{"id":9104,"date":"2017-10-08T02:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T01:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2017-10-08T22:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T21:35:37","slug":"punk-is-dead-modernity-killed-every-night-richard-cabut-no-future-punk-politics-and-british-youth-culture-matthew-worley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/punk-is-dead-modernity-killed-every-night-richard-cabut-no-future-punk-politics-and-british-youth-culture-matthew-worley\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night &#8211; Richard Cabut &#038; Andrew Gallix \/ No Future: Punk, Politics And British Youth Culture 1976 &#8211; 1984 &#8211; Matthew Worley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCPunkisDeadModernityKilled-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9107\" src=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCPunkisDeadModernityKilled-2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCPunkisDeadModernityKilled-2-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCPunkisDeadModernityKilled-2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCPunkisDeadModernityKilled-2-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCPunkisDeadModernityKilled-2.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>PUNK IS DEAD: MODERNITY KILLED EVERY NIGHT<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Co-edited and including essays written by Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix, this original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret \u2013 back in the garage, when the cult still had no name \u2013 through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy, filtered through punk experience, while believing in the ruins (of memory), to explore in depth a past whose essence is always elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Significant contributors include Jon Savage (England\u2019s Dreaming), Jonh Ingham (the journalist who wrote the very first interview with the Sex Pistols, for Sounds), Barney Hoskyns (Rock\u2019s Backpages founder and author), Paul Gorman (Malcolm McLaren biographer), Penny Rimbaud (Crass), Dorothy Max Prior (Rema Rema, original punk), Simon Critchley (On Bowie), Nicholas Rombes (Ramones), Ted Polhemus (Streetstyle), Mark Fisher (Ghosts of my Life), Neal Brown (Tracey Emin), Tom Vague (Vague), Tony D (Ripped &amp; Torn), Andy Blade (Eater, The Secret Life of a Punk Rocker), Simon Reynolds (Shock and Awe) and Judy Nylon (Snatch, multi-disciplinary artist).<\/p>\n<p>At once cerebral and hyperactive, here is a nuanced portrait of the maverick spirit of the age. The anthology makes fabulous connections between ideas, people, events and lifestyle to illuminate our sense of punk rock, retracing and recalibrating the pattern of the culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/scans142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8936\" src=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/scans142-829x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/scans142-829x1024.jpg 829w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/scans142-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/scans142-768x949.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/scans142.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tony Drayton chatted to Richard Cabut, annotating the influential \u2018Pet Puppies in Theory and Practice\u2019 article from the second issue of Kill Your Pet Puppy published in 1980. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>ONLY<\/strong><\/span> placed the original article from the original fanzine below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tony&#8217;s shares some personal recollections loosely based around this article to Richard Cabut, which offer a fascinating insight to Tony&#8217;s world-view and punk &#8216;lifestyle&#8217; at that time, thirty seven years ago. I have NOT added those words of course. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>BUY BUY BUY THE DAMNATION OF YOUR SOUL<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Get the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zero-books.net\/books\/punk-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Punk-Dead-Modernity-Killed-Every\/dp\/1785353462\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1507416057&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=richard+cabut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/foyles.co.uk\/witem\/music-dance\/punk-is-dead,richard-cabut-andrew-gallix-9781785353468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>PET PUPPIES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Steal your future back and live it out for yourself,\u2019 the boy mumbled, tossing slightly in the bed, he began to wake up\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I wake up tired, trying to remember the rapidly fading remnants of my tortured dream about radical anarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Battle plans conceived, but only fragments remembered, I realise that today is the Sid Vicious March. I have to make plans for today. I still haven\u2019t moved or opened my eyes \u2014 when I do I see the blonde figure beside me is still motionless. What time is it? I go back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the fucking point of marching for Sid anyway \u2014 I never thought anything he did was so important, except maybe smashing Nick Kent\u2019s head open, throwing Kent\u2019s glorification and fascination with violence in his face.