Grime Punk pioneers Riskee And The Ridicule are not afraid to say what they think or do what they like and the unpredictable Kent punks have released their own respectful take on New York pop singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey’s award-winning 2013 smash-hit, ‘Young And Beautiful’. This, however, is no guilty pleasure for the band, who are longtime fans of Lana’s work. Continue Reading
Residents at the Sydmar Lodge Care Home in Edgeware, England, have found a way to beat Isolation boredom after spending four months in lockdown .Continue Reading
Punk had a unique and complex image. It was meant to shock, disturb and disrupt the norm. Outside of punk’s ripped and safety pinned anti-fashion this impulse to outrage was never more apparent than on punk poster art. Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks Poster, 1977 This iconic Jamie Reid designed, acid yellow promotional poster […]Continue Reading
Love it or loathe it, pop punk is a genre that evokes a strong emotion in the listener. Of course, this emotion depends on who the listener is. For the world’s angsty young punks it’s music that understands your life like no one else. But if you come from old school or hard-core side of the Punk fence then that emotion might be a little less friendly.Continue Reading
Remember the Tally Ho pub? The Rainbow Theatre? The Vortex? The Roxy? What venue do you miss the most? A new book by Paul Talling is a reminder of what we have already lost. Continue Reading
Punk rock’s roots can be traced back as early as 1969 when MC5 screamed “Kick Out The Jams Mother Fucker’. Their anti-establishment lyrics and aggressive style of stripped-to-the-bone rock inspired bands such as the Stooges and The New York Dolls – bands who were punk in spirit before the genre even had a name. Most commentators however would […]Continue Reading
Up-Cycled Punk T-Shirts & Customised nursing clothes that don’t suck! The ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude has always been firmly ingrained in the psyche of the punk mindset. Don’t wait for it to happen. Don’t rely on anyone else to do it for you. Just do it yourself! It was that perspective, combined with compassion, determination, a core […]Continue Reading
Way back in the mid-70s, an exciting new trend crawled its way off the streets and into our living rooms. It was grimy, intense, raw, and loud. Unfiltered and unaffected by all of the usual restrictions of the music industry – it was punk, the start of something completely new. Like many cultural movements, the […]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
Queerness doesn’t just have fingerprints all over rock music – queerness is embedded into the very DNA of it. From pioneers such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Little Richard, to game-changer influencers like Janis Joplin, Fanny and David Bowie, queer creatives have helped drive popular music into bolder, more adventurous directions. Punk is no exception. […]Continue Reading
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