In an almost mythical ABC After School Special from 1987 titled The Day My Kid Went Punk, a wholesome all-American family (with Love Boat‘s “Doc,” Bernie Kopell as the worried dad) has to deal with uh… tragedy when their “normal” son starts wearing black lipstick, cuts his hair into a Mohawk and generally goes for an extreme “Goth Eye for the Straight Guy” make-over… “Nice kid. Quiet. Plays classical violin…” “Oh, really? Well a Ziggy Ziggy Sputnik lookalike is sitting outside in the lobby for us hire him as our daycare counselor.” “Who are you talking about? Who is Ziggy Ziggy whatsit?” Just the above image made the viral rounds a few years back, but this is the longest clip yet of this elusive bit of cult TV to appear on YouTube. Who has the entire thing?
From the late 70s, punk fashions and attitude spread agitation round the nation.
The February 21, 1976, issue of the New Musical Express warned readers: “Don’t look over your shoulder but The Sex Pistols are coming”. “They were like a million years ahead,” The Clash’s Joe Strummer later told his biographer Chris Salewicz. “I realised immediately we were going nowhere; the rest of my group hated them.” In … Continue reading "The Anarchy Tour of 1976"
Siouxsie Sioux Early Sioux, 70s Punk
I opened to a section called, "The Punk Project," and there I was: Age 13, posing across the street from Trash and Vaudeville with Ms. Lee (our "Japanese Punk") standing to my right.
A-listers Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban certainly have their hearts in the right place.
Anton Perich’s photographs of Max’s Kansas City remember a time when Debbie Harry was a waitress and William S. Burroughs, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol were regulars
A list of American punk poet Patti Smith's favorite books, from Ginsberg and Rimbaud to Dante and Bronte.
The co-founders of the Los Angeles punk band were married from 1980 to 1985, and one would imagine that there was much confusion over whose Converse were whose in that time span.
A series of intimate photographs of punk and skinhead gangs from the 1980s
Then: Visage were a synthpop pop band most associated with the New Romantic Movement (Duran Duran, ABC) of the early 80s and the famed Blitz Club (the inspiration and set location for the musical, …
I was just tagged so now I have to make a new book of random scheiße. Update: okay so I think I'm just gonna use this book as an excuse to post whatever's on my mind and just annoy you guys with random crap.
Writer and musician Tom Maxwell recounts Reed's influence on punk rock and his commitment to a cultivated roughness
German New Wave (or “Cold Wave” if you prefer) group Malaria were one of the most interesting groups to come out of Germany in the early 1980s. The all female band was formed by an alliance of Berlin art scenesters Gudrun Gut—an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten—and Bettina Köster. Both had been members of Mania D, a group championed by John Peel. A 1982 EP called New York Passage introduced UK and US audiences to the group, with the record even going top ten on college radio charts. Malaria toured with the likes of John Cale, The Birthday Party, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Nina Hagen. I loved ‘em, but it seems like they basically fell apart before much more came of them, a real tragedy. At a certain point over the past ten years, DJs specializing in “Cold Wave” have put Malaria back on the musical map. There are a few visual reminders of the group in their prime: “Your Turn to Run”: A live performance of “Trash Me”: “Geld”(Money) “You, You” (apparently this clip was directed by Anne Carlisle of Liquid Sky fame)
Sie ist das, was man eine schillernde Persönlichkeit nennt: Nina Hagen war diverse Male verheiratet, hatte erheblich jüngere Männer, ihre Kinder heißen Cosma Shiva und Otis. Sie hat eine unglaublich umfangreiche Stimme, glaubt an Ufos und ist eine echte Ulknudel. Ihre schrille Art ist nicht jedermanns Sache - auf jeden Fall ist sie unterhaltsam. Nun wird sie 65.
Dave Sinclair visited Belfast in April and May 1988 while working for the Militant Newspaper. We’ve been to Belfast, Northern Ireland, many times on Flashbak. We’ve partied with Queen’s University students in the 1970s – marvelling at the woman wearing a belt made of bullets – looked at Bobbi Hanvey’s telling photos of The … Continue reading "Belfast Kids: Life In The City – April and May 1988"
Derek Ridgers's latest book chronicles the city’s subcultures from 1978 to 1987.
No mom, it's not just a phase!
When you think of grunge, do you picture a bunch of long-haired White guys in plaid shirts, singing about teenage angst and self-loathing? Time to expand that viewpoint. Standing above them all…
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Once an emo, always an emo.
Andrew Krivine has been collecting punk memorabilia since 1977. His book Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die contains over 650 posters, flyers, record sleeves and adverts, charting a DIY ethos that changed graphic design for ever
La vie d’Amina, une étudiante musulmane maladroite, bascule lorsqu’elle fait la rencontre d’un groupe punk composé de coreligionnaires aux caractères bien trempés. Encore inédite en France, We Are Lady Parts est une comédie originale et détonnante qui fait le délice de la presse britannique.
