INTERNATIONAL
TIMES
Established 1966
Archive 1966 - 1986
Includes all fractional
issues / colour- variants / flyers.
1966
Published
by Lovebooks Ltd: 102 Southampton Row,
Editor:Tom McGrath; Assistant Editor:
David Z Mairowitz; Production: John Hopkins;
Distribution:
Roger Whelan; Advertising: Suzanne Cahn; Man-at-Large: Jack Henry Moore
Editorial Board: Jim Haynes, Michael Henshaw, John
Hopkins, Tom McGrath, Jack H Moore
October
1966: Mimeographed
flyer: for International Times launch
party at
it1 Oct
14-27 1966: Death of Andre Breton
–obituary by Jean-Jaques Lebel;
Yoko Ono’s ‘Unfinished Paintings and Objects’ notice for show at Indica Gallery, 102 Southampton Row (where she met John Lennon etc.); Adrian
Mitchell poem- ‘Make or Break’ written for Royal Shakespeare Company’s
production of US, a play about
Vietnam, with Glenda Jackson; Report on the Warsaw International Festival of
Music & portrait of Penderecki; Bob Cobbing’s Group H
exhibition; Destruction In Art Symposium (DIAS) ‘Two views of
DIAS’ - Jay Landesman and Tony Cox; a review of ‘She’ –Woman as Cathedral, a ninety-foot-long
woman built by Nikki de Saint Phsille, Jean Tinguely and Olof Ultvedt in the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art for Indica Gallery; Simon Vinkenoog
on Provo in Amsterdam; report on
Timothy Leary’s ‘Spiritual Stage Show’ from Bubu in
New York; China: by Alex Gross; Alone in Swinging London - cartoon strip
‘featuring Clifton de Berry [who later became Seedy Bee] & Vera Groin in
Glorious Sphinctovision’, by Jeff Nuttall;
Peter Asher’s
pop column ‘Pop.. Pop.. Ouch’ by ‘Millionaire’ – includes
a report of a Rolling Stones concert at the Albert Hall; LSD; Dope prices; “What’s Happening’” listings reveal ‘Pink
Floyd Mix Media Show’ at the
it2 Oct 31
–Nov 13 1966: Yoko Ono; Report on the IT launch party at The Roundhouse - Pink
Floyd / Soft
Machine / Paul
McCartney etc; Ezra Pound’s unpublished wartime broadcasts on
Radio Rome containing his highly controversial views. This led to
complaints from his estate.See IT 3.; The Living Theatre’s
‘Frankenstein’ script; William Burroughs’ film script ‘Towers Open Fire’; Robert Fraser Gallery; Open letter
from Peter Brook (of the RSC) to Charles Mairowitz,
followed by his reply; Morton Feldman; ‘Man of
Grass’ - George Andrews, see IT 3 for
comment on this drug piece; Interpot
Report No 3; Underground Film Festival
Supplement - run-down of underground
movies of the time including Emile de Antonio, Ray Durgnat,
Andrew Meyer and Dutch Provo
films
and the London Film Makers Co-Op; Andrew Meyer
- US filmmaker; Kim Fowley – ‘Portrait of a Freak’; Censorship and/or Pornography;
cartoon strip by Jeff Nuttall (Sodall),
Berlin’s Living
Theatre; Stockholm's Fylkingen
it3 Nov
14-27 1966: William Burroughs –first appearance of The Invisible Generation 1) - continued in IT 5.5 and IT6; Ray Durgnat
-‘Rubber
with Violence’;
interview with Morton Feldman; American War Crimes in Vietnam by Bertrand
Russell; ad for Yoko Ono exhibit at the
Jeanette Cochrane Theatre; ad for Merce Cunningham
and John Cage at the Saville Theatre; US composer
Morton Feldman interview, and Pink Floyd; Pat Jones, ‘Poets in Public Vs
The Arts Council’; Seedy Bee cartoon strip by Criton
Tomazos (Jeff Nuttall ); Julio Le Parc.
PROJECT
SIGMA (London: Dec. 1966). Broadside sheet
featuring the text of "The Invisible
Generation and a photograph by Antony Balch of Burroughs on the telephone.
An offset reprint from International
Times #3,
produced and distributed by International Times after Trocchi's
request for a contribution from Burroughs to his Sigma Portfolio was not
forthcoming.
it4 Nov 28th –
it5 Dec 12 – 25th 1966: Message
to the Queen; Interview with Claus Oldenburg: ‘London: male
city’; Little
Richard performance, Pink Floyd and The Move reviews; Jim Dine: Indecent but
not obscene...; Tom McGrath writes about being arrested for trying to
steal the Crown Jewels; John Wilcock’s Others Seens [sic]. Ted Joans, ‘AA! AA? YEAH, AA!’; Brian Patten, ‘A
Assistant
Editor: David Zane Mairowitz; Operations: Peter Stansill;
it 5.5: rare Michael
English print issue, William Burroughs’ The
Invisible Generation & Invisible Generator: “cut-out word machine
poster – a new concept in cut-out manipulatable
posters” - solver on white.
1967
it6 16-29 Jan 1967: William Burroughs "The Invisible Generation
(Continued)", the second appearance of this text (following the IT
poster half-issue no.5.5).; Norman Mailer on Vietnam War ; Allen Ginsberg;
Cerebral Cortex. Miles' Paul McCartney
interview, transcribed from a taped conversation in which they discuss fame,
spirituality, drugs, and electronic music (considered to be the first rock
interview in IT, though preceded by the self-publicising
Kim Fowley's interview, "Portrait of a
Freak" in issue no.2); ads. for Granny Takes A
Trip, Hung On You, and UFO club.
it7 Jan
30th-Feb 12th 1967 ‘Arrest the
Home Secretary’ –the Fletcher Case; Outer / Inner space issue; 'Hendrix is here to Stay' and 19
according to his press handout’; Allen Ginsberg: ‘Public Solitude’ –an address on LSD
delivered at Boston, 1966 (two pages); UFO underground event; and UFO's - ''Flying
saucers as a portent of the revelations which will attend the
opening of the Aquarian age” by John Michell; South
Africa; Moscow; Provo: “White Women plan”; Vietnam;
Chet Helms (Avalon Ballroom) in London; Mushroom (Danish
Music scene); Hare Krishna; Censorship; Ad for Timothy Leary’s ‘Psychedelic Prayers’; Interpot;; John Wilcock’s- Other
Scenes; Munich Newsletter, A Liverpool story by Brian
Patten; Traverse
Theatre Company; Censorship/erotica – by Alex Gross, Paul Francis; ‘Interpot’ – drug
report by Bradley Martin; ‘Physiodelics’ by Jeff Nuttall – featuring Seedy Bee; ‘A War Story’ by Bill
Butler; ‘A Scottish Soldier’ by Tom & Maureen McGrath; ‘Halliwell
Done’ by Michael Kustow – about The Experiment;
Ads for Indica Books and the Poet Speak Festival 2
with Stevie Smith, Mike Horovitz,
Adrian Mitchell, Brian Patten, Alan Sillitoe.
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