Flashback December, 1981: Five years after the release of the seminal punk album Anarchy in the UK, The Face magazine sent a photographer out onto the streets of London to take pictures of the still thriving punk scene. The results are absolutely adorable. The little fresh-faced anarchists think they’re being so tough and streetwise and thuggish, while really, they’re just YUMMY LITTLE TWINKS playing dress-up in bondage gear. All you want to do is squeeze their widdle cheeks and give them a cheeseburger. SO CUTE! Wonder where they are now? (via Tombolare via Dangerous Minds)
“The punk scene, as such, means nothing to me now. I don’t buy records. Bands I like are: Killing Joke, Theatre of Hate, Cramps and the Psychedelic Furs.”
“I’m into drugs, drink and sex. … I like Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Clash and The Cure.”
“Now there’s some great new bands: Exploited, Anti Pasti, Vice Squad, Theatre of Hate, Crass, the Subs. I liked the music at the beginning, but I didn’t start dressing up punk until after the Pistols split up.”
“I’ll be looking like this until I’m 22 and then I’ll take up motherhood. I’ll be looking just the same this time next year. This time in five years? I’ll be dead.”
“It all means nothing now; though it’s getting better with all the Oi bands. I like The Exploited, Anti Pasti, and Rigor Mortis.”
Eden, 16: “I’ll always be a punk. I want my kids to be punks.”
“Now I listen to Theatre of Hate, Exploited, Anti Pasti, Damned, Killing Joke, Siouxsie and Vice Squad. … Occasionally I get people coming up and asking Where were you in ‘76, but I was only 12. I’ll probably be a punk this time next year.”
“I wouldn’t class myself as a punk, I’m just an individual. I don’t like being put into categories.”
“In summer we get hundreds of Punk tourists: French, German, Spanish and Yugoslavian. They’ll buy anything! We do mail order and the only foreign letters we get are from Yugoslavia.”
“I like The Damned, Crass, Vice Squad, and the Pistols. I knew something was happening in 1977. I was into Dr. Feelgood then and that was about it.”
Angus, 14: “I was into disco and all that normal boring junk. Now I listen to Discharge, Crass, Exploited, Pistols and PiL of course.”
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