Earth Island Books have released the Not Just Bits Of Paper book, the bits of paper we’re talking about here are the flyers and posters created to announce upcoming concerts of the more ‘earthy’ punk rock type prevalent throughout much of the 1980s. Black & white, made with scissors, glue, pens, Letraset and found images. Utilising the ‘cut ‘n paste’ method rather than desk-top publishing, then photocopied, fly-posted, stuck up in record shops, given out by hand and sent out by post enclosed with fanzines and cassette tapes purchased from various mail order lists. This was the way we communicated before the advent of the Internet and social media. Slow, time-consuming, sometimes wearisome but effective. Very few people thought of saving them and those who did so, saved them essentially for the sake of it. Not for having an eye on one day them being collectible or of any possible future monetary value to anyone. They saved them without thinking and for no reason but saved them, thankfully, they did.

Co-edited by Greg Bull and Mickey ‘Penguin’, Not Just Bits Of Paper collates a wide selection of flyers, posters and handouts from the anarcho-punk era of the 1980s and for posterity lays them out and presents them in all their ragged, torn and tattered glory. As to be expected, Crass are heavily represented alongside The Mob, Flux Of Pink Indians, Antisect, Conflict, Poison Girls, Chumbawamba plus many more others. A series of recollections, memories, imagined dreams perhaps from the collective memories of those who lived through the punk and anarcho punk years. Tales recalled of times past and a glorious tribute to the bands and the crowds who made the early eighties so special for so many.

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