
Punk Interviews

As Professor and the Madman prepare to release Séance, the band's fourth album, Punktuation and Rat Scabies hold hands in an attempt to contact the living!Continue Reading

Punk icon, Gaye Black (a.k.a. Gaye Advert) talks to Punktuation! about the Sid glassing incident, how the Stranglers gave her her stage name and how today art is her life! Continue Reading

Duncan Reid, former bassist and frontman of The Boys and now lead singer with UK pop-punk band Duncan Reid and The Big Heads natters to Punktuation about supporting the Ramones, his fistfight with his old bandmates and the new Big Heads album, Don’t Blame Yourself.Continue Reading

BBC and Soho Radio DJ. Punk pioneer. Champion of great music. Gary Crowley chats about his influences and how he bagged an interview with the Clash when he was still at school!Continue Reading

As lead singer of Penetration, Pauline Murray was at the female forefront of punk. Today she’s in touch with her softer side and has released a new single Here she discusses the punk heyday, how the Sex Pistols inspired her and then needed her, and how Bono et al owe her big time! It’s 11am […]Continue Reading

For more than four decades British journalist, musician, filmmaker and professor, Vivien Goldman, has been front and centre in the world of punk music. Now living in Jamaica and nearing her 70s, Vivien is showing no signs of stopping! Defining the rise of punk can be a colourful conversation. Punk has always been a platform […]Continue Reading

The DJ and musician, 64, on being black and British, finding a scene, and why punk’s not dead Jamaican people love country and western. My first musical memory is sitting at home with my dad, listening to incarnations of what would become reggae on his sound system. But as well as Prince Buster, and Toots and the Maytals, my […]Continue Reading

Nine years since her death, Poly Styrene remains hugely influential. Her daughter, Celeste Bell, reflects on learning ‘the family business’, how fame nearly broke her mother – and why she’s making a film of her life. “Even when I was really young, I knew what my mum did for a living. She was always working […]Continue Reading