Kenny Wilson Blog Archive

Tag: England

We Shall Fight, We Will Win: On The Black Dwarf and 1968 (Verso)

We Shall Fight, We Will Win: On The Black Dwarf and 1968 The radical newspaper The Black Dwarf played a pivotal role in the British left in the late ’60s. In this introduction to the magazine by Tariq Ali, it’s editor for the first years of its existence, Ali discusses the influences behind the formation of the magazine and…

September 4, 2018
“Bob Dylan’s Dream” Kenny Wilson sings Dylan at the Donkey Bar, Leicester 30th August 2018

July 4, 2018
Mods, Delinquency and the Green Bowler Cafe

According to the poet Philip Larkin “Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP.” (Philip Larkin) It may have been a bit late for Larkin but it was rather early for me. In 1963 I was 12 years…

May 30, 2018
Trip to Liverpool

Well, I spent Wednesday to Friday last week in Liverpool staying with my old school friend Nev, and what a fascinating place it is. Apart from visiting the International Slavery Museum for a short time several years back it is the first time I’ve been in the city. I don’t know why really. What with…

April 27, 2013