Jim - punk rock ethos / attitude... 😜

There's enough of us.. now in our late 50s to early 60s..

30 odd years of sticking 2 fingers up to the corporate music industry...

For every mega selling commodity "Anarchy in the UK" or "Sheena is a Punkrocker"
there were a multitude of unrecorded spotty herberts knocking off songs about themselves and their mates and council estates,
and shit jobs and the dole, and who did what to annoy us during the previous week,
and taking the piss out the police and the tories, and local upstanding civic dignitaries we all agreed were complete c@nts..etc..

to be sung loud and pissed at weekend ramshackle gigs in local community scout huts, skittle alleys, village halls,
wherever we could get away with it.. all around the UK...

Most of these songs are long forgotten.. some still linger on in the memories of now respectable aging citizens with mortgages and grand kids..

occasionally meeting up for old times sake and swapping cassettes of long ago gigs and band rehearsals,
and DIY home recordings, to now be transferred to CD for posterity..

But that was a valid grass roots ground level form of 'folk music',
expression of teenage dissatisfaction and anger with the state and society....
and great effin fun as well...

And a big part of that was taking well known pop songs and kicking the shite out of them
until they were barely recognisable... they were 'our' versions...