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Comment by Emmanuel on 6 October, 2014 at 11:14 pmI very much enjoy browsing the archive section of your website, but recently, it’s been down at least from where I am (France). Would you mind checking if there is an issue ?
do you need help with that ?
best,
Emmanuel
Yes I’m Uk and parts of the archive have been down I was disappointed too as enjoy reading it!
Comment by Rob Jin on 19 June, 2017 at 3:06 pmHi Emmanuel, thanks very much for your message.
Comment by Editor on 10 October, 2014 at 6:28 pmThe Archive is now back up and running.
best wishes
IT
I wrote a article about Hoppy– maybe you are interested/Users/karenmoller/Pictures/Hoppy.docxJohn Hopkins, known as Hoppy died January 2015
Hoppy, one of the leading figures in the 1960’s counter culture, stud¬ied physics and mathemat¬ics at Cam¬bridge and worked as a physicist for the Atomic Energy Com¬mission till he fell in with the CND. Like many people in the un¬derground, he dab¬bled in almost every¬thing, including music and pub¬lishing before becoming a photogra¬pher and major force behind London’s 1960’s events. He recorded peace marches, poetry readings, “happenings”, as well as photographing leading counter-cultural figures like Yoko Ono, Barry Miles and most of the leading musicians, including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine. He was a gifted photographer and a generous person who kindly allowed me to use his photographs in my memoir Technicolor Dreamin’ the 1960’s Rainbow and Beyond.
Hoppy helped create the counter-culture newspaper, IT, (Interna¬tional Times) a fringe arts magazine with underground news from around the world and texts by impor¬tant contemporary thinkers. Its “Censorshit” column was close to eve-ryone’s heart. The main distributor was the ever-active Barry Miles and any shop with a sign in their window that said, “You can get IT here” made that shop part of the counter-culture. The inauguration party, All-Night Rave Pop Op Costume Masque Drag Ball Et Al was held at the Chalk Farm Roundhouse, abandoned since the electrification of the trains, was a huge derelict building of ancient iron and rotting timbers. The launch, best described as co-operative anarchy, was Soft Machine’s and Pink Floyd’s first gig. They were both light-years ahead of any other groups with Soft Machine’s psychedelic-laced jazz sounds and amazing open-ended innovations often ended in an extended chant; Pink Floyd’s scary feedback sounds and repeat echoes were enhanced by the acoustics of that cavernous space. Yoko Ono staged a Fluxus-style Happen Shortly and someone made a huge, six-foot glutinous jelly in a large tub. The jelly did not quite harden and spread over the uneven floor like a creeping monster; its demolition completed when Pink Floyd accidentally backed their van over it. The horrible mess clung to my shoes as I danced, but I was having too good a time to care.
The alternative society was at its most social, and showing off was the or¬der of the night. Many people had silver foil headdresses and re¬fraction lenses in the middle of their foreheads. There were a lot of media-familiar faces in the crowd. Paul McCartney dressed as a sheik and Mick Jagger with Marianne Faithful who was dressed in a nun’s habit that did not quite cover her bottom. She won the prize for the “shortest/barest.” Antonioni, in London to film Blow Up, seemed tired and a little bemused by it all, while Monica Vitti, in her Italian finery, looked out of place.
Although the hippie movement was mushrooming, our newspaper went from one financial crisis to another. To solve IT’s problems, Hoppy opened the UFO Club in partnership with an oddball American and jazz fan, Joe Boyd. The site, with its polished dance floor and a revolving mirrored ball in the center, was an unlikely hippie venue, yet UFO flourished and included, at one time or another, most of the under¬ground and rock-and-roll elite. One memorable night, Jimi Hendrix played for a few minutes while the Rolling Stones watched. Whatever I might say about Hendrix phenomenal energy and passionate playing would be inadequate.
Rumors spread that it was only a matter of time before UFO, the Roundhouse and everything the counter-culture stood for would be shut down. Without that rumor, the busting of IT’s offices by the Porn Squad who seized the money, customer lists, correspondence and carted away of the odd “dirty” book would have been incom¬prehensible, when just a few yards down the street were dozens of Soho shops selling hard-core porn. After many fruitless attempts to interest the news media in the unfair bust, Hoppy proposed a major hippie all-night event, or love-in, to put the newspaper back on its feet, The 14-Hour Technicolour Dream—a giant benefit against fuzz (police) action in the enormous Alexandra Pal¬ace, a Victorian metal and glass relic from the Great Exhibition, set in a park above North London. That event on the 29 of April 1967, promised to be a night of wonderments. In the ex¬pected atmos¬phere of good vibrations, security was lack and the peaceful tone almost erupted into flurries of viciousness, when a bunch of North London scooter boys, looking for agro attempted to overrun the gate with the avowed aim of “beating on” a few unresisting flower children. It was saved by the unexpected arrival of a crew of hippie maidens, led by Hoppy’s girlfriend, the scantily dressed Suzy Creamcheese. They smothered the scooter group with promises (probably not actually delivered) of sex and drugs beyond their wildest hopes.
