Two Manchester music venues, Gorilla and The Deaf Institute have been given a financial lifeline and saved from closure. Their closure was reported by Punktuation last week, but in an 11th hour deal both venues have been bought by Tokyo Industries – a business that already owns Manchester clubs South, and The Factory. The company […]Continue Reading
Radio Rejects, the self-proclaimed 'Dadcore' punk band from Wollongong (a city located 42 miles south of central Sydney ) are on the hunt for people to be extras in their latest music video.Continue Reading
IDELS frontman, Joe Talbot says it’s an “insult” to blues and reggae to describe them a punk band. Joe Talbot says he believes it’s wrong to label artists and bands ‘punk’ when they are inspired by the likes of calypso, reggae and blues, which came before punk. Speaking about ‘Ultra Mono, their upcoming hip hop-influenced […]Continue Reading
On This Day in 1978 the BBC announced a ban on The Sex Pistols single ‘No One Is Innocent’, which featured vocals by 'Great Train Robber' criminal, Ronnie Biggs who was still on the run at the time and wanted by the British authorities.Continue Reading
Duncan Reid, former bassist and frontman of The Boys and now lead singer with UK pop-punk band Duncan Reid and The Big Heads natters to Punktuation about supporting the Ramones, his fistfight with his old bandmates and the new Big Heads album, Don’t Blame Yourself.Continue Reading
10 year old Nandi Bushell, who shot to internet fame late last year playing along to Nirvana's In Bloom says she has discovered punk and loves it. Continue Reading
A plaque commemorating a famous trip by The Clash to Scotland has been pinched. The plaque was ripped off a wall outside The Dukes pub in Glasgow where the punk legends played during a two-day busking tour of the city in 1985.Continue Reading
Punk had a unique and complex image. It was meant to shock, disturb and disrupt the norm. Outside of punk’s ripped and safety pinned anti-fashion this impulse to outrage was never more apparent than on punk poster art. Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks Poster, 1977 This iconic Jamie Reid designed, acid yellow promotional poster […]Continue Reading
Former Sex Pistol and PiL frontman John Lydon has opened up about his life with wife Nora Forster, who is living with Alzheimer's disease. The punk rock legend has revealed that he has become Forster's "full-time carer" Continue Reading
As coronavirus restrictions begin to lift in Australia and the ban on live gigs eases people are realising that maybe concert-going life may never be the same again.Continue Reading