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Add MS 89160/5/5
- Record Id:
- 040-003257411
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252121
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028068249.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89160/5/5
- Title:
- Barry Miles reference folders: 'London Underground Scene'
- Scope & Content:
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- Flyer for the first Spontaneous Underground event, Marquee Club, 30 January 1966.
- Flyer for the second Spontaneous Underground event, consisting of a promotional insert for ESP Records with a faint two-colour Roneoed message overprinted, Marquee Club, 1966.
- Black and white photograph of Harry Fainlight and Alexander Trocchi at the Spontaneous Underground at the Marquee (copyright Graham Keen), 1966.
- Flyer for Moe’s Bookstore, Berkeley, in the shape of a dollar bill, 1966.
- Flyer announcing A New Moon Carnival event, Albert Hall, 18 June 1966.
- Flyer for AMM's gig An Excerpt from a Continuous Performance, Commonwealth Institute, London, 15 September 1966.
- Black and white photograph of Pete Jenner and Suni, undated.
- Photograph of The Soft Machine at the IT launch party at the Roundhouse, October 1966 (copyright Graham Keen).
- Flyer for the London Free School first public meeting, 8 March 1966.
- Clipping of article Revolutionary Party Organiser from the Sunday Times, February 1966, about the Spontaneous Underground events.
- Selection of fragments from Long Hair magazine, American comics, and three different Alexander Trocchi's Sigma Portfolio mimeograph texts, sent in an envelope as invitation to Spontaneous Underground events.
- Clipping of article A Guinness heir and two sons missing from the Daily Mirror, 14 October 1966.
- Clipping of article Bookman’s Bonanza from the Evening Standard, 8 December 1966.
- Flyer about Gregory J. Markopoulos, filmmaker, with brief handwritten note to Miles, 1966.
- Flyer 30,000 Tandar Exist, possibly aninvitation to Spontaneous Underground event, [1966].
- Photograph of drawing with message on the back ‘Run and hide, your city is being invaded’, undated.
- Miles new address card, for the flat above Indica bookshop, 1966.
- Rufus Segar business card, with invitation to a free lunch for Miles at The Economist, undated.
- ICA Bulletin no. 161, August 1966 - Miles is listed as part of the Destruction In Art Symposium (DIAS) committee.
- Photocopy of clipping of the article Making the rounds of Way-out London by Kenneth Rexroth, from San Francisco Examiner, 4 December 1966.
- Photocopy of Barbara Rubin ‘Special Letter’, with signatures of aspiring members of the Creeping Kreplach Foundation, 18 May 1966.
- Photocopy of Barbara Rubin ‘Special addition to the special letter. Signed documents’, undated.
- Clipping of article ‘When John met Yoko’ from the Telegraph magazine, 2 November 1996.
- Clipping of article The Apocryphal Teeny Bopper from the Village Voice, 14 July 1966.
- Flyer for L’Internationale Hallucinex, silver card (in French), 1967.
- Flyer The Death of Art Spells The Murder of Artists. The Real Anti-Artist Appears by King Mob. Miles appears on the list for potential assassinations by would-be Situationists, 1967.
- Clipping of article The Pot Prophet, Steve Abrams from Cherwell, 1 February 1967.
- Flyer introducing United Mutations, a new Frank Zappa 'fan club', 1967.
- Miles’s participant pass for the International Congress Dialectics of Liberation, Roundhouse, 15-30 July 1967.
- Flyer for Dialectics of Liberation records, with list of records available to order, 1968.
- Letter from John 'Hoppy' Hopkins asking Miles to obtain the Committee of 100 telephone tapping pamphlet, and a copy of ARCARDE [1967].
- Flyer for The Legalise Pot Rally 1967, Hyde Park, 16 July 1967.
- Clipping of article Michael X Race Hatred Charge from the Evening Standard, 29 September 1967.
- Letter from Caroline Coon, of Release, with attached leaflet ‘Information concerning the civil rights of persons who have been arrested’ and pocket card with Release phone number and summary of rights and advice on what to do if arrested, 5 September 1967.
