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Essay

Roy Ayers & Fela Kuti: Music Of Many Colours

October 2020

Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti each explored Pan-Africanism and diasporic solidarity their own way before their meeting in 1979, which represented a crystallisation of ideas. By John Morrison

Interview

Gee Vaucher talks to Savage Pencil

October 2020

As the albums of anarcho punk legends Crass receive a new reissue, their visual mastermind talks to artist and Wire contributor Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey

Book Extract

Read an extract from Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground by Joe Banks

September 2020

Avatars of the underground, figureheads of the free festival scene and heralds of punk, Hawkwind were a one-band revolution in the 1970s. This is an edited extract from Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground – Radical Escapism In The Age Of Paranoia by Joe Banks, published by Strange Attractor Press

Book Extract

Read an excerpt from Rated SavX

August 2020

Earlier this year Strange Attractor published a retrospective scrapbook documenting the life and works of The Wire contributor and resident artist Edwin Pouncey aka Savage Pencil. Read part of an interview featured within its pages