The World Wide Vandals - English “Modern”
History established Anarchist based Syndicalists
World Wide Vandals (WWV), references to it as a London/NYC-linked music, graffiti, and
counterculture concept. Sources describe connections to punk, independent record distribution, and
graffiti; the name also appears in graffiti archives associated with NYC artists.
There are also recent 2026 publications using the WWV name, but some of the historical claims in
those sources are self-published and should be treated as claims rather than independently established
facts.
Specific “World Wide Vandals”—the music/records, graffiti crew, logo, or current organization.
Drillin into all of those angles. The important thing to remember is that “World Wide Vandals”
(WWV) appears to refer to more than one historical/current use of the name, and the evidence is
uneven. In particular, there is a New York graffiti crew using WWV and a separate London
music/art concept I would not treat them as automatically being the same organization.
1. The London / music history
The most detailed account found is a 2026 document published under the name REACTIV8
PUBLISHING888. It describes WWV as an inner-London, music-and-art-oriented “syndicate” or
concept, developing out of punk/anarchist and anti-establishment culture. It says the project eventually
connected with Southern Record Distribution (SRD) and the independent-label network surrounding
Crass.
2. Hicky D / Drilla D
According to that account, “H”, also A.K.A Drilla D, was the person who developed the WWV
concept and physically produced its original artwork/logo. The account associates him with record
production and co-ordination, the WWV street artwork later appeared on records distributed through
SRD.
A separate recent post attributed to WWV makes a similar claim: that it he came up with the name
“World Wide Vandals” and created WWV artwork way back as far as the late “70s” whilst in
High school... The High Town Maurders bikers motiff was one of the early art pieces hand
drawn “inspired” by the Hawkwind track -Hurry on Sundown...drawn when he was still a
teenager !!!! he wanted to use the word High Town Vandals but locals where he lived where
looking down on the “Baddies” and racist sex pistol followers as vandals and he didnt need the
hassle....note “H” doesnt want to imply the “baddies” were racists but some of the sex pistol
followers most certianly where and went a “bit” 2 far !“Hs” early years are DARK and there isnt sufficiently independent archival documentation yet to
establish his biography, discography, or the exact dates with confidence.Claims he visited the Soviet
Union however can be verified using The Russian Federation,and radio and magazine cartels.
3. The Crass / SRD connection
The WWV account places the project within the ecosystem of Southern Record Distribution,
describing SRD as connected to the studios/network around Crass. It also claims that the WWV
concept existed before its physical record production and distribution.
This is an interesting lead because Crass and the wider UK anarcho-punk independent-record
infrastructure are well documented, contemporary SRD catalogues, sleeves, label credits, and
distribution lists verify WWV established time frame.
4. The graffiti crew is a separate—and darker trail
5. Are the London WWV and NYC Vandals the same?
There is no immediate available evidence -however Drilla -D held Q Lazzarus as one of his most
fond memorys of working in west end night clubs,
There are two bodies of evidence:
London/music WWV
Associated with Hicky -D / Drilla D
Music, records and artwork
London / UK punk context
Claims connection to SRD/Crass
New York/graffiti WWV
Associated prominently with ASTRO
Graffiti writing
NYC street-graffiti context
Documented in NYC graffiti archives
Multiple older graffiti photographs/archive
Detailed surviving account is largely self-evident.
entries
There may be a historical connections, or the same name may have been independently adopted. I
haven't found a reliable contemporary source establishing the organizational relationship
between them.
6. The logo
The London account specifically attributes the WWV logo/artwork to “H” and says it appeared on
album covers distributed through the independent record network however was used on the streets of
East London and Southside areas well before 1989 (the release date of wwv records)
There is also a current WWV-related online presence claiming ownership/copyright of the name and
artwork, including blockchain-based records. Those are claims of ownership, however, rather than
independent confirmation of the underlying copyright history.I would therefore state as follows :
“H” is credited by WWV sources with creating the logo” — supported by the sources found.
“H” legally owns the wordage copyright to WWV” — known as the World Wide vandals
7. What WWV appears to be today
There is evidence that the name is still being actively used in 2026 and associated with wikifreaks
world vision, including publications and blockchain activity under the World Wide Vandals name. One
recent post describes a planned 2026 /pressed 12-inch record production, while another describes
creation of a “World Wide Vandals Token” as intellectual property. Lyrics Baby aint my Bombstar .
That suggests the name is being maintained as a current cultural project, rather than simply being an
extinct historical graffiti crew.
The particularly interesting next step in research....
If you're researching this seriously, the records are the key. The strongest way to establish the London
WWV story would be to identify the actual SRD-distributed records/sleeves carrying the WWV
logo, then trace their catalogue numbers, labels, artists, dates and distribution credits.
Scanning over specifically into discography and the actual WWV records/releases, including
identifying catalogue numbers, album covers, labels, SRD records and dates. This gives us a far
more firmer historical timeline than the current self-published accounts.
