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| Doc 40 is Mick Farren's Blog site | Catch up on Mick's latest missives, rants, and other communications on his Doc 40 blog spot. |
| Mick Farren's home site | Now moribund due to time and technical constraints, this is nonetheless very much worth a visit. Contains poetry texts, Mick's comments on his own work, and a set of ace links to some weird and wonderful pages around the Web |
| The Alan Burridge website & Motorheadbangers Fan Club | The website of Alan Burridge, chairman of the UK Motorheadbangers Fan Club, and author of various books on Lemmy & Co, and good mate of this site. Details of Motorheadbangers, and Alan's own novels can be found on the site, along with various essays etc. |
| Pink Fairies Models | Visit Tony Henderson's website for a slideshow of his great Pink Fairies models (Kings of Oblivion era line-up) accompanied by the classic track Raceway. Tony has also made models of Savage Pencil's Joe Death cartoon character which graced the sleeve of Larry Wallis' Death In The Guitarfternoon CD. |
| Captain Trip Records - Japan | Captain Trip records extensive catalogue of old re-issued classics, such as The Deviants, Pink Fairies and Mick Farren, amongst others. Also home of label boss Ken Matsutani's own group Marble Sheep and Slunky Side. Members from both these bands have backed Mick Farren on recent trips to Japan. |
| Marble Sheep | Marble Sheep's own website. |
| Slunky Side | The website of Japanese psyche-rockers Slunky Side, fronted by guitarist and singer Nabeji, sometime backing guitarist for Mick Farren, and look-alike to boot! |
| Don J. Whistance's Clash website | Extensive website on all things Clash. Includes a psycho-geographical pictorial journey of the Clash. In Don's own words, "The main reason for setting up this site was the philosophical notion of a 'sense of place' unexplained 'place experiences' linked psychologically to the footsteps and the spirit of The Clash.the philosophical notion of a 'sense of place' unexplained 'place experiences' linked psychologically to the footsteps and the spirit of The Clash. |
| Carbon/Silicon | Clash man's latest project. Mick Jones and Tony James collaborate on Carbon/Silicon and "embrace the digital revolution". |
| Robin Morisson: Photographer | This website is an introduction to the life and work of New Zealand photographer Robin Morrison who died in 1993. Robin photographed the Deviants on several occasions, most notably performing on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in spring/summer 1969. |
| Philm Freax Digital Archive | The website of the renowned underground press photographer Phil Franks. The archive provides a wealth information and great photographs ranging from the likes of Beefheart to Zappa taking in the likes of Hawkwind and Pink Fairies. Please be sure to contact Phil first with regards to use of photos. |
| Pooter's Psychedelic Shack | Long overdue link to this truly excellent website on all things psychedelic. These guys have a free CD distribution agenda, including "San Franciscan Nights" which deals with the San Francisco "Ballroom Scene" of the 60s - Grateful Dead, Big Brother, Airplane, Charlatans, Quicksilver etc. Other CDs include John Peel's Perfumed Garden which covers the whole five hours or so of this last radio show and "Psychedelic Archaeologist". |
| Concrete Blonde Official Website | Everything you need to know about Deviants collaborators Johnette Napolitano and Jim Mankey's own band Concrete Blonde. |
| Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage | Excellent site for Cope fans, Krautrockers and modern antiquarians alike. So, [if] "...you want to learn and share your knowledge about more obscure and/or lost rock'n'roll; you're interested in sacred and prehistoric sites; you feel a personal responsibility to this planet ... you've come to the right place! ". Check out the Unsung section which includes reviews of Mick Farren/Deviants and Pink Fairies stuff, as well as loads of other reviews. |
The Wave - Finnish Psyche / Garage rockers' own website with loads of band info, pics and soundfiles. The Wave are; Floyd - vocals, guitar; Mika - lead guitar; Miki - bass; Joe - drums. |
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| Sean Alonzo | Visit this great looking site to check out the fiction of Sean Alonzo. |
| The Do-Not Press | Publishers of the long awaited re-printing of Mick's classic mid 1970s sci-fi canon The Quest of the DNA Cowboys, The Synaptic Manhunt,and The Neural Atrocity collected together in one volume for the first time as The DNA Cowboys Trilogy. |
| Necro Publications | Publishers of Dead Cats Bouncing, Eds. Gerard Houarner and GAK, to which Mick has contributed a story featuring Yancey Slide. You can order the book from the site. |
