[kj] The great POST-PUNK debate

[Stephen Robinson]

Does that mean post-punk was invented by Faust in around 1970 then?


Regardless of that, you know a form of Music, be it Rave, Punk Post-Rock,
whatever, is dead when The Times prints articles like that about it. Maybe
they ought to write one about the exciting world of the Libertines?


> So when was post-punk born? What do you think to this statement?
>
> ---"Punk turned into post-punk when the group Wire played their now mythic
> "Document and Eye Witness" set at the Electric Ballroom, Camden, in 1978.
> Comprising nearly two hours of repetition-based performance art, to an
> audience largely of drunk skinheads, the event featured masked performers
in
> paper headdresses, and a hammer attack on a gas cooker."
>
> It was taken from the following article about punk (doesn't talk about
> American punk though) to promote a new fashion show, or something.
>
>
>
>
> >>>>>The Times
>
> September 25, 2004, Saturday
> HEADLINE: Live fast, die old
>
> Punk was meant to be a short, sharp cultural shock with no future, so how
> come its legacy is still all around us, asks Michael Bracewell
>
> Malcolm McLaren once declared: "History is for pissing on." Which is
ironic
> given the enduring legacy of punk, the cultural movement he is credited
with
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