
Punk Interviews

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