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4th April, 2001

IT'S OFFICIAL... WE ROCK!
Once again it's been a long time since I posted in this section but I thought that this news was certainly worth a mention...

The International Association of Webmasters and Designers has gone and given little ol' A&GT their Golden Web Award, proving once and for all what we all knew anyway... we rock!




8th January, 2001
2001. A PUNK ODYSSEY
ANARCHY AND GOOD TIMES - Back for 2001, now with a powerful new enzyme that actually attracts dirt! Yep, that's right kids. We're back from our holidays - bigger, better and more hung over than ever! We are very hyped for this year; we've got a couple of screaming kittens in our canvas bag that we are just dying to let out - but all in good time. Give us a couple of days to get back into following the beat of the double kick drum and then it is going to be full steam ahead (who am I trying to convince here - you or ME!)


15th December, 2000
LET'S GET THIS OVER WITH ONCE AND FOR ALL
I know there are some of you out there who have had it up to the eyeballs with us rabbiting on about this damn Pennywise competition we ran recently. Well one person who isn't sick of hearing about it is our winner Nora Chong! The jury is in and for once the media is right - the punk rock show of the year was... PENNYWISE! Well Nora would think so - she got up on stage with Jim and displayed her vocal stylings along to Land Down Under. She's gonna be receiving the CD plus a whole heap of other goodies in the mail from us. For the rest of you... you will never hear us mention it again...


THE ANARCHY CLUB
Now concidering that you guys barely ever use the messageboard I don't know why I bothered doing this but hey, what can I say, I care about you guys and want you to have the best... (whatever). Anarchy And Good Times now has it's own private club house for you guys, yes YOU, to hang out in, chat, post messages, share photos, pictures and files, create your own piece of webspace in your very own 'suite', vote in polls or start your own, mark important events in the calander and basically interact with each other and with us. Just click on the link below, fill in your details and go sick! We've started by adding some content to the pages and we'll be adding some more soon, but you've gotta help us out with this. We can bombard you with whatever we like but we want to hear back from you in this community.
CLICK HERE



6th December, 2000
NEW STUFF
There are a couple of new things to look out for on the site. Firstly we have joined a webring! Yep, that's right - we are now proud members of the Australia & NZ Zine Webring set up by our good friends at Pigmeat. The webring is only a fledgling one so make sure you have a look. And if you know of any Australian or New Zealand on-line zines that might be interested in joining be sure to let 'em know. Here's the details:



We've also signed up on the Top 25 Punk Sites at Punx Not Dead. We like these guys. They contacted us and gave us all sorts of glowing praise so why wouldn't we! So every time you see this button: click on it to vote for us (and check out their site of course!)

Or just click here:



PENNYWISE COMP
Now I know I promised I would shut up about this now that it's all over but for the benefit of all those who entered I just thought I'd let you all know that we are still deliberating on the winner - after all the fuss we made over this we don't want to screw it up now! We'll keep you posted. The review and live pix are just around the corner too...



19th November, 2000
ON WITH THE SHOW!
O.K. So things have been a little slow around here lately. I've been both sick and busy and to top it all off some scum sucking low life piece of human detrius ran over my cat and if I ever find out who the bastard is, I'm gonna do a repeat performance on them! hmmm... I feel a little better after that...

WHAT'S HAPPENING
Anyway, let's see if we can get things back to normal, shall we.

The news page has had a much needed update and there are also new photos of The Radio Dolls (we like these guys!) taken at the Pacific Circle Music Conference that happened in Sydney last month in The Shooting Gallery.

Also new on the site is an interview we did with ONE DOLLAR SHORT drummer, Mick Smith just before they headed around the country with No Fun At All. Click here to check it out.

LAST CHANCE!
This is it. Your absolute FINAL CHANCE to get your entries in for the Pennywise 'Punk Rock Show Of The Year' Competition. Entries close on the 24th of November, that's this coming Friday - the same day they play at the Hordern. Click here to get all the detalis before you miss out!


25th October, 2000
CLICK ON!
The more vigilant amongst you may have noticed a few little changes on the site over the last couple of days. One of those changes being the phasing out of the Thirsty.com banner ads. It seems our sponsor has run out of money and are in the process of closing down operations. So as a consequence the Thirsty.com ads that were a feature on Anarchy And Good Times, will gradually be removed.

However, keep an eye out for the new banner ads that are to be replacing them, especially these ones:







Support us by supporting these guys! Make sure you check 'em out.

PENNYWISE COMPETITION CONTINUES
We have had some entries in the Pennywise 'Punk Rock Show Of The Year' Competition... at last! Check out the entry that is leading the comp by clicking here.



21st October, 2000
2000 HITS!
Been a while since we posted in here but we think we've got pretty good reason to. Today we racked up our 2000th hit! Congratulations to whoever the lucky shopper was who pushed us over the mark - you win a brand new bag of oxygen (slightly damaged). Not bad work for our first year.

