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Curiosity vs. fear

By On July 22, 2007 · 1 Comment

It must be at least three months since anyone’s mentioned punk on this blog, so…

I’ve been reading Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s ‘oral history of punk’. This quote from Legs, one of Punk magazine’s founders back in 1975 expresses perfectly several ideas dear to our hearts, to do with the [...]

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What side of the beard you’ve been lying on

By On April 10, 2007 · 8 Comments

Back in 1974 Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood and Bernie Rhodes collaborated on their famous T-shirt: “You’re going to wake up one morning and know what side of the bed you’ve been lying on!” It carried a list of hates on the left side and loves on the right. It’s a ranting manifesto dispatching the [...]

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Old punks never die…they just become incredibly senile social workers

By On February 11, 2006 · 3 Comments

So something that’s got to be interesting is age/experience in and after the movement. With all the efforts at recruitment no one seems to have looked that seriously at why people drift off or leave, and what happens to them afterwards. The party line is that they get burnt out and tired — charitably: lots [...]

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From Lefties to Punks

By On February 10, 2006 · 1 Comment

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The difference between the squatters in that lefties program and Autonomia was that the former were mostly members of the International Marxist Group. So their theory didn’t help them much when they tried to conceptualise their practice. At one point someone mentions that many people in the IMG thought of squatting [...]

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