duke

Brighton Combination Theatre Group

POETS/POETS/POETS/POETS/POETS/P o e t s

Location of he Worthing Festival•••••BEACH HOUSE PARK,

Lower Brighton Road, Worthing. Starts at 7:00 p.m. Sat. 19 June. •

L liES/HOT MANNA

-….J:Iot Manna have an office at present at 7 Castle Banks, Lewes. Telephone 86-6R21. Open 24 hours. Hope to provide advice,

in-f-ormation,. & help to anyone in need. Contacting lauyers, doctors, J.P.’s, Social workers, & teachers in order to forge workabl links with these people.

MORE HOT MANNA

attila 4.

sat. 29 may 71

Does not see itself as solely an information service. As

“young people” they are displeased with their society and want change. Most of the young people that they come into contact Hith are also dissat·sfied and want change. Hope

to co-ordinate the young into, an effeotive force for change

in a gentle/non-violent way. Principal influence in HOT MANNA
is Nasso Mavrakis.

Anyone \’Tho \:Tould like to be involved/help “”ith money/help with a shop for home-made things which they hope to open please contact Nasso or any other Hot Manna people.

HOT MANNA••••,•••••••…••••.•..•.•.••..Telephone Lewes 36-6821.

CRASH PADS•••••

Are still needed. There are a lot of people coming down who

haven’t really got it together enuf to get in out of the rain. Anybody got space? Call Ray at OPEN SECT, 27878 .
l KINEMA(by our kinema korrespondent) i Puppy Love at the ABC, Melody•••••”INFECTIOUS” bleats the PEOPLE, t
So is v.d•••••• Middling epics at the Regent & Astoria•••••• l

Aristocats (yet again) (back by pop lar demand of their bank I

manager) at the Odious, Best of th-e \’leek•••.•\:JAR & PEACE at j

• the B.F.T., KES/MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (CLASSIC), & M=A=S=H=·at ye
Academy.

MAGICMYSTERY TOUR

.,;,.,….,.,.. -·-

·’

Last SFndoy some happy people went on a HAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR! Although it was raining when they got on the coach, they DIDN’T CARE, for.had all taken some CLEAR BLUE SKY, and sure enough1 the sun broke through! ‘Then they found the SEVEN FOOT RHUBARB
and the SINGING TREE! The scent of RHODODENDRONS was heavy on the -air, and even the FERNS waved a greeting.

.,.

Some peopl-e tried to become PROTECTED \r.IILDFOHL by swimming in

the \LAKE! . At lunchtime, everyone ate SCRUNPTIOUS BANANA CAKE, N el let an EXPLOSION out of his HEAD! After KNEE-RACING

o’n. the lawn a lady LENT A HAND and we all came home HAPPY===
(The above dispatch from full length colour Khartoum was written
by our Spatial Correspondent, Suzy Knicker-Knocker.) –

…….

CAPE GOLIARD
is not closing. Just moving to the Stutes where it’s all happening

LONG HAIR

CBR ‘Jersey Mills last v1eek refused to hire one prospective

employee, or even to interview him. The reason given on his

Employment Exchange Form•••”his hair is much too long”. Next

thing they’ll be measuring your hands, your feet, your teeth.

. WHERE \ldll it all end!?

RE_-CYCLE TI!IS PAPER. WHEN YOU’VE DONE \rJITH IT,PASS IT ON.

attila 5.

sat 29. may 71

THE SADDEST DAY

Recorder Charles Doughty (stout fellovJ) had his eaddest day ever this week when he had to sentence 6 Brighton policemen for various offences. One of them for stealing 4 brassieres.

What’s interesting about it is that Doughty managed, thru his

crocodile,tears, to dish out sentences that were ludicrously long in proportion to the offences committed.

Whenever a cop comes up in court here in Britain two things happen:

1) the cop is (unlike the rest of us) presumed innocent

until proven guilty. Bail is almost never refused. No matter what the offense.

