We had our about? white VolEns are among its 'stars' SIC soone brothers returned to the "teenage rebel' music of the dole queues' Cevotees or preterence tor wearing TUCK oIT black DastDISTURBING 'foul' languade THE PRESS. threw up their hands in horror. The record companies probably rubbed theirs together in anticipation of all those lovely profits. The Transport and General Workers Union asked for a contract to be Punk Rock' has certainly hit the dole queue. scene in a big way. But what's it all Its roots are traceable to the bizarre antics of Alice Cooper and the extravagant (some say decadent) looks of groups such as the New York Dolls. It differs from this because it is suppo• sedly 'violent' and 'anarchic". Women La thing not usually associated with the rock muThe music press are teating it with mild sarcasm, but are trying to prove RACIST its validity by comparing it with the image created by the music of the Stones of the eariy years (this comparison may be because the Sex Pistols' single is entitled 'Anarchy 'depressed in the UK'). But now 'teenage rebel- agers. lion' music has been replaced by the COTE 'punk rock are easily spotted - they show a marked SaleLY through their noses, dressing in dustbin liners and painting their faces. references Enough to make any member of the establishment' react gainst it.
But the most disturbing thing about * gests otherwise. 'punk rock' is not the dress, not the For indeed whether or not an establishment TV interviewer female provoked the Sex Pistols into using four letter words on a 'family show.
The bourgeois press and the music press are quite right when they desscrapped and angry Because thousands of kids today are fed up with everything they see in the establishment.
They're kicking their heels waiting to get out of an enforced extra year at school, only to find themselves kicking their heels in the dole queues They quite rightly get angry, and they snow it by kicking orner nids dl ool ball matches, kicking policemen, and kickina shoo windows in. They also tend to kick black kids.
The Daily Mail summed it up when they said that 'punk rock' appeals to Jane •eorvce wHite Iec Unfortunately the Daily Mail draw ally implications from this. They did not report, for example that the student union at Lanchester Poly refused to pay the Sex Pistols after students complained that the groups' act had used racist and fascist You might think that this was accidental, that they didn't mean anything by it. But the fact that the followers o 'punk rock' are white, and the fact that one common design which they paint on their faces is the swastika, sug'Punk rock' has the aura of masculinity and aggression around it.
followers project image of toughness, but one gets the impression that inis is toughness o the "bovver girl' type - calculated to please their blokes and to encourage
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workers at a record factory refused to handle some of its products. Why? Because of the furore and free publicity caused by Bill Grundy's TV interview with 'punk rock' group the Sex Pistols.