VICIOUS CABARET RELATED

myspace.com/viciouscabaret
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Or just show up at their party and steal stuff. This is our little corner of the online popularity contest that is MySpace...

borderlinerecordsuk.com
Borderline Records are responsible for inflicting our recorded output on the world. Jesus will, no doubt, forgive them...

cargorecords.co.uk
For all you dew-eyed traditionalists who still like to clutter up your homes with little plastic discs, Cargo distribute our records in the UK...

10xbetter.com
No, we don't want to send you a free copy of our album to review in your "fanzine" - scribbling reviews on the back of cornflakes packets in biro might have worked for Nick Kent, but you are not he. He could, at least, spell. Having said that, these guys do our press, and they might fall for it...


SUBVERSION, SATIRE & CYNICISM

disinfo.com
Esoteric publishers The Disinformation Co. started out as a website back in 1996, and it remains a convenient portal to those areas of discourse the mainstream media either ignores or chooses to sweep under the carpet...

anxietyculture.com
Brian Dean's darkly humourous Anxiety Culture features intelligent critiques of all aspects of modern culture - from the Protestant work ethic to the techniques employed by government and the media to try to keep us all "useful idiots". Repeat after me: "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more..."

cddc.vt.edu/sionline/
The Situationist International were a loosely-affiliated group of libertarian (in the classic sense) intellectuals active in the fifties and sixties. Their scathing critiques of just about every religious and political ideology in the world have long been cited as one of the principal inspirations behind the Paris uprising of 1968, and their ideas have resonated down the decades since - the style and polemic of the mid-seveties punk rock explosion owed much to the Situationists, and discerning malcontents have cited them as an influence ever since (us being no exception). This links site provides a convenient portal to the wealth of Situationist-related material available on the net...


MUSIC, FILM & LITERATURE

iggypop.com
James Jewel Osterburg: If you don't know why this man is top of our music links category, you're probably reading the wrong website...

richardhell.com
Credited by some as the originator of punk, Richard Hell's fusion of intelligent lyricism and compelling garage rock certainly produced some of the best music of the genre...

qotsa.com
Queens Of The Stone Age play just about the best rock & roll on the planet right now...

manics.co.uk
Alright, so they never produced anything as sublime as The Holy Bible again, but the Manic Street Preachers still deserve a link on our site for proving that rock & roll and intelligence aren't mutually exclusive...

nickzedd.com
One of the originators of the 'Cinema Of Transgression', uncompromising underground filmmaker Nick Zedd has been making movies since the late seventies, although even if you've heard of him you'll never have seen any of his work in a movie theater or on television. Auteur of such subversive classics as War Is Menstrual Envy, Whoregasm, and Police State, his determination to produce his art in the face of media disgust/indifference should be an inspiration to all...

rawilson.com
Counter-cultural freethinker Robert Anton Wilson's work brought together the ideas of such luminaries as Aleister Crowley, James Joyce, and Timothy Leary (among others) to form a workable philosophy for the twenty-first century. Always humourous and accessible, Wilson's sharp wit and insight chipped away at the dogmatic thinking that unfortunately passes for sanity in the modern world...

alanmoorefansite.com
Inspired as our name is by his V For Vendetta, it would be somewhat amiss if this page didn't include a link to this comprehensive Alan Moore fan site...

shadowgalaxy.net
This insightful V For Vendetta fan site may also be of interest to those of you who want to know more about Moore's dystopian fable...

savoy.abel.co.uk
While the expense-account whores of the mainstream media were getting themselves worked up over the weak outrage of Emin, et al, Savoy Books were having their publications burned by our moral high guardians...

feralhouse.com
Publisher of the legendary Apocalypse Culture and its sequel, among other transgressive tomes, if you haven't heard of Adam Parfrey's Feral House imprint you need to...


ONLINE MUSIC FANZINES

fivemileshigh.com
Underground portal Five Miles High features a cross-section of up-and-coming and more established UK rock acts, and an extensive photographic archive...

trakmarx.com
Sadly no longer with us, Trakmarx was a great ezine that, refreshingly, was written by people who did it because they viewed self-publishing as an end in itself, not just a springboard for admittance to the style-Stasi of the mainstream press. How many supposedly "underground" 'zines just ape the opinions and emphasis of the very magazines they profess to be an alternative to? All thirty issues are archived here...

unpeeled.co.uk
Named in honour of the patron saint of underground music, the late, great John Peel, Unpeeled is rude, irreverent, and iconoclastic. We like it...

themayfairmall.com
Based in the north east of England, The Mayfair Mall is a great grass roots music ezine. They have the distinction of featuring the very first interview with the band (the cheque's in the post, guys...)

buddyhead.com
Buddyhead holds the honourable distinction of displaying an even higher level of disdain and cynicism than we do. Naturally, we'd hate each other, but respect is due...

babbleandbeat.com
Online since 2006, Babble & Beat is another cool webzine from across the pond. They interviewed us at the start of 2007...


ONLINE RECORD STORES

fadingways.co.uk
A label, booking agent, and online record store - Fading Ways Music seem to adhere to the adage that, if you want something doing right, you have to do it yourself...


BANDS & OTHER DEGENERATES WE ASSOCIATE WITH

phluid.co.uk
Our contemporaries on the Leeds music scene, Phluid fuse anthemic sleaze rock with a literate lyrical sensibility, bringing to mind the panache and seditious intent of early Manic Street Preachers. Needless to say, we approve...

liquidhead.co.uk
More inhabitants of the "London Of The North". As likely to attack their guitars with angle-grinders as play them, we've shared a bill with Liquidhead on a number of occasions - but never our instruments...

f451.org.uk
Named as they are after Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic, it's safe to assume Fahrenheit 451 don't buy into the empty rhetoric of our "elected" leaders. It's always nice to meet like-minded malcontents...

nyaaa.co.uk
New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack are a Bradford-based trio with whom we've often been proud share a bill. Needless to say, they don't make dinner party muzak...

nervousshakedown.co.uk
The bourbon-soaked scuzz rock of The Nervous Shakedown has been known to offend the delicate sensibilities of at least one Leeds journalist. Bless. Don't worry, a few more years and I'm sure you'll be able to blag a gig writing for a broadsheet travel supplement...



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