2) If the cop should be convicted the magistrate invariably

coraes on

·\Jith a load of. old codswallop about “saddest

day11 and then proceeds to murder the J?OOr guy with a sentence that wo ld cripple Jesus. \

When are people here going to get it thru thetr thick skulls that cops are just like everybody else. They re not sacred, neither Rre they pariahs. They’ve got slobs on the force••••• believe it or not their are slobs at the University of Sussex. There are even (I have heard it said) slobs on the bench!

So: Fuzz should get exactly the same treatment in court as anybody else. Stealing 4 bras doesn’t deserve 18 months.

REVOLUTIONiillY JUNE FESTIVAL=====

continues apace. Poetry e.vents so far scehduled•••••Adrian Henri (larger than life-)- -&._ Jeff Nuttall (larger still!). Also•••the AUSTRALIAN DANCERS (no relation to the Richard Neville of th sp.me name). ! Unicorn will hav it’s usual half-ass display’. INCUBUS.:••••MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM••••• (hopefully)-.J-ANE AR.DENS HO OC!I.UST•••••THE COMBINATION (or

part of the CombinatiG…..·;. .hopefully enuf to open the safe). Everybody pays (cheep) & everybody gets a badge. WATCH FOR IT=

HY,S. TERICS OR VENEER

No one woulwish to see a man hysterical, or vapouring, or

full of gush, or veneered over with the mere surface 1politeness of some nations. Nothing could be more distasteful to English

men and women. (More next week, when you’ve digested the first

. installoent of homely folk sdom.) ·-…

/ I –

FACTS

There have been complaints that Attila has too much opinion,

too little fact. For fact-lovers everywhere we therefore print the following FACTS: In 1907 the Lusitania sailed from Queens­

town in 4 Days, 18 Hours, & 40 Minutes. In 1909 the same trip

took 4 Days, 11 Hours, & 42 Minutes. It is not stated where

it was sa ling to.

DON’T SHO\IJ ILL-TEMPER IF THE GAME GOES AGAirf’ST YOU= IT IS PRE­ SUMED THAT YOU PLAY FOR AMUSEMENT, NOT FOR THE SAKE OF SHO\r/ING HOH CLEVER YOU ARE.

COMPLEAT GUIDE TO \JHERE IT’s ALL AT: RELEJ\SE

40 PiliNCED/.LE ROAD

attiln 6. sat 29 r1ay t97-t

Tel. 01-229-7753

01-727-7753

LONDON \.’.11

OPEN SECT

EMERGENCY===Ol-603-8654

Ve ctarinn Restaurant. 24 hour help line.

Claimants’ Union. Bust info.

7, VICTORI/\ ROAD 27878

FREE STREETS CAMPAIGN 681133

\’JRJ\GGLTJ\GGLE

27 GEORGE STREET 682544

They’ll sell what you make.

N=C=C=L=

37 PARK CRESCENT 65706

Legal pressure group. Goosolicitors for advice. Attempting to use “legitimate” forms

of protest.

HiPS

27 GEORGE STREET, BASE!vlENT

will-be, Brighton-based oag.

682544

INFINITY FOODS

54 CHURCH STREET (just above Queens Road)

A macro food shop which will shortly open.

HOT MANN/\

7 CASTLE BANKS,. LEWES 86-6821

A RELEASE SERVICE., shop planned. Community action

group. Arts Lab planned.

NEH ARTS LAB, LONDON Closed.

REVOLUTIONARY JUNE FESTIVAL (12-13 June)

2 POl/IS ROAD, BRIGHTON

Benefit OZ BUST FUND/A NEVJ NE\vSPJ\PER.
VJORTHING FESTIVAL/PHUN CITY \JRITHES AGAIN 1 !
19/20 JUNE
telephone
Worthing
201767

or

38891

UNICORN

50 GLOUCESTER ROAD, BRIGHTON.

Books/mags/little red schoolbook.

Open 10-10 weekdays.· 12-6 Sunday.

OPEN EVEFY DAY OVER BANQUE HOLIDAY=
682307

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