<\/p>\n<p>It would make more sense to celebrate the first Sex Pistols gig or the release of Anarchy.<\/p>\n<p>And besides I can think of far better ways to commemorate than marching from Sloane Square to Hyde Park or wherever \u2014 but I\u2019m going to go anyway because at least it\u2019s an EVENT, maybe there\u2019ll be some good atmosphere and unity (I\u2019ll probably get beaten up, arrested, or both). Remember \u2018Brighton\u2019 and the Jock McDonald football match. Remember the \u2018meetings\u2019 in Hyde Park about a year ago? And yet I still manage to raise some optimism, well wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>My room is a total shamble, I lay in bed surveying everything, trying to decide whether to finish off my sulphate supplies before I go, or if I should even get out of bed \u2014 the blonde girl\u2019s gone to wash her hair and various people wander in and around \u2014 vaguely I try and work out who stayed the night in Puppy Mansions before I realise I\u2019d better get up or forever stay in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone seems to be cynically enthused about the March I discover, as I make the rounds of the house trying to find a brush \u2014 vive le revolution and I feel fucking awful. I\u2019ve gone beyond the states that can be cured or at least, temporarily numbed with sulphate \u2014anything speedy or energising I take now will transform in PARANOIA, and that I don\u2019t need. Not today.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to see the Swell Maps and Pink Military. Not because I really wanted to see either, but I feel it\u2019s important to get out to gigs \u2013 keep in touch. It was sold out when we (me and Iggy\/Grant) got there but after a hassle we got in because a Swell Map knew the name \u2018Tony D\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t enjoy it, even though I sold 36 copies of \u2018Pet Puppy\u2019, but at least I knew there was a party on in the squat in my road to look forward to when we got back. I didn\u2019t stay long there although that was where the blonde came from, and I returned there on Saturday morning to rouse them for the March.<\/p>\n<p>When Puppy Mansions had woken up and got itself sorted out there were six of us, four guys and two girls, ready to go \u2014 from the squat I collected four participants, three girls and a guy. Today\u2019s Puppy Collective.<\/p>\n<p>A ten strong \u2018Puppy Collective\u2019 marching boldly for Sid Vicious? No, ten people marching for their right not to care. Ten people, along with other groups of tens, fours, threes, other individuals who care enough to march for their right to not care \u2014 their right to live fast, their right to be ABLE to live fast IF THEY WANT TO.<\/p>\n<p>We want the choice even if we don\u2019t use it, that\u2019s why we\u2019re going to Sloane Square.<\/p>\n<p>Not because some poxy junkie died trying to live up to someone else\u2019s myth, but because we want that chance of creating our own myth, our own future. I\u2019m not sure how and I\u2019m not sure why but there HAS to be a way to create a future where things aren\u2019t just \u2018alright\u2019 and where we don\u2019t have to put up with 99% of our lives being wasted waiting for things we KNOW are only going to be second or third best, where we don\u2019t have to be afraid to walk the street just because social failures attempt to \u2018get their own back\u2019 on a society that rejected them by beating up and robbing anything identifiable as a separate group or tribe.<\/p>\n<p>We, the Puppy Collective, step beyond prescribed decent standards of dress, attitude, and behaviour. We, as punks as part of a mass punk consciousness that was shown to be still alive and inspired even today, ESPECIALLY TODAY, publicly wear outfits guaranteed to attract derision and abuse, if not open attack, not as an idle game. It is because we have a conviction that can never be destroyed by any number of abusive or physical attacks, a desire to confront people\u2019s standards. To confront and violate their conceptions of decency, to make null and void their false judgements of right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A desire to confront MYSELF, to draw from myself a new self.<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s there. By the time we get to the King\u2019s Road it\u2019s half past two and we hear many distorted versions and stories of what we missed.