{"id":567,"date":"2008-02-12T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=567"},"modified":"2015-03-29T23:03:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T22:03:49","slug":"anarcho-punk-invented-3-september-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/anarcho-punk-invented-3-september-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Anarcho-punk invented 3 September 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

KUKL performing with Flux of Pink Indians, D & V and Chumbawumba at Conway Hall. Review originally published in SOUNDS 3 Sept. 1984.<\/p>\n

Such stuff as legends are made of \u2013 REALLY. A concert that put a final nail in the coffin of plastic-pose-punk-piss, featuring four of the five best anarcho-punk (sorry about the label!)<\/strong> bands in the world. A shame that Crass weren\u2019t there as well to complete the power \u2026
\nKukl are an Icelandic group, which immediately puts them into a fairly select family: even if there were other Icelandic groups to make comparisons with (well-known journalist\u2019s pastime), it would be impossible. Venomous and humorous by turns, they possess a peculiarly charismatic frontsperson; if you don\u2019t manage to see them before they depart on an European tour, buy their indispensable LP \u2018The Eye\u2019 on Crass records and bemoan what you\u2019ve missed. Fascinating!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nSame issue of Sounds,\u00a0 3 September 1984, had a rave review of KUKL\u2019s album \u201cThe Eye\u201d, by David Tibet \u2026 so looks very much as if Dave T. invented (apologetically)\u00a0 anarcho-punk in 1984.<\/p>\n

At the same time, here is <\/a>Mike Clarke\u00a0 ex Youth in Asia \u2013 and allegedly \u2013 the punk behind the UK\u2019s long running Inflammable Material distro, record Label, Defiant Pose fanzine and guitarist in numerous punk outfits spanning the last 25 years( unapologetically ) de-inventing it\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cwhen it all became too much, the poor dears became hippies in trucks,\u2019 dropping out\u2019 or turning to smack in their Hackney squats!\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The whole Crass scene was another result of Punk splintering off into various diverse little factions; the first time I saw them was in 1979 at Conway Hall in Holborn and it was pretty stunning, the backdrop\/wall of\u00a0 noise\/ movies\/ black clothing. Together with The Epileptics, Poison Girls and Rubella Ballet they were beginning to take Punk back from the commercialised mainstream and into the gutter where it belonged, small clubs\/ pubs\/ hired halls in the middle of nowhere etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking back, I think there was a lot of diversity and imagination within Anarcho Punk, as opposed to the whole Exploited\/Anti Pasti\/Vice Squad scene, but once the holier-than-thou dogma set in then it became equally boring. Crass opened up a Pandora\u2019s box for lots of people to create and thrive who didn\u2019t feel comfortable with the same old pub rock as purveyed by the likes of the Anti-Nowhere League and co. Nowadays a lot of people, especially outside the UK, seem to draw on the 80\u2019s Punk\u00a0 for inspiration whilst the \u201977 era is fossilised in Myth, discussed in hushed or pompous tones depending on who\u2019s doing the blathering(and there\u2019s plenty of them).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Exploited\/ANWL are simple and easy to digest, back to good old rock\u2019n\u2019roll dressed up in a standard `Punk\u2019 uniform, whereas the whole Crass thing has been harder for the professional Media ex-punks to write coffee-table books on or wax nostalgic about, yet culturally it probably had as much impact as The Sex Pistols. In the end inspiration became imitation and the sloganeering rang distinctly hollow by 1985-don\u2019t eat meat\/ vivisection is bad\/war is horrible on one hand, don\u2019t join the Army\/police harassment\/ Maggie is a bitch on the other , and all repeated ad nauseum.<\/p>\n

Crass put their money where their mouths were with an Anarchy Centre in Wapping, E.London, but it ended up full of books by dead Russians and endless and dismal debates, something to berate yer stockbroker dad with over the nut roast, infuriating when you looked outside to see Maggie Thatcher dismantling half the country\/ Miners\u2019 Strike etc and here was a potential and vociferous opposition that was too busy bickering whether it was Bakunin or Bertie Bassett who stated(categorically, mind)that `the urban proletariat will not be liberated until..\u2019, fiddling while Rome burns, squabbling over semantics,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 charging headlong down a cul-de-sac and so on.<\/p>\n

Then, when it all became too much, the poor dears became hippies in trucks, \u2018dropping out\u2019 or turning to smack in their Hackney squats!<\/em><\/p>\n

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KUKL performing with Flux of Pink Indians, D & V and Chumbawumba at Conway Hall. Review originally published in SOUNDS 3 Sept. 1984. Such stuff as legends are made of \u2013 REALLY. A concert that put a final nail in the coffin of plastic-pose-punk-piss, featuring four of the five best anarcho-punk (sorry about the label!) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letter-from-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}