Altered State Matthew Collin · Serpent’s Tail

4

journey to the east

Football terraces, the north and the spread of the drug

3 works, in the order the book names them

  • 001Book

    Steaming In

    Colin Ward

    ‘People who haven’t experienced the thrill of football do not understand what makes a hooligan tick, but if any one of those people who condemn people who fight at football could experience the feeling then perhaps they would begin to understand,’ wrote Colin Ward in Steaming In, his pre-acid house insider’s account of London’s football mobs in the mid-eighties.
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    Whole of the Moon

    The Waterboys

    Wilson’s trademark style was a mixture of white pop – the Gaelic mysticism of the Waterboys’ ‘Whole of the Moon’ was his anthem – with the pounding electronics of Belgian ‘New Beat’.
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    Strings of Life

    Rhythim Is Rhythim

    All through the summer of 1989 it was essential to ‘keep it locked’, as the pirates put it, to 88.3 FM. ‘Are you ready, London?’ screamed the most memorable Centre Force advert, over the rising chords of Rhythim is Rhythim’s techno epic ‘Strings of Life’.
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