The Alexandra Pal¬ace event had everything synonymous with alternative culture—dress, sound effects, music and light shows. Everyone dressed as they pleased; the males the actual peacocks of the evening. Twin stages had been erected at the opposite ends of the hall and separate groups played simultaneously. Lights hung on a suspension bridge between the two stages were attached at mid-point to a rented fairground 30-foot helter-skelter slide that offered free rides to anyone with the courage to climb to the top and slide down that shaky structure. In that central area, under that helter skelter the random blend of the two opposing bands met and produced a throbbing and irregular heartbeat. I couldn’t help thinking that John Cage would have appreciated that weird, curious composition of accidental and totally arbitrary sounds. John Lennon obviously thought the same. He suddenly appeared among the crowd with John Dunbar from the Indica Gallery. “Hi, man!” my boyfriend greeted them. “Glad you guys could make it.” Dunbar tugged at his military style jacket as if it made him uncomfortable. “Yeah, far out,” he said. “We seen them filming this Technicolour Dream on TV and said fuck it, let’s go.” Lennon stopped and put his hand up as if to say wait. He moved back and then slowly forward, looking quite pensive. “Did you hear that?” he asked. He turned and walked back through the audio fusion zone created by those two opposing bands. He smiled and said, “Far fucking out.” Dunbar got out some grass and was about to roll a joint when a guy staggered toward him wearing a headband around his shoulder-length hair and oversized embroidered jeans. “Hey, man!” he shouted. “You’re draggin’, man. Try the banana skins?” Ken Kelsey had started a new hippie craze, claiming banana skins, properly prepared, and smoked, gave an incredible hallucino¬genic high. Dunbar laughed and pointed to the people squatting in groups under a sort of plastic igloo filled with smoke. “Forget it, man, the highs not worth the fucking smell.”
At the far end of the hall, Soft Machine, soon to disappear from the music scene, had set up their equipment. Dressed in outlandish and conflicting outfits of miner’s helmets, Dr. Strange capes, and exaggerated makeup, their presentation made few concessions, their music as innovative as ever. The Pretty Things bashed out their incongruous sounds and the amazing Arthur Brown, with his white soul voice, whipped up the crowd with an inspiring performance God of Hellfire. The showstopper by The Purple Gang, should have made rock history with their hippie an¬them, Granny Takes a Trip, instead, they drifted into obscurity. Pink Floyd, their special effects rec¬reating an atmosphere of being stoned had the honor of closing the event. The atmosphere was electric as we joined hands with our neighbors, Pink Floyd hitting full orbital momentum with Astronomy Domine just as the first rays of the sun entered the enormous rose window.
IT described the event as “full of euphoric transcendence and trust between strangers.” Financially speaking, it was more successful than anyone could have imag¬ined and should have raised over 10,000 pounds, had the money not disappeared into unknown pockets. So much for trust between ticket sellers and group unity. I only found out later that Hoppy created that magnificent get-together while out on bail from a drug charge. Six months earlier, the Drug Squad had raided his flat and found a small quantity of marijuana. No one considered it serious till Hoppy insisted in court that marijuana was harmless. The judge called him “a drug pest” and jailed him for nine months. We were devastated. Without Hoppy, Swinging London might never have happened, at least not in the way it did. With his passing he will be greatly missed.
Comment by karen moller on 27 February, 2015 at 9:46 pmKaren Moller
Author of Technicolor Dreamin’ the 1960’s Rainbow and Beyond
In Her Own Fashion
Forbidden Games
Thank you so much for your story, fragments of info I hear from different sources add to my own recollections. Such magic in such squalor, I lay amongst a pile of liter looking up at the ceiling as Pink Floyd played… a lot of people split in the night, poor fools!
Comment by John Bonehill on 29 May, 2016 at 4:40 pmHello Karen,
Comment by Charlotte Roundhouse on 16 August, 2016 at 12:59 pmI really enjoyed reading your article about Hoppy. My name is Charlotte and I work at the Roundhouse – we are working on a website that is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the venue. The website is going to be an official and personal history of the venue and we are curating people’s Roundhouse memories and stories. We really want to include as many memories and anecdotes from that opening night in 1966 with the International Times launch, so it would be wonderful to hear more of your memories of that night and any other nights you spent there.
