Here I am in London at a friend’s squat. Came down south to meet up with friends and most importantly to attend 3 punk gigs in three nights. I wanted to see the bands I’d taped off of my friend which introduced a change in my life to a degree I started to learn bass […]
Tag: Ian Glasper
Book review: The Scene That Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post-Millennial Punk In The UK by Ian Glasper
Ian Glasper delivers again. Bass player for numerous hardcore punk bands, contributor to many fanzines and magazines and a book writer. But then, on second thoughts, you can’t just call him a writer. Having written 6 books on hardcore punk and thrash metal, he has become a full-time punk scene documentalist, or docu-mentalist as he […]
2019 TOP 10: Ian Glasper
Yet another TOP 10 of the passing year, this time (like last year) from Ian Glasper, bassist for WARWOUND (whose 2nd LP is out soon, in the beginning of 2020) and author of books on punk, hardcore and thrash. His latest book, “Contract In Blood: A History Of UK Thrash Metal” is still available from […]