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1980s

‘Punk will come back in new forms always because the attitude is so very, very good; it’s to do with people doing things for themselves, controlling their own methods and their own culture’: Malcolm McLaren 1982

This is an extract from an interview with the late Malcolm McLaren in October 1982, conducted just after he and design partner Vivienne Westwood had shown their fashion collection Punkature. As the promulgator, initially through music and fashion and then into other forms from film and art to design and media, McLaren defined Punk as […]

January 18, 2016

1980s

Janette Beckman’s Punk Hip Hop Mashup opens in London next week

Next week witnesses the opening of a London exhibition of reworked images by music/street art photographer Janette Beckman.

January 14, 2016

1970s

The day the map turned dayglo: Punk London In The City 1975-78

This is the finalised cover of Punk London: In The City 1975-78, my map collaboration with Herb Lester Associates which will be published in a few weeks.

January 13, 2016

1940s

A brief journey through David Bowie’s London from the 40s to the 10s with me and Herb Lester

As a tribute to the late rock star, I have joined forces with map-makers Herb Lester to create an online guide to David Bowie’s London from his birth at 40 Stansfield Road in Brixton in 1947 through his solo art show in Mayfair in 1995 to the giant retrospective David Bowie Is exhibition at the […]

January 13, 2016

1970s

”I love the book… your work cascades over the decades’: David Bowie’s last email to Derek Boshier

I just had to write and tell you how much I love the book that has just been published. Your work really cascades over the decades and is utterly real and convincing. Extract of email from David Bowie to Derek Boshier, November 2015 I guess it can be told now. David Bowie was at one […]

January 12, 2016

1990s

Touched by the hand of Bowie

It is of course very sad to note the death of David Bowie; 69 is too young, particularly for such an important figure in the pop cultural landscape with an evident abundance of creative contributions still to make to our lives.

January 11, 2016

1960s

Indefatigable Ian Harris + The Earth: Pop culture maverick’s 60s rock roots come to light

Ian Harris is one of those London characters who turns up at various stages in the capital’s post-war pop culture narrative.

January 10, 2016

1960s

Derek Boshier: One (1967) + !Manifesto! (1969)

It’s always a delight to encounter fresh artworks by a favourite artist, and Derek Boshier’s print One from 1967 is no exception.

January 6, 2016

2010s

A punk rock Feliz Navidad + ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! to you, to all collaborators + fellow schemers + dreamers

Below is a fun clip bringing back memories of the 2000 European Merry Mex-Mas tour by El Vez with his Memphis Mariachis and lovely Elvettes.

December 25, 2015

2010s

‘He stuck out his tongue and made devil faces in the glass’: The Conformist to feature artists, designers, writers, performers, utopians, outsiders, posers, perverts and other figures who have affronted or inverted the idea of ‘conformity’

‘ I am among the participants in The Conformist, a group exhibition being organised for the New Year by artist Paul Kindersley at the gallery of Julia Muggenburg’s extraordinary London art/jewellery establishment Belmacz.

December 19, 2015

Author: Paul Gorman