From the archive: 21 September 1979, A wimp's-eye view of punk rock gigs

Originally published in the Guardian on 21 September 1979Flamboyant posters, punk slogans and other intimations of adolescence erupt suddenly, like acne, across my daughter's bedroom walls; Sid Vicious with scabs on his arms and a virulently pimpled chin supersedes Snoopy. As I crawl about the floor rounding up soiled undergarments, unsmiling groups like the Boomtown Rats, the Stranglers and the Clash gaze down at me and, frankly, they get on my nerves. Those effervescent happenings which in my ...

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