Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.

Despite the fact that the club is meant to be a non-violent environment, on May 7, 1994, audience members attacked former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, claiming he was a sellout ( per club rules, Biafra had never signed to a major label ).

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

Thus, the quest to revive Biafra is gathering momentum both at national and international levels as it is now being championed by legal methods.

At the beginning of the war Biafra had 3, 000 troops, but at the end of the war the troops totalled 30, 000.

Later in 1999 at the beginning of a new democratic regime, other secessionist movements emerged, the movement for the Actualization of a Sovereign state of Biafra was formed as a military wing of the Republic of Biafra.

The most influential San Francisco hardcore band was the Dead Kennedys, whose frontman, Jello Biafra, became a noted social activist even after the band's last show at the On Broadway, which included The Black Athletes and Naked Lady Wrestlers on the card.

The implementation of the agreements reached at Aburi fell apart upon the leaderships return to Nigeria and on 30 May 1967, as a result of this, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria a sovereign state to be known as BIAFRA :" Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic, now, therefore I, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall, henceforth, be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of The Republic of Biafra.

Jello Biafra claimed the magazine's criticism of him inspired people to assault him at a 1994 performance at 924 Gilman Street, though his assailants were not known to be affiliated with MRR in any way.

In 1999, Thayil formed a punk band, the No WTO Combo, with Jello Biafra ( formerly of Dead Kennedys ), Krist Novoselic ( formerly of Nirvana, at the time a member of Sweet 75 ), and Gina Mainwal ( also of Sweet 75 ).

They rescheduled the show for the next night, December 1, but Biafra and Novoselic played a short acoustic set that night down the street at The Central Tavern, where Biafra was approached by local record producer Mark Cavener.

While recording No Sanctuary at Southern Studios they met Jello Biafra of American punk band Dead Kennedys and owner of the punk record label Alternative Tentacles.

* This was filmed at the height of Gwar's popularity, and featured a number of well-known people: Boss Glom was portrayed by Jello Biafra, and Sebastian Bach appears as himself.

Biafra also fears that, using the same precedent, Courtney Love would lead her late husband Kurt Cobain's band Nirvana " at last ".

Initially the band was a quartet, consisting of Klaus Flouride, Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Bruce Slesinger, who all had answered an ad placed by East Bay Ray, but 6025 was added to the line-up before the first gig on July 19, 1978.

Singer Jello Biafra has stated " a week before our first gig we got a guitarist who called himself 6025 and he left about 6 months later ".

K. Ajuluchukwu, Dr. K. O. Mbadiwe, G. C. M Onyiuke, and so many others – diplomats like O. U. Ikpa ( Portugal ), Godwin Onyegbula ( Foreign Ministry ), M. T. Mbu ( Foreign Affairs ), Emeka Anyaoku ( Commonwealth Secretary ), Ralph Uwechue ( Paris ), Dr. Sebastian Okechukwu Mezu ( Abidjan ), Ignatius Kogbara ( London ), Austin Okwu ( Tanzania ), Ugwu ( Gabon ), Dr. Ifegwu Eke ( information ), Okoko Ndem ( Propaganda ), Sylvester Ugoh ( Bank of Biafra ), N. U. Akpan, Dr. Otue ( Canada ) Aggrey K. Orji and Dr. Lemeh ( New York ), Dr. Aaron Ogbonna ( West Germany ), etc.

Andrew is currently the bassist with Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, while also maintaining his Zion House ' o ' Flesh studio in New Jersey.

People who make appearances in the film include: Mary Crosby, of the nighttime soap opera Dallas ; character actors Clu Gulager and Doug McClure ; footballer Lyle Alzado ; ' 60s icon Connie Stevens ; Soul Train host Don Cornelius ; singer Courtney Love ; original " Human Beat-Box " Doug E. Fresh ; ska-punk band Fishbone ( who also performs the incidental score ) as " Ranchbone "; Lords of the New Church singer Stiv Bators ; Ted Nugent ; Weird Al Yankovic ; and Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, in a cameo as an F. B. I.

Apple joined The New York Times in 1963, and over more than 30 years, contributed foreign correspondence from over 100 countries, including coverage of the Vietnam War – where his penetrating questioning helped expose the unreliability of the military briefings known as the " Five O ' Clock Follies " – the Biafra crisis, the Iranian revolution, and the fall of Communist governments in the Soviet bloc.

In 2001, the band reformed without Biafra, who had been in a legal dispute with the remaining members over royalties.

In August 1987, the criminal trial was submitted to the jury with the two remaining defendants: Jello Biafra and Michael Bonanno ( former Alternative Tentacles label manager ).

