Unknown songs and demos, who wrote what, who sang what, the usual biographies, discography gubbins, photos of Eldritch with no sunglasses, etc, etc, etc, yadda, yadda, yadda....
In the late 60s the Berkeley campus was so revolutionary it was nicknamed People's Republic of Berkeley. being a leftist, he must have liked the idea and rechristened his home region. Such sweet move.
EDIT : Leeds is in West Yorkshire. Don't forget.
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The People's Republic of West Yorkshire is part of the larger People's Independent Federation of Yorkshire though.
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It's not a joke that's original to -- I remember a Tetley Bitter promotion in about 89 or 90 where they were giving away "People's Republic Of Yorkshire" T-shirts.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
markfiend wrote:The People's Republic of West Yorkshire is part of the larger People's Independent Federation of Yorkshire though.
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It's not a joke that's original to -- I remember a Tetley Bitter promotion in about 89 or 90 where they were giving away "People's Republic Of Yorkshire" T-shirts.
I JUST LOVE IT !
I'd end this moment to be with you
Through morphic oceans I'd lay here with you
In the United Kingdom, the Conservative MP Irvine Patnick coined the phrase 'Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire' to highlight the predominance of the left-wing of the Labour Party in the county.
I think Francis was about to explain it to me - as a much more elaborated story though - at the boys' room in Tilburg, but as everybody got his drinks that night we didn't quite reach the end of the story
timsinister wrote:Hello all. For academic purposes, can anyone enlighten us as to when it first appeared?
According to the wiki, 2003 as a logo on merchandise. https://sisterswiki.org/Sisters_XXX_Tour_Postcards. Possibly earlier in an interview?
The "South Yorkshire" version was in common parlance in the early mid 80s (i.e. when Von actually lived in the UK) when David Blunkett was in charge of the metropolitan council and you could travel anywhere within the borough for 30p, as in eastern bloc countries. The politics were never as radical in West Yorkshire.
I think (but can't be sure) that I saw the PRWY T-shirt on sale at the 2001 20th anniversary tour. I may have my memories confused with the Sisters Gegen Nazis T-shirt though.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
markfiend wrote:I think (but can't be sure) that I saw the PRWY T-shirt on sale at the 2001 20th anniversary tour. I may have my memories confused with the Sisters Gegen Nazis T-shirt though.
I think, you're right and saw a photo of it somewhere in that laaarge pool of photos mentioned in the other post ... https://vk.com/albums-8658733