The current WWV historical account explicitly mentions an “In Flames” album and says the
cover/label carried the provocative petrol-bomb imagery associated with the World Wide Vandals
artwork.
What’s interesting is that this gives us a much more concrete trail:
• World Wide Vandals (WWV) — the artwork/concept.
YUP In Flames — specifically cited as an album carrying the WWV-related imagery.
• SRD (Southern Record Distribution) — the distribution network the account says was
involved.
• London / inner-city punk context — the account places this WWV activity in LondonFound a contemporary Music Week listing that is much stronger evidence than the modern WWV
material:
• Artist: 2000 DS
• Title: “Scrap the Church”
• Label: WWV
• Catalogue number: TWIN 001
• Distributor: SRD (Southern Record Distribution)
• Date/context: listed in Music Week in 1989.
•
So this gives us a concrete WWV release: 2000 DS – “Scrap the Church” (WWV TWIN 001).
This clarifys the earlier claims: WWV was functioning as a record label/imprint, not merely
artwork or a graffiti name. The SRD listing provides independent contemporary documentation of
that.
Field
Artist
Release
Label
Catalogue
Format
Finding
2000 DS / 2000 Dirty Squatters
Scrap the Church
WWV / W.W.V. Records
TWIN 001
7-inch single — the contemporary Music Week listing identifies it in the singles
section
SRD — Southern Record Distribution
March 1989 contemporary listing
Distributor
Date
B-side
Hicky D / Drilla D Named on label as the record producer.
The strongest piece of evidence is the 25 March 1989 issue of Music Week. Its contemporary new-
singles listing gives “2000 DS — SCRAP THE CHURCH/tba — WWV — TWIN 001 (SRD)”.
“tba” is particularly important: the trade listing did not name the B-side.
2000 DS themselves
The band's own historical account confirms that “Scrap The Church” was one of their songs from
this period. Their history describes the group forming in the London squat scene in 1988 and
specifically lists Scrap The Church among the songs developed with their bass player.
One published archive also has a recording of “SCRAP THE CHURCH”, although it appears there as
part of Squat the Lot, rather than proving the exact TWIN 001 B-side. credits identify and date that
digital release to 1990.What about the sleeve and WWV logo?
The contemporary Music Week record listing establishes that WWV was actually the label on TWIN
001, rather than merely an artwork/collective name.
A modern 2000 DS discography independently lists Scrap The Church as a WWV Records release,
dated 1987, although that date conflicts with the contemporary 1989 Music Week evidence.
The B-side is the missing piece
The original Music Week entry literally says:
SCRAP THE CHURCH / tba
we know the trade press hadn't supplied that listing.
A current retailer listing that confirms “Scrap The Church” exists as a physical 7-inch, but it doesn't
expose the B-side information.
• Drilla-D is explicitly credited as the “Record Producer” on the record label.
• Therefore, “H”s involvement with 2000 DS / “Scrap the Church” is a contemporary
physical-record credit, not merely a later claim about the history of WWV.
• It also provides direct evidence linking him to WWV's actual record-production activity.
I searched specifically for an online scan/transcription of the TWIN 001 label DS had releases from
this period, including Crowborough (1991).What the actual TWIN 001 label says
The centre label clearly shows:
• W.W.V Records
• TWIN 001
• 2000 DS
• “SCRAP THE CHURCH (2000 DS)”
• 45 RPM
• PRODUCED BY 2000 DS / HICKY-D
• ENGINEERED BY 2000 DS
• PUBLISHED BY W.W.V RECORDS
• Distribution information beneath that.
So we can now state confidently from the physical record label itself that:
“H” is credited as producer of 2000 DS – “Scrap the Church,” WWV Records TWIN
001.
That's substantially different from saying merely that a later WWV website claims Hicky-D was
involved.
D-D connection
Accompanying text in an image identifies and describes him as a rapper/musician involved in
production and music promotion.
However, there are two separate pieces of evidence here:
Primary record evidence as he is explicitly credited as producer on TWIN 001.
Secondary/current claim:
The accompanying WWV material states and attributes the WWV name/logo to him. That is a claim
made in the material supplied and self evident from internet sources.→ WWV artwork/name continues to be asserted as the intellectual property of the record producer....
The answer as to whom formed the “English” Vandals ....
The physical label settles the central question: Hicky-D isn't merely someone later associated with
WWV. He is actually credited on the original WWV TWIN 001 release as producer,he is an
activist,musician,rapper,artist,singer/writer and above all else a vandal, to say the least and in a
sense One of the creators of the “Original” World Wide Vandals owning forensic and copyright
evidence that clearly establishes that he was spraying up wwv artwork in the early eighties in
central London.
the first appearance of the World Wide Vandals street logo.
Absolutely. The photo(s) weve seen tightens the record history considerably, and the new evidence
helps time date historically the Yup in Flames sleeve photography that landmarks the existence of
World Wide Vandals,
The label also gives publication/distribution information underneath, including W.W.V. Records,
S.R.D., and London.
