Girls and guns: Brave female freedom fighters from around the world on the battlefields of war
The first female combat veteran Margaret Corbin helping to load a cannon being shot by her husband John Corbin during the Battle of Fort Washington…
Author: Cherrybomb
Strassenjungs: The ‘fake’ German punk rockers who toured with The Clash
German ‘punk’ band Strassenjungs circa 1980. In 1977 two German producers decided to try to follow Malcolm McLaren’s success with the Sex Pistols by creating…
Killing Joke, Nick Cave, The Damned & Billy Idol lip-synching for their lives on 80s television
Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke looking a bit confused about how the band ended up on German music television program ‘Musik Convoy.’ As a frequent…
Behind-the-scenes footage of David Bowie & Amanda Lear from ‘The 1980 Floor Show’
Soon after David Bowie’s brief “retirement” he was already busy preparing for his first big public appearance since (apparently) leaving showbiz. The 1980 Floor Show,…
Marc Bolan, Andy Warhol, Joan Jett & other famous folk with their dogs, for your election 2016 blues
A young Joan Jett and an adorable dog. Jett has gone on to dedicate much of her life to animal advocacy. If you’re a jittery…
Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders get bombarded by cream pies (and worse) on kids TV show
The Pretenders giving zero fucks. If you grew up as a kid in the UK during the mid-70s through to the early 80s it’s a…
The unhappiest place on Earth: Grisly images from Thailand’s ‘Hell Garden’
Statues in the ‘Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden’ in Thailand. Photo by Darmon Richter. Located about 60 miles outside of Bangkok there is a massive…
The ‘Cutting Monster’: Bizarre 18th century illustrations of London’s stab-happy lady stalker
A bizarre illustration/caricature by James Gillray of the ‘Monster’ (aka the ‘Cutting Monster’) assaulting one of his female victims, 1790. Nearly a century before Jack…
Pulp friction: Vintage matchbooks transformed into tiny pulp novel book covers (and more)
Matchbook art by Jason D’Aquino based on the rather terrifying looking cover for the vintage pulp novel ‘The Hungry Ones’ from 1968. I’ve been a…
‘Plan 9 from Bikini Beach’: Glamourous beatnik ghoul girl ‘Vampira’ goths it up back in the 1950s
Maila Nurmi (aka ‘Vampira’) looking gorgeously goth at the beach with her umbrella, mid-1950s. Maila Nurmi the captivatingly gorgeous Finnish model and actress with a…