Book description
As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead
and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter.
Harder and faster than their '76-77 predecessors, not to mention more
aggressive and political, the likes of Discharge, The Exploited and
GBH were to prove not only more relevant but arguably just as
influential. More than two years in the making and featuring hundreds
of brand new interviews and photographs, Burning Britain is the true
story of the UK punk scene from 1980 to 1984 told for the first time
by the bands and labels who created it. Covering the country region by
region, author Ian Glasper profiles not only both big names like Vice
Squad, Anti Pasti, The Defects, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Peter And
The Test Tube Babies and the UK Subs but the more obscure Xtract,
Skroteez and Soldier Dolls. The grim reality of being a teenage punk
rocker in Thatcher¹s Britain resulted in some of the most primal and
potent music ever committed to plastic. Burning Britain is the
definitive overview of that previously overlooked era.