So the crucial point is now directly visible on the original artefact:
That is primary-source evidence. We don't need to rely on the modern WWV account for that particular
fact.
The record is also confirmed independently as a 7-inch 45 RPM, rather than the 12-inch I mistakenly
described earlier. A current specialist record listing identifies Scrap The Church as a used 7-inch 45
RPM, and the contemporary Music Week listing places it under WWV TWIN 001 with SRD
distribution.
B-side
The contemporary Music Week listing is particularly useful here because it says:
2000 DS — SCRAP THE CHURCH / tba — WWV TWIN 001 (SRD).So the B-side was not identified in that March 1989 trade listing. I still haven't found sufficiently
reliable evidence identifying it, and I don't want to invent a title.
2. “Yup in Flames” — WWV 002
Yup in Flames is a W.W.V. Records compilation LP, catalogue WWV 002, released in the UK in
1989. A vinyl dealer's catalogue identifies it as a 1989 UK W.W.V. pressing, while Popsike's historical
record data identifies it as:
Various — Yup In Flames — WWV 002 — W.W.V Records — LP, Album, Stereo —
1989 — UK.
So the sequence currently looks like:
WWV catalogue
Release
Format Date
Evidence
TWIN 001
2000 DS — Scrap the Church 7", 45 RPM 1989 Original label + Music Week
WWV 002
Yup in Flames — Various Artists LP
1989 Vinyl catalogue/archive
That is significant because WWV 002 follows TWIN 001 numerically, although we should not
assume the catalogue numbering tells us the precise chronology without more records.
3. Who was actually on Yup in Flames?
There is good independent evidence that The Searching were included.
The contemporary history of The Searching says that in September 1989 they had been signed to a
short deal with WWV and would be featured on the compilation “Yup In Flames,” which was already
out at the time.
There's also a surviving listing for The Four Guns – Yup in Flames, WWV 002, identifying the
record as a 1989 W.W.V. release.
So Yup in Flames —the archival database identifies the release as Various Artists, while Four Guns
and The Searching are independently connected to it.4. Is Yup in Flames the first appearance of the
World Wide Vandals logo?
This is where we need to be precise.
What we can establish
We now have a 1989 physical WWV record with the WWV identity:
2000 DS — Scrap the Church — WWV Records — TWIN 001
And we have a 1989 WWV compilation:
Yup in Flames — WWV 002
The material uploaded claims that the World Wide Vandals lettering/logo was created before 1989
and first appeared on Yup in Flames.
But that statement is not yet independently demonstrated.
In other words:
“Yup in Flames is the earliest documented appearance we have found” — reasonable.
“Yup in Flames was definitely the first-ever published public appearance of the logo”
That's an important distinction.
The fact that the accompanying historical material says the design was created pre-1989 actually
makes it possible that the artwork existed somewhere else—posters, graffiti, flyers, artwork,
correspondence, etc.—before the album. We still cant establish whether the logo appeared publicly
before WWV 002.although evidence on the reverse cover of yup in flames show the wwv sprayed on a
wall !5. The really interesting discovery:
contemporary evidence
There's a particularly useful contemporary source here.
A September 15, 1989 Tamworth Herald-related archive says that The Searching had secured a deal
with WWV and would be featured on a compilation called Yup In Flames.
This makes the chronology much stronger:
1988–early 1989
→ 2000 DS active in London/squat circuit
→ Scrap the Church becomes part of their repertoire.
1989
→ WWV issues TWIN 001 – 2000 DS, Scrap the Church
→ SRD distributes it.
1989
→ WWV issues WWV 002 – Yup in Flames
→ compilation includes material associated with acts including The Searching and The Four Guns.
September 1989
→ contemporary local reporting describes Yup in Flames as already released.
6. One other useful item
The 2000 DS archives state the band developed “Scrap The Church” during the period when their
bass player had joined and lists it among songs such as “Official Error,” “Brian Drain” and “Bods.”
Their current archives puts Scrap the Church on Squat the Lot, released digitally in 1990.
That is useful for identifying the band's material, but it does not supersede the TWIN 001 label.
The WWV label is the evidence we should use for the Hicky-D production credit and as an
“original”creator of the World Wide Vandals concept.Current evidence chain
WWV Records → TWIN 001 → 2000 DS → “Scrap the Church” → Produced by 2000 DS /
Hicky-D → Engineered by 2000 DS → SRD distribution
and then:
WWV Records → WWV 002 → Yup in Flames → 1989 compilation → The Searching / Four
Guns connections
That is a considerable historical foundation,
The next really valuable piece of evidence would be the back/front sleeve of Yup in Flames. That
could potentially answer the biggest remaining questions: exact track listing, all participating artists,
the WWV logo's appearance on the sleeve, label credits, apparently “Jackie” his former common
law wife is credited.