David Wise

Content on or about David Wise (1943-), writer, construction worker and member of King Mob. David was the twin brother of Stuart Wise.

Bryan Ferry in white suit and black bow tie in front of a lake

On Bryan Ferry: "Ferry Across The Tyne" - David Wise

A Revolt Against Plenty article on musician Bryan Ferry, "cool", class and Tyneside in the 1960/70s.

Puzz comic cover

Puzz comic in mid-1970s Italy

Two short articles from the Revolt Against Plenty site on the radical magazine Puzz, followed by artwork and translations.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary

A Drift on Germaine Greer, Feminism and Modern-Day Shameless Ranterism - David Wise

King Mob's graffiti vs Germaine Greer's mortgage, the wider context of West London in the 1970s…

The Consequences

Double-reflection. We were necessarily on the same path as our enemies. From recuperation to brutal hi-jacking as everything turned into its opposite.

King Mob Coleridge graffiti: "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,. A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,. "

Part 2 (A kind of appendix)

Some of the individuals involved. Seeing we have said so much about King Mob ranging far and wide and always reflecting theoretically, perhaps it…

King mob graffiti: All You Need Is Dynamite

The Failure

Things fall apart. The Angry Brigade and "the violent reformists of the bomb". The emerging malaise of issue politics. Putrid academic recuperation – The Sociology of Deviancy and others…

Same thing day after day graf

The late 1960s and King Mob

The English Situationists and the Newcastle rebellion join forces. Similarities and differences. Reading Marx, Lefebvre and Hegel. Black Mask and…

Events in Newcastle in the late 1960s

Street theatre and radical intervention against rock music. Wrecking the English Surrealist festival and subsequent critique of English…

Covers of Icteric magazine

The Courage: What Happened in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

The mid-nineteen sixties and Icteric. Re-evaluation of a dissident European past. Russian nihilism. Recuperated artistic Dada and revolutionary…

Introduction

Introducton to A Critical Hidden HIstory of King Mob by David Wise.

A Critical Hidden History of King Mob - David Wise

An expansive memoir of English Situationist-influenced group King Mob, by one of its members. Written 1999-2003 and originally published on the…

Malcolm McLaren re-enacts the King Mob intervention at Selfridges in his film "The Ghosts of Oxford Street" (1991)

King Mob, Santa Claus and Selfridges: Christmas 1968

On situationist-inspired group King Mob's riotous intervention at Selfridges.