Do let me know,
Very best
Charlotte
My old friend Jeff Cloves mentioned my long involvement with THE ROUNDHOUSE in Chalk Farm Road, NW5. First in the mid-1930’s when I lived nearby in two rooms with my parents in a street now gone off Ferdinand Street and close to where there is still block of concrete constructed flats of the German Bauhaus Constructivist design built for working class people in London. I tore my short trousers when climbing through the building site. The Roundhouse was then used as a Gilbey’s Gin Warehouse. Barrels of gin were pushed down a spiral ramp. Me and me mates having got in would play CHICKEN. On had to stand on the bottom of the ramp and jump off before the barrel hit you. Then in the 1950’s as an elected Labour Councillor for the area I campaigned to make it a People’s Theatre Center with the help of Sir Donald Wolfit. Not successful, but in the early 1960’s with my being asked by the General Secretary of the ACTT, Alan Sapper, to organise the First Trade Union Arts Week in London, I then at a meeting of the New Left Review called for the trade unions to back a nation-wide arts movement. With the help of Alan Sapper, Resolution 42 was passed at the TUC Conference on the Isle of Man and Centre 42 was born. As a professional design building services consultant with theatre design experience as well as being an actor, dancer and member of the Royal Court Writers Group, I worked on the initial plans to convert the Old Steam Engine Round House to become what it is today.
Comment by ing. Bill Holdsworth on 12 August, 2019 at 2:37 pmThank you, explains the song ‘Hoppy’ by new agit-rock outfit, 485C, very well…
Comment by Caffy on 3 November, 2017 at 9:54 amHow come 485C is a beer by Young’s? https://untappd.com/b/eagle-brewery-formerly-charles-wells-young-s-485c/3072985
Comment by Ken Grayling on 24 March, 2019 at 10:35 amI was honoured to speak at Hoppy’s funeral. I rambled on a bit but my main point was that he treated a 17 year old ignoramus with respect despite me now knowing what amazing things were going on around me. I was somehow in charge of classified advertising at IT during 1968 (issue 30 onwards I think). I also lived and worked with Nick Albury at BIT. Still no idea what I was doing though ! Fascinating to look back now and see what was really going on.
Comment by Stephen Lee on 27 April, 2020 at 11:41 pmGreat Stephen. I was at Hoppy’s funeral too. A good send off I think. x
Comment by Editor on 10 October, 2020 at 5:23 pmHello Editor,
Comment by Charlotte Roundhouse on 16 August, 2016 at 1:14 pmI hope you’re well. My name is Charlotte and I work at the Roundhouse. I am working on a 50th anniversary website which is celebrating the rich history of the venue and arts space. The launch of your newspaper was our first ever event and so it’s a really important part of our history. I wanted to get in contact to ask whether you might be happy to share any memories or information that you might have about the launch party of your newspaper at the Roundhouse (or Centre 42 as it was then).
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask
Hope to hear from you soon,
Charlotte
Are the images copyright? I’d like to reproduce some.
Comment by Andy on 29 September, 2017 at 7:41 amThanks.
Hi, I am writing an autobiographical book which is guaranteed to not become a best seller (or even a very minimal seller, come to that) but my enquiry is regarding some entries in the original IT. For example Michael Abdul Malik wrote a poem, One Flower, which was published in IT in 1967 and which I would like to include as part of a reference to Michael, who was a neighbour in the sixties. Michael, by the way, was hanged in Trinidad in 1975. My enquiry concerns copyright, who owns it etc {?} but specifically I am seeking permission to reprint his poem and a couple of referenced quotes. Any help would be much appreciated.
Comment by paul titley on 10 October, 2020 at 6:50 amYes, otherwise known as Michael X. You can use anything from the archive, as far as the Archive is concerned. Please keep us updated at [email protected]
Comment by Editor on 10 October, 2020 at 3:10 pmHey Niall, I’m just wondering what happened to those Open Letters to Artangel you wrote?
They are not turning up in the searches anymore…
An avid reader
Comment by Alberto on 14 October, 2014 at 4:40 pmA
I would be interested in contacting the blog administrator with a question about the International Times archive. Would it be possible to send me an email contact?
Many thanks, Francesca
Comment by Francesca on 14 October, 2014 at 5:37 pmi used to hang out at Chepstow Villas in the mid 70s (76/77), i had a friend working in IT, Nigel, although i have lost touch over the years and life was very much a blur in those days. recently i found a couple of original artworks which m ust be from an issue of IT at the time. I trawled through the archives but couldn’t find it. If i email JPEGs to you could you give them to your archivist and see if they can link them? I want to frame them but i also want to specify the issue and page No etc.
thanks
Comment by julian on 30 March, 2015 at 5:23 pmI would be interested in contacting your permission syndication. We would like to use the International Times as a props for a serie TV . Would it be possible to send me an email contact as soon as possible?
