http://www.lasthours.org.uk creative resistance Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:43:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This years Brighton Zinefest is a huge four day event. We will be taking part on the Saturday, setting up shop at the Hanover Community Centre along with over 30 other zine distros. Saturday, February 20, 2010 1.30-5.30pm, free entry/donations. Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover St, Brighton We will have a new selection of ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/brighton-zinefest/ We all enjoy a good gig. In fact, a memorable show can stay with us forever and influence our lives. Great bands have been born from great gigs. Whether it's a huge festival, or an underground band at a local venue. Whether its your first gig as a teenager, or ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/nights-to-remember/ Last Hours presents: "Excessive Force" - policing in Britain Wednesday 24th February - 6.30pm to 8.30pm At Housmans books, 5 Caledonian Road, near King's Cross We're finally having a book launch for our comix anthology, 'Excessive Force', that explores the problems of modern policing. At the launch there'll be talks about the anthology and ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/excessive-force-book-launch/ This is a filling winter stew with simple ingredients of root vegetables and beans, and beer! If you don't like using suet, which is uber hydrogenated vegetable fat, you can make the dumplings by using a bits of cold margarine instead. Me and Lucy made this in the Cowley Cafe, ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/diy/dumpling-stew/ It seemed like such a good idea when it was agreed upon. A blog about working for the ambulance service; interesting and bizarre situations get spoon fed to you every day, all I would have to do would be to package them pleasantly and post them too you. I don’t know ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/negi-core/ The RNC 8 are organisers against the 2008 Twin Cities Republican National Convention in the US last year, who have been falsely charged in response to their political organising. Here is a recently published letter that looks at the current state of attack on anarchists by the US ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/the-state-of-state-repression-in-the-us/ This year Last Hours has a table at the international comics festival in Angoulême, France. We'll be taking our two new books - Diary of a miscreant and Excessive Force - to the BD Alternative area. If you happen to be going to Angoulême, drop round for some politically inspired ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/last-hours-at-bd-angouleme/ I recently went to see Vanilla Pod play at the Fighting Cocks in Kingston.  While there I remarked on the following points to people I saw:  Seeing Vanilla Pod in Kingston seems like being in a time-warp (as this is my home town and the site of many Vanilla Pod ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/reviews/vanilla-pod-poets-on-payday-boss-tuneage/ Alkaline Trio are one of my favourite bands. When I was 16, I got a friend to draw me an Alkaline Trio tattoo design on tracing paper, which I planned to get tattooed across my shoulders in whatever studio would turn a blind eye to inking under-age girls. While I ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/reviews/alkaline-trio-this-addiction-hassle-records/ Statistically this past Monday, the 18th January, is the most depressing day of the year. Normally I don’t buy into this kind of hype, but this year I’m a fully paid-up member. Aside from the chest infection, not seeing the sun in weeks and being dumped in the ... http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/misery-monday/