- Invitation to launch of The Release report on drug offenders and the Law, 22 April 1968.
- Flyer for The Head Shop, Notting Hill, designed by Michael English in full colour psychedelic, undated.
- Postcard from John Hopkins to Miles, with sticker of Legalize Pot rally of 7 July 1968 on front.
- Invitation from Jack Bracelin, from UFO lights, to a party at 44 Gerrard Street, 6 May 1967.
- Membership card for the Goings On Club, a pre-Spontaneous Underground poetry club, undated.
- Photograph taken from a video of John Dunbar and John Lennon at the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, Alexandra Palace, 1967. Signed by Dunbar, 2005.
- Postcard from Nigel Fred Young regarding a movie about the War and the Bay Areas war and peace activity, with God Grows His Own image on front, 1967.
- Black and white photograph of Simon Postuma and Mareijka Koger at Legalise Pot rally, Piccadilly Circus (copyright Graham Keen).
- Black and white photograph of Pete Brown and Spike Hawkins, 1967 (copyright Graham Keen).
- Sticker Vietnam We Won’t Go, undated.
- Invitation to the launch of Groupie, book by Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne, 2 October 1967.
- Clipping of article Plaintive Plea of a Psychedelic Bride from the Sunday Mirror, 14 May 1967.
- Clipping of article What a Rave about the Piccadilly Circus legalise pot rally, from Tit Bits, 25 March 1967.
- Flyer for The Antiuniversity of London, 12 February 1968.
- Sticker ‘Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down’ issued by the occupying students of Hornsey Art College (AMHCA), 1968.
- Unused ticket for Celebration in December, a community benefit, Royal Albert Hall, 18 December 1968.
- Postcard featuring the cartoon ‘Something Else’ by The Move, 1968.
- Flyer for ‘Spirals’, AMM gig at Commonwealth Institute London, 15 June 1968.
- Postcard to Miles with pop art design by Joe Morris, 8 August 1968.
- Invitation to A.W.C. [Art Workers' Coalition] meeting ‘What is an Arts Lab?’ New York, 1969.
- Clipping of article Hipsters Air Firm Folds from the Sunday Mirror, 25 June 1968.
- Clipping of article The Electric Environment from Interior Design, November 1967.
- Yahahbibi, poetry newsletter, 1967, with thanks to Miles.
- Faked dollar bills featuring Dick Gregory, Jean-Jacques Lebel and Psychedelic Burlesque.
- Clipping of article The girl who had simply nothing to wear at the Albert Hall from the Daily Mirror, 20 December 1968.
- Business card of a restaurant in Venice.
- Invitation to Rolling Stone UK edition launch party, 23 September 1968.
- Extract The voice of the underground from London Magazine, v. 7 no. 12, March 1968, about IT.
- Report A Task for the ICA at Nash House sent to Miles by Mike Kustow, director of ICA, 10 December 1967.
- Postcard from Eva to Hoppy, from Mykonos, Greece.
- Clipping of article Emmett Grogan, undated.
- Clipping of article The Making of a Yippie about Jerry Rubin from Esquire, November 1968.
- Invitation to Hoppy and Suzy Creamcheese wedding, 14 June 1968.
- Clippings of articles about Hoppy & Suzy’s wedding, 1968.
- Programme and guest list for a dinner by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, undated. Miles attended the dinner with George Harrison.
- Press release from Apple Records about the release of a record with George Harrison and members of the Radha Krishna Temple, 28 August 1969 (on Apple headed paper).
- Krishna chanting card.
- Bibliography of works by Richard Brautigan, compiled by Miles, on Apple headed paper, in preparation for press release accompanying ‘Listening To Richard Brautigan’ (originally intended to be Zapple 3, not released).
- Announcement card for Bits, some prose poems by Paul Ableman, Latimer Press, 28 February 1969.
- Black and white photograph of King Ida’s Watch Chain, poet Tom Pickard’s group [1969].
