Punk & Post-Punk
Punk & Post-Punk is a journal for academics, artists, journalists and the wider cultural industries. Placing punk and its progeny at the heart of interdisciplinary investigation, it is the first forum of its kind to explore this rich and influential topic in both historical and critical theoretical terms. Punk & Post-Punk is published by Intellect, Bristol and has a close working relationship with the Punk Scholars Network, with many core PSN members on the editorial team and board of the journal.
Editor
Russ Bestley
London College of Communication, UK
r.bestley@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Matt Grimes
Birmingham City University, UK
matt.grimes@bcu.ac.uk
Maria Elena Buszek
University of Colorado Denver, USA
maria.buszek@ucdenver.edu
Matthew Worley
Reading University, UK
m.worley@reading.ac.uk
Reviews Editor
Mike Dines
Middlesex University, UK
m.dines@mdx.ac.uk
Production Manager
Faith Newcombe
faith@intellectbooks.com
As well as university-based researchers, Punk & Post-Punk invites submissions from independent scholars and anyone with a serious, critical view of the field. We welcome articles exploring punk’s impact on the wider culture beyond music, including the arts, ethnography, sociology, politics, fashion, history, musicology and pedagogy. We particularly encourage articles discussing regional and international differentiation and contemporary developments in punk and post-punk subcultures. Punk & Post-Punk is published three times a year by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK.
Potential contributors should send a 200-word abstract to the editor, Russ Bestley at r.bestley@lcc.arts.ac.uk
https://www.intellectbooks.com/punk-post-punk
The most recent issue of Punk & Post-Punk, volume 12 issue 2, was published in September 2023.
Punk & Post-Punk 12.2
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Kieran Cashell – The afterlife of punk: Evental sites of punk 77
• Justus Grebe – Presentism, dystopia, negative solution: Three forms of the punk chronotype ‘no future’
• Minerva Campion – Punk and decolonial thinking in Bogota, Colombia
• Matthew Smith – Young, loud and snotty: Punk, rebellion and the movies
Interviews
• Rupert Loydell – Seeing what they want to see: An interview with Michael Bracewell
• Rupert Loydell – Totally inspired by punk: An interview with Martin Bowes and Alan Rider
Book Reviews
Emily Owens – Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde by Rebecca Binns book review
Peter Jones – 69 Exhibition Road: Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance by Dorothy Max Prior and The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain by Faye Dowling (ed.) book review
Paul Hollins – Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth book review
Grace Healy – Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene (eds.) book review
Mike Dines – DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community by David Verbučbook review
Russ Bestley – We Can Be The New Wind by Alexandros Anesiadis and A Hardcore Heart: Adventures in a DIY Scene by David Gamage book review
John Ike Sewell – Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Culture by Jamie Sexton book review
Paul Hollins – You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike book review
Michael Murphy – Adventures in Wonderland by Paul Charles book review
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Punk & Post-Punk 12.1
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Kieran Cashell – Autonomy and agency: The event of punk
• George Grinnell – On punk friendship and the limits of community
• Elizabeth Newton – Criticism as punctuation in the Riot Grrrl backlash
• Nikola Vojnović – Subcultural event tourism: A case study of Monte Paradiso HC/Punk festival in Pula (Croatia)
Interviews
• Rupert Loydell – Multi-channel diffusion: An interview with Robert Hampson
• Russ Bestley – ‘You Make Me Sick’: An interview with Puss Johnson and Steve Eagles of Satan’s Cats
Obituary
Marie Arleth Skov – Vivienne Westwood obituary
Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz – A Non-Obituary for D. H. Peligro
Book Reviews
Maxwell Woods – Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk book review
Maria Elena Buszek – A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk & US Latinidad book review
Rupert Loydell – Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave book review
Greg Bull – Goudvishal: DIY Or Die! Punk In Arnhem 1977-1990 book review
Russ Bestley – SO36: 1978 Bis Heute book review
Russ Bestley – PZ77: A Town A Time A Tribe book review
Rupert Loydell – Rock Against Racism Live. 1977-1981 / Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism 1976-1981 book review
Rupert Loydell – A Book of Days / Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story book review
Film Review
Ginette Chittick – Scene Unseen film review
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Punk & Post-Punk 11.3
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Brigitta Davidjants – Women’s experience in Estonian punk scenes during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet society