Many thanks, Caroline
Comment by Caroline on 24 October, 2014 at 7:54 amDo you have an archive copy of the BIT guide “Overland through Africa” circa 1974/75 that can be scanned.
Comment by Nick spurrier on 2 December, 2014 at 5:18 pmYes I do. I live in China. How can we do this?
Comment by Richard Arridge on 10 October, 2015 at 7:14 amI also have an old issue of BIT and “Rehearsal for the year 2000”, which deserve to be online.
Comment by Richard Arridge on 13 October, 2015 at 3:00 amDo you know of any way to purchase back issues of printed IT? It does appear that IT is no longer printed, correct?
Comment by Michael Thomas Lynch on 7 December, 2014 at 9:09 pmDear Editor, In a lapse of time between October 1967 and March 1968 I was selling IT just out of the tube stations, mainly Notting Hill, Sloane square, Earl’s Court etc. I was wondering: do I deserve something from this? Ah! When I was selling IT in Sloane square I sold two copies to poor Joe Cocker, who just left us. RIP.
Comment by Piero Maha Luni on 23 December, 2014 at 4:03 amYes I think you probably do. We have plans in the works for the 50th anniversary event.
Please email [email protected] to co-ordinate.
Comment by bishopdante on 29 September, 2015 at 4:13 amHello – I have been searching for a facebook group or a website that might be interested – now I have found your site. I took a few photographs inside the IT offices on 9thApril 1969. I think it was in Endell Street then. I wonder if you would be interested in seeing these? Please let me know. Cheers, Joss
Comment by Joss Mullinger on 31 January, 2015 at 9:46 pmPit late in answering but yes Joss we’d love yo see them. [email protected]
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We’re a new band.
Hope you enjoy our music.
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Comment by José Sousa on 3 March, 2015 at 12:56 pmHi there, I’m a Masters History and Culture of Fashion student hoping to use some International Times material in my forthcoming dissertation project and I was wondering where the archive is currently being held? I believe it was with the Idea Generation Galley, which has sadly now closed… Thanks! Ellie
Comment by Ellie on 8 May, 2015 at 11:47 amHi Ellie
Comment by Editor on 10 May, 2015 at 5:19 pmThanks for the enquiry and interest in IT. I have sent you an email regarding this.
Hi Editor, I’m doing some research on the International Times from its launch in 1966 to the end of the 60s, and I have the same question as Ellie did in 2015 – where is the archive currently being held? I’d be grateful if you could get in touch! Many thanks, Anna
Comment by Anna on 9 February, 2018 at 1:32 amHello Anna. If you have any “Archive” questions please direct them to [email protected]
Comment by Editor on 9 February, 2018 at 7:38 amDear Editor,
I wonder if you might be able to help me, I’m looking to reproduce some materials of ‘IT’ in a book I’m working on. Is there someone I could contact directly to discuss this?
Comment by Joanna de Vries on 18 May, 2015 at 10:08 amWith best wishes,
Joanna
Hey there International Times,
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It would make us very happy, if you had fun with Feverdreamt’s album. However, we would be forever grateful if you wrote a some sentences about the album. If you need more (e.g. pictures) don’t hesitate to get back at us.
Thanks a lot for your time, we’re looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Comment by Alexander Donat on 22 May, 2015 at 9:18 pmAlex
Nico has died on the 18th of July 1988 in Ibiza 27 years ago. But nevertheless life keeps going on and Nico’s work still leaves traces.
So I felt it is about time to share my memories about my life with Nico.
This very personal story contains a lot of photos (some of them unpublished) and very rare private letters of Nico.
Here is the link:http://www.amazon.com/Nico-Shadow-Goddess-Lutz-Graf-Ulbrich-ebook/dp/B011WIJ1W6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437208620&sr=8-1&keywords=nico+in+the+shadow&pebp=1437208623841&perid=0FYESB3FYDM0JKQNMZR8
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Comment by Lutz Graf-Ulbrich on 26 July, 2015 at 4:56 pmhttp://www.facebook.com/LuulFanPage
Heavens to betsy! (I have no idea what it means, but does work as an exclamation.) I thought IT was long gone, but here it is in my Twitter box. I used to sell IT (newspapers) on Baker Street, London in 1969. From there I went to Time Out when it was only available in London and just gone weekly. I wish you well and will definitely be checking out your articles in the future.
