http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/punk-warriors-strike-again/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/punk-warriors-strike-again/comment-page-1/#comment-67907 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:55:34 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=11805#comment-67907 A great couple of articles Tim
I must confess that back then if it wasn’t punk I didn’t want to know but I may be permitted the folly of youth. I know better now. For me though, it was always more about the music than the fashion or being part of any scene. I never bought into the year zero thing because I was blissfully unaware of prog. Even in the seventies it was never on mainstream radio or tv and although some of my schoolmates were into Floyd or Tull I never really listened to it. I closed my ears. As I say, if it wasn’t punk …
These days I don’t play much punk stuff. Most of it has not stood the test of time and I’d much rather listen to prog or symphonic metal but I’ll still give SLF or the Stranglers a spin (the ultimate prog-punk crossover band?).

]]> http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/punk-warriors-strike-again/comment-page-1/#comment-67875 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:00:01 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=11805#comment-67875 […] part of the issue is rooted in something that one of my favourite bloggers, Tim Hall, has been getting at for some time now: the old punks have, from prominent and “influential positions in the […]

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