Category: UK Punk
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The Return of Buzzcocks: 70s Punk to 2022… “Sonics in the Soul”
This legendary Manchester punk band needs little introduction. 77’s Spiral Scratch. 78’s Love Bites. 78’s Another Music in a Different Kitchen. Three landmark albums. Matched with their melodic punk-pop proving irresistible with hit singles; paving the way with British punk as one of the earliest releases, the band are back. Largely eschewing politics, they instead […]
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Kid Kapichi: “Here’s What You Could Have Won” album review – an explosive behemoth of raw punk
Earlier this year, four twenty-somethings from Hastings were rewarded for their graft with a record label signing. Welcome to the new world, The new normal, Look at us queuing up, so formal: From independently releasing their fittingly titled-debut, This Time Next Year in 2021, as predicted, Kid Kapichi ((it’s Kapee-chee) are now releasing their successive […]
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Baby Strange: ‘World Below’ album review – dark and gritty at its best
When More! More! More! was released by a fairly unknown and underground outfit in the height of 2020 lockdown, we knew something was afoot within the seedy underbelly of Glasgow. Welcome to the world below a place where your ego fits when you’re in need of extra milk you just suck it from the tit. […]
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have we lost our punk?
Revisiting the life and times of Pistols and Clash and their whole ‘scene’ got me thinking about where we are now with it all. Being punk now in 2022 is starkly different to what it meant to being punk in the 1970s. Of course, that will come naturally over time as music preferences bend and […]
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Clash or Pistols: Who was more righteous with their music?
The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but The Clash were the real definitive British punk rockers. Brash, fiery and bolstered with an outlaw image, they were charged with a certain righteousness that only a select few punks were able to pull off. Despite a band that seemingly had “traditional” […]
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