Comment by Judy Love on 31 July, 2015 at 2:36 pmDear Editor – I’d like to feature the Angry Brigade communique about the Spanish Embassy (featured in December 1970) in a book I’m writing. One chapter is about the 1970 Miss World contest and I write a potted history of the Angry Brigade. Would this be possible do you think?
Thank you,
Rob
Comment by Rob Baker on 5 August, 2015 at 11:29 amYes that would be fine Rob.
Ed
Comment by Editor on 5 August, 2015 at 5:54 pmI recently aquired what I believe is the camera of the late Hoppy Hopkins, the co-founder of IT. And was wondering if you good people from IT would like to have a look at it
Comment by Devon on 13 August, 2015 at 9:59 pmHi Devon. Just came across your message on the board. Bit late but, do you still have the camera? I’ve been involved in making a film about Hoppy’s life with his estate’s blessing. Naturally his photos are part of the story. Some footage of his actual camera would be lovely! Here’s a link to the film: https://www.hoppyfilm.com/
Comment by Carl Stickley on 8 February, 2018 at 6:17 pmIf there’s a way of hooking up and doing the deed then please get in touch.
Love, Carl
Just wondering if you ever take article submissions or is all content done in house? If someone had an article suggestion that could fit the ethos of magazine would it be looked at?
Comment by Ben on 18 August, 2015 at 1:34 pmHi Ben
Comment by Editor on 18 August, 2015 at 7:37 pmYes we take submissions and will take a look.
Send to [email protected]
Regards
Editor
I tried that email but it kept saying failed delivery.
Comment by Ben on 20 August, 2015 at 10:54 amTry [email protected]
Comment by Editor on 20 August, 2015 at 7:47 pmHi All, is there any particular reasons for IT being based in Italy? ♒
Comment by col on 27 August, 2015 at 1:17 pmSorry but we cant divulge that kind of information. Omertà.
Comment by Editor on 27 August, 2015 at 7:46 pmTrying to submit none of the email links work 🙁
Comment by chrissy on 20 September, 2015 at 2:47 pmHi
Comment by Editor on 20 September, 2015 at 5:59 pmtry [email protected]
Let us know if this doesnt work.
dear…end of 1969…1970 i presume..you’re mag released the historic Dylan boot ‘great white wonder’.
Comment by john on 20 September, 2015 at 8:37 pmdid that record came with any preticulair magazine or was it available on its own.
on ebay there is now a copy for sale..white covered with the legendary It logo sticker.
i hope you can help me out.
with regards and good luck.
John
Being neutered by cyberspace, the emails aren’t working and I so much want to be included in this wonder cool rag spitting on conformity and revealing all hypocrisy let me submit stop the elitist bull shit! Don’t be a stuck up press excluding those with no means of redress save for the pen the pen the pen .
Yep basically it’s not working xo
Comment by chrissy on 21 September, 2015 at 8:07 amHello, I’m from Germany and travelled the English Free Festivals a lot from 1975 – 1979. While in London I lived with the people from BIT – Information Service and got to know IT through them. Sold IT on the streets and festivals, great fun! I still have plenty of printed issues. Great that you are still online!! Holy Flips, Laufi
Comment by Laufi on 17 February, 2016 at 10:40 amHello IT people.
Comment by alan strom on 6 October, 2017 at 7:27 pmI know this guy Laufi, and I’d love to get in touch with him again, I owe him for a book he got for me…so, if you can forward this or my email to him, I’d be delighted.
alan.
Hi Alan, only just read your comment. great to hear from you! here is my mail-adress: [email protected]
Comment by Laufi on 14 November, 2017 at 3:52 pmlooking forward to hear from you again!
Hello,
I discovered the printed version recently in a bookshop in london, and really loved it, i went to the same place to get the issu number two, but the didn´t have it and they don´t know how to get it, I was wondering if there is any place to buy it, or the get it send to my house.
Thanks very much
Comment by Jechusvi on 13 April, 2016 at 4:09 pmhttps://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/270627338/international-times-issue-1
Comment by Editor on 4 September, 2016 at 11:43 amThere’s an issue one and two that you should be able to get mail order at the above address Jechusvi. There should be other issues coming out in the short future.
http://spellingmistakescostlives.bigcartel.com/product/international-times-issue-2
Issue two you can get from here.
Comment by Editor on 4 September, 2016 at 11:46 amHi Alan, only just read your comment. great to hear from you! here is my mail-adress: [email protected]
Comment by Laufi on 14 November, 2017 at 3:50 pmlooking forward to hear from you again!
Dear Sir or Madame,
We’re Atom Heart, a hard rock band from Poland and we’ve just released debut EP. We would like to ask if you would be interested in writing a review of our album? Our music can be found at https://atomheartband.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-light I can also send you music in .mp3 or .wav if you prefer.
