Noel Gardner
, April 20th, 2021 07:49
Forty years since their debut, and with their first new music in over a decade released this month, Noel Gardner meanders through the opaque history of these UK punk icons. Home page art: Crucified Mite by Nick Blinko
An all too rare photograph of Nick Blinko playing live with Rudimentary Peni
Rarely can this long-running series be more appropriately named than when considering the curious case of Rudimentary Peni, a transcendent punk band from England. Notionally part of a subculture which – to generalise – favours extroverts, clarity of messaging and maximum communication between artist and audience, the three-piece, who formed in 1980, had limited patience for how they saw that manifest. After 1983’s