The only message I can find here is that the people who made this film have a sick sense of humour and, they are probably patients at some sort of facility themselves!"
YouTube user 2019
"as if the (hyped) 1977 music industry event known as 'punk' hadn't taken place", imagining instead an "alternative history where the anarchic proto punk from Cleveland and Detroit seamlessly led into No Wave, P
ost Punk and Industrial and is still happily evolving"
Maciej Zurowski Melodie&Rhythmus Jan 2015
"psycho-delic-anarchist-techno-velvet-stomp"
Calum F Kerr
"Holding up posters that say "ICC Arrest Warrant" alongside pictures of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is not typical rock band behaviour. Then again, anarchistwood are not your typical rock band." Niluccio after witnessing wood at Revolt Coventry October 2012
"I've just got home from a great little punk gig in North London. The bass player had a sticker in support of Bradley Manning on his instrument. There's not enough politics in music these days but anarchistwood do what they can to address that." Steve Coola ColaKid April 2012
"i don't remember it that well. i just remember a lot of nudity and a hospitalisation and finding what I heard of your band very interesting. but i couldn't remember what you were called .... so now i'm listening to your stuff. very wierd and cool. it sort of makes me think what would it be like if amanda palmer took acid and joined a grunge band..... and the answer is anarchistwood"
Dan Daydream - after seeing the 'wood in Birmingham with Wrapped in Plastic 16.04.11
New York Dolls vs. GG Allin (sans faecal projectiles) - Peter Makinde Hackney Hive 17.04.10
Hailing from London / Oxford anarchistwood take searing acid singed psychpunk, cranium scrapingly intense and play it with sass and joy where tunes are imbued with just a whiff of cool conceptual punk pranksterism. anarchistwood started with two shamanic originators – lyricist/trompette/VJ/vocalist funkcutter and musician and multi undisciplined artist Candi’s flipped Blackwood (RIP). funkcutter and Candi met as VJs in clubland back in the Noughties when Candi was house DJ /VJ for the notorious Turnmills nightclub. On the chaotic trip anarchistwood has taken since 2005, many collaborators have joined the ritual. The current line up consists of drummer Scarlet “half-goy, pussy magnet” Carsen (Jesus Hooligan, Bug Central, Riot/Clone), bassist J Mitch Flacko (Hagar the Womb, Mekons), guitarist David “the Wasp” Kahl (Old Ernie), baritone horn Glenn Noble (BRUNK, The Anoraks, Red Anger), guitarist Piun Swine (Rites of Hadda) & VJ & filmographer of Black Triangle Films (and budding dummer), Lindsey Stud. Some have been so disturbed by anarchistwood, that this was published in Razorcake Magazine - “What the f**k is this? Weirdo hippie anarchist art punk from the UK, like a psychotic mix of Crass, Gang of Four, and Frank Zappa - weird squeaks and bleeps, manic time signatures, and a garbled strange message. You know when the CIA use torture, they blast high pitched sounds to confuse the detainees? Well, if they used this, I'd sing like a f**king canary." scuzzed up - plucked down - heavy sounds and some whips and chains - feel the pain - the wood's in ya brain - The Freak Shall Inherit the Earth. https://punkvert.tv/anarchistwood
