Salvation Magazine Issue 1 - Magazine - Page 5
Future Present
set up to release Japanese Pink cinema and is, demption and Jezebel labels in the USA that
after Redemption, our most successful and same year.
widely established label.
Later we created the all-girl online collecIn amongst this seeming success though were tive the Satanic Sluts, teamed up briefly
serious battles with the BBFC, court cases, the with the Church of Satan in the promotion
outright banning of several films including of our monthly night club, Black Mass and
three titles by Jess Franco. Legal challenges almost brought down the BBC as a result of
with the UK government over blasphemy, the Sachsgate when one of our Satanic Sluts got
Criminal Justice Bill and pornography which involved with Russell Brand and Jonathan
culminated in the resignation of James Fer- Ross resulting in one of the UK’s biggest
man, the then head of the BBFC and the legali- scandals of the last thirty years.
sation of hardcore pornography in 2000.
There is a lot more to our history and we are
In the United States in order to bring an end working with director Jason Impey on a Reto the substantial pirating of our UK releas- demption documentary, and separately on a
es we signed a distribution deal with Image book covering our full story. But our comEntertainment in 1997 and launched the Re- ing anniversary is also about our future. Re-
demption was and always will be a pioneering company and over the last two years we
have launched RedemptionTV.net, a worldwide streaming channel and we will shortly
be launching a sister channel as well. Called
PurgatoryTV.net this will be a worldwide
channel specialising in innovative US, European and Japanese adult content. In addition
to these channels we will also be making our
successful Salvation Exploitation Collection
available in the US for the first time. We also
have some exciting collaborations in hand
with larger film companies currently and this
has made possible some fantastic developments which we will be announcing shortly.
tion again. At this time it is too early to announce what these new projects are, though
ironically, this new period is beginning, as
Redemption began thirty years ago, with the
publication of a magazine and, as with The
Redeemer, that led to all manner of wonderful things. Time will tell if history is about to
repeat itself...
people like to ascribe new names to a thing
as they start new versions of it, its a kind
of evolution, and it feels more personal
and special if you give it a name that you
thought of yourself. In reality it’s essentially the same thing and it works like this.
Some friends decide to stage something a
bit larger and more ambitious than a house
party. Maybe they hire a venue but equally
as likely they just plot up in a field or warehouse or a large empty building, maybe a
derelict area of the South Bronx in New
York . The central theme is music, and it’s
often new music, non mainstream, and the
friends are doing it because regular venues,
dj’s, and broadcast stations aren’t playing
it, the music they like. Their audience is
initially friends, but if they are feeling the
right vibe that audience can expand rapidly
and in diverse directions, maybe they start
to include both live and recorded music,
art, video and film, performances, perhaps
food that fits with the lifestyle, t-shirts and
fashions - a uniform of types to show your
membership of the group. By about this
point the original friends, nee promoters,
will have fallen out over artistic differences or some other crap, the result being a
new separate event, or two. Also people in
other cities, or countries, have heard about
the music and parties and decided to do
their versions. Simultaneously the original
concept is being diluted, but also reinvented, refined, evolving like a virus you could
say. As these parties/events become more
widespread and bigger its inevitable that
either the media or the authorities will enter the story. Some piece of shit masquerading as a newspaper will carry horror
stories about non existent drug deaths and
other rebellion likely to end civil society.
Some cunt laughingly known as say “the
Prime Minister” will divert huge amounts
of money and police resources away from
solving crime to try and stop some kids
from dancing in a field in the middle of
nowhere. There’s a few more chapters but
skipping to the end we see the whole thing
neatly packaged in mega clubs, with box
set cd’s and a wide range of over priced
merchandise, probably a few teary eyed
retrospectives; maybe even the whole story as a movie. Certainly whole Summer
resorts turned over to the packaging and
selling of a music based once edgy lifestyle, quite probably served by Ryan Air or
Easyjet. Meanwhile, somewhere, anywhere
some friends who don’t give a fuck about
any of it are discussing an idea for a party
to play the music they like for their mates.
In 2022 a lot of this, most of it really, is
lived out online. The free flow of information, music, graphics, ideologies. But in
the pre internet days it was done by word
of mouth, landline phone calls, and, most
importantly FLYERS. Flyers were special
to alternative events, music, and its culture
in general. They were given out by hand at
the right clubs, concerts, and events. They
were posted on the walls of cool independent record shops, cafes, and bars. The
artwork was frequently a thing of creative
beauty, structured to appeal to the right
people whilst meaning not a thing to the
wrong people. Flyers were a perfect non
verbal communication because they sailed
under the radar of the establishment and
“normal” people. I once read that tramps
and similar itinerants would scrawl symbols on fences and roadsides to leave messages for others of their kind; flyers were
like that. Between somewhere in the 1970’s
(think punk and hand written posters and
fanzines) and the growth of the Internet
flyers were the de facto advertising tool for
everything from club one nighters to huge
scale raves, and all in between So. Toby
Mott. New Age. He’s collected a lot of flyers. Across 376 pages of a book that, in papers like The Guardian, may be described
as “lavish” those flyers are reprinted to tell
the story of a wide range of events and cultural movements, musical styles, and the
way people partied and changed the world
in that secret world that flourishes - mostly - after dark. There’s a beauty in a story told in flyer graphics, because it’s pure,
it’s not being distorted, it’s not a personal
view of a writer, it’s there in front of you
in its original format and colours. Many
of the names of the parties, dj’s, record
labels may mean nothing to the uninitiated; but many others are now household
names. If you were part of any of those
movements between 1973 and 2000 you
can’t help but to be transported back to
a time and place when music was your
religion, maybe a derelict warehouse in
Hackney, a field in Somerset, or a beach at
dawn in Ibiza. A great book. An homage
and a tribute to all those people who didn’t
sit behind a keyboard but got out there
and made things happen, often dodging
the law and generally spending their own
money to try and make something work.
People power in action. From a couple of
kids in a youth club to large scale cooperatives like the Peace Convoy, Spiral Tribe,
and Mutoid Waste.
Quiz question answer ...... Inspired by
the Bath Festival they had snuck into and
with the help of several friends Jean and
husband to be Michael decided to stage
their own festival event. Initially they call
it the Pilton Pop Folk and Blues Festival
1970 and admission is £1 including free
camping and free milk, about 1500 people
attend. Shortly after they change it to its
current name ...... Glastonbury Festival
New Age: Stonehenge
to Jungle 1973/2000
Toby Mott
Limited-Edition of 1300
376 pages £70.00
Early May 2022 New Age. Toby Mott
book launch at the ICA London Let’s start
with a quiz question, I’ll give the answer
at the end of this article. Question - Bath,
UK, 28th June 1970. Jean Heyball and her
b/f Michael - a former coal miner who she
will later marry and have two children
with - crawl through a hedge to see Led
Zeppelin for free at the Shepton Mallet
Blues Festival. They figure maybe they
could do their own event .......... What happens next?
Background. New Age. Rave Culture.
Acid House. Festival Culture. Generally
- Nigel Wingrove
Pictures from left to right: Original Redemption video cover for Salon Kitty, flyer for
Black Mass club 4, inside of Black Mass 3,
Christmas flyer, cover of Redeemer magazine issue 3, cover of the Satanic Sluts book,
Blood & Dishonour, original Jezebel and ReEssentially, we are taking Salvation, our films demption video covers for Cool it Carol, The
and our creativity into new areas of exploita- Fifth Cord and Crazy Desires of a Murderer.
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