india knight's posterous

Things I like. Now with Search button (and links have moved right to the bottom)

    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost

    Malcolm McLaren's cortège

    Img_1465

    Img_1467

    Img_1468

    Img_1472

    Img_1473

    Img_1474

    Img_1475

    Img_1476

    Img_1477

    Img_1479

    Img_1481

    Img_1485

    Img_1489

    Img_1494

    I was in Chalk Farm Road when Malcolm McLaren's funeral cortège was due past. I felt v ghoulish standing on the bridge waiting for it to pass, but it was *amazing* when it did. Black horses with black plumes, red and white roses making an A for Anarchy, 'Too fast to live, too young to die' spray-painted onto the side of the coffin. The bus was behind it, blaring out the Sex Pistols, at which point the whole street walked after it, dancing and singing along until it turned away from Camden towards Highgate. I'm glad I saw it - it was weirdly exhilerating and beautiful, and moving.

    Report (not entirely accurate - as you can see, streets lined with rather more than "only a few punks"), and rather better pics than mine, here and here.

    And I know Buffalo Gals was pioneering & fantastic, but this is still my fave. 

    • 22 April 2010
    • Views
    • 0 Comments
    • Permalink
    • Tweet
  • India Knight's Space

    I write books, and things for The Sunday Times. But I wanted a place to stick other stuff I like, and Posterous is unbelievably easy to set up. So here we are. Yet another work-avoidance strategy by me. You can follow me on Twitter, too - I'm @indiaknight. I know, right? The interwebs: where the fun never ends.

    Archive

    2011 (38)
    September (4)
    August (4)
    July (3)
    June (10)
    April (6)
    March (5)
    February (4)
    January (2)
    2010 (192)
    December (3)
    November (5)
    October (10)
    September (11)
    August (13)
    July (8)
    June (3)
    May (5)
    April (19)
    March (24)
    February (39)
    January (52)
    2009 (245)
    December (41)
    November (49)
    October (124)
    September (31)
  • About India Knight

    I write books, and things for The Sunday Times. But I wanted a place to stick other stuff I like, and Posterous is unbelievably easy to set up. So here we are. Yet another work-avoidance strategy by me. You can follow me on Twitter, too - I'm @indiaknight. I know, right? The interwebs: where the fun never ends.

  • Subscribe via RSS
  • Sites I Like

    • A Little Bird
    • Arts & Letters Daily
    • The Atlantic
    • automatism
    • Awkward Family Photos
    • Backwards in High Heels
    • The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    • Belgian Waffle
    • Black and WTF
    • Black*Eiffel
    • The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
    • Cake Wrecks
    • Crumbs
    • design is mine
    • Face Goop
    • Fashion Editor at Large
    • Go Away
    • Go Fug Yourself
    • Got A Girl Crush
    • Grain de musc
    • The Happiness Project London
    • Harper's Magazine
    • Hero of Switzerland
    • hipster puppies
    • Hollow Legs
    • jane brocket
    • kottke.org
    • KRISATOMIC
    • Labour Uncut
    • Letters of Note
    • Liberty London Girl
    • Lisa Eldridge Make Up
    • LRB · archive
    • LRB blog
    • Lost At E Minor
    • The Man Repeller
    • Marina O'Loughlin
    • Mrs Osborn's shopping spree
    • Mrs Trefusis Takes A Taxi
    • Paul Waugh's blog
    • The Poke
    • Questions To Which The Answer Is No
    • Sabotage Times
    • The Sartorialist
    • the selby
    • swissmiss
    • The Spice Spoon
    • Texts From Last Night
    • The English Can Cook
    • the likkle girl who wurves pwetty things
    • The Womens Room
    • THXTHXTHX
    • The Truth About Beauty
    • Unhappy Hipsters
    • Vain and Vapid
    • Wee Birdy
    • What Katie Does

    Follow Me

      Twitter

Theme created for Posterous by Obox