Atom Heart has formed a year ago and since then the band has managed to play around 40 concerts in Poland and few in Berlin. The biggest band’s achievement is mentioned, debut EP as well as playing at second biggest Polish student festival – Juwenalia PW 2016.
Hope to hear from you,
Comment by Kamil Wysocki on 17 May, 2016 at 7:42 amAll best,
Kamil
Check this out:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCRY65Grg6M
Hi,
I’m a French journalist and I’m doing a work for my school of journalism. I would like to comment the photo “No Borders” (the guy in the frontier with the hamac) and just would like to check if the author of this photography is Heathcote Williams. As a matter of fact, the photo is on many websites and blogs and it’s kind of confuse about the sources. I saw that you were the first one to publish it and just wanted to make sure about the sources.
Comment by Marie on 2 September, 2016 at 9:38 amThank you very much for your answer!
Cheers,
Marie
Hi there
I’m wondering if you have any contacts to where I could buy a back copy. Looking for a good quality issue 100. Is this something you can help me with?
Comment by Andy on 19 September, 2016 at 1:55 pmReally the best place to buy IT back issues is eBay. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=international+times&_osacat=0&ssPageName=GSTL&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC0.A0.H0.Xinternational+times+100.TRS0&_nkw=international+times+100&_sacat=0 They have an issue 100 for sale at that link. x
Comment by Editor on 22 September, 2016 at 11:42 amWhat does the B stand for in BIT?
Comment by M.Casey on 11 January, 2017 at 5:54 pmAs I recall it, it’s not an acronym at all. It was called BIT because that’s the smallest piece of information that could be fed into a computer.
Comment by Davoinoz on 22 December, 2017 at 2:52 amHi,
Comment by Agustin on 2 March, 2017 at 6:53 pmI m publishing a book about Listen, Here, Now, a theater play that was performed at the Arts Lab in 1968. I would like to reproduce the page 20 of IT/42, October 18-31, 1968, where that play is mentioned. Do you have the file in high quality?
I m also trying to find a photo of the Arts Lab, do you know who might have one?
Thanks for all your help!!
Hi
I am a private collector of memorabilia and items relating to Alexandra Palace & have a small website (allypallycollectibles.com), as well as a Twitter @allypallymuseum.
Could I use a couple of your covers this month to help the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Technicolour Dream?
Thank you
David
Comment by David Orme on 20 April, 2017 at 9:09 amThat would be fine David.
Comment by Editor on 20 April, 2017 at 2:54 pmBroken Atoms book launch at Stoke Newington Literary Festival
“Only six UK poets have work in an anthology published in the USA by Shabda Press.This is the only booklaunch planned for the UK. This collection of poems explores the reach of nuclear impact from the desert to the Arctic.”
Saturday, June 3 at 5 PM – 7 PM Mascara Bar, 72 Stamford Hill, N16 6XS.
About the book –
The poems in the anthology take us through Navajo-Hopi reservations, the Nevada desert, Los Alamos, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Three Mile Island, Trinity, air raid drills, Chernobyl, Pripyat, Ogoturuk Valley, Alaska, Fukushima, nuclear testing in India and Pakistan, and more. In the poems, we experience the legacy of nuclear power created by human hands and its effects on human life and all life on Earth. Full list of contributors here – http://www.shabdapress.com/nuclear-impact-anthology.html
“Where does the money from this book go?”
Proceeds from sales of the Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands anthology will be donated to the Women’s Center in Downtown Los Angeles. See -http://www.downtownwomenscenter.org/ending_homelessness
Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands £20.04 available in the UK via Amazon.co.uk
More info on Stoke Newington Literary Festival – http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/
More info on Mascara Bar – http://www.mascarabar.co.uk/
more details here – https://www.facebook.com/events/1970767723143730/
Comment by Des Mannay on 20 May, 2017 at 1:51 amHi, I was the subject of a personal message a while ago, in a Small Ads section. I’d like to respond if possible as I have a book to return. The issue was number 1969/55. Wistful smile.
Comment by David on 5 July, 2017 at 2:35 pmSweet!x
Comment by Editor on 5 July, 2017 at 3:13 pmHello,
If we wanted to use an image of one of your pages in a newspaper how would we go about this? Is there a fee to use a page like this?
Thanks,
Comment by Kerry Grainger on 12 September, 2017 at 4:16 pmKerry
If you give us a credit and a link to our web page http://internationaltimes.it For original credited artworks. That would be fine. What are you thinking of using them for?
