OZ Magazine No. 30 (October 1970) is a pre‑decimal UK underground press issue from the height of OZ’s psychedelic and confrontational period.

The cover features a group of nude and semi‑nude figures seated in a desert‑like landscape, printed in striking pink and blue duotone. The imagery evokes communal living, psychedelia, sexual liberation, and anti‑establishment freedom — themes central to OZ as it moved into the 1970s.

Surrounding the image are dense, provocative headlines including:

• “Spiro in Pervert Drama”

• “Up the Kyber”

• “Acid Death Picnic”

• “Hend Poster”

• “Freek Film Fest”

• “Hippie Sex Drug”

• “C.I.A. and OZ”

The 4s (four shillings) cover price confirms this as a pre‑decimal UK issue, published shortly before Britain’s currency changeover in 1971. By this point, OZ was under heavy scrutiny for its explicit content, drug culture coverage, and political paranoia — pressures that would soon culminate in its most famous obscenity trial.

Issue No. 30 sits firmly in OZ’s most radical run, where visual excess, psychedelia, and provocation outweighed satire.