#PunkHistory

[punkrockhistory]

47 years ago today

The Clash at the Coliseum Harlesden, London, supported by Buzzcocks, Subway Sect and The Slits, March 11, 1977.

Photo by Ian Dickson

[aixelsyd13]

If you had to make a #punkrock playlist to explain the sound of #punk from the beginning to now, but had to cap it at 30 songs... What would you put on it?

Who am I missing here? What songs would you put on it?

#Punk101 #PunkHistory #PunkTop30 #PunkRawk

[fvneral-m00n]

In the 1990s Welsh musician Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers carved '4REAL' into his arm in an extreme act of self-harm to prove the band's authenticity. The iconic photograph of his injuries and the subsequent media frenzy contributed to the band's growing fame and transformed Richey's life.

[luxmentis]

Sometimes in a pile needing sorting you find a small cache of 1985-6 stickers printed by SST. #punk #punkstickers #ephemera #punkhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVskqLLbHi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[newdarkages]

[normally0]

Abstract: The King's Road as a Stage for Subcultural Subversion

The King's Road in Chelsea holds a unique position in British cultural history, serving as a battleground where subcultures directly challenged established authority and tradition. In the 1970s, punk rock, epitomized by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's boutique, SEX, disrupted the conservative air of the district. This subversive energy, fuelled by the punk movement's disdain for the establishment, stood in stark contrast to the King's Road's deep ties with British royalty, embodied in the nearby Duke of York's Barracks, home to organizations such as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY).

The juxtaposition of the FANY, a female-led unit supporting military efforts during times of crisis, with the punk rebellion along King’s Road raises fascinating questions of gender, class, and power. The acronym "FANY," steeped in both military honor and sexual innuendo, stands as a metaphor for the broader cultural clash between old and new, between the rigid structures of the monarchy and the freewheeling subversive energy of punk rock.

By the late 20th century, the landscape had changed. The barracks were sold and transformed into Duke of York Square, housing the Saatchi Gallery—a symbol of contemporary art’s dominance over traditional institutions. This development can be seen as part of a larger gentrification process that ultimately subsumed the radical potential of punk into commodified cultural consumption.

The evolution of the King’s Road, from a site of royal and military significance to a crucible for cultural revolt, reveals the ongoing tension between authority and subversion. It serves as a reminder that architecture and urban spaces are not merely physical entities but battlegrounds for ideological and political power. This narrative illustrates the continual struggle to balance tradition with subversion, monarchy with rebellion, and order with chaos—a story that resonates monumentally in the stones of the city's historic buildings, leaving architecture on the forefront of radicalism.

#KingsRoadChelsea

#PunkHistory

#VivienneWestwood

#RoyalHistory

#SubcultureVsEstablishment

#SexBoutique

#DukeOfYorkBarracks

#SaatchiGallery

#LondonArchitecture

#CulturalRevolution

#BritishMonarchy

#PunkVsRoyalty

#ArtAndFashion

#UrbanTransformation

#ChelseaHeritage

#HistoricalNarratives

#WomenInHistory

#FANYLegacy

#MonumentalArt

#ArchitecturalNarrative

[darthtalon89]

#OnThisDay in #PunkHistory it's the #birthday of #DaveVanian 🎁🎈🎂🎉 #DavidLettis #rock #musician #leadsinger #punkrock #theDamned #punkband #baritone #Punk #gothicrock #rockabilly #Gravedigger #singer #songwriter #DavidVanianAndthePhantomChords #NazNomadandtheNightmaresCaptainSensible #Punksubculture #punks #punx #punkethos #punketo #punkfashion #instapunk #punksofinstagram #punkgram #cumpleaños https://www.instagram.com/p/CjnVyhyrQ--/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[societyofaustralianpunk]

Punk Fanzine Archives from around the world.

A punk fanzine or ‘zine’ is a DIY publication related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre. Often primitively or casually produced, a fanzine can feature punk literature, such as social commentary, poetry, news, gossip, music reviews and articles about punk rock bands or regional punk scenes.

Below is a list of punk fanzine websites and archives from around the world, as well as related publications, papers, articles and books.

Archive.org - Zines

Bacteria Netherlands - 70s and 80s Dutch zine archive and International Zine Archive

Bored Teenagers - A collection of UK punk fanzines (covers) from the late 1970

Brob Tilt's zine-world -  (fan)zines that are interesting, historical, meaningful, influential, funny, intelligent, surprising, peculiar and inspiring

Circulation Zero -  West Coast Punk Music Zines from the 1970-80s: Damage, Slash & No Mag.

Contextual Dissemination - Punk fanzine archive, 1977 onwards - The sole purpose of this website is to make underground, out-of-print, punk zines accessible to anyone doing research. 