Comment by Editor on 13 September, 2017 at 4:36 pmDear Editor,
I am working on a project relating to the impact of the underground press between 1966, and 74/75. I have tried sending this to two email addresses found on this site, but they bounced back.
I wanted to know where the archive for IT is currently located, and if it’s accessible for research purposes. I also wanted to know if the archive contains any letters from the public around this period, as this is the kind of thing I would love to take a look at.
Thanks so much for your help,
Best,
Mike Flynn
[email protected]
Comment by Michael Flynn on 13 September, 2017 at 7:58 pmHello,
Is there a direct contact I can speak to regarding IT? We are working on a project and have material of Jack Henry Moore’s.
Comment by Dig Media on 3 November, 2017 at 5:21 pmDear IT,
my name is Francesco Tabarelli.
I’m making a documentary film entitled “The sons of wonder – The Italian beat generation.”
The film talks about young italian poets in the mid-sixties and the italian underground scene.
I saw your archive I find it incredible.
I’d like to use some of the IT pages in the film for describe the international scene.
I’m here to ask, if it’s possible, the permission to use those materials.
Specifically, I’m interested in some of the pages from the editions between 1966 and 1970.
http://www.facebook.com/IFigliDelloStupore/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCYLHTlzqpY
Thank you
Comment by Francesco Tabarelli on 6 November, 2017 at 2:31 amThat’s Great Franccesco sounds very interesting. You are welcome to use the archive as long as you give the archive and our website a credit. You can always email us at [email protected] With very best wishes to you.
Comment by Editor on 6 November, 2017 at 9:07 amdear Charlotte Roundhouse in the early 70s I was in a jazz and poetry group called Poetsdoos (same name as the small mag I made and published). In 70/71 we performed at a benefit gig in the Chalk Farm Roundhouse (for Release? can’t remember). We were the unknowns on a bill of star rock names and performed to the largest crowd we’d ever played to – and held our own I insist.
Comment by jeff cloves on 10 February, 2018 at 5:02 pmI remember The Roundhouse when it was known as Centre 42 and devoted to bringing the arts – via the trade Union movement and named after a ‘clause 42’ at a TUC conference – to a wider audience. The playwright Arnold Wesker and my friend Bill Holdsworth were prime movers. In the early days of IT I submitted poetry and prose but was always rejected. Since 2o15 IT has been publishing me from time to time. PS. I saw a rock version of Othello ‘Catch my Soul’ at the Roundhouse. Jeff Cloves
Dear IT,
re: Twitter post to order/purchase the print editions, yes please!
I live in smalltown Massachusetts, US. Nowhere close to get the print edition, unfortunately. Do you do mail subscriptions?
Best,
Comment by Keith Cowling on 4 March, 2018 at 7:31 amKeith
(@ChannelSteamer)
http://www.centralbooks.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=0&q=International+times
Try this one Keith….
Comment by Editor on 5 March, 2018 at 6:03 pmGreetings!
I am a Percussive Finger-Style Acoustic Guitar Player and a Singer-Songwriter.
My journey as a solo artist started 5 years ago in 2013 when I uploaded my first ever original song on YouTube called ‘Dear Mother’. It gained a bit of attention from people around the world and got shared by few big magazines & celebrities too including Kaki King & Dave Stewart. Since then I have given solo performances at many big festivals in India & Abroad which includes
The NAMM Show, Los Angeles, California
Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival, Mexico
Bacardi NH7 Weekender, Pune
TEDxGateway, Mumbai
Thomso, IIT Roorkee
Pearl BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
Stage 42
Sonder Rus, Mysore
Festember, NIT Trichy
Lakme Fashion Week
and many more…
Lately, I have been focusing more on my original music and now I am independently releasing my Debut Album titled ‘Mix Mood’ on 15th May 2018. It contains 16 Original tracks (8 instrumental & 8 with lyrics) which depict my journey so far as a solo artist. The songs range from slow to medium to a fast pace of various subjects/matters which are arranged with solo guitar, electronic production with guitars & full band, and they pretty much fit all the moods, hence the title. I have attached a private link to one of the songs from the Album called ‘Stabilize’ for your viewing. I will be releasing this video along with the album on 15th May.
I request you to please have a listen and if you feel that this music has some kind of potential or impact then please do let me know in what ways we can get associated in pushing it further.
I would highly appreciate any kind of support or assistance from your end.
Here is the private link to ‘Stabilize’ video: https://youtu.be/ygFRGnP0ifo
(This is the solo percussive fingerstyle guitar version of the song but the album features the Full band Studio Version with Electronic Drums, Acoustic Guitar & Violin. This video also features a snippet of the studio version in the end.)
I can even provide you the full Album for review if you are interested.
I look forward to your positive consideration.
