Make my day… and night: a review of Punk is Dead
Andy Blade, singer, reminisces declaring, punk’s not dead, it’s in a coma. His is the most honest appraisal in the book. From the seminal NOW FORM A BAND chord instruction in Sideburns fanzine, he says the louder, messier, Oi! side of punk – which won out with bands like Cockney Rejects, Sham 69, Boomtown Rats, UK Subs – taking its throne because Punk Rock itself is intellectual, and its ‘art angle had been dispensed with for the simple reason that art intellectuals generally don’t sell shitloads of records, and arty intellectualism does not go down too well in places like Wrexham, Luton, Milton Keynes, or North Wales – because the general public live in these shitty little places, and they don’t get it.
By Kirsty Allison.
The Poem Brut #13 – Caged Alphabets
From the Caged Alphabets series, all works are “Ink, Olivetti Studio 46 on A4 paper
In the 13th edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Federico Federici.