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William Blake Vs The World - publication day message
Today is PUBLICATION DAY for William Blake Vs The World, in hardback, audiobook and ebook. Here's a quick message from me uk.bookshop.org/books/william-blake-vs-the-world/9781474614351
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The Future Starts Here - afterword to the paperback edition
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The afterword to the paperback edition of The Future Starts Here by John Higgs, read by the author. This is uploaded primarily for those who have the audiobook version, and who would otherwise miss out on this new chapter. johnhiggs.com/books/the-future-starts-here/
Bruce Dickinson at the unveiling of William Blake's grave
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Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson - hours after finishing the Legacy of the Beast tour 2018 - speaks at the unveiling of a new gravestone for the visionary poet and artist William Blake, at Bunhill Fields, London, on the 191st anniversary of Blake's death.
Watling Street | Episode 4 with Cerys Matthews
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Part 4 of a 4 part podcast series inspired by the book Watling Street by John Higgs. John and author David Bramwell head to Wales, from Oswestry through Snowdonia to a carpark in Anglesey. They talk stories and national identity with Cerys Mathews, explore the symbol of the dragon, discuss the film Penda’s Fen, hear a tale from storyteller Eric Maddern and finish with a specially commissioned p...
Watling Street podcast | Episode 3 with Alan Moore
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Part 3 of a 4 part podcast series inspired by the book Watling Street by John Higgs. John and author David Bramwell travel to Northampton to meet author Alan Moore and are surprised to discover his role in the building of Milton Keynes. David is even more surprised to discover the new town was built as a sun temple and watches the midsummer sunrise there with John before Watling Street’s author...
Watling Street podcast | Episode 2 with Iain Sinclair
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Part 2 of a 4 part podcast series inspired by the book Watling Street by John Higgs. John and author David Bramwell explore London’s forgotten relics and hidden people. They discuss the myth-laden London Stone with author Iain Sinclair, talk housing with Lord Victor Adebowale and visit Cross Bones - originally a medieval graveyard for sex workers - with playwright John Constable, comedian Miran...
Watling Street podcast | Episode 1 with CJ Stone
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Part 1 of a 4 part podcast series inspired by the book Watling Street by John Higgs. John and author David Bramwell travel to Kent to explore the themes of pilgrimage and the conflict between spiritual and political powers. They discuss A Canterbury Tale, the life of Brian Haw with author C.J. Stone and talk about Carry-On’s Charles Hawtrey with podcaster Andy Miller. Music by Oddfellow's Casin...
Alan Moore talks to John Higgs about the 20th Century
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John Higgs - author of Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century - talks to Alan Moore about how the 20th Century has been portrayed in his work - in particular From Hell, Providence and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century. Alan Moore has described Stranger Than We Can Imagine as, "An illuminating work of massive insight... I cannot recommend this magnificent wo...
John Higgs at the Transcendantal Cafe, Whitstable
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A short edit of John Higgs, author of The KLF and Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the 20th Century, talking at Whitstable Labour Club on Sat Aug 15th 2015. Filmed by Tim Cronin (www.timcronin.net)
perhaps not Brighton
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Perhaps not Brighton
X-treme Power Vs Pussy Riot: Respect and Obey Authority
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The song 'Respect and Obey Authority' by X-treme Power placed over footage of Pussy Riot. An exercise in cognitive dissonance.
test for cally and emma
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  • @appidydafoo
    @appidydafoo 19 днів тому

    Brilliant, thank you so much

  • @alexpasley6981
    @alexpasley6981 27 днів тому

    Question: Does he say "Donald Campbell's performance in 1969"? It may be a combination of his dulcet midland tones and a lapse in the sound quality of the video, but it certainly sounds like that to my ears. If so, why is he referring to the Stone's free concert in Hyde Park as such? Incidentally, good gig, have watched it on DVD numerous times. Fun rendition of "Midnight Rambler"...

  • @scoon2117
    @scoon2117 Місяць тому

    Cool to see Alan all over youtube lately.

  • @codex3048
    @codex3048 Місяць тому

    "Americans were afraid of things that would destroy them and their culture. I cannot understand why."

  • @mikecunningham4682
    @mikecunningham4682 2 місяці тому

    I'd forgotten about the Northampton Clown. What a wild thing

  • @youarelustforlife
    @youarelustforlife 2 місяці тому

    Do you thank anything from Audrey and Friends? (2002 series) because you are apparently listed as a writer on the Audrey and Friends series. This series is lost media!

