Tag: The Defects

  • Shellshock Rock: Alternative Blasts From Northern Ireland 1977-1984

    The Punks I hung about with from 1978 cared about three things: music, clothes and attitude. Despite popular belief we even had a great time doing so, just like anywhere else. What we didn’t like too much was being told what to do, how to think. Which is why Punk appealed to those of us…

  • Various Artists Action Time Vision: A Story of UK Independent Punk 1976-1979 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red add to their sterling series of comprehension genre selections with this fresh rendering of early Independent UK Punk numbers. I’m confessing to personal involvement with the era playing bass in the initial incarnation of The Defects around the…