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s punks wandering around in every direction, disorganised and colourful \u2014 but there\u2019s an atmosphere you could cut with a knife, and it\u2019s not the sort of atmosphere I want to get disorganised and colourful in. Too many skins \u2014 organised and GREY \u2014 I often wonder how scared inside you have to get, how bitter and full of hate for everything you have to get before you\u2019re driven to such brutally ugly extremes.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest enemy of a skinhead is COMPASSION, and love, and yes, understanding, but especially COMPASSION. It so negates and empties every value they feel necessary to flaunt that they have to violently crush, ruin, destroy and wipe out any trace of it especially if that trace happens to involve other people doing and enjoying everything they can\u2019t, or are too scared to try. Like being yourself, and letting other people be themselves, understanding WHY other people need to be different from you. Like anarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Peaceful anarchists say, \u2018Teach them love, let them have a chance to feel compassionate.\u2019 The Pet Puppy Survival Guide says the only lessons skinheads collectively can understand are hard, brutal ones, like a small anonymous militia seeking out their leaders (the ones who use the others by politically organising them for the leaders\u2019 own gain) and killing them. And making fucking sure the underlings know exactly why there\u2019s dead skins lining the streets. I mean it\u2019s fucking war already, when we (the Puppy Collective) left the King\u2019s Road and went straight to Hyde Park (but the diagonally opposite end from Speakers Corner) we walked right into a confrontation, one side blinded in organised hatred, and one side a loose collection of individual conviction.<\/p>\n<p>As we walked along the Serpentine Lake to reach the bridge that led onto the Speakers Corner side of the park we became aware of a gathering of skins watching us. We\u2019d swollen to about 20 (half male and half female) spread about thirty yards apart, there was about 2025 of them, all male. There was about a minute to decide whether to stand or run.<\/p>\n<p>As I had been at the back of our group I moved up through, sussing out the attitude. Most weren\u2019t aware of any impending doom, and I\u2019d just reached the front of our parade when one or two skins started moving forward with intent.<\/p>\n<p>By this time, we were almost at the bridge (or at least the front end was) and they were coming in from out right with the bridge an obvious escape route on our left, leading into the open park. The front skins started running, leading a massed attack and I take off over the bridge, with others following and in front.<\/p>\n<p>They managed to get one punk on the ground, but they stop and walk off in the opposite direction from us almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to have been interested in a massed charge rather than a fight (perhaps the odds weren\u2019t one sided enough, after all it was only two of them to every male punk) \u2014 but it\u2019s hard to tell. It was the surprise element that fucked us, but we were ready for any further attacks as we crossed the remainder of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes of us regrouping and marching off though, we\u2019d separated into another shambling stretched out line of spikey hair and leather \u2014 but maybe that\u2019s why \u2018PUNK\u2019 is so creative (at times), this stubbornness to avoid the security of organisation. The sterility of orderliness.<\/p>\n<p>My paranoia was pushing out fever-pitched thoughts and speculations but the rest of the day was an anti-climax. At Speakers Corner \u2014 nothing.<\/p>\n<p>We were three steps behind the \u2018real\u2019 march all the way thru Oxford Circus, Carnaby Street, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.<\/p>\n<p>All we found and met were straggling bunches telling us where they\u2019d last seen The March vanish into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>With people drifting off like flies and newcomers drifting along we met all the massed police wagons and police hostility that burst into aggression at Piccadilly Circus (just as we seemed to be creating a frail unity amongst the straggling punks following us) when they moved in and really split us apart.<\/p>\n<p>Two grabbed and questioned and searched me (whilst a member of the Puppy Collective was stashing his drugs into a hole in the wall three feet away).<\/p>\n<p>I told them I was on my way home, in a voice that screamed Defeat, Depression and an Apathetic Acceptance of both. Which was how I felt at the time (if I had any feelings left apart from stark, paralyzing paranoia) at half past four in the pouring rain with two police holding my arms and my feet aching from all the pointless walking.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Are you alright?