  • @neilthornely9713
    @neilthornely9713 3 місяці тому

    Alan Moore's brain is excellent.

  • @bryansteele832
    @bryansteele832 3 місяці тому

    One of my main comic book bucket lists is to have a marathon and read all this guy's stuff in chronological order. Well not all of it but a lot.

  • @shanecopner7827
    @shanecopner7827 4 місяці тому

    Bruce is amazing

  • @jimmykaufholz
    @jimmykaufholz 6 місяців тому

    I’d pay anything to have Alan Moore speak the directions on Waze.

  • @theendarkenedilluminatus4342
    @theendarkenedilluminatus4342 6 місяців тому

    Always a lesson when listening to Alan Moore. Every time I see him speak, I learn history all over again, and am reminded of the responsibility of practicing magic well.

  • @huntercrawford9675
    @huntercrawford9675 7 місяців тому

    he just seems like a pleasant man to speak to, good on em

  • @benstevinson764
    @benstevinson764 8 місяців тому

    Alan Moore is a Warlock 🧙‍♂️

  • @benstevinson764
    @benstevinson764 8 місяців тому

    One Day Men Will Look Back and Say I Gave Birth to the 20th Century Jack The Ripper 1888 🎩🔪🍇

  • @whatizreality0124
    @whatizreality0124 8 місяців тому

    Everything in modern society since the death of JFK has been manipulated , or written by the Alphabet people . The art , trends , music , science , ect is all an ILLUSION of grassroots , or organic events . You're currently living , and witnessing the END of this SPELL. If you don't feel it , see it hear it , then you are still ASLEEP and under the influence of these dark , malevolent forces . That is all.

  • @lucasgarcia95
    @lucasgarcia95 9 місяців тому

    💛

  • @joefatso111
    @joefatso111 9 місяців тому

    It's so funny to be way into Moores writings and works, and still go on comic boards and see people's whole take just be 'he called me a big baby for liking batman >:('

  • @LarryRosenthal
    @LarryRosenthal 9 місяців тому

    Satire is the Sci Fi today

  • @LarryRosenthal
    @LarryRosenthal 9 місяців тому

    SUPERMAN was the American optimist SCIFI.

  • @shanecopner7827
    @shanecopner7827 9 місяців тому

    Love bruce

  • @karlisande8308
    @karlisande8308 10 місяців тому

    In a sodden state, I’ve located a video of two of favourites sharing a space and allowing us a listen. Suddenly I’ve got a use for the internet. Thanks again!

  • @chadking375
    @chadking375 10 місяців тому

    Didn’t like Alan when I was a younger reader. As an older man I know realize that I should’ve been hating the apes who ruin the characters we love, in an attempt to try and chase Alan’s coattails.

  • @iansmith9125
    @iansmith9125 Рік тому

    However accurate it is; the idea that the ripper murders ushered in the 20th century is just so dramatic & portentous, it’s an amazing idea & makes the book that much more chilling.

  • @zazenbo
    @zazenbo Рік тому

    This interview means so much to me! Thank you.

  • @jasoncoker1625
    @jasoncoker1625 Рік тому

    🤘💯

  • @geodav5700
    @geodav5700 Рік тому

    Except they are fake anarchists.

  • @ryandudley3616
    @ryandudley3616 Рік тому

    Absolutely fascinating

  • @humanimal84
    @humanimal84 Рік тому

    Alan has met Constantine. We all meet people in our minds. Alan made a man and believed him into existence. His imagination is something to be explored and taken seriously.

  • @KG-ss7kp
    @KG-ss7kp Рік тому

    Was it just me or did he say Kuh thoo la hoo?

  • @aspookyfox
    @aspookyfox Рік тому

    Alan Moore’s brain is a world heritage site.

  • @daniarmstrong3023
    @daniarmstrong3023 Рік тому

    Greatest Comics Writer Ever.. staggeringly brilliant

  • @thereisnosanctuary6184
    @thereisnosanctuary6184 Рік тому

    He's not just DC Comic God, he is our historian and voice of conscience.

