Just watched this DVD when I should have been studying. It was pretty good and I would recommend it to anyone with a general interest in the meaning of punk. This film gives a more universal insight into the spirit of punk that the minutemen film I was talking about a few weeks ago.
The film was made by Don Letts, friend of the clash and DJ. He has scraped together archive footage and fresh interviews and melded them into an interesting hybrid. The usual suspects are present (thurston moore, henry rollins and glen matlock) as well as some less familiar faces (dick manitoba of the dictators, daryl from the bad brains).
The meaning of punk is discussed and the punk attitude is put into its historical context. Letts explores the MC5, the velvets, television and the new york dolls moving through the ramones, the clash and the pistols to the dead kennedys, agnostic front, sonic youth and nirvana before finally looking at todays youth culture. He casts his punk net wide and brings home a decent catch.
In britain most people (stupidly) think that punk was just the pistols and the clash and racist skinheads in the late 70s/early 80s. Punk was a leather biker jacket that said 'fuck' and a bottle of cider. It was a heroin addiction if you were a hopeless loser. In 2006 we have mtv punk with green day and arctic monkeys.
But punk was more and is more.
Punk is attitude. Like the title of the movie. Check it out.
(plus the packaging is totally unpunk and contains a reprint of the first issue of sniffing glue which is nice. I'm far too young to be a real punk but I did listen to my slits album tonight)
funky
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