300 copie numerate, 80 pagine in cui si parla in maniera approfondita, colta, minuziosa, di aspetti di varie sottoculture (mod e skinhead e dintorni, in particolare).
Bellissima e dettagliatissima l'intervista a David Storey, il grafico della 2Tone Records, interessantissima quella a Tim Wells sulla cultura skinhead.
Si parla anche del film "Babylon", della moda degli skaters negli 80, delle radici del Mod e Skinhead "revival" a fine anni 70 (con particolari e distinguo perfettamente azzeccati), dell'importanza dell'amico e poeta Dave Waller sulla scrittura di Paul Weller, delle fanzine inglesi tra il 1977 e il 1980 e tanto, tanto altro.
Ne scrivono David Storey, Mathew Worley, Paul 'Smiler' Anderson, Tim Wells, Mark Hinds Peter Jachimiak e Ian Trowell.
"Finding the "provincial" material was great. The only punk in village. They gave a real insight into how long punk's influence mainteined...and what punk meant away from London's central....they also gave sense of what punk meant to people and how punk evolved in different ways in diffeent places.
A fanzine was certainly easier to do than form a band, though the idea that it was always "cheap" and you couldn't just "do it" perhaps overstates things."
(Matthew Worley, autore del libro "Zerox machine: Punk, post Punk and fanzines in Britain 1976-1988"
"Everything about their initial existence, and in turn proliferation, was born from that EARLY SIXTIES period.
Newness was everything, yesterday was gone, last week worthy of nothing, insisting on forging foward.
As the nation's fortunes shifted in the early seventies that run of ever changing looks and street led style scenes faded, disappeared from view."
Yet both these scenes would reappear as separate entities at the very end of the decade in which their shared lineage had dissolved.
This time around the economic situation bore little resemblence to that of the previous decade.
Unemployment was rising, easy opportunities for youth something from another era.
The idea was dressing up, the desire for a sense of belonging, appeared not as a pace setting view of the times but more as a route out of the humdrum, an alternative to the mainstream and surounding economic failures.
(Mark Hinds)
YOU HAD TO GET INVOLVED TO BE INVOLVED
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