Day The Country Died: A History Of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984

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In this revealing history, author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper

explores in minute detail the influential and esoteric UK anarcho-punk

scene of the early 1980s. Where some of the colorful punk bands from the

first half of the decade were loud, political, and uncompromising, their

anarcho-punk counterparts were even more so, totally prepared to risk their

liberty to communicate the ideals they believed in so passionately. With

Crass and Poison Girls opening the floodgates, the arrival of bands such as

Amebix, Chumbawamba, Flux of Pink Indians, and Zounds heralded a new age of

honesty and integrity in underground music. New, exclusive interviews and

hundreds of previously unreleased photographs document the impact of all of

the scene’s biggest names—and a fair few of the smaller ones—highlighting

how anarcho-punk took the rebellion inherent in punk from the very

beginning to a whole new level of personal awareness.