BURNING BRITAIN

THE HISTORY OF UK PUNK 1980-1984

IAN GLASPER

• Publisher: Cherry Red Books
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781901447248
• eBook ISBN:
  9781901447538
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than their '76-77 predecessors, not to mention more aggressive and political, the likes of Discharge, The Exploited and GBH were to prove not only more relevant but arguably just as influential. More than two years in the making and featuring hundreds of brand new interviews and photographs, 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 who created it. Covering the country region by region, author Ian Glasper profiles not only both big names like Vice Squad, Anti Pasti, The Defects, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Peter And The Test Tube Babies and the UK Subs but the more obscure Xtract, Skroteez and Soldier Dolls. The grim reality of being a teenage punk rocker in Thatcher's Britain resulted in some of the most primal and potent music ever committed to plastic. Burning Britain is the definitive overview of that previously overlooked era.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• PREFACE
• DISCLAIMER
• Table of Contents
• A COUNTRY FIT FOR HEROES …
• CHAPTER ONE : THE SOUTHWEST
• CHAPTER TWO : THE MIDLANDS
• CHAPTER THREE : THE NORTHWEST
• CHAPTER FOUR : THE NORTHEAST
• CHAPTER FIVE : THE NORTH AND EAST MIDLANDS
• CHAPTER SIX : THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST
• CHAPTER SEVEN : LONDON
• CHAPTER EIGHT : THE SOUTH
• CHAPTER NINE : WALES
• CHAPTER TEN : NORTHERN IRELAND
• CHAPTER ELEVEN : SCOTLAND
• CHAPTER TWELVE : THE LABELS
• APPENDIX ONE : PUNK LIVES
• APPENDIX TWO : HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN
• Copyright