Since the dissolution of Dead Kennedys, Biafra has continued to collaborate and record with other artists, including Mojo Nixon, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, and the Melvins, and has become a spoken word performer, covering political topics in particular.

The jury and judges also noted, in their words, that Biafra “ lacked credibility ” on the songwriting issue and found from evidence presented by both sides that the songwriting credits were due to the entire band, using a clause in the band's written partnership giving a small share of every Dead Kennedys song royalty directly to the band partnership.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

It was found out that Alternative Tentacles was paying Dead Kennedys less per CD than all the other bands, including Biafra himself, and not informing his other bandmates, which was the fraud.

Biafra accused the band of wanting to license the famous Dead Kennedys song " Holiday in Cambodia " for use in a Levi's jeans commercial, which the band denied.

According to Biafra, the live albums are " cash-ins " on Dead Kennedys ' name and his music.

Some have found difficulty reconciling this claim when Biafra also licensed to major corporations, approving with the other band members use of Dead Kennedys ’ songs in major studio film releases such as Neighbors, Freddy Got Fingered, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys, in the song " Saturday Night Holocaust ", likened disco to the cabaret culture of Weimar-era Germany for its apathy towards government policies and its escapism.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

* 1958 – Jello Biafra, American singer, musician, and activist ( Dead Kennedys, The No WTO Combo, and Lard )

Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys has cited the Yippies as an influence on his activism and thinking.

Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray and vocalist Jello Biafra formed the original Alternative Tentacles partnership, but the label is now run by Biafra, who became the sole owner in the mid-1980s.

In 1985, Los Angeles prosecutors charged Biafra with " distributing harmful matter to minors " for artwork contained in the Dead Kennedys album Frankenchrist.

In early 2000, the label and Biafra were named in a lawsuit brought by his former Dead Kennedys bandmates.

The suit claimed that Biafra had failed to pay the band royalties on Dead Kennedys albums.

* June 1 – Alternative Tentacles record label established by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra.

* Jello Biafra / Dead Kennedys taken to court by the PMRC for content in their album Frankenchrist ; Biafra wins.

Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.

Several DVDs, re-issues, and live albums have been released since the departure of Biafra most recently on Manifesto Records.

The meaning of the word " Biafra " has been explained in the Book, " Biafra or Nigerian Presidency: What the Ibos Want " where the author delved into the etimology and etiology of the words " Biafra ", " Ibo " and " Igbo " and proved that " Biafra " is an ancient word in the Igbo language which was lost many centuries ago just like other Igbo words have been lost.

From 1999 to the present day, the indigenous people of Biafra have been agitating for independence to revive their ancient country.

In addition, they have revived the Radio Biafra as a powerful media tool to educate their people.

In recent times, separatist aspirations have been growing again in Nigeria, not only by the indigenous people of Biafra but also by other ethnic groups both in the North and in the South, giving a clear sign that Nigeria may not remain the same, but will either be restructured to guarantee self-governance to the six geopolitical regions similar to the Aburi Accord 1967 or break up, disintegrate and go into oblivion like one of the ancient empires we read in history.

Some prominent members of the punk rock community such as Fat Mike and Jello Biafra have been critical of the band's decision to replace Darby Crash with an actor.

As foreign secretary, he was instrumental in supplying arms to support the Nigerian government's crushing of the secessionist movement in Biafra ( when up to one million people died ), later saying " It would have been quite easy for me to say: This is going to be difficult-let's cut off all connexion with the Nigerian Government.

At the time of the surrender, Efiong believed that the situation was hopeless and that prolonging the conflict would have led only to the further destruction and starvation of the people of Biafra.

However, according to a January 2010 interview with Jello Biafra, he indicated that a new Lard album was unlikely, saying " Me and Al have talked about it for years, but we ’ ve never been able to nail down a time to try and put it together.

Artists to have acknowledged the Monks as an influence include: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The White Stripes, Henry Rollins, The Fuzztones, the Beastie Boys and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, as well as The Fall.

Other contributors to the band have included Scott Henderson, John Wright, Andy Kerr, Carolyn Mark, Ken Kempster, Keith Rose, Ford Pier and Jello Biafra, who appeared in spirit form only during a seance conducted by the mystical Holliston.

MASSOB agitates for a Republic of Biafra comprising the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria ; though Uwazuruike has stated in interviews that the Niger Deltans " can have their own republic.

Some prominent members of the punk rock community such as Fat Mike and Jello Biafra have been critical of The Germs ' decision to replace Darby Crash with an actor.