Comments on: X-Ray Vision

By: Fergal

Fergal — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:39:02 +0000

My vanity insists I make it clear that I too am a child of the grunge and not the punk generation, though I became rather obsessed with punk for a few years. Both Savage and Marcus’s books are indispensible works on the topic, though Marcus’s is a bit bonkers: his attempt to draw a lineage from Johnny Rotten back to mediaeval heretics, via the dadaist and situationist movement, is not for the faint-hearted.

By: Gareth Stack

Gareth Stack — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:22:41 +0000

Glad to hear you liked it Fergal, so much more fun to do a feature than type up another bloody interview! I grew up with grunge, so I missed out on punk by a few years, when I did get into it, it was much later American stuff like Misfits and NOFX. Really enjoying some early British punk now though. I’ll keep an eye out for Savage’s book.

By: Fergal

Fergal — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:24:21 +0000

Great article. Got me listening to Oh Bondage for the first time in years. There’s some great stuff about X-ray Spex in Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming and Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces (though I suspect you may have read them already)