Bootlickers' Ball

28/03/2024

The Kingdom of Heaven is Within

The Management are back from hell and they want to testify.

We are handing our hellish and heavenly tale over to the capable team at Disruption Pictures on Good Friday, who will be making our vision a reality.

Keep an eye out for the new short film Stygiophobia, which should be released this September.

Take it away Funkadelic, a fabulous force for good if there ever was one.

Here's to the spirit of '69. It will not harm you.

Enjoy your bank holiday.

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26/03/2024

Four days until Good Friday

We've planned our offensive line and plan to bust out of hell

Getting pumped to Michigan Iggy and his fabulous Stooges 👊♥️💪

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21/03/2024

The Management recommends that you listen to you mother, if you know what's good for you.

Great work here from The Shangri-Las. ♥️

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17/03/2024

The Management took a brief trip to Ireland for Saint Patrick's this weekend.

What an intriguing English village it is.

Photo credits Oscar Marshall

16/03/2024

The Management agrees with Moon the Loon (RIP)

Drum solos are boring, the song's the thing

Exceptional work here from those Acton Mods and their amazing mate from Wembley,

Who Are You?

A promo film for The Who’s 1978 single ‘Who Are You’ from the album of the same name. Filmed at The Who’s Ramport Studios in Battersea, London on 4 May 1978 ...

03/03/2024

Reach Out and Touch Faith

We heard this superb cover from Cash down in the hole.

Our quest is nearly at its end.

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28/02/2024

Heaven, we are finding, is found in the very depths of hell

And our hero, born of a woman, will indeed crush the serpent with her heel. More details to follow shortly.

Odetta sings this fine old song well.

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25/02/2024

Hell is repetition

The Management have returned to the underworld and are pleased to find that some down below are disrupting the spectacle.

Mutiny!

Led Zeppelin in the full bloom of their youth with our favourite Zeppelin track.

Blue eyed blues with a very English kick.

Robert sings our song.

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23/02/2024

The Management and crew out and about in the haunted hills of High Wickham

More details of Stygiophobia soon

22/02/2024

The Management are taking a short break from the underworld and have today been taking a wander around the grounds of the amazing Hatfield House

20/02/2024

British Republic Day is 5 May 2024

We will gather and holler in Trafalgar Square

"No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people. That England is governed by the latter, no man can deny, there being, as is said before, no Constitution in that country which says to the legislative powers, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.""

From Four Letters on Interesting Subjects by Thomas Paine, 1776

Picture from the Library of Congress

Details of Republic Day here:

https://www.republic.org.uk/republic_day_2024 #:~:text=To%20celebrate%20that%20change%20%2D%20and,debate%20about%20the%20monarchy's%20future.

Join us

19/02/2024

To Breakfast with Ba'al Zabul?

Word has gone out to His Satanic Majesty that we are in his domain.

One of his minor demons just handed us a note, written in the most elegant script, and it reads as follows:

"Do come and have breakfast at my table tomorrow, I have many tasty meats, plenty of fine wine and the most amazing playlists, répondez s'il vous plaît, S. ###."

Whilst we do rate his playlists, and his exquisite taste in wine, we won't be supping from Satan's cup anytime so, so here is how we replied:

"Cheers for the invite S, we won't be coming to your table anytime soon, in fact, if you know what's good for you, you had better come to dinner at ours tonight, bring a bottle, The Management.'

Here is the fabulous Jagger doing his Satan thing in '68 for the equally fabulous psychedelic gangster film Performance.

Keep on rolling Mick

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18/02/2024

Hell, some say, is other people, but they are also heaven.

A great performance of a modern lovers' classic from Gotye.

Chin up.

Australian singer Gotye has become an international sensation with his haunting song, "Someone that I Used to Know." He makes his KCRW debut with a live set ...

16/02/2024

Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand

Matthew 4:17

A lament from the brilliant Blaze, we hear so many down here.

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11/02/2024

The Problem of Two Kings

There are, it appears, two Kings of the Underground.

The Management are sticking with Lou.

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04/02/2024

The Hell of Leaving

During the Napoleonic Wars lonely British sailors found love with the ladies of Spain but were not allowed to bring their lovers back home.

Many a sorry tale we've heard down below and The Dreadnoughts do justice to this parting song.

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30/01/2024

The O.B.B.

(Original Blues Brother)

Memphis Charlie is lost, like we are, in a strange land

From his 1967 debut album Stand Back!

This old timer has still got it ♥️💪👊

Classic song, original song by Charlie that he wrote when he first came to Chicago. Live at Callahan's Music Hall, Sept 29, 2010

24/01/2024

If you see this brother from Brum on your way to the big party below, give him a lift, we were driving too fast to stop

23/01/2024

Sometimes hell can be overwhelming

But there is always light in darkness and songs such as Shirley Ann Lee's keep The Management moving forward in our journey in the underworld.

You can read more about Shirley's fabulous gospel soul here.

We Keep the Faith

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20/01/2024

Redemption begins with recognition

The party never ends down below, and the music is lively, but The Management notices a sadness in the eyes of those we've encountered.

RIP Honest Shane

The Pogues performing songs from their albums 'Red Roses For Me' and 'Rum So**my & The Lash' live on the cult British TV show The Tube in 1985. Remember to s...

13/01/2024

A Song from a Trapped Soul

The Management have been pleased to have been introduced to Courtney Marie Andrews in our travels in the underworld.

This is a live recording of a song from her 2010 album No One's Slate Is Clean. True.

Hell might indeed be the belief that we are merely molecules but we can also choose to believe in something else.

We recommend Courtney's powerful folk blues highly.

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05/01/2024

The Management are going down, deep and down, but not as The Quo once did.

We intend to return inspired in the spring with the fair Persephone.

Here is a publicity still from Alan Parker's excellent 1987 production Angel Heart, which we recommend that you watch whilst you wait.

Ta ta for now.

01/01/2024

King Charles III is everything a British Republican could ever wish for.

Julie Burchill:

"The accession of Charles has ended this very British compromise. He expected all his life to be king, and has the arrogance that comes with this unusual destiny. He is the opposite of the profoundly stoic late queen in character. As he sat in his Diamond Jubilee state coach outside Westminster Abbey during a minor delay on his way to be crowned, lip-readers saw him griping: ‘We can never be on time… There’s always something… This is boring.’ This is who we’re expected to believe God himself anointed to place above us all – a superannuated Adrian Mole?"

Now let's get on with the job of constitutional change. Democracies ought to govern themselves. There is no higher authority than the people.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/12/31/could-the-royals-get-any-more-rotten/?fbclid=IwAR0tzmCILmQo0y8QAwQp0IzAx5RoyRoavrk9YpIlDfX0MU_EODb14HaC-sU

2023 has left the arrogance of Charles and the ridiculousness of the Sussexes brutally exposed.

21/12/2023

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

Matthew 5:9

The Management would like to wish all the Bootlickers of the world a very happy Saturnalia.

We recognise all gods and none and believe that Saturnalia is a time of both festivity and good will.

We are also really looking forward to the resumption of ordinary hostilities at the end of Saturnalia, which this year is 23rd December.

We hope that you feel this as we do.

Great guitar, vocal and arrangement on this Saturnalian Song.

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17/12/2023

More pictures from last night's HorseThieves gig at The Stag's Head, Hoxton

The Management had a blast, ta very much