OZ
SUCKS

Produced by Pete Townshend

Three songs about Oz magazine - the underground publication that sparked Britain's longest obscenity trial. Produced by Pete Townshend. Released as a free 24-page magazine designed by Richard Adams, who designed the original Oz.
 

We wrote these songs after spending a day in the V&A's archive, rummaging through boxes of court documents, readers' letters, and paste-up artwork rescued from police raids. The readers were furious - they thought Oz had gone soft. "There is nothing to incite us NOW," one wrote. We borrowed their words.

The magazine is free. We've printed a thousand copies, and fans across the UK are distributing them by hand - leaving them in bookshops, cafés, record shops, on buses. Take one, share one, leave one somewhere unexpected.
 

Also available on cassette and CD, with hand-sprayed envelopes and signed copies. Our latest collaboration with Pete Townshend. Counterculture, 2026 style.

#OzSucks

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All songs written by Beth Porter & Ben Please (The Bookshop Band)

All instruments played by Beth Porter, Ben Please & Pete Townshend

Produced by Pete Townshend

Recorded at Upper Woody Studios, UK

Engineered by Miles Clarke, Michael Nyandoro, & Simon Law

Mixed by John Wood (Analogue Mixing)

Mastered by Simon Heyworth 

Album design by Richard Adams