Keep All Your Friends (zine)

Keep All Your Friends: The Red Crayola With and Without Art & Language on Rough Trade Records is a 2022 zine by Alex Parrish.

Background

Distribution

Copies of the zine were available from certain independent book and record stores.

Keep All Your Friends was available for purchase from Drag City's website from May 19, 2022 to August 10, 2022 when it went out of stock.

Contents

Zine

An 60-page oral history/annotated discography of The Red Crayola's Rough Trade era: interviews with Lizzie Borden, Lora Logic, Michael Baldwin, Mayo Thompson, Adam Kidron, Mel Ramsden, Gina Birch, Geoff Travis, Allen Ravenstine and others, with archival images from this period.

	Section	pg.	Notes
Funky Socialism: An Oral History of Kangaroo?
1.	Introduction	1-4
2.	Art & Language, Music-Language, Corrected Slogans	5-7
3.	Mayo in the UK (Again), From Radar to Rough Trade	8-14
4.	On Truth and Reason Now We Feed	15-17
5.	Kangaroo?	18-23
Annotated Discography with Occasional Commentary
1.	"Micro-Chips & Fish" b/w "The Story So Far" (RT 026)	24-29
2.	"Born in Flames" b/w "The Sword of God" (RT 054)	30-32
3.	Kangaroo? (ROUGH 19)	33-34
4.	"Kangaroo?"	35
5.	"A Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I"	36-38
6.	"A Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part II"	39
7.	"Marches Numbers 23, 24, and 25"	40
8.	"Born to Win (Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments)"	41-42
9.	"Keep All Your Friends"	42-43
10.	"The Milkmaid"	44-45
11.	"The Principles of Party Organisation"	46
12.	"Prisoner's Model"	46
13.	"The Mistakes of Trotsky"	47
14.	"1917"	47
15.	"The Tractor Driver"	47
16.	"Plekhanov"	47-48
17.	"An Old Man's Dream"	49
18.	"If She Loves You"	49
19.	"An Old Man's Dream" b/w "The Milkmaid" (RT 073)	50
20.	"Rattenmensch / Gewichtswächter" b/w "Zukunftsflieger" (KON 12)	51-52
21.	"A Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I" b/w "A Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part II" (RT ???)	53
22.	Art & Language - Kangaroo? (Some Songs by Art & Language and the Red Crayola)	54-56	Full article

Kangaroo? booklet

A 22-page reproduction of the booklet that Art & Language prepared for Kangaroo?, including lyrics and commentary.

	Section	pg.	Notes
The Red Crayola with Art & Language
1.	Art & Language	0
2.	The Red Crayola: an Idle Chronology	1-2
Kangaroo?
3.	Side 1	3-10
4.	Side 2	10-15
5.	Art & Language - Notes on Songs	16-18	Full article