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The fourth installment in Ian Glasper's legendary journey into
the heart of UK punk and hardcore explores the punk underground's
transformation as the gritty 1980s gave way tothe 1990s
Glasper leaves no stone unturned when exploring the inspirations
and motivations that drove the acts of this overlooked era of punk.
From Therapy?, Understand, and Lostprophets, who all went on to
major label success after starting in underground bands, through to
groups who released just one demo or a lone 7" single, this history
examines almost 100 bands, allowing them to tell their own stories
in their own words, and is brimming with previously unseen
photographs and long-lost memorabilia. The many subgenres of the
scene are examined, from pop-punk (Goober Patrol, Panic) and
ska-punk (Citizen Fish, Spithead), through raging hardcore
(Voorhees, Assert), militant SXE (Withdrawn, Ironside) and old
school punk rock (Sick On The Bus, Police Bastard), on to the birth
of metalcore (Stampin' Ground, Above All) and emocore (Fabric, Bob
Tilton). The leading lights and many more are explored, along with
the politics, underground fanzines, and DIY labels which were
synonymous with the scene. A must for anyone who enjoyed the first
three books, all of which have become must reads for anybody with
an interest in punk, this "fourth book in the trilogy" pulls
together many of the threads of those volumes and brings Glasper's
celebration of the UK's underground punk heritage to a satisfying,
informative conclusion.
The product of years of research, travel, and countless
conversations, "Burning Britain" is the true story of the UK punk
scene from 1980 to 1984 told for the first time by the bands and
labels that created it. Covering the country region by region,
author Ian Glasper profiles legendary bands like Vice Squad,
Angelic Upstarts, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Cockney Rejects, and
the UK Subs as well as more obscure groups like Xtract, The
Skroteez, and Soldier Dolls through hundreds of new interviews and
photographs. As the 1970s closed the media was quick to declare
punk dead, but a new generation of even more aggressive and
political bands were announcing their presence through some of the
most primal and potent music ever committed to plastic. This book
is the definitive guide to that previously overlooked era.
In this revealing history, author, historian, and musician Ian
Glasper explores in minute detail the influential and esoteric UK
anarcho-punk scene of the early 1980s. Where some of the colorful
punk bands from the first half of the decade were loud, political,
and uncompromising, their anarcho-punk counterparts were even more
so, totally prepared to risk their liberty to communicate the
ideals they believed in so passionately. With Crass and Poison
Girls opening the floodgates, the arrival of bands such as Amebix,
Chumbawamba, Flux of Pink Indians, and Zounds heralded a new age of
honesty and integrity in underground music. New, exclusive
interviews and hundreds of previously unreleased photographs
document the impact of all of the scene's biggest names--and a fair
few of the smaller ones--highlighting how anarcho-punk took the
rebellion inherent in punk from the very beginning to a whole new
level of personal awareness.
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