Matthew Collin

John Godfrey

From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on dance culture. This second edition includes accounts of the election campaign of Tony Blair which used an Ecstasy anthem as its musical theme, and the trial and acquittal of a 19-year-old for supplying the drug that killed Leah Betts, and her links to East End gangsters. Drawing on a wealth of background research and original interviews with key figures on both sides of the law, Altered State examines the causes and contexts, ideologies and myths of Ecstasy culture, dramatising its euphoric narrative from peak experience to comedown and aftermath, and shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the century.

The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House

Altered State

Midnight on Your Left

This book offers a details and balanced history of the Old English Church and be equally enjoyed by the scholar and the general reader.

The Church in Anglo-Saxon England

1204, the Unholy Crusade

Take a unique look at life through the eyes of a Southern Baptist (PK) preacher's kid named Johnny. His story, set in the late 1950's and early 1960's, will take you on an interesting journey beginning at his home in Nashville Tennessee, then on to summer camp. Eventually through a series of unusual events he ends up in another small rural Tennessee town in a barn with what appears to be...a dead cow! Johnny is by nature a somewhat distrusting young man and the circumstances he faces throughout this book add to his doubts and fears about his parents ultimate intentions for him. However, in the end Johnny finds out that things are not always as the seem and the truth is revealed . The "Green Enamel Kid" is an unusual adventure, so join in and enjoy the ride!

The Green Enamel Kid

Poetry. "John Godfrey's poems keep the figures and voids, the letters and haunts, the anthems and hums all equally active. They work perspective from the inside-out, making through their cuts the world be worn as seen, on the streets-mind and felt underneath. Living sonics keep time where decisions quietly and loudly get made, every line on in or about a plane, with connections. A TORCH FOR ORPHANS turns out what it, being specific, and therefore mystical, is to be alone with many, to be many alone with this curious ongoing everybody, staying in the way of them who back walk, singing powerful unlikeness from the depths of the real spaces between us."--Anselm Berrigan

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