Punk music in Northern Ireland: the political power of ‘what might have been’

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Notes

‘Did Punk Rock the Troubles?’, Fortnight, July/August 1996, pp. 28–31.

John Bradbury, ‘Big Time, You Ain’t No Friend of Mine', Causeway, September 1997, pp. 40–45.

Henry McDonald, ‘Safety Pins Will Be Worn. Why the Deafening Silence over this Year’s other Significant Jubilee?', Observer, 2 June 2002.

Henry McDonald, ‘Punk Remembered: Big Time Celebrates Music that Kept the Spirit of Individual Freedom Alive’, Observer, 1 December 2002.

Henry McDonald, ‘No Ordinary Joe: The Death of The Clash’s Lead Singer Robs Us of a Remarkable Man', Observer, 29 December 2002.

‘Star Quote: Joe Strummer’, NME Rock 'n' Roll Years (BCA, 1992), p. 295.

See, for example, Bradley's interesting notes on the songs on 1999's compilation True Confessions (Singles=A's+B's), and his four‐part history of the band (the transcript of a radio series he wrote in 1999) to be found on The Undertones' official website: ⟨www.theundertones.com⟩.

Andy Medhurst, ‘What Did I Get?: Punk, Memory and Autobiography’, in Punk Rock: So What? The Cultural Legacy of Punk, ed. Roger Sabin (Routledge, 1999), pp. 219–231.

Paul Cobley, ‘Leave the Capitol’, in Sabin, Punk Rock: So What?, pp. 170–185.

McDonald, ‘Safety Pins Will Be Worn’.

A further irony, of course, is that ‘Rotten’ was the alter‐ego of a second‐generation Irishman named John Lydon—a fact which in retrospect considerably complicates both the political and the cultural dimensions of metropolitan punk.

‘Punk Film Lifts Silver Award’, Spectator, 23 November 1979.

Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Faber and Faber, 1991), p. 140.

Savage, England's Dreaming, pp. 596–597.