Bourbonese Qualk

Bourbonese Qualk was an experimental music group that existed from 1980 to 2003.^[1] The group participated in the early 1980s industrial & experimental music tape scene.^[2] Writing for CMJ, Martin Aston characterized Bourbonese Qualk as "post-punk, avant funk" along the lines of 23 Skidoo, A Certain Ratio, 400 Blows and early Cabaret Voltaire.^[3]

OriginLondon, England

Genres

• Punk
• industrial
• experimental
• techno

Years active1980–2003

Labels

• Dossier
• Praxis
• Mannequin

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Bourbonese Qualk
Miles Miles
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Punk industrial experimental techno
Years active	1980–2003
Labels	Dossier Praxis Mannequin
Spinoffs	Recloose Organisation The State
Members	Andy Wilson Miles Miles Owen Rossiter Simon Crab
Past members	Julian Gilbert Kif Cole Steven Tanza Ted Crabtree
Website	bourbonesequalk.net

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The group were also known for their political activism, having formed in the crucible of 1980s Britain amid such influences as the UK miners' strike, the Falklands War, Thatcherism, monetarism, local government corruption, squatting, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and anarchism. Their work was often ambiguous and directly critical of power-politics of any orientation, often irritating members of the traditional organized left. In 1984 Bourbonese Qualk occupied a large empty building - The Ambulance Station^[4] - on the Old Kent Road in South London, which they turned into a base for their activities, a cooperative space for artists, musicians, and writers, and a center for radical political activism -- specifically as a coordinating center for the Stop the City anti-capitalist protests of 1984.^[5]