Digital Fanzine Preservation Society (DFPS). A collection of hardcore and punk music fanzines remastered and collected on the DFPS blogspot by Nagus from 2009-2011.

Essential Ephemera - UK Punk Literature & Images 1976-1984

Florida Punk, Indie, and Hardcore Archive -  Florida Punk Flyers, Posters, Fanzines, and Photographs sponsored by Visual Vitriol.

Gary Storm Songs -  Punk and New Music Fanzines – Late 1970s to Early 1980s

Grrrlzine Network -  Here you can find rebellious feminist zines: grrrl and lady zines, riot grrrl zines, transgender zines, zines by grrrls of color, lesbian/queer zines and many others!

HeartattaCk -  An internationally distributed punk zine with a strong bent towards hardcore punk and anti-consumerism. It was published by Kent McClard and Lisa Oglesby from March 1994 through June 2006. In the final years of its publication it remained one of the most popular zines available. 

International Institute of Social History -  The world's leading institute in socio-economic history

Punk in the East -  Punk in the East is a digital collection of original punk photographs, gig ticket, posters, clothing and ephemera from Norwich, Norfolk and across East Anglia. As content continues to come in it is fast becoming the largest digital UK punk archive to be found anywhere on the internet.

Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene (Australia) - punk fanzines from 1977 - 1987.

Punk Planet Archive -  Punk Planet was a punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen.

Punk Rocker Fanzines - Sites for Sore Eyes

Rockmine : The Fanzine Archive -  A Fanzine & Fan Club Magazine Archive.

Swedish Punk Fanzines - A site about collecting punk, hardcore and black metal records and Swedish punk zines.

Talkin’ Bout Fanzines - Fanzines from the Southend Area of the UK

UK Zine Library -  100s of(mostly)UK Zines from late 70s to early 90s, scanned and downloadable archive.

Weed - UK punk / post-punk fanzines 1980-1986.

Zineopolis - Art Zine Collection

Definition of a fanzine

Punk zine - Wikipedia

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Zine

Related Publications/Archives: 

Like Punk Never Happened - Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits archive from 1978, through to July 1985.

Monash University Library recently acquired a small collection of important punk zines, fanzines, and magazines to add to the Rare Books Collection. 

Punk Globe - not a fanzine but a long running magazine that offers a free DIY website for people to get the latest news, reviews, articles, interviews plus much more.

Punk Magazine - Punk was a music magazine and fanzine created by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn, and "resident punk" Legs McNeil in 1975. Its use of the term "punk rock", coined by writers for Creem magazine a few years earlier to describe the simplistic and crude style of 60's Garage rock bands, further popularized the term.

Roadrunner -  Roadrunner was a rock magazine published in Adelaide between 1978-83. Its founding editors were Stuart Coupe and Donald Robertson, who worked together on the single-issue Punk zine Street Fever in December 1977. Though primarily focused on Australian and overseas rock music, it also covered areas of the burgeoning counterculture and issues such as punk. The final edition of December 1982 / January 1983 was published in Sydney. To accompany the release of this collection in May 2017, publisher Donald Robertson penned a history of the magazine. It is available here: The History of Roadrunner.

State Library of Victoria - The State Library of Victoria has the largest public collection of zines – independent, not-for-profit, and often hand-made publications – in Australia. 

Related Books:

Adventures in Reality: The Complete Collection book -  Put together by Alan Rider, Adventures in Reality, was a fanzine from Coventry in the early 1980s.

Mass Movement: The Digital Years, Volume 1 and 2 - A compilation of the best interviews and features from the second half of Mass Movement’s digital period.

Punk Faction BHP '91 to '95 -  A collection of BHP fanzines that cover a range of subjects that were important to the youth of the 1990s and are still relevant to the alternative scene of today. 

Ripped and Torn: 1976 - 79 The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK -  Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped.

Ripped, torn and cut - Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976 - A book that offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. 

Search & Destroy #1-6: The Complete Reprint -  Search & Destroy, a zine self-published from 1977-1979 by V. Vale, was a thorough anthropological survey of an emerging social-change movement: the San Francisco punk scene.

Sniffin' Glue The Bible -  An edited compendium of the first 10 issues of Mark Perry’s seminal Punkzine  Sniffin’ Glue.    

Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory - It was the most influential rock magazine of its time. It was called Sniffin' Glue and it's about to be recreated as a book

The Best of Punk Magazine -  A book that includes high-quality reprints of hard-to-find original issues, as well as rare and unseen photos,essays, interviews, and even handwritten contributions from the likes of AndyWarhol, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Lester Bangs,Legs McNeil, Lenny Kaye, and many more.

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83 - Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979.

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews -  The first compilation of the riveting and provocative interviews of Punk Planet magazine, founded in 1994 and charging unbowed into the new millennium.

