Penulis: Gregory Bull

In 1979, Mickey”s pre-teen and early teen obsession was buying records, at first starting to buy records from bands that appeared on the Top of the Pops television programme. The Skids, Generation X, UK Subs, Stiff Little Fingers, the Clash etc, while also having a strong interest in the mod revival and 2-Tone bands. While his record collection was getting larger, more obscure band”s records begun to be slipped into the box, bands like Chron Gen, Discharge, the Mob, Zounds, the Poison Girls and Crass etc. Listening to these records was a life changing moment for a bored schoolboy who was spending most of his energy avoiding schoolwork. The influence of those bands still resonate with Mickey today. The first major punk gig that Mickey witnessed was the UK Subs at the Stevenage Bowes Lyon House in October 1981 aged fourteen. During the latter months of 1985, while on the dole, Mickey started to help out at the All The Madmen record label / All The Madmen record mail order. Mickey helped out at All The Madmen for over two years until All The Madmen wound down during the early months of 1988. Mickey decided to start up his own record mail order business, King Penguin Distribution, initially sending his mail order catalogues to ex-All The Madmen mail order customers! During March 1989, and while still running King Penguin Distribution, John Loder from Southern Studios, offered Mickey a position working part time at Southern Studios / Southern Record Distribution. Mickey was offered full time employment at Southern Record Distribution some months later. Mickey remained in full time employment at Southern Record Distribution until November 2017. Mickey moderates several web based pages, and in 2007 helped start the Kill Your Pet Puppy punk and anarcho-punk blog with Tony Drayton, AKA Tony D, who had written and edited the legendary Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine from 1979 until 1983, and during that time produced six issues of the fanzine.