Bzigueuleusmeleudeu 23-11-1990

I believe this was the first gig/party at the bzigueuleuscmeuleudeu (I doubt we actually spellt it the same twice tbh).

As pretty much all the events there it started with a cafe from 7pm onwards, and then the bands would start

Siren Hardcore gig Flyers early 90s

A bunch of gig flyers organised by Siren.
Circa 1990/1 I think, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Hardcore and punk all the way...

Squats Paris January 1990

Door of Harry Roberts squat in Paris 20eme

Wall blocking access after the eviction of several families who were squatting on Place de la reunion in Paris 20eme.
Following this eviction a tent city was erected as a protest camp on the square in the middle of the place de la reunion and was occupied for several months while negotiations went on for rehousing of the families, I think this is when the D.A.L. association was created.

Tien A Ment Naples January 1990

View from outside, January 1990.
Tien A Ment squat in Naples.

That Day In Trafalgar Square

First there were all the local demonstrations outside town halls all over the country which went from vocal to riots, and then came the big day, I only have 3 pictures left.

 This is around 4:30 pm according to this account and as far as I was concerned at the time this is when trouble erupted, i only found out later that trouble had actually already been going on for a while but me and

MZ/BZ Cafe 1990/1991

MZ/BZ cafe.

The door and section 6. Lots of raucous benefits cafs went on there mostly on Thursdays and not always ending in complete chaos.
Opposite my squat it was originally squatted "just because we could" as was still the case back in those days with the amount of empties that were around, a couple of people lived upstairs including Maya who was learning the violin at the time in a DIY manner IIRC.
It sat at

lap of luxury

Obviously living it up in the lap of luxury in the old Black Women Centre after it had been squatted on the corner of Stockwell road and Stockwell Green, a 15 seconds walk from the Old Queens Head and all its punk and hardcore gigs.

Bingo Bomb Squat, Brixton 1990

The ever so short lived Bingo Bomb squat in Brixton, it lasted all of about 4 hours after the "Official" opening before being illegally evicted by the police, a lot of the people inside at the time were on bail after the Trafalgar square poll tax riot and getting arrested was therefore not an option for them and the police were certainly not listening to any "you know that what you are doing is illegal" talk that particular day, I'm still unsure why this particular squat got this particular treatment, maybe because it was right in the centre of Brixton (opposite Sub-station just behind red records) it had a massive banner hanging out and people had been handing out tracts to the crowd of Saturday shoppers.