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British punk, with its DIY attitude and rejection of establishment values, seems like an unlikely subject for an exhibition at the British Library. In fact, the musical and cultural phenomenon, which ...
It’s the summer of 1976, and the American Bicentennial is exploding across the sky. Amid fireworks and the wanton merchandising of patriotism, the United States turns 200. It’s more than a nice, round ...
Forty years after they first shocked the world, Britain’s angry young punks are being remembered in films, shows, photographs – and a £5m bonfire Beyoncé and beyond: the sounds of summer 2016 It seems ...
Action Time Vision – its title taken from the Alternative TV single – charts this irregular world over four CDs. The full title is Action Time Vision: A Story of Independent UK Punk 1976–1979. The ...
Of course, an exhibition of peripheral paraphernalia inevitably shifts the focus away from the artists themselves and onto the fans. By Anna Leszkiewicz What are the most iconic moments of punk? Punk ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was little more than a hurried afterthought to fill a blank page. But the illustrated message of fanzine ...
As this year’s festival Punk London is set to show, the punk era was about more than Doc Martens boots and three-chord music – it had a huge influence on all aspects of British culture, from politics ...