Punk Rock
To celebrate the 45 year anniversary of Punk Rock by Virginia Boston, the first book on the scene, Beatie Wolfe put together this mix of the bands featured in her mother’s book.
Punk Rock: To celebrate the 45 year anniversary of Punk Rock by Virginia Boston, the first book on the scene, Beatie Wolfe put together this mix of the bands featured in her mother’s book.
As the UK punk scene exploded with raw energy and intensity, documentation was the last thought on anyone’s mind. Originally published in 1978 by Penguin, and described as “the first punk book,” Punk Rock by Virginia Boston (printed as Shockwave in the UK) is a must-have almanac, historical handbook, and visual and visceral reveal of a scene as it was bursting forth. As a London counterculture observer, writer Virginia Boston captured the Punk phenomenon from its beginnings in ’76, always through the eyes of the punks themselves.
Featuring all of the early first generation bands (The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Damned, Generation X, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many more) and other now iconic figures, such as Soo Catwoman and Jordan, Punk Rock offers a rare insight into the heart of the movement via its extraordinary collection of photographs, quotes, lyrics, and interviews with the leading bands and figureheads. But perhaps most striking is the space it dedicates to the fans and their zines, complete with an introduction from Sniffin’ Glue editor Danny Baker. By doing so Punk Rock captures what was really going on in the clubs, away from the usual music weeklies and academics.
A scrapbook compendium of one of the shortest-lived yet most influential moments in music history, Punk Rock is an authentic time-capsule of the emergence of a counterculture that would forever change the world, but didn’t know it.
TRACKLIST:
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescence
The Clash - Remote Control
The Jam - Art School
The Damned - Neat, Neat, Neat
The Stranglers - Get A Grip On Yourself
X-Ray Spex - Identity
Generation X - Your Generation
Buzzcocks - Boredom
The Slits - Number One Enemy
The Adverts - Bored Teenagers
Subway Sect - Ambition
Eater - Outside View
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Carcass
The Vibrators - London Girls
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours! (Live at the Roxy Club, 1977)
Sham 69 - Rip Off
The Jam - Time For Truth
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Comedy: comedian and musician Fred Armisen
Beatie Wolfe interviews comedian and musician Fred Armisen about his journey from Trenchmouth to SNL to Portlandia and beyond and how he’s created a new art-form in the intersection of music and comedy
Comedy: comedian and musician Fred Armisen
Friday 27 May 2022 - 16h00 - 18h00
Comedy: Beatie Wolfe interviews comedian and musician Fred Armisen about his journey from Trenchmouth to SNL to Portlandia and beyond and how he’s created a new art-form in the intersection of music and comedy. Listen to this show that takes you from Shock Value to multi-award winning shows via the power of confusion.
Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.
Fred Armisen’s Orange Juice for the Ears
First song that imprinted? “The Candy Man” by Sammy David Jr (1971)
First album that shaped who you are? “Dreaming” from the record Eat to the Beat by Blondie (1979)
The music you would send into Space? “Bridges and Balloons” by Joanna Newsom
The song you would have at your memorial? “Curtain Call” by The Damned (1980)
The album you would pass onto the next generation? “Three-Dee Melodie” from the record Mars Audiac Quintet by Stereolab
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