From featuring a few record covers we've grown to a monster that tries to reflect all aspects - images, sounds, history, interviews, fanzines, fashion, etc of the time. Like it or not  this site is both an objective and subjective history of sorts. The two quotes on the right for me sum up at once both punks appeal and its problem. 

The most enjoyable thing though about doing the site has been the interviews with the bands and when I say bands, I mean the smaller bands; the ones the music journalists turned authors and the original bands all take the piss out of as just copyists of the Pistols and Clash and casually wipe from the history of Punk. In interviews, TV and books its the same people who are defining punk on their terms airbrushing out important bands like The Stranglers and Damned and while their view is of course valid its the only one getting any airing and its wrong. 

I hope this site challenges this myth. It was  the small bands who were on the frontline playing to people like me, the 'dog soldiers' dressed in various bits of tat, across the country taking the flak releasing the one classic single then splitting and changing and sowing the seeds for later bands like Joy Division and a host of other people. Punk means different things to different people and every generation has its new punk. Who am I to slag it off....enjoy it.. after '79 its just not for me. 

What this site is still about though is the MUSIC and always will be.  I don't give a shit about Record Dealers, Record Labels, books or the money making bonanza that punk has become in retrospect. This site makes no money, takes no advertising, is answerable to no-one and aims to share the 'Punk Experience' brothers and sisters. If I tread on toes so f***ing what. If I like something I'll say it. If I don't, don't expect praise. 

"Today, so many years later, the shock of punk is that every good record can still sound like the greatest thing you've ever heard.....because it can convince you that you never have to hear anything else as long as you live-each record seems to say everything there is to say."
Greil Marcus 'Lipstick Traces' 1989

"In the inner sanctum of punk there were no more than about 100 people... the Pistols and their hangers on, the Clash...the Bromley Contingent, ...and...those at the core of punk would look down on the movement's dog soldiers, with their bin-liners and their safety pins through their cheeks."  
'Punk - The Illustrated History Of A Music Revolution.' Boot & Salewicz