Punk Rock Ruined My Life : And Other Stories.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robb, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robb, John, 1961-.

Radicalism in music.

Musicians as artists.

Local Subjects:

Robb, John, 1961-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Summary:

John Robb has been at the forefront of musical culture since the 1980s. In this compelling memoir, he looks back on a life lived through and for music.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface: the universe explodes into a billion photons of pure white light

Life, death, and the scary bits in between

Ghosts of ancient relatives on the high seas

Alien kid: my swinging sixties

Tower power! Blackpool by the sea

Spaceships! The moon landing

Wounded bull in Victorian England: school daze/cruel ways

Wigwam bam thank U glam (confessions of a teenage pop nerd)

Riot squad for Toxic City FC: tower power and nutters that come from the sea

Wake up! Wake up! You're already dead: inky fingers and the music press

In 1977 we finally get to heaven

Fighting in the dancehalls: punk adventures in a seaside town

Revolting into style! Cut-and-paste culture

Songs of love and fury: the Membranes

Entertaining friends: our first gigs

Xerox machine: fanzines and a missive from couch potato command

Get a head: the Membranes get going

If you enter the arena, you've got to be prepared to deal with the lions

Hey! When the sun goes down! Manchester calling

Twenty-four-hour drinking at northern prices! Moving to the fort by the breast-shaped hill

Death to Trad Rock

The world acclaims … the eternal protein men! How to survive being a bunch of cults

Beyond God and Elvis: 1987 and searching for the new thing

Everyone's going triple bad acid yeah! Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. in my garden

The day my universe changed: there is acid in the house

When I get to heaven: adventures on the music front line

Blind faith: blissing in action in the early nineties

Post-detergent vacuum cleaner man: adventures into sound

Home turf: Goldblade bring the punk rock soul power

Goldblade drop the bomb

Do you believe in the power of rock 'n' roll?

R U ready for the twenty-first century?

End of the century!.

All we got are punk rock rebel songs: Goldblade bring the noise

Dream the vicious dream: oh what a tangled web we weave…

Borders blurred: the visa campaign

Justice!

All roads lead to the palace of wisdom

Fangs for the memory: the Fall guy, or, how I was bitten by the elastic man

Dark Matter/Dark Energy: the Membranes take a trip into outer space

New blood for young skulls: a new generation is still louder than war!

Someone stole my brain: words are my weapons and music is the glue

Breathe in/breathe out: enter the green dragons, green populism and the sixth great extinction

What nature gives … nature takes away, or, where do you go after you have been across the universe?

Feel my disease: the great plague

Fastest man alive: the roaring twenties

In the city of future ghosts

Index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-9180-6

1-5261-9177-6

OCLC:

1590083622