Yep, that's right. We are also a year old (I think my nappy needs changing). It feels like we started this site last century! um...


PENNYWISE COMPETITION
Now, we thought everybody wants FREE STUFF but obviously not. It seems we can't GIVE shit away. We put on this competition to win a Pennywise album and assorted other bits and pieces and how many people have put their hand up for a slice of the action... NONE. That's right - zip! So get your act together and click here.



5th September, 2000

X-EYED
OK, so I don't really have all that much to tell you, just haven't posted to this section for a while, thought I better do something. Firstly I'd like to appologise if the updating of the site becomes a little sporatic for a while. See, the thing is... well I'm not gonna lie to ya... the X-Games are on! I'm sitting there last night and I'm thinking, "there are things I should be doing on the site..." but the Sky Surfing was on and I just couldn't tear myself away. I'll probably try and justify it to myself by writing a piece on the games, calling all the hours I spent sitting in front of the tv "research". But hey, you understand, right?

I did, however get time to add an old ('97) interview with Mark & Scott from Guttermouth. What I am doing is really just trying to stick as much stuff as I possibly can on the site so that you guys have got plenty to choose from. If you want to check out the interview, then click here now.

Other than that, just the usual... posted a new Tirade from Sam on the "Green" Games, and... what?!? Sorry, gotta go... Street Luge is on...



24th August, 2000

GOOD TIMES NEEDS YOU!
Have you always wanted to work in the media? Fancy yourself as a bit of a political correspondent? Then you may be the person we are looking for!

Running this website takes a lot of time. Because there is only two of us, we don't get the opportunity to cover nearly half of the stuff we want to. Our politics page, for instance...

We are looking for someone who is interested in covering politics and alternative media in and around Sydney who is willing to submit news and features to us on some kind of regular basis. We can't pay you for your efforts, we do this without pay ourselves.

We want to make this site the best damn punk resource on the net, both musically and politically, but to do it we need some help.

If you are interested mail us at goodtymz77@yahoo.com or blindeyedesign@excite.com



23rd August, 2000

THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY.com
It's official! Anarchy And Good Times has hooked up with the American, Thirsty.com. We have a sponsor! Don't think of it as us selling out - think more of it as us buying in! The only changes you are really going to see around here are a few more adds. Please click on as many as you like and when you go to these sites - buy stuff! Ultimately it is helping us bring you a better site.


...AS FEATURED ON PUNK ROCK FINDER
This week Anarchy And Good Times has been made feature site at Punk Rock Finder, a really cool punk resource. Help us say thanx by checking out the site at http://guntario.tripod.com




21st August, 2000

SO, WHAT'S NEW?
Greetings all! A few new things to report, firstly if you are here then you know our address has changed, update your bookmarks and tell your friends! The 59 Times The Pain photos, if you haven't seen 'em by now then what the hell are you doing!?! Get your arse over and have a look! The ones from the Bizzo's gig are still on the way but I promise you they'll be up soon. New installments of both Tirade and Pick Of The Week have also been posted so check 'em out (Fox Trotsky is gonna hate me!). The membership list for our newsletter is growing slowly but.... COME ON PEOPLE! It is just not good enough! We want to start giving shit away to you but how can we when there is only 10 people on the list! If you are already signed up, then thanx (but have you got all of your friends signed up? hmmm.) If you haven't put your name down then do it NOW!

...TOMORROW THE WORLD!
I kind of like getting our name in print... makes me all warm and fuzzy. This showed up in todays (21/8) issue of Revolver Magazine. Owe you a beer, Mandi!





9th August, 2000

WORKING OUR BUTTS OFF!
We've been so busy around here we haven't even had time to post one of these updates. Look around! Things are really going off! For starters there is the Anarchy And Good Times Radio Station, thanks to the good people at Launch.com. This is so cool. Basically we've programmed a list of songs that the Launch robot picks from and streams them straight to your computer. Have it playing as you look round the site! If you want to you can watch the film clips too! What else. Two new sections, Tirade - our abusive editorial section, and The Pick Of The Week - cool new stuff and great bits from our archives, updated weekly. Also you can now vote for us in the Australian Music Internet Charts - just click on the button at the bottom of the main page and that is it!

And don't think we are done there! Just posted is exclusive pictures of 28 Days and Superheist from Newtown RSL on Thursday the 3rd. So what are you doing? Get in there and go sick!



30th July, 2000

OLYMPIC FEVER!
O.K. So the politics pages on this site have been much neglected (I don't think I have updated them since they were posted!) But that is all changing. We've started by including a bit of a blurb on the Sydney Olympics, which are less than TWO MONTHS(!!) away. There is going to be a lot going on round these parts come September so now is the time to start planning! By no means do we claim to have everything covered but what we have tried to give you is a good starting point. Big thanx go out to the very wonderful Nick Bleasel for letting us use some of his artwork. Say thanks to Nick yourself by stopping past his website. Click here to go there now!


copyright 2000 Nick Bleasel