Noel Gardner
, March 17th, 2021 09:00
Rimming disasters, Cockney piano and countryfied garage rock expectorations. Noel Gardner probes the boundaries of punk rock once again
Home page portrait of Spodee Boy
Can it really be a whole year since I was sporting a ‘beer jacket’ in north London at the Static Shock Weekend, being given a flyer for
The Chisel’s debut gig, briefly wondering who The Chisel were and swiftly realising they were all in the place too? Course it can! We’re not going to do that soft-arsed Facebook anniversary palaver, though, because The Chisel have had a productive 12 months even if you haven’t.
Noel Gardner
, December 10th, 2020 08:51
Noel Gardner marks a full decade of reportage from the claret pumping edge of punk rock, HC, oi, crust &c. by bringing you his prime cuts from 2020
Muro live by Joe Briggs
It’s been a decade since I started writing the Straight Hedge columns, and half a decade since the top brass of this acclaimed website cracked the whip and got me to file them to set deadlines, including an annual December overview of ‘The Year In Punk And Hardcore’.
The first one of those, in 2015, rather set the prevailing tone in its intro I suppose, by countering a couple of lazy prejudices and offering some truisms in their place – saying, not literally but in so many words, that this subculture doesn’t tend to change in ways that can be usefully expressed in a ‘Year In Review’ type blurb. So it’s gone for each following year, with provisions for obligatory mentions of Brexit, Donald Trump etc: the context being, ‘Don’t expect these things or