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
Verb: Punk Publisher V. Vale
ep.27 Verb: Beatie Wolfe interviews 70s punk publisher and researcher V. Vale about his life documenting the underground and "countercultural continuum".
Verb: Beatie Wolfe interviews 70s punk publisher and researcher V. Vale about his life documenting the underground and "countercultural continuum". Listen to this show that takes you from foster homes to founding San Francisco's first zine Search & Destroy and publishing house RE/SEARCH via the power of verbs.
Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation, and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.
V. Vale's Orange Juice for the Ears
* First song that imprinted? “Sh-Boom” by The Chords
* First album that shaped who you are? “Blowing in the Wind” by Peter, Paul & Mary - from In The Wind
* The music you would send into Space? “The In Sound from Way Out!” by Perrey and Kingsley
* The song you would have at your memorial? “Corona” by V. Vale
* The album you would pass onto the next generation? Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 by Toscanini
This show first aired live on dublab radio. The podcast was mastered by Dean Hovey. For rights reasons, the music in this podcast version is shorter than in the original broadcast.
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