Thank you
Comment by Manan Gupta on 29 April, 2018 at 3:50 pmHi IT,
Comment by Ant on 14 May, 2018 at 5:38 pmI have a copy from September 1979 and I notice there are no entries in the archive for 79. I’d be glad to donate this copy to the archive. Please let me know if you’d like it.
Dear IT Editor
Comment by Paul Ernest on 2 June, 2018 at 6:31 amI have a piece of writing I’d like to submit for consideration for IT
Is there an email address for submissions? I couldn’t find one
Thanks
Paul
[email protected]
Comment by Editor on 2 June, 2018 at 7:42 amI need a mailing address for you to request copyright clearance.
Comment by richard koloda on 5 November, 2018 at 8:12 pmHi Richard, email address is [email protected]
Comment by Editor on 5 November, 2018 at 8:52 pmI used to work as a delivery driver for International Times in the early 70’s?
Comment by Vernon Moat on 2 January, 2019 at 10:16 pmDropping off papers at all the news agents around the East End of London.
We also used to deliver the first editions of Time Out
One week they had been let down on a round & asked me to do it, it was around Amsterdam!!
We also had some very rude cartoon news papers which the customs at Dover were very interested in.
The customs stripped my air filter etc on the way back looking for drugs but didn’t find any.
I also went to the Anti University of London in Brick Lane, Shoreditch E1,
where I met Yoko Ono & some other writers.
Yoko ran a course on previous lives from her & Johns home in Regents Park.
I went there for a cup of tea there once & had a bit of trouble driving home as my skull lifted off as I drove round Piccadilly.
unaware that I had been dosed with mescaline or something….
Thanks for sharing the very interesting memories!
Comment by Editor on 2 January, 2019 at 10:45 pmWe cant get this story out in the UK.
788-790 Finchley Road: NEW EVIDENCE AGAINST Tony Blair, Soros & David Cameron. https://youtu.be/28hjv1IfRuc
Comment by Max Wolfe on 15 January, 2019 at 12:03 amHow do we know the service is running fine?
Comment by Sarah aysha gunawan on 29 May, 2019 at 4:06 pmWow! Just discovered you guys by accident. I remember buying this paper way back in the late 60’s.
Comment by David Blades on 11 June, 2019 at 6:25 pmNow i need to know where i can buy it. Or is it just an on-line thing?
Thanks for the comment. We’re just online these days.
Comment by Editor on 11 June, 2019 at 7:14 pmHi – I want to buy the latest print edition – how and where can I do that in London?
Comment by David on 11 August, 2019 at 10:33 amDavid we don’t have a current print version of the magazine.
Comment by Editor on 12 August, 2019 at 7:27 amHello
Comment by Peter Simpson on 17 January, 2020 at 7:10 pmI have a number of editions of It. Would they be of interest to anyone or does the archive make them recycling? Regards Peter
Do you still accept submissions for artwork, writing poetry etc? If so, what is the process for that? So enjoy International Times ~ Keep up the great work!
Comment by Elliot Lessing on 26 March, 2020 at 4:20 pmThanks Elliot!
Comment by Editor on 27 March, 2020 at 5:28 pmWe are still accepting submissions, send to [email protected]
Dear It
I have copies of It No.s 10, 13, 26, 29 & 35 (March 1967-July 1968), if anyone is interested, please get in touch.
Comment by Bob Ward on 13 May, 2020 at 10:08 amDear Sir,
Comment by Romain Rioboo on 20 August, 2020 at 2:46 pmI would like to include in a book I’m writing one advertisement that was issued on 28th April 1967. Is that possible?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Romain
That’s fine Romain. Please keep us updated at [email protected]
Comment by Editor on 10 October, 2020 at 5:20 pmHello, I remember IT from my youth and was always impressed with reading it at the library. Do you still do a hard copy?
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Thanks very much for the info and the link. Its been added to the Free Movie Sites section on the page.
Best wishes.
Comment by Editor on 4 September, 2023 at 2:13 pmDoes anyone remember Geoff Marsh? Or know where he is now?
Comment by David S on 16 November, 2023 at 7:57 amDear Editor,
I have sent some of my poems for your consideration. Will I get a reply to the mail? How long should I wait for the same?
Ritamvara Bhattacharya
Comment by Ritamvara Bhattacharya on 17 December, 2023 at 12:21 pmDear editors,
Comment by VasPig on 12 June, 2024 at 10:12 amI am looking for the International Times: Decolonising our minds, Issue 2, new series (https://internationaltimes.it/it-issue-2-out-now/).
How can I get hold of it?
I’d be happy with an electronic version.
Thank you for your help,
V
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