Related PDFs:

A Destabilising Pleasure: Representations of Alternative Music in Irish Fanzines

Art-Zines, The Self-Publishing Revolution: The Zineopolis Art-Zine Collection

Bay Area Dadazines and Punk Zines in 1970s San Francisco: Interactive, Ephemeral, Live

Before Blogs There Were Zines: Berman, Danky, and the Political Case for Zine Collecting in North American Academic Libraries

CATALOGING AND DESCRIPTION OF FANZINE AND ZINE COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES

Doing it ourselves: Countercultural and alternative radical publishing in the decade before punk (2018)

Flood the market with alternative writing! – Fanzinesrepositories in Europe

FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE: British anarcho -punk 'zines (1980-1984) as sites of resistance and symbols of defiance

Global Network Zines - The Public Face of Mail Art

Hands-on Communication: Zine Circulation Rituals and the Interactive Limitations of Web Self-Publishing

In the Ruins of Zine Pedagogy: A Narrative Study of Teaching with Zines

London Punk Fanzines 1976-1984: The Celebration of the Every Person 

"Minor Threats" (Radical History Review)

Music fanzine collecting as capital accumulation

Punk, Politics and British (fan)zines, 1974­-84:'While the world was dying, did you wonder why?

Punk ‘zines – ‘symbols of defiance’ from the print to the digital age

Punk’s Not Dead: Resurrecting Punk Fanzines at Michigan State University Libraries

Print is Dead: The Promise and Peril of Digital Media for Subcultural Resistance

Riot Girl from Zine to Screen and the Commodification of Female Transgression

The D.C. Punk & Indie Fanzine collection

The Octapod Zine Collection: Developing a preservation and access strategy

Value and Validity of Art Zines as an Art Form

Zines Will Survive

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[rodwey2004]

Street Portraits. . Also see @rodweyportraits . Visit: rodweyphotography.com . #splittongue #london #piercedgirl #peopleoflondon #model #inkedgirl #visitlondon #punk #lgbt #punkhistory #anarchy #punk4life #canonphotography #street_perfection #streetportrait #metroldn #impromptuphotoshoot #london_only #punksnotdead #portrait #photooftheday #londonlife #documentingbritain #portraitphotography #spicollective #blackandwhitephotography #blacknwhite_perfection #blacknwhitephoto #blacknwhitephotography #lo_victory4ukraine . 📸: @rodwey2004 @rodweyportraits (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca609gMIvSK/?utm_medium=tumblr

[frnkieroismydaddy]

This is the bat I use to kill transphobes, Nazis, sexists, racists, Abelist and other scum

[punkrockhistory]

43 years ago today

Bad Religion at the VEX, March 5, 1981, Los Angeles, CA, supported by The Chiefs and China White.

Photos by Gary Leonard.

[goldieboyy]

imma bout to piss off a lot of privileged people but here goes,,

@ people who spend hundreds, even THOUSANDS of dollars buying punk or grunge outfits - what the fuck????

The entire 'aesthetic' of these subcultures were born from poor people and those living in poverty. Grunge was created by people who couldn't afford first hand clothes and thrifted a bajillion worn-out layers and second hand, if not third hand clothing. Punk emerged in the 70's and was similar but not the same thing.

When you spend like 800 dollars on crusties and pre-made patched vests, it's a waste of money. When you buy vintage denim jackets and baggy jeans that cost 100 dollars each from a fast fashion outlet, it's a waste of money.

Some subcultures came from lower/working class citizens and when you buy super expensive outerwear that aligns with that subculture so you don't have to spend ages creating a pair of crusties or sewing on patches to a vest, it ruins the whole idea of the subculture.

Educate yourself on the history of your subculture to see if you can save some money and actually have fun playing around with different styles of clothing.

[grinduniverse]

Reposted from @23punk_ Nazi Punks F*ck Off! Dead Kennedys Punk ain't no religious cult Punk means thinking for yourself You ain't hardcore 'cause you spike your hair When a jock still lives inside your head Nazi punks Nazi punks Nazi punks, F*ck off! #nazipunksfuckoff #deadkennedys #jellobiafra #punk #rock #punkrock #punkstyle #punksnotdead #punkmusic #80spunk #punkhistory #punkrockmusic #punx #punksnotdead #rockandroll #23punk https://www.instagram.com/p/CF_bv3wHlgM/?igshid=wux8ic3dnx5l

[luxmentis]

Sometimes, while organizing, you come across stickers from the early/mid-1980s. #sst #blackflag #sham69 #sonicyouth #ephemera #punkhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCjI3vJlKe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[newdarkages]

My Sweetie bought me this book a few days ago. Filled with history. I love it.

[plaviorkestar]

Check out these stellar portraits of Yugoslavian Punks .