Burning Britain
Subtitle: the history of UK punk 1980-1984
By: Ian Glasper
Edition: [2014 ed.].
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oakland, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9781604867480
Subjects: Punk culture; Punk rock music; Punk rock musicians; Rock music; History and criticism; History
Other titles: History of UK punk 1980-1984
Description: As the 1970s closed the media was quick to declare punk dead, but a new generation of even more aggressive and political bands were announcing their presence through some of the most primal and potent music ever committed to plastic. This book is the definitive guide to that previously overlooked era.
Notes: Earlier ed. published in the UK by Cherry Red, 2004.

Includes discographies and web resources.
Table of contents: title: A country fit for heroes...; title: The southwest. Vice Squad ; Chaotic Dischord ; Sex Aids ; Dead Katts ; Disorder ; Chaos UK ; Court Martial ; Lunatic Fringe ; The Undead ; Demob ; Screaming Dead; title: The midlands. GBH ; Dead Wretched ; Drongos for Europe ; Cadaverous Clan ; Sensa Yuma ; The Stench ; The Varukers ; The Samples; title: The northwest. Blitz ; Attak ; The Violators ; Mayhem ; Blitzkrieg ; The Insane ; The Fits ; One Way System ; Instant Agony ; Emergency ; Xtract ; Distortion; title: The northeast. Angelic Upstarts ; The Toy Dolls ; Red Alert ; Total Chaos ; Uproar ; Major Accident ; Abrasive Wheels ; The Expelled ; The Underdogs ; Ultra Violent ; Criminal Justice ; Mau Maus ; Red London; title: The north and east midlands: Discharge ; Broken Bones ; The Skeptix ; Anti Pasti ; The Enemy ; Resistance 77 ; Riot Squad ; Septic Psychos; title: The east and southeast. The Destructors ; English Dogs ; ABH ; The Adicts ; Special Duties ; Newtown Neurotics ; Anti Establishment ; Chron Gen ; UK Decay ; Subculture; title: London. UK Subs ; The Wall ; The Dark ; Action Pact ; Dead Man's Shadow ; Erazerhead ; The Straps ; The Gonads ; Cockney Rejects ; The Business ; The 4-Skins ; The Ejected ; Infa-Riot ; The Blood ; Soldiers of Destruction; title: The south. Anti-Nowhere League ; Peter and the Test Tube Babies ; Ad Nauseam ; Butcher ; Cult Maniax; title: Wales. The Partisans ; Picture Frame Seduction ; Soldier Dolls ; Foreign Legion; title: Northern Ireland. The Defects ; The Outcasts; title: Scotland. The Exploited ; External Menace ; Threats ; Anti-Social ; Bayonet Babies ; The Skroteez ; Ugen Kampf ; Barbed Wire ; Chaotic Youth ; The Actives; title: The labels. Riot City ; No Future ; Clay ; Beat the System ; Captain Oi; title: Appendices. Punk lives ; Holidays in the Sun ; Related websites ; Updated discographies.