Following on from our split 7" last year with Sydney's HDPE and Milano's I PENTITI, we're releasing our first print publication... more info below, but email us at ccpr.international@gmail.com if you'd like copies! We're shipping from Sydney and looking for stockists, so do let us know if you want to take any copies on board... It's a bit of a labour of love, the novella written by our late friend Pat (who mixed/mastered the split 7" among other recordings) with his experiences in Sydney's brief squatted social centre the Midnight Star, which ran for 9 months in 2002. Plenty of punk stuff for the punk heads...
https://ccprinternational.bandcamp.com/merch/midnight-star-by-pat-k-hughes
Blurb here:
Written between 2002-03, this lost novella by Pat K. Hughes is printed here for the first time by CCPR. Sitting somewhere between an imaginative diary and auto-fiction, Midnight Star depicts a forgotten side of Sydney during a nine-month period of 2002. Pivoting around a briefly squatted social centre in Homebush from which this novella takes its name, the period is seen through the lens of the author in his mid-twenties as he undergoes a period of change and politicisation. Protests, rallies, anarchopunk gigs, sharehouse living rooms, pubs and the squatted theatre itself all set the backdrop as we bare witness to the formation and dissolution of bands, DOOM modification tutorials and disputes about the role of police, government, drugs and sex in an aspiring radical's life. Though never intended for publication, this book has been printed with the permission of the author, with edits and revisions made by the Hughes and his friends throughout 2025. We gladly present this to you as the first print publication by CCP Records.