\u2019 No, I\u2019m not alright, it can\u2019t be alright, it\u2019s not alright if you have to spend a day defending your faith, carrying your banner only to have THEM try to crucify you on it. When you allow yourself some HOPE that you\u2019re going to gain some ground only to finish up with your back to the wall defending your already hard-fought for space, with clouds of disillusionment poisoning the very conviction you\u2019re using as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re learning still. I\u2019m learning to fight and why it\u2019s okay to fight for peace, and the most important lesson of all is that you can talk and talk. Write and write, think and think, but unless you physically back it up when you\u2019re challenged, unless you physically show you believe in your theory you\u2019re just a hypocritical waste of time to yourself and others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>CHAPTER INFORMATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Foreword: Punk\u2019s the Diamond in My Pocket \u2014 Judy Nylon<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: Prose for Heroes \u2014 Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix<\/p>\n<p>The Boy Looked at Eurydice \u2014 Andrew Gallix<\/p>\n<p>Rummaging in the Ashes: An Interview with Simon Critchley \u2014 Andrew Gallix<\/p>\n<p>King Mob Echo \u2014 Tom Vague<\/p>\n<p>Glam into Punk: The Transition \u2014 Barney Hoskyns<\/p>\n<p>The Divining Rod and the Lost Vowel \u2014 Jonh Ingham<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm\u2019s Children \u2014 Paul Gorman talks to Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>Boom! \u2014 Ted Polhemus<\/p>\n<p>The Flyaway-Collared Shirt \u2014 Paul Gorman<\/p>\n<p>SEX in the City \u2014 Dorothy Max Prior<\/p>\n<p>A Letter to Jordan \u2014 Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>Punk\u2019s not Dead. It\u2019s in a Coma\u2026 \u2014 Andy Blade<\/p>\n<p>Ever Fallen in Love? \u2014 David Wilkinson<\/p>\n<p>For Your Unpleasure \u2014 Mark Fisher<\/p>\n<p>1977 \u2014 Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>Sexy Eiffel Towers \u2014 Andrew Gallix<\/p>\n<p>The End of Music \u2014 Dave and Stuart Wise<\/p>\n<p>Banned From the Roxy \u2014 Penny Rimbaud<\/p>\n<p>Learning to Fight \u2014 Tony Drayton talks to Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>Unheard Melodies \u2014 Andrew Gallix<\/p>\n<p>Punk Movies \u2014 Nicholas Rombe<\/p>\n<p>Some Brief and Frivolous Thoughts on a Richard Hell Reading \u2014 Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>Leaving the 21st Century \u2014 Andrew Gallix<\/p>\n<p>Tales of Low-Life Losers \u2014 Bob Short<\/p>\n<p>Positive Punk \u2014 Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>1976\/86 \u2014 Simon Reynolds<\/p>\n<p>Camden Dreaming \u2014 Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>Camera Squat Art Smiler \u2014 Neal Brown<\/p>\n<p>Punk Etymology \u2014 Jon Savage<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCBook-Launch-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9105\" src=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCBook-Launch--722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCBook-Launch--722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCBook-Launch--211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCBook-Launch--768x1090.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RCBook-Launch-.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join John &#8216;Boogie&#8217; Tiberi at Rough Trade West, celebrating the launch of &#8216;Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night&#8217;, published 27th October on Zero Books.<\/p>\n<p>With guest readings from Jonh Ingham (Sounds, The Spirit of 76: London Punk Witness), Neal Brown (Tesco Bombers), Tom Vague, Dorothy Max Prior (Rema Rema, Psychic TV), Tony Drayton (Ripped &amp; Torn, Kill Your Pet Puppy), and Editors Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Guest Speakers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jonh Ingham<\/p>\n<p>The legendary music journalist who wrote the very first interview with the Sex Pistols, for Sounds. Author of the essential The Spirit of 76: London Punk Witness (Anthology Editions, 2017), chronicling punk\u2019s early gigs. Jonh\u2019s contribution to Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night, a piece about Patti Smith, was described by Lenny Kaye as the best on-the-road-article he had ever read. With good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Max Prior<\/p>\n<p>Max, as she is better known in the punk world, worked at the ICA in 1976, helping to put on the infamous Prostitution show by COUM Transmissions, as well as the Clash gig of the same year. She played drums in early incarnations of the Ants and The Monochrome Set, before forming and playing with Rema Rema, The El Trains and Psychic TV. She released a single on Industrial Records under the name Dorothy. Her extraordinary piece for this book recounts her experiences as a punk stripper in the mid-70s.