  • @hgs6668
    @hgs6668 2 роки тому

    This owns

  • @dramares
    @dramares 2 роки тому

    3:30… Tow That Line…

  • @TheChocolateNick
    @TheChocolateNick 2 роки тому

    Just wanted to make a correction here; Frankenstein wasn’t directly referring to the industrial revolution as much as she was critiquing ‘modern’ medicine at the time, namely Galvanism, which was the process of shooting electric current through dead animals, or even humans, As a means to try to ‘bring them back to life’ or show how organic matter reacts with electricity. It was the fear of science possibly going too far, and the repercussions galvanism could have in the future which led to the writing of Frankenstein. Of course galvanism is a long forgotten medical science cause as we know we can’t bring the dead back to life, or make use of already dead body parts, just by shooting electricity through them. Also around this time grave-robbing and selling them to universities was also a huge problem which led to a big critique of medical academia in the 1800’s. So basically Mary Shelly was critiquing these universities for buying up thousands of grave robbed bodies, and performing experiments on them in the name of ‘science’ and the repercussions it could have in the future. Pretty neat

    • @somethingcraft3148
      @somethingcraft3148 9 місяців тому

      The Idea of Frankenstein being created by lighting comes from 1931 universal studios American adaptation of the novel that borrowed very little from the original book.

  • @taker68
    @taker68 2 роки тому

    Not that he cribbed it but I recall the film Time After Time from 1979 had it's Jack the Ripper character saying the world had caught up to him when he time travels to the present. And the end of Watchmen came from The Architects of Fear episode of the 60s Outer Limits.

  • @momsberettas9576
    @momsberettas9576 2 роки тому

    It's only gotten a lot worse since 2015

  • @DestroyIhosh
    @DestroyIhosh 2 роки тому

    Alan Moore was seeing the future with league of extraordinary man, i wonder what he thinks of culture now x,D

  • @PlayNiceFolks
    @PlayNiceFolks 2 роки тому

    Hey, it's Paul...

  • @zebimicion9739
    @zebimicion9739 2 роки тому

    ROITER!

  • @ME-ex3yz
    @ME-ex3yz 2 роки тому

    11:11 - That is literally the best part of the entire series B)

  • @willjennings7191
    @willjennings7191 2 роки тому

    The occult community in Britain was somehow involved in the Armenian Genocide, and that triggered the Red Scare in 1919 Britain. Mistranslation of ancient writing from Egyptology meant that Germans would have better conversations with foreigners for a while, all out of some obscene grudge against the United States of America. IMHO, pro-Cornwallis policy ruined the League of Nations.

  • @crowley445
    @crowley445 2 роки тому

    Anyone know which writers Moore might be referring to when he says that the late 40s to the mid 70s was probably the best era for science fiction because of the radical sense of doubt that set in after Hiroshima?

  • @DreBourbeau
    @DreBourbeau 2 роки тому

    I have to disagree with Moore that American culture is completely ahistorical. The Western is America's King Arthur, a historical myth of glory, conquest, and "nation-building", one that arguably dominated American cultural thinking for decades. Moore explains it himself - science fiction could only mimic the Western (with pioneers in space) because that was the default cultural mode at the time. One could even argue that the Western was so powerful that it shaped broader American history over the past century, where Americans saw the world, from World War II to Vietnam to Iraq, as another frontier to be conquered. Indeed, the nastiest parts of that cultural memory (violence, racism, patriarchy, every man for themselves) are as strong as ever today.

  • @thebloopython
    @thebloopython 2 роки тому

    This comment has no relation to any topic mentioned in the interview... but I just realised Alan sounds suprisingly similar to Tony Jay and that's glorious

  • @SaintVodou
    @SaintVodou 2 роки тому

    I love the fact that the guy behind V FOR VENDETTA thinks the term “graphic novel” is unnecessary, meant to gentrify, justify and squeeze more money from comics. About time an innovator called out the lazy redundant entertainment industry, too…

  • @lordsaccharine
    @lordsaccharine 2 роки тому

    You know what, I could go for a book where you give Moore the KLF/Blake treatment.

  • @bradpotts1747
    @bradpotts1747 2 роки тому

    was i the only one who found black mirror both painfully unoriginal and boring to no end?

  • @PeterSodhi
    @PeterSodhi 2 роки тому

    Good for the human race that we can count Alan Moore as one of us!

  • @mattblah7737
    @mattblah7737 2 роки тому

    4:48 and they were right, as that is literally always the case.