• Antonio Pineda Cachero & Jorge David Fernandez Gomez – ‘No way: Eskorbuto for PM!’ Punk music and anarchist ideology in Eskorbuto
• Adam J. Goldwyn – The rhetoric of recovery in Social Distortion’s White Light, White Heat, White Trash
• Paul Fields – Just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl, and all that punk: The problematic union of craft beer and punk
Obituaries
• Michael Murphy – Cathal Coughlan obituary
• Marcus Blakestone – Mark Astronaut obituary
Book Reviews
Rob Thomas: Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
Russ Bestley: No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment went Punk by Gavin Butt
Russ Bestley: From Arthaus to Bauhaus, 1972-1979 by Andrew J. Brooksbank
Simon Warner: Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose
Rupert Loydell: Themes For Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds by Graeme Thomson
Rupert Loydell: The Light Pours Out Of Me: The Authorised Biography of John McGeoch by Rory Sullivan-Burke
Rupert Loydell: Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence by Ben Wardle
Rupert Loydell: Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden
Event Reviews
Niall McGuirk – Rebellion Festival review
Michael Mary Murphy – R-Fest review
Exhibition Reviews
Russ Bestley: Days of Punk exhibition review
Robert Dahlberg-Sears: PUNK: The Revolution of Everyday Life exhibition review
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Punk & Post-Punk 11.2
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Maxwell Woods – DC hardcore, gentrification, and punk urbanism
• John Charles Goshert – You (plural): Political configurations of punk’s DIY ethos
• Cynthia Schulz – Between Surrealism and politics: An exploration of subversive body arts in 1980s East German underground cinema
• Morgan Bimm & Andi Schwartz – Opening up the pit: Negotiating a punk ethos with PUP
• Tim Forster – Contesting class, gender and national identity: The visual art practice of Test Dept
Interview
• Rupert Loydell – Fractured and elliptical sensibilities: An interview with Steve Taylor
Obituaries
• Matt Grimes – Taylor Hawkins obituary
Book Reviews
Rupert Loydell: Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock & Roll by Lenny Kaye
Yorgos Paschos: Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present by JR Moores
Stan Erraught: Red Days: Popular Music and the English Counterculture 1965-1975 by John Roberts
Daniel Makagon: PUNK! Las Américas Edition, edited by Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano and Shane Greene
Russ Bestley: Directions to the Outskirts of Town by Welly Artcore
Russ Bestley: Faster! Louder! How a Punk Rocker from Yorkshire became British Champion Fell Runner by Boff Whalley
Exhibition Review
Emily Owens: Tutse Nakoekwu (Minor Threat) exhibition review
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Punk & Post-Punk 11.1
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Björn Bradling – We are the Others: A literary analysis of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Ultima Thule´s Viking-rock
• Franko Burolo – Brains on the asphalt: Three punk expressions of crisis
• Waldemar Kuligowski – From ‘commercial sell out’ to community-based event: The paradox of Polish punk rock music festivals
• Olivier Bérubé-Sasseville – Bone in the Throat: Video archiving and identity building within the Montreal hardcore scene
Interview
• Rupert Loydell – The culture I identify with: An interview with Gary Budden
Obituaries
• Gary Watts – Tears of a Nation: Mick Crudge
• Paul Hollins – Philosopher, magician and musical scientist Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (Rainford Hugh Perry)
• Pete Dale – The Jazz Butcher: Pat Fish, 20 December 1957–5 October 2021
• Nathan Brown – Angelic upstart: Thomas Mensforth, July 4 1956–10 December 2021
Book Reviews
Arin Keeble: On Compromise by Rachel Greenwald-Smith
Anita Raghunath: Punk Identities, Punk Utopias by Bestley, Dines, Grimes, Guerra
Ellen Bernhard: Punk, Gender, and Ageing: Just Typical Girls? by Laura Way
Russ Bestley: Reversing Into The Future by Andrew Krivine
Russ Bestley: The Best of Jamming! by Tony Fletcher
Tim Forster: Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s by Rachel Garfield
Paul Hollins: Deindustrialisation and Popular Music by Giacomo Bottà
Mike Dines: Politics as Sound by Shanya L. Maskell
Rupert Loydell: Souvenir: London 1979-1986 by Michael Bracewell
Pete Dale: Girlsville: The Story of The Delmonas & Thee Headcoatees by Saskia Holling
Russ Bestley: A Case Of Pride: Skrewdriver, Punk’n’roll 1976-79 by Mark Green
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Punk & Post-Punk 10.3
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Nicholas Attfield – From punk into pop (via hardcore): Re-reading the Sub Pop manifesto
• Robert Upton – The cover-version spectrum: Reframing the relationship between imitation and transformation in pop-punk cover-versions
