PRESENTATION Hi, my name is Richard Cabut. I’m a writer – I wrote for the BBC for ten years, and contributed to the national press, including Guardian and the Telegraph. Plays. Etc. But I started off, in the late 7 0 s and 8os with a fanzine called Kick. Punk started in the UK in 1976. But As the 1970s turned into the 1980s, punk splintered into factions and entered a period of reinvention. Such a process was traced across numerous fanzines, but Kick was among, it’s been said , the most astute. Configuring punk as a culture of individuality, creativity and rebellion, Kick helped lay the foundations for a ‘positive punk’, a proto-gothic scene that channelled punk’s spirit into more esoteric and expressive channels. This presentation contextualizes the need for a more positive reading of punk in the 1980s and explores the world, of squats, magick and make-up from which Kick and other suc...
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