| GAK Art | The ever estimable GAK has a new website, containing lots of his weird and wonderful artwork. As well as illustrating the Dead Cats Bouncing books GAK also contributed a new cover for the 2002 online edition of Mick Farren's The Tale of Willy's Rats. |
| MC5 Japan | Yukiko Akagawa's spiffy MC5 website. All in Japanese language, but cool graphics. |
| Think Pink | Kiyohiro Shiroya's extensive site (Japanese language only, but check it out anyway) on the Fairies, Deviants, Pretty Things and a ton of other psychedelic/underground stuff. Kakko ii, yo! |
| Strange Days | Another Japanese site, this time a web front end for the Japan psych/rock 'zine Strange Days, which has also released a ton of interesting- looking stuff on its own label. |
| Rock's Back Pages | Repository of hundreds of rock journalism articles, including over 70 by Mick, mainly from NME. |
| MSN Slate Diary | Mick's contributions to Slate from 1999 |
| Perfect Sound Forever | Online magazine, contains a Mick Farren interview |
| Alive/Total Energy Records | Site of the label which has released so much of Mick's recorded work; contains some great sleevenote-type info |
| Mohair Sweets | Online presence for magazine: contains Part 1 of a Farren interview |
| SonicNet | Online record sales plus short biography |
| iMusic Artist Direct | Slow-loading, online record sales and much more - notes, biography, etc. |
| Union Jack Music | Interview with Mick on the subject of Eating Jello With A Heated Fork by Mike Stax of Ugly Things magazine |
| Forced Exposure - Deviants and Farren, Mick | Online record sales |
| The Progressor Deviants page | A must for all Deviants fans in Uzbekistan |
| Skip Williamson | Homesite of the great Skip Williamson, Underground cartoonist whose work features in Mick and Ed's Watch Out Kids |
| FUZ Magazine | Glossy, high-quality fanzine whose Issue #2 is a 50-page special on Deviants, Pink Fairies, Hawkwind. Available from: Seth Wimpfheimer, c/o FUZ, PO Box 1211, Mountainside NJ 07092-0211, USA. Cheque/money order for $8 (US), or $10 International Money Orders only for the Rest of world. |
| Doug Lunn's page | Doug is, of course, bassist in The Deviants' latest and grooviest incarnation. Check out his page, and also the rest of the Vida Vierra site. |
| The Pink Fairies site | Larry Wallis's home site, now revamped and with loads of data on the Fairies. |
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The Musicians' Olympus: Larry Wallis Jack Lancaster Andy Colquhoun |
Huge site by Miguel Terol, with detailed pages on the gents mentioned opposite |
| waynekramer.com | Brother Wayne's jams-kicking home site |
| Interview with Twink | Part of a Pink Floyd site, so mainly concerned with Syd Barrett |
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The Archive: A History of
UK Rock Festivals includes Phun City and Isle of Wight |
Massive Aussie site by GWSHARK with detailed eyewitness accounts of major festivals, contemporary press cuttings, photos, etc. |
| Angus McIntyre's Other Worlds | Contains a couple of illustrations based on Protectorate |
| The Punk 77 site | Wonderful and all-encompassing site about UK Punk 1977, included here for its Warsaw Pakt page (includes a brand-new Andy Colquhoun interview) |
| Steve Peregrine Took's Domain | Heartwarming tribute site on Shagrat The Vagrant by Fee Warner and David Mantell. Stacks of information |
| Trash Fiction | Brilliant, hilarious celebration of trash/exploitation literature from the last few decades. Books rated according to Artistic Merit, Entertainment Value, and Hipness Quotient. Makes you wish you'd never ditched that battered copy of Suedehead. |
| The Louie Free Show at WASN | Radio show in Ohio. They were kind enough to link to us, so ... |
| Legacy Links | Just about every 60s band you can imagine has a bunch of psychotic disciples who've created a website about their chosen fixation. And they're all listed here (including us). Don't put your hands through the bars. |
| The Tor Books site | Publishers of Mick's Vampire novels, with a What's New page: they ought to develop it more |
| Rockers - An American perspective | A US journalist's take on Britain's biker culture of the 60s |
| From the Sixties to the Future - the Bobby Seale home page | Home site of the former Black Panther. The Revolution ain't over yet ... |
| Rockabilly Hall - the Gene Vincent biography | All about Sweet Gene Vincent |
| Various digital graphix sites | A selection of digital graphix sites with some outstanding artwork contained within them. Several of them have kindly allowed Funtopia to use pictures to illustrate various sections of the site. Many thanks! Moxie
GraphiX-Art for the digital age |