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Alf Bentley

Punk Survivors Photos

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Strictly a niche thread, this one (I'm hoping to be the first to achieve 0 replies and 0 views  :D)....

 

Just came across this web page: http://www.johnbolloten.co.uk/Punk_Survivors_People.html#!

 

This geezer has photographed an impressive array of "names" from the 1970s punk scene as they are today (but no Clash or Undertones?!). A real rogues gallery.

 

Quite an interesting little study of ageing, but sobering for those of us old enough to remember when these people were the young tearaways terrifying a nation.

 

Captain Sensible looks the best preserved. He stood behind us at a festival a few years ago and did look 10-15 years younger than his age....he's clearly not led a rock'n'roll lifestyle, like some.

I wouldn't like to upset Mensi of Angelic Upstarts....and there are 2 or 3 who really should give up with the hair dye and accept a grey late middle-age....

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Me too, some have aged very well indeed, the fact the punk scene only lasted a couple of years probably helped.

 

Yeah but most of them didn't accept that it only lasted a couple of years.

 

I had the pleasure of seeing the Stranglers over here last year (or the year before).

 

The guys certainly seem to have held up better than the lasses.

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I'm actually surprised how good most of them look considering their age and their past.

 

They look better than Sid Vicious for a start.

 

 

Maybe they should have included Mark E. Smith and Shane MacGowan for a bit of balance...

 

An American version featuring The Ramones wouldn't look too good, either.  :(

 

 

Me too, some have aged very well indeed, the fact the punk scene only lasted a couple of years probably helped.

 

But....but.... "Punk's not dead", Ronnie!

I can vouch for that as I'm sat in front of my PC with a 2-foot purple mohican and a leather jacket embossed with studs, reading "The Exploited".  :whistle:

 

In many ways, post-punk was better than punk....but that's another debate. 

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Seen UK Subs live a few times, staggering that Charlie Harper's in his 70s now.

 

 

He's "only" 71 according to Wikipedia. I'd have expected him to be older.

 

He was an "old git" compared to the rest of the punk cohort (apart from Jet Black) but must have only been mid-30s, about 18 years younger than I am now. Scary.

Mind you, most of that generation were late teens to early 20s. Strummer was seen as a bit on the old side, aged 25 in 1977...

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