Until Now

PC-Press Presents

Until Now:

Volume I: A Life in Photos 1982-1986

Beezer has published a new three-part photography book series Until Now.

The series presents an unparalleled 40 year archive of the artist’s photographs of Bristol, London, New York and Tokyo’s underground music and graffiti scene and youth culture over the past four decades.

Beezer captures the social and cultural dynamism of Bristol through his images of political protests and the city itself with community and celebrated club scene in its core.

The outlandish fashions and subcultures of the time feature prominently across this photographic time capsule capturing the soul and spirit of this joyful yet anarchic era while bringing together some of Beezer’s most iconic early images across Glastonbury, Notting Hill Carnival, Womad and more. This evocative monograph presents a powerful portrait of the early 1980s Britain through the prism of countercultural movements and communities that came to shape the cultural and political landscape of the country.

The book is available to purchase as a standard edition or as a limited special edition of 50 which will be accompanied by a dubplate containing 4 tracks by Bristol’s Dub Specialists ‘Dubkasm’.

A second limited edition of a further 50 with two dub tracks from Alpha, one with Horace Andy and one of their recent tracks.

A further limited edition of 50 and by Bristol producers ‘New Brand’, and a further 50 with Rob Smith and his remix of a Statik sound system classic Revolutionary Pilot track and another jungle track.

Other special editions will be announced soon with prints and postcard sets.

Bristol Street Artist Inkie is producing a limited edition version of his interpretation of an Ari Up image from the book.

Book Alpha/One

Introduction by Beezer
Chapter One – Glastonbury 1983 – 1986
Chapter Two – St Pauls Festival
Chapter Three – Ari Up
Chapter 4 – Music section – including Poison Girls, Wild Bunch, Play Dead, Blue Aeroplanes, Half Man Half Biscuit, Cameo, Eek A Mouse, Head, Jonah and The Whale, Brilliant Corners, Restriction, Amazulu and Small Axe Sound System.
Chapter 5 – Social Documentary – Bristol Clubs and nightlife, Anti Racism Protests, FilmMakers against censorship, Class War, Break Dancers, Tony Benn, Housing Poverty, Fashion Shows, Bouncers, Hulme Housing and Graffiti.
Chapter 6 – Travel – Barcelona, Morocco and Egypt.

Book Beta/Two

Introduction by Beezer:
Chapter One – Friends and Faces
Chapter Two – GIl Scott Heron
Chapter Three – Pulp
Chapter Four – Notting Hill Carnival
Chapter Five – Womad Festival
Chapter Seven – Mark Stewart – The Pop Group and the Maffia
Chapter Six – City and Rovers Managers – Terry Cooper and Bobby Gould
Chapter Eight – Social Documentary Two – Male Strippers, Teddy Boys, Aspiring Actors, Neil Kinnock, Trans club goers, Miquitta Oliver, Greenway Boys School, Bristol Housing.
Chapter Nine – 3D Graffiti.
Chapter Ten – DJ Derek
Chapter Eleven – Ashton Court Festival

Until Now

Volume I: A Life in Photos 1982-1986

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Beezer has published a new three-part photography book series Until Now.

The series presents an unparalleled 40 year archive of the artist’s photographs of Bristol, London, New York and Tokyo’s underground music and graffiti scene and youth culture over the past four decades.

Other special editions will be announced soon with prints and postcard sets.Bristol Street Artist Inkie is producing a limited edition version of his interpretation of an Ari Up image from the book.

Other special editions will be announced soon with prints and postcard sets.

Bristol Street Artist Inkie is producing a limited edition version of his interpretation of an Ari Up image from the book.