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1977, the year when the 2 sevens clashed, was a watershed moment in music, fashion and lifestyle with the arrival of Punk rock and things would never be the same!

The Bill Grundy incident on UK TV in 1976 that gave the Sex Pistols and Punk Rock their notoriety and propelled them into the public eye.

Chiswick Records London began in 1975 from a market stall and had punk acts Radiators from Space, Johnny Moped, Skrewdriver & The Damned.

The Finchley Boys were an infamous group of friends who followed the punk band The Stranglers in the late seventies.

Spaceward Studios in Cambridge was set up by Mike Kemp and Gary Lucas in the ’70’s and was where Raw Records recorded their punk bands.

Pogo dancing was punk’s very own dance where the dancer goes straight up and down and cannons into other dancers.

Story of the unlikely hook up between mutual outcasts reggae and punk rock in late seventies England and guide to the music.

Punk’s use of the swastika to shock and offend was often misunderstood and misrepresented and we look at why.

Raw Records: Lee Wood’s famous Cambridge Punk Record label that released classics by the Users, Killjoys and Unwanted among others.

Rock Against Communism was the National Front’s ineffectual answer to Rock Against Racism putting on Nazi bands to a minority audience.

Rock Against Racism was a late Seventies political musical movement mainly of punk & reggae to stop the rise of the growing National Front.

Rock Against Sexism was a short lived late Seventies UK activist offshoot of Rock Against Racism that sought to end sexism in rock.

Skinheads were a UK youth cult from 1969 typified by short hair & utilitarian fashion. In 1977 they returned but seen as violent & right wing.

Spitting, or gobbing, was a peculiar way UK punk audiences expressed a like for a band by drenching them in phlegm.

Stiff Records was an independent label who released the the first UK Punk single with The Damned’s ‘New Rose’ and many more.

TalkPunk was the Forum on Punk77 and one of the threads was a rendition by some members of Punk cover art in Microsoft Paint.

Teds & Punks: A history and explanation of the antagonism between the two youth groups who very publicly fought in 1977.

Punk bands The Damned and The Dead Boys played with each other both in the US and the UK. Who won in this punk battle?

The National Front and British Movement were two right wing organisations that came to prominence in the 1970’s.