- Invitation to Canned Heat press reception, 2 January 1970.
- Invitation to press premier of Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks, undated.
- Invitation to screening of British Sounds, a new film by Jean-Luc Godard, London Weekend Television, 29 December [1969].
- Invitation to launch of Orpheus: Eurydice, a book of changes by John Esam, 17 December 1969.
- Invitation to opening of a record shop run by Binn Tivy, undated.
- Letter from Peter Swales regarding Miles’s book about The Rolling Stones (on The Rolling Stones headed paper), 14 January 1969.
- Postcard from Ralph Ginzburg asking the whereabouts of photographer Anna Beeke, 23 October 1969.
- Clippings of articles about hippies in the UK from Inedito (in Spanish), 12 February 1969.
- Speakeasy programme, March 1969.
- Note from Harry Smith to Allen Ginsberg, [October 1969, Hotel Chelsea].
- Telephone messages from Hotel Chelsea switchboard from Michael Hollingshead, Allen Ginsberg and Yoko Ono, 1969.
- Clipping of article With the Hippies in the Siege of 144 Piccadilly from the Observer, 21 September 1969.
- Clipping of article The wonderful world of Aussie from the Daily Mirror, 11 September 1969.
- Letter from Jerry Wexler regarding Allen Ginsberg’s recording, 25 August 1969.
- Letter from Mike Hodel about his dismissal from The Image and about staff at Open City underground paper, Los Angeles, [September 1969].
- Clipping of article Public Spirited from the Sunday Times, 7 September 1969.
- Insert ‘Isle of Wight: 200,000. Woodstock: 450,000’ from Rolling Stone, 20 September 1969.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252121
036-003257328
040-003257411 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89160 : The Papers of Barry Miles
Add MS 89160/5 : Barry Miles: 'Reference folders'
Add MS 89160/5/5 : Barry Miles reference folders: 'London Underground Scene' - Hierarchy:
- 032-003252121[0005]/036-003257328[0005]/040-003257411
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89160
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1965
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- 1965-1970
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
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- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- The following items were on loan to the Flat Time House London and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, for the exhibition Better Books: Art, Anarchy and Apostasy, June 2012-January 2013
- Names:
- AMM, free improvisation group, 1965-
Art Workers' Coalition, New York coalition of artists, filmmakers, writers, critics, and museum staff, 1969-1971
Bracelin, Jack, maker of psychedelic light-show, fl 1967
Brautigan, Richard, novelist, 1935-1984
Brown, Pete, poet and songwriter, b 1940
Coon, Caroline, artist, journalist and political activist, b 1945
Dunbar, John, artist and collector, b 1943
Fainlight, Harry, poet, 1935-1982
Ginsberg, Irwin Allen, poet and writer, 1926-1997,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109312869,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/108417923
Ginzburg, Ralph, author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist, 1929-2006
Harrison, George, Knight, musician and composer, 1943-2001
Hawkins, Spike, poet, b 1943
Hopkins, John, photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist; aka Hoppy, 1937-2015
Jenner, Peter, music manager and record producer, b 1943
Lennon, John Winston Ono, musician, 1940-1980
Markopoulos, Gregory J., American experimental filmmaker, 1928-1992
Moe's Books, bookshop, Berkley, 1959-
Pickard, Tom, poet and documentary film-maker, b 1946
Rolling Stone, pop culture magazine, 1967-
Rubin, Barbara, American filmmaker and performance artist, 1945-1980
Segar, Rufus, illustrator and designer, 1933-2015
Smith, Harry, visual artist and experimental film-maker, 1923-1991
Soft Machine, progressive and psychedelic rock band, 1966-
Swales, Peter, Freudian scholar, b 1948
Trocchi, Alexander Whitelaw Robertson, novelist, 1925-1984
Wexler, Jerry, American music journalist and producer, 1917-2008
Zappa, Frank Vincent, American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker, 1940-1993,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110792302
Zapple Records, The Beatles experimental label, 1969