Books and Films

100 Nights At The Roxy was an A4 photo book published in 1978 showing the audience and bands at the infamous punk Roxy Club in London WC2. Lots of Derek Ridger photos.

1988 Punk Rock New Wave Explosion by journalist Caroline Coon was the first book on punk in mid 1977 and featured the bands, fans, clubs and more.

‘In The Gutter’ was a book about punk published in 1978 by Val Hennessey, notable for juxtaposing photos of punks with tribal ones.

Punk Rock was a 1978 book by Virginia Boston. It was also known as Shockwave in the UK and featured bands, fashion, fans and fanzines.

New Music No.1: The Sound of The Streets was a 60-page punk magazine published in 1978 and edited by Roger St. Pierre aka Peter Kent. Unusually featured a lot of the smaller bands.

Not Another Punk Book! by Isabelle Anscombe published in 1978 was a more design-orientated work featuring collage, montage, quotes and text.

Punk was a book of photographs of bands and fans taken by Salvador Costa while in London and published in Spain in 1977. Lots of Roxy Club photos.

Punk by Julie Davis was published in November 1977 and was a compilation of punk fanzine articles and reviews along with numerous punk photos.

‘Punk Rock’ was a well researched book by Zigzag magazine co-founder John Tobler in 1977 and was a complete guide to British and American New Wave.

Sniffin’ Glue – The Bible was a coffee table compilation of all the issues of Mark P’s seminal punk fanzine which came out in April 1978.

The Boy Looked At Johnny by Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons is an unintentional comedy book from late 1978 claiming to be the obituary of rock ‘n’ roll.

‘The Punk’ was a fictional Punk novel by the 14-year-old Gideon Sams published in 1977 by Polytantric Press. Gideon would sadly die aged 26.