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Drayton<\/p>\n<p>Tony D founded two influential and inspirational fanzines, Ripped &amp; Torn in 1976 and Kill Your Pet Puppy in 1980. He traced the rise and evolution of punk into an anarchistic and positive lifestyle. In his piece for Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night, Tony has annotated his important 1980 piece \u2018Pet Puppies in Theory and Practice\u2019, giving an insight into the squatting punk scene of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Neal Brown<\/p>\n<p>Neal is the author of books on Billy Childish and Tracey Emin, and wrote the introduction to Bill Drummond\u2019s 45. A participant in the mid-70s west London squatting and music scenes (Tesco Bombers), he wrote the original sleeve notes for Joe Strummer\u2019s 101\u2019ers LP, Elgin Avenue Breakdown. Neal\u2019s piece in Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night, gives a very personal insight into the self-negation that was sometimes present in punk rock.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Vague<\/p>\n<p>Well-known and -respected local W11 psychogeographer. Tom published one of the first post-punk fanzines, the renowned Vague, and also wrote for Zigzag, International Times and City Limits. In his piece for the Punk is Dead anthology Tom points out the intense associations between punk and the Situationists.<\/p>\n<p>John \u2018Boogie\u2019 Tiberi<\/p>\n<p>Grove-based associate\/tour manager\/photographer of the Sex Pistols and the 101ers\/early Clash \u2013 \u2018It was arguably John Tiberi who helped create the punk movement when he put the 101ers as headline in a gig with the Sex Pistols as the support act.\u2019 John\u2019s recent exhibitions include Punk Dada Situation at the Lucca Film Festival, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Cabut<\/p>\n<p>Richard Cabut is the co-editor of and contributor to the anthology Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night (Zer0 Books, October 2017). His journalism has featured in the NME (pen name Richard North), ZigZag, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, The Big Issue, Time Out, etc. He was a Pushcart Prize nominee 2016 for his fiction. Richard\u2019s plays have been performed at various theatres in London and nationwide, including the Arts Theatre, Covent Garden, London. He published the fanzine Kick, and played bass for the punk band Brigandage (album &#8211; Pretty Funny Thing \u2013 Gung Ho Records &#8211; 1985).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Friday 20 October 2017 &#8211; 6:00pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rough Trade West<\/p>\n<p>130 Talbot Road<\/p>\n<p>London W11 1JA<\/p>\n<p>6.00pm Readings + Q&amp;A<\/p>\n<p>6.45pm Signing<\/p>\n<p>7.15pm Finish.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>FREE ENTRY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1474492175862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9116\" src=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1474492175862-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1474492175862-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1474492175862-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1474492175862-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1474492175862-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1474492175862.jpg 1968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1506978869591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9115\" src=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1506978869591-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1506978869591-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1506978869591-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1506978869591-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1506978869591-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shot_1506978869591.jpg 1968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First there was a manuscript sent to me by Matthew Worley in glorious black and white.<\/p>\n<p>Read by me, underlined and crossed out in equal measure by me (and no doubt a handful of others that were sent manuscripts) and by the grace of the dark arts, this manuscript with my child-like scribbles on has been transformed into a book in glorious colour.*<\/p>\n<p>My hardback book is heavy enough to put through the windows of a Bentley, given the right trajectory and thrown at the correct velocity, I&#8217;ve no doubt that the softback edition can also make a dent.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already read the manuscript, so as night follows day, this book will be well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>* Text is not in colour.<\/p>\n<p>Get the book <a href=\"https:\/\/foyles.co.uk\/witem\/history-politics\/no-future-punk-politics-and-british,matthew-worley-9781316625606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/No-Future-Politics-British-1976-1984\/dp\/1316625605\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1507422476&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=matthew+worley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/no-future\/matthew-worley\/9781316625606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9113\" src=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img222-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img222-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img222-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img222-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img222.jpg 1831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>NO FUTURE: PUNK \/ POLITICS \/ BRITISH YOUTH CULTURE 1976 &#8211; 1984<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;No Feelings\u2019, \u2018No Fun\u2019, \u2018No Future\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The years 1976\u201384 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop.<\/p>\n<p>Fanzines and independent labels flourished; an emphasis on doing it yourself enabled provincial scenes to form beyond London\u2019s media glare. This was the period of Rock Against Racism and benefit gigs for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the striking miners.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Worley charts the full spectrum of punk\u2019s cultural development from the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks and Slits through the post-punk of Joy Division, the industrial culture of Throbbing Gristle and onto the 1980s diaspora of anarcho-punk, Oi! and goth.<\/p>\n<p>He recaptures punk\u2019s anarchic force as a medium through which the frustrated and the disaffected could reject, revolt and re-invent.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Advance praise:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Matthew Worley manages to strike a remarkable balance between vividly evoking punk&#8217;s raucous rebellion, while also revealing how its aesthetics and politics disrupted the routines of British society. No Future is history as punk, and punk as history.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>John Street, author of Music and Politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No Future cuts through the stodgy crust of nostalgia, self-serving memoir and fan-boy facts that conceals punk and reveals the truth of youth culture in late Seventies \/ early Eighties Britain: the internecine battles fought over issues of sound and style were inextricably linked to the political conflicts and dilemmas of that era. Digging deep into the fanzine squabbles and music press controversies that raged across the punk community, Matthew Worley brings to keen life the urgency of a period that felt at once like an terrifying crisis-time and the dawn of a new epoch delirious with radical possibilities. Giving Anarcho and Oi! the serious attention they&#8217;ve long deserved, and analysing this tumultuous time through perspectives that range from anti-consumerist boredom and feminist personal politics to media-critique and dystopian dread, No Future is an essential read for punk scholars and punk fans alike.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 and Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve been involved with punk for most of my life but even for me it&#8217;s easy to forget how diverse the whole movement was. This book reminded me of how exciting and different it all was and how &#8216;real&#8217; punk had nothing to do with the media&#8217;s myths. Look and learn my little droogs.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Ignorant, former member of the band Crass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A clear and engaged account of a complex and vexed topic.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Savage, author of England&#8217;s Dreaming.<\/p>\n<p><!-- x-tinymce\/html --><a href=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NoF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9112\" src=\"http:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NoF-1024x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NoF-1024x727.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NoF-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NoF-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NoF.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt Worley will be in conversation with Steve Ignorant, formerly of legendary punk band Crass.<\/p>\n<p>Chair: Cathi Unsworth.<\/p>\n<p>DJ set by Tim Wells.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Tuesday 17 October 2017 &#8211; 7.00pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rough Trade East<\/p>\n<p>Old Truman Brewery<\/p>\n<p>91 Brick Lane<\/p>\n<p>London E1 6QL<\/p>\n<p>7.00pm \u2013 On-stage \u201cin-conversation\u201d + audience questions<\/p>\n<p>8.00pm \u2013 Book signing + Tim Wells DJ set<\/p>\n<p>9.00pm \u2013 close.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>FREE ENTRY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNK IS DEAD: MODERNITY KILLED EVERY NIGHT Co-edited and including essays written by Richard Cabut and Andrew Gallix, this original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret \u2013 back in the garage, when the cult still had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9130,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions\/9130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}