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- BBC - A Night With Punk Britannia [MP4-AAC](oan)
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- BBC - Punk Britannia - Pre-Punk 1972-1976 [MP4-AAC](oan)
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- Narrated by Peter Capaldi, this opener of a three-part documentary series in BBC FOUR's
- celebrated 'Britannia' strand is scheduled to chime with the 35th anniversary of the
- Queen's Silver Jubilee and the arrival of punk as national and then international music
- culture. The film explores the road to punk in Britain, which begins in the early 70s
- with a young generation already conscious that they have 'missed the 60s party' and are
- stuck in a Britain heading for economic woes and dwindling opportunities. Meanwhile the
- music of the day - prog and super rock - seems to ask not for their interest and involvement
- but only their awe and their money.
- But before the punk generation finally arises to have its say during 1976 come a group of
- pub rockers, a generation of bands sandwiched between 60s hippies and mid-70s punks who
- will help pave the way towards the short, sharp shock of punk, only to be elbowed aside
- by the emergence of the Sex Pistols, the Clash et al.
- An unlikely cast of characters set the scene for punk in early 70s Britain. Reacting against
- overblown super rock of the day and the glam their younger sisters like on Top of the Pops,
- pub rock set the template for punk. Small venues, fast retro rock n roll and bags of attitude
- typified bands like Dr Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Kilburn and the High Roads and Eddie and the
- Hotrods. These bands engendered a small London scene which is sometimes forgotten and helped
- define the Pistols, the Clash and the Damned, both positively and negatively.
- Featuring copious unseen archive footage and interviews with John Lydon, Paul Weller
- Mick Jones, Wilko Johnson, Nick Lowe, Adam Ant, Brian James and many more.
- BBC - Punk Britannia - Punk 1976-1978 [MP4-AAC](oan)
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- Daydreaming England was about to be rudely awakened as punk emerged from the London underground
- scene. A nation dropped its dinner in its lap when the Sex Pistols swore on prime time television.
- Punk had finally found its enemy- the establishment. In Manchester, the Buzzcocks' self-released
- Spiral Scratch was a clarion call for a do-it-yourself generation, while the Clash's White Riot
- tour took punk's message across Britain. Moral outrage followed the Pistols around the country,
- effectively outlawing punk - but there was one refuge for the music. Nestled in the wasteland of
- 70s Covent Garden, the Roxy was punk's cathedral. Punk interlopers the Jam raised the bar for
- lyricism, challenging punk's London elite.
- Punk also began to extend its three-chord vocabulary through an alliance with reggae, memorably
- captured by the Clash on White Man in Hammersmith Palais. With their second single, God Save the
- Queen, the Pistols scored a direct hit at the establishment in summer '77, but a disastrous PR
- stunt on a Thames barge would mark a turning point. The darker underbelly of the summer of '77
- would see race riots in Lewisham. This street turbulence was the backdrop for a rawer, working
- class sound. If the Pistols and the Clash had been the theory, a second wave led by Sham 69 was
- the reality.
- By '78 punk was becoming a costume - the very pop orthodoxy it had originally sought to destroy.
- For many punk ended when the Pistols split, beset by internal problems, following an abortive tour
- of the USA in January '78. Those practitioners who would go on to enjoy sustained success sought
- to modify their sound to survive, such as Siouxsie Sioux. Punk had shown what it was against, now
- it was time to show what it was for in the post-punk era.
- With John Lydon, Mick Jones, Siouxsie Sioux and Paul Weller
- BBC - Punk Britannia - Post-Punk 1978-1981 [MP4-AAC](oan)
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- Punk had shown what it was against - now what was it for? In the wake of the Pistols' demise a new
- generation of musicians would re-imagine the world they lived in through the music they made. Freed
- up by punk's DIY ethos, a kaleidoscope of musical influences broke three chord conformity.
- Public Image Limited allowed Johnny Rotten to become John Lydon the artist. In Manchester, Magazine
- would be first to record in the wake of the Pistols' split, Mark E Smith made street poetry while
- Ian Curtis turned punk's external rage into an existential drama. A raft of left-wing art school
- intellectuals like Gang of Four and Wire imbued post-punk with a sense of radical politics and
- conceptualism while the Pop Group infused funk with anti-capitalist sentiment in the early days of
- Thatcher. Flirting with fascism and violence, the working class Oi! movement tried to drag punk from
- the Kings Road into the heart of the East End whilst Anarcho punks Crass embarked on the most radical
- vision of any.
- In a time beset by dread and tension perhaps the biggest paranoia was Mutually Assured Destruction
- essayed perfectly by Young Marble Giants' Final Day. Released in the height of Thatcherism, Ghost
- Town by The Specials marked a parting of the post-punk waves. Some would remain avowedly uncommercial
- whilst others would explore pop as a new avenue in the new decade. The song that perhaps summed up
- post-punk's journey was Orange Juice's Rip It Up and Start Again.
- With John Lydon, Howard Devoto, Mark E Smith, Peter Hook, Jerry Dammers, The Raincoats, Wire,
- Jah Wobble, Mark Stewart, Edwyn Collins, Young Marble Giants and many more.
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