Preface: the universe explodes into a billion photons of pure white light 1 Life, death and the scary bits in between 2 Ghosts of ancient relatives on the high seas 3 Alien kid: my swinging sixties 4 Tower power! Blackpool by the sea 5 Spaceships! The moon landing 6 Wounded bull in Victorian England: school daze/cruel ways 7 Wigwam bam thank U glam (confessions of a teenage pop nerd) 8 Riot squad for Toxic City FC: tower power and nutters that come from the sea 9 Wake up! Wake up! You're already dead: inky fingers and the music press 10 In 1977 we finally get to heaven 11 Fighting in the dancehalls: punk adventures in a seaside town 12 Revolting into style! Cut and paste culture 13 Songs of love and fury: the Membranes 14 Entertaining friends: our first gigs 15 Xerox machine: fanzines and a missive from couch potato command 16 Get a head: the Membranes get going 17 If you enter the arena, you've got to be prepared to deal with the lions 18 Hey! When the sun goes down! Manchester calling 19 Twenty-four-hour drinking at northern prices! Moving to the fort by the breast-shaped hill 20 Death to trad rock 21 The world acclaims. the eternal protein men! How to survive being a bunch of cults 22 Beyond God and Elvis: 1987 and searching for the new thing 23 Everyone's going triple bad acid yeah! Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. in my garden 24 The day my universe changed: there is acid in the house 25 When I get to heaven: adventures on the music frontline 26 Blind faith: blissing in action in the early nineties 27 Post detergent vacuum cleaner man: adventures into sound 28 Home turf: Goldblade bring the punk rock soul power 29 Goldblade drop the bomb 30 Do you believe in the power of rock'n'roll? 31 R U ready for the twenty-first century? 32 End of the century! 33 All we got are punk rock rebel songs: Goldblade bring the noise 34 Dream the vicious dream: oh what a tangled web we weave. 35 Borders blurred: the visa campaign 36 Justice! 37 All roads lead to the palace of wisdom 38 Fangs for the memory: the fall guy, or, how I was bitten by the elastic man 39 Dark Matter/Dark Energy: the Membranes take a trip into outer space 40 New blood for young skulls: a new generation is still louder than war! 41 Someone stole my brain: words are my weapons and music is the glue 42 Breath in/breathe out: enter the green dragons, green populism and the sixth great extinction 43 What nature gives. nature takes away, or, where do you go after you have been across the universe? 44 Feel my disease: the great plague 45 Fastest man alive: the roaring twenties 46 In the city of future ghosts Index.