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BBC4 Friday 1st June : "Punk Britannia" & "We Who Wait: TV Smith & the Adverts"
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wychburyman
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Re: BBC4 Friday 1st June :
Jun 03, 2012, 11:57
Incoming Traveller wrote:
Elegant Chaos' remarks give me hope that this series will be good. It's great to have a doc on The Adverts and Mark P being interviewed is also a sign that it's not all the obvious suspects being wheeled out again. However, I don't believe a serious look at punk can be done without a) the big role that women have played in it, which usually gets ignored (Zillah Minx's film 'She's A Punk Rocker' goes some way to address this and b) Crass being involved. They were incredibly important and don't get enough credit, in my humble opinion. Looking forward to the series, though.


Good point. Enjoyed it, though.

Being a big STranglers fan, I know that they are set aside from the main Punk movement, but as a crossover band I do think a big debt is owed to them and should at least be mentioned in despatches and not wiped out in some kind of Stalinist way.
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