Punk
Not one but eight snippets of songs from the earliest days of punk, shot at CBGBs in New York over the course of (I’m guessing) 1974 and 1975. (more…)
You can go on for ever trying to trace the roots of punk. Most would find an argument to include Neu! in the debate.
This was the first UK punk single. It came out on 22 October 1976. Four days later I saw The Damned for the first time.
For me, punk rock was born on the Fourth of July in 1976, on a sweltering summer Sunday night at The Roundhouse. That’s when The Ramones came to London. (more…)
An anti-racist anti-sexist anthem by a quartet of schoolgirls, performed in a public library, this song broke the internet on its release in May 2021 – and no wonder. (more…)