the two-toned panther's beautiful daughter

sean has been in touch, the plot thickens:

"So, I thought I'd try and nail some of this stuff down -

 Cardew had some connection with the International Times and Group X/Hawkwind Zoo were Londonsoixante-huitard (French for sixties retard) hairies so perhaps a search of the IT archive would yield details, the exact jonbar point at which they could have met.

( Jonbar point being Brian Aldiss' term for the key moment that could have turned out differently, bringing an alternative universe into being. But I'm sure you know that - I just mention it for the benefit of your blog followers who may be less literate than what we are)

Except  the archive isn't indexed, and even I'm not stupid enough to read through every issue of some old hippy rag (the Jerry Cornelius comic strips are good though). But wait - I just found a different, single pagearchive that just summarises the contents of each issue.

Haven't had much time to take it in yet, but even with a quick glance it turns out that truth is indeed stranger than fiction (or at least idly speculative bollocks)....according to issue 33, Cardew played with the Incredible String Band! Fantastic - you couldn't make it up!

Ok, I think that means they were on the same bill, rather than actually performing as a single unit (which would, presumably have sounded like Japanese band Ghost) but still....not a bad bit of detective work for a coffee break.

The thing to do would be to through every issue in the full archive using the shorter one as a guide.....but even I'm not that stupid. Over to Horsemouth....

Maybe a slight addition to the post - a correction - is in order - a quick bit of research shows that the special branch raid was in fact at the Shaftesbury Ave place Farren moved to after Whitechapel (we pedants like to get the small details right).

The rest of them still lived in the east end, though, so my point holds.

Btw, it turns out that Paul Rudolph was also present, and got pulled along with Farren and Hogg...didn't Nik Turner also get his collar felt over the angries? This has been used as an example of how stupid the cops were - taking urban guerrilla seriously - but bearing in mind Moorcock's association with Stoke Newington 8 defendant (see - east London is where it was all happnin') Stuart Christie we find ourselves wondering if they were onto something....