BBC 4 punk night

[mx wcfc]

Anyone else watching this?
I’m loving it. My era. I was 13 in 76, so wasn’t at the famous 100 club gig but by 78/79 I was out there
There were 2 crowd scenes from gigs I was at. Great fun. Pass me another beer.

 

[A380]

No , was nine in ‘76 so probably in bed .

 

[kalidarkone]

I watched the punk forever programme with Chris Packham. I loved that he followed up people that are now doing ordinary jobs. Chris Packham is top

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Packham is the generation just after mine. For him it was the music that coincided with him being 16 and 17, so really he'd not identified with anything previously as a semi-adult. For me, whilst I loved punk, I'd already got my head around Bowie, Roxie Music, T Rex, and a lot of reggae, heavy metal and blues when I was the age Packham was when punk erupted into his adolescence. I think it's different.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I didn't know about punk night. I assume it's all on iPlayer. Which ones are worth watching?

 

[kalidarkone]

Punk forever is worth a watch imo.

What I would really like to see is a program about the next wave of punk in the 80's-my time/Crass and the like.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Enjoyed the Packham thing (although I was only really watching it because he'd advertised it using Alan Moore, so bit annoyed that interview didn't make it into the actual programme).

 

[marshall]

If you were 'there', Packham's Forever Punk is a must. I was 15-18 and The Clash will always be my favourite band, so I was particularly interested to see what happened to Terry Chimes ('Tory Crimes', lol)

 

[marty21]

Will check this out on Iplayer, I was 11 in 1976 so too young to have been a proper punk but I was excited by it , and wanted to be a punk, but by the time I was 14/15 it had fizzled out by and large so I became an indie kid instead.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Will check this out on Iplayer, I was 11 in 1976 so too young to have been a proper punk but I was excited by it , and wanted to be a punk, but by the time I was 14/15 it had fizzled out by and large so I became an indie kid instead.

I was three but I'm a second or third wave punk? I guess I'm not a punk at all am I? I remember when I was at junior school in Cumbria (so I would have been maybe 8) I told everyone I was a punk, and wore what I thought was a punk jacket (those ones with tartan lining) . I think I kind of liked toyah and maybe blondie so it probably didn't count.

 

[mx wcfc]

I saw Toyah’s first proper gig. She was excellent. Then she went pop.

Blondie were always a pop group despite their origins.

but punk is attitude, not age.

 

[kalidarkone]

I was three but I'm a second or third wave punk? I guess I'm not a punk at all am I? I remember when I was at junior school in Cumbria (so I would have been maybe 8) I told everyone I was a punk, and wore what I thought was a punk jacket (those ones with tartan lining) . I think I kind of liked toyah and maybe blondie so it probably didn't count.

It counted!

 

[Hollis]

Yeah the Packham progamme is excellent... nice not to hear not so much about bands, and more about what it meant to the people there..

ETA: great that he's planning on being cremeted with his old punk jacket on.

 

[BCBlues]

Packham is the generation just after mine. For him it was the music that coincided with him being 16 and 17, so really he'd not identified with anything previously as a semi-adult. For me, whilst I loved punk, I'd already got my head around Bowie, Roxie Music, T Rex, and a lot of reggae, heavy metal and blues when I was the age Packham was when punk erupted into his adolescence. I think it's different.

I saw the Clash the day before my 18th so I suppose I was in the right place at the right time. I envied my (5 year older ) brother though especially later as he had seen a lot more being five years older. He used to get into (original) mod and skinhead places when he was about 14 and saw the likes of Desmond Dekker and Ambrose Slade. I think he envied me at the same time as he loved the punk scene. We both settled back down into Soul again before long and went to see Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Packhams doc is well worth a watch though for anyone who ain't seen it. Pauline Murray, a great blast from the past.