• Nick Stevenson – The cultural production of Cabaret Voltaire: Marxism, the politics of modernism and post-punk
• Trevor Bamford, Joseph Ibrahim and Karl Spracklen – Becoming and being goth: How goths remember the scene’s transition from the eighties into the nineties
• Rio Goldhammer – Authenticity in an insider-in ethnography of Yorkshire post-punk
• Laura Way – Rebelling in different ways: Older punk women, employment and ‘being/doing’ punk
Interviews
• Rupert Loydell – Who is to say?: An interview with Paul Morley
• Maria Elena Buszek – 'Who really shot this?’: An interview with Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers
Obituaries
• Janis Chakars – In Memorium: Peter Ventantonio AKA Jack Terricloth (11 June 1970–13 May 2021)
• Rupert Loydell – Mix-Up: Richard H. Kirk, 21 March 1956 – 21 September 2021
Reviews
Pete Dale – Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries book review
Pete Dale – DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media book review
Russ Bestley – Punkzines: British Fanzine Culture From the Punk Scene 1976-1983 book review
Paul Mego – We’re Not Here To Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan and the Real Culture War of 1980s America book review
John Dougan – I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion book review
Rupert Loydell – Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion book review
Rupert Loydell – The London Musicians’ Collective: ‘An Obstinate Clot of Invention’ and Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford book review
Rich Cross – Rub Me Out book review
Mike Dines – Conflict: Statements of Intent 1982-1987 and Conflict: Statements of Intent 1988-1994 album review
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Punk & Post-Punk 10.2
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Stuart White – Anarcho-punk and democratic individuality
• Eirik Askerøi – Transmissions: Sonic markers of difference in the sound of Joy Division
• Joseph D Bryan – ‘Recycling the past to meet immediate needs’: Bad Religion’s approach to history
• James Kearney – La Movida Madrileña and ‘Paris Maquis’: A comparative history of Madrilenian and Parisian punk
• Alan O’Connor – Habitus and field: Punk record labels in Spain
• Pete Dale – Slampt, the ‘fans’ and ephemerality: Punk, subject and object
Reviews
• Rupert Loydell – Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics book review
• Andrew Mall – Anthology of Emo book review
• Russ Bestley – The Scene That Would Not Die book review
• Ellen Bernhard – Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion book review
• John Dougan – Why the Ramones Matter book review
• Brian Zager – Killing Joke: Are You Receiving? book review
• Matthew Worley – Great Gig Memories: From Punks and Friends book review
• Russ Bestley – Diminished Responsibility book review
• Gerard Evans – My Punk Life as Art: 1980s Punk Portraits book review
• Maria Buszek – Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol.2 book review
• Rupert Loydell – Shake the Foundations album review
• Russ Bestley – Sex, Drugs & HIV: The Studio Sessions DVD review
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Punk & Post-Punk 10.1
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• Punk & Post-Punk – 10th Anniversary summary of contents
• Justus Grebe & Robert A. Winkler – Putting the ‘punk’ back into pop-punk: Analysing presentations of deviance in pop-punk music videos
• Cibrán Tenreiro Uzal – From scene films to scene videos: Communities documenting communities
• Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz – Revisiting early punk cinema
• Guy Mankowski – ‘A series of images against you and me’: Richard Edwards’ portrayal of the body in Journal For Plague Lovers
• Joanna Roś – ‘The strange brotherhood of the blue ship’: Albert Camus and Justin Sullivan's philosophy of measure
• Aylwyn Walsh – The problem of Pussy Riot: Manifesting desire and anarchy as method
• James Letson – Stay punk!! Stay free!! Subcultural identity, everyday resistance and Covid-19 in Northern Japan
Interview
• Rupert Loydell – We don’t hide from vague: An interview with the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Obituary
• Ian Canty – L.A.M.F.: Walter Lure, 22 April 1949 – 22 August 2020
Reviews
• James F. Anderson – The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren book review
• Claudia Lonkin – What is Post-Punk?: Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977-82 book review
• Michael Murphy – Too Old To Die Young: Paranoid Visions, Punk Rock, and Me book review
• Laura Way – Punkgirldiaries Blogzine 2 book review
• Greg Bull – Killer Tunes and Screaming Bloody Murder in the Basement of Hell… and Other Stories book review
• Minerva Campion – Mala Hierba: El Surgimiento Del Punk En El Barrio Castilla, Medellín book review
• Russ Bestley – Shellshock Rock: Alternative Blasts From Northern Ireland 1977–1984 album/DVD review
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Punk & Post Punk 9.3
Guest edited by Rebecca Binns and Ian Trowell, this is a special issue on the theme of Punk, Art & Design.
Contents
• Rebecca Binns & Ian Trowell – Editorial
• Ian Trowell – Counter realities and conflicted place: Gee Vaucher’s The Feeding of the Five Thousand in the punk art tradition
• Maria Buszek – Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Lower East Side: Post-punk feminist art and New York’s Club 57
• Marie Arleth Skov – The 1979 American Punk Art dispute: Visions of punk art between sensationalism, street art and social practice
• Ana Raposo & Russ Bestley – Designing fascism: The evolution of a neo-Nazi punk aesthetic
• Rebecca Binns – Alternative states of being: Automatism, transgression and DIY in the work and life of Cathy Ward
• Sarah Dryden – Burning up time: An interview with Stuckist painter Paul Harvey
• Rebecca Binns – Of other spaces: ‘Punk art’ and its wider contexts
• Russ Bestley – Art On My Sleeve: An interview with Steve Averill, graphic designer
Reviews
Rich Cross – Stencils: Past, Present, and Crass! book review
Richard Foster – Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die: Punk & Post Punk Graphics 1976–1986 book review
Steve Finbow – Warhol: A Life as Art book review
Russ Bestley – Young Punks book review
Russ Bestley – When Midnight Comes Around book review
Edward Avery-Natale – Punk Now!! Contemporary Perspectives on Punk book review
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Punk & Post-Punk 9.2
Contents
• Russ Bestley – Editorial
• John R Davis – I want something new: Limp records and the birth of DC punk, 1976-1980
• Daniel Makagon – Booking your own life: The development of a DIY touring network in the USA
• Matt Worley – ‘If I had more time it could be better, but the new wave’s about spontaneity, right?’: Finding meaning in Britain’s early punk fanzines (1976–77)
• Ieuan Franklin – Grey matter/literature/area: Bucketfull of Brains, fanzine form and cultural formation
• Orla Fitzpatrick – Vox magazine: Dublin street fashion and photography in an early 1980s magazine
• Rylan Kafara – ‘Who is really gonna benefit?’: The punk habitus in the downtown Edmonton field
• Susan O’Shea – Activate, collaborate, participate: The network revolutions of riot grrrl affiliated music worlds
Interview
• Rupert Loydell – This is not a burden, it’s a joy: An interview with Ben Ratliff
Obituaries
• David Wilkinson – ‘I Found That Essence Rare’: Andy Gill, 1 January 1956 – 1 February 2020
• Ian Trowell – Genesis P-Orridge, 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020
• Russ Bestley – ‘Waltzinblack’: Dave Greenfield, 29 March 1949 – 3 May 2020
Reviews
Laura Way – Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication book review
Russ Bestley – 331/3 The B-Sides book review
Mike Dines – Christian Punk: Identity and Performance book review
Jake Hawkes – Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival book review
Paul Hollins – Sex Pistols: The End is Near 25.12.77 book review
Russ Bestley – Dreams To Fill The Vacuum: The Sound of Sheffield 1977-1988 album review
Kevin Quinn – Anyone can do it: Noise, punk and the ethics/politics of transgression: Punk Scholars Network 2019 Conference review