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Punk (key people involved (important bands (sex pistols (johnny rotten/…

- - - - johnny rotten/ lydon
        
        frontman of sex pistols
        
        personality = cynical, snarky and witty
        
        "How can you resolve the situation?" Street-Porter asked. "Kill him!" was the reply, before Lydon elaborated: "... subtly; car accident and all that. That'd be good fun. Go down well in the papers as well. Real good publicity stunt." - Keith Badman
      - Sid vicious
      - major role in bringing punk into the media and towards a mainstream audience
      - started out by just turning up to pubs and hoping they would be able to perform
        
        audiences didn't know who was playing and the bands didn't know if they were playing
- - - - appealing to people who didn't want to conform to the norms of society but also wanted to have a crowd
    - - more often than not, the people in the punk bands were very similar to their audiences...similar age group, social backgrounds etc.
  - - - concerts became too expensive unlike punk concerts where entry was very cheap and in some cases free. also smaller crowds
      - no longer relatable
        
        cheaper concerts and on a local scale. also more personal.. can get up close whereas older rock bands, cant see them despite tickets costing a lot
        
        as older rock bands got more successful they lost touch with the younger generations, whereas punk music spoke about issues relatable to a younger generation
      - becoming wealthy made them remote
      - music also became too complicated to be accessible
        
        Punk music was not complex it was “direct and straightforward”. More rhythmic focused rather than melodic (no improvised complex solos). Vocally more like speaking rather than singing “artless” –roots in cockney- novelty singing (link to the fact that many punk bands were based in cities and people involved were working class typically)
      - "there arent any bands that are accessible, unless you pay a fiver to see them and then you cant see them" - Johnny Rotten
        
        "appear as small dots on the horizon" - Janet Street Porter
    - - suggests punk was doing something original
    - - industry had ran out of ideas
  - - - “Punk could be a blind, nihilistic rebellion, distinctly apolitical in its stance” - Moliterno
      - "The band's concerts are regularly disrupted by violence." - John Harris
      - violent but not in a physical way
  - - - song lyrics
      - wearing political symbols
        
        linked to wanting to shock people
      - "infatuation with communism was fundamentally aesthetic rather than political" - Simon Reynolds, Rip it up and start again, pg. 26
        
        instead of genuinely believing the fundamental ideologies of communism were applicable and beneficial for the uk they were judst in love with idea of it
    - - "Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a brilliantly unorthodox meeting of pop culture and politics, founded by the music photographer Red Saunders in response to a drunken onstage outburst in August 1976 from Eric Clapton" - Harris, John. Noisy, messy, unconventional and progressive: remembering Rock Against Racism: Rock Against Racism was a brilliantly unorthodox meeting of pop culture and politics
        
        form of activism through a creative outlet
      - "quickly developed into a dynamic movement that sought, with debatable success, to comabat racism withing british society at large" - A. G. Moliterno
      - “Teddy boys, mods and skinheads all adopted or rebounded off black style and music in their youthful rebellion against the constrictions of their class background. Punk in this sense was not unique." - Moliterno
    - - suggests punk was a platform for people to express their views on subjects such as politics to younger generation
- - - - siouxsie and the banshees 1st performance was at the 100 club punk festival in september 1976. it was their singers first time singing in front of ann audience
      - showed anyone could start a band - "dont have to be a special sort of person" - Janet Porter Street
    - - the clash and other bands wrote songs about the situation in britain (which was something that both the bands and their audiences experienced) e.g. songs about career opportunities and lack of jobs
        
        "you've got to have some music that you feel like, otherwise you go barmy" - Joe Strummer
        
        shows that punk came about as a result of the situation in society
        
        if the situation didn't exist then punk arguably wouldnt exist because the bands wouldnt be talking about things like unemployment ("we would be singing about love" - ) and they wouldnt have the fans that they do
      - most of them are the same as their fans so can talk about getting rid of the establishment because they aren't part of it
    - - education teaches people to be a cog in a machine - "factory products", "you dont learn anything" - Paul Simonon
  - - - believed society had become mindless sheep who do the same thing everyday and complain about everything, something they wanted to destroy.
        
        intend to destroy them "one way or another" - Johnny Rotten not using violence though
        
        "the who thought they were great 'cos they destroyed everything that came before them but now they can't take it 'cos we're destroying everything that came before us" - Steven Severin
        
        • Major parts of punk were rebelling against the money focused production of mainstream music, rejection of the expectation of flawless music production – use of digitalisation in recording music and introducing controversial subjects into music
    - - "there should be no difference between who's on stage and who's in the audience
    - - they don't get off on violence
        
        "rubbish... were nice" - Johnny Rotten
      - "its not violence its just excitement that causes it most of the time" - Paul Cook
      - "tales of violence may have been over exaggerated but are ultimately based on fact" - Janet Street Porter
        
        led to audiences expecting trouble, so deliberately causing it
- - - - post punk
      - goth
      - new wave
        
        synth pop
      - grunge
      - shock rock
    - - modern punk bands