Hey, Punks! Send the BBC your memories... (screen goes swirly...)

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― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:55 (twenty years ago)

but those original punks will be far too busy chairing board room meetings and checking on their portfolio on the stock-market.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

I remember stabbing my cousin with a knife outside a shop, and then I look inside and see Johnny Rotten on the TV, on Top of the Pops, for the first time, and I was stunned, I just stood there with the knife in my hand. What was it? '76? Magic. It was a magic moment.

― ratty, Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

I was more the post-punk generation, bands like The Crass,etc.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:15 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4855944.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

will we get 'send the BBC your acid house/rave memories' in another ten years? (or perhaps, next week?)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

You have 10 years to become Director General of the BBC.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

A significant memory of the mid seventies is being really pissed off by the way the TV and media were totally clogged up with nostalgia pieces relating to the war - something which had been over and done with thirty years previously. Plus ca change.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Now its nostalgia pieces on PUNK!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I really want to read a nostalgia piece on the "10 years since Punk" stuff which I enjoyed in '86, and the "20 years since Punk" stuff which I despised in '96. What were they like? How did they differ? Did they have any effect?

I recall despising the "20 years since the summer of love" stuff in 1987 and suddenly realising that I should feel bad about having enjoyed the punk retread the year before.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha:

"The combination of loud music, ripped clothing and spiky hair formed part of a movement that is said to have influenced everyone from Oasis to the Arctic Monkeys. "

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

ALL the greats.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

They don't say that.

(do they?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

they do! click on the link to the BBC page all the way up at the top of the thread.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I remember the day in June 1987 when I caught the bus to Glasgow to claim my free "Sgt Pepper - It Was 20 Years Ago Today" badge from the old Virgin Megastore. Those were the days!

― everything, Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

ILX has a lot to answer for.
Added: Thursday, 30 March, 2006, 15:21 GMT 16:21 UK
Anyone listening to or playing Punk 30 years on is a DINOSAUR. Punk has become as nostalgic as anything. It may have belonged 30 years ago but it has no relevance now.
Punk is responsible for rockist beliefs in journalism and music in general.
The only music "from the streets" today is Grime!

Mark Carling, London

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

What is music from the streets anyway?

― Punkist, Friday, 31 March 2006 10:43 (twenty years ago)

The funny thing about that BBC board is that theres so many people saying music today is terrible, and they seem to hate hip hop the most "its not music"

I wonder if they all realise they've turned into their parents?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

"I was a punk in Leeds in the 1970's. I was 13 then. It was hard to believe when I saw this headline today that this all started 30 years ago!"

The fact that you're 43 now wasn't a clue?

― Tim Rutherford-Johnson (Rambler), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Mark Carling, London

Is this some sort of clumsy pseudonym?

― Dadaismus Is A Very Magic Fellow (Dada), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

It's a very clumsy post, too, and palpably not my doing. Anyway, the fifth anniversary of grime comes up this year; where be the celebrations for that?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

"The fact that you're 43 now wasn't a clue?"

You do have to try to be patient when dealing with older people and make allowances for the fact that, by the time you reach an age as advances as 43, your mind is starting to degenerate quite rapidly; senility and often Alzheimer's are start to kick in; and the memory can begin to play some cruel tricks.

You also need to bear in mind that people of such advanced years may be prone to tourettes syndrome and momentarily lose control and say sometimes quite unfortunate things that they really don't mean, sometimes inadvertently causing offence when obviously there was no intention to do so, you miserable, whining jumped up little shit bag.

― Stewart (43 years and 16 days, if anyone's asking) Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

and bastard.

― mark grout (45 yrs, 22 days) (mark grout), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Young people these days have no respect.

― mike t-diva (44 years, 42 days) (mike t-diva), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

George Galloway to thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

"sometimes inadvertently causing offence when obviously there was no intention to do so"

Seems us young 'uns are quite capable of doing that too. :-(

― Tim Rutherford-Johnson (29 yrs, 90-ish days) (Rambler), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Ah remember when all 'round 'ere 't were nowt but coal mines and steel mills and ship yards and nationalised industries and utilities and council houses as far as t'eye could see.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

and y'c'd go on t'tram and see Arthur Askey and t'Billy Smart's t'Circus and buy t'copy of t'Zaireeka and have t'12-course t'meal at t'Ivy and still have change ooteya farthin'.

― Marcello Carlin (42 years, 66 days) (nostudium), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

".... and see Arthur Askey and t'Billy Smart's t'Circus...."

I thought the circus things was that other fine old vaudeville act Gary Glitter, rather than Arthur Askey?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Why on Radio 2's Pick Of The Pops does Dale Winton always promise to play the top ten from this week in 197whenever in full and then quickly skips over the Gary Glitter record which is always inconveniently situated at number 2 or 3?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Skips over like a busy busy bee or trips over like Arthur Askey sans legs?

― Dadaismus Is A Very Magic Fellow (Dada), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Because The Leader's just too camp for him?

(x-post)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Now only people of my seniority will recall the legless Askey on an Arena special in the early '80s, ranting about putting all those Communists and Liberals up against a wall and shooting them, etc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Why? Did they nick his legs?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

No, they nicked his washboard.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

http://japanimatedfastshow.homestead.com/files/arthuratkinsonposterpic.jpg

Where's me washboard?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/OC_Data/images/weblg/6/0/mw66560.jpg

Where's me legs?

― Dadaismus Is A Very Magic Fellow (Dada), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

radio 6 is going retro for 4 days:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/prettyancient/

"Pretty Ancient". do you see?

Top 30 punk singles as voted by radio 1 listeners:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mostpunk/top30.shtml

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

What about Mojo, NME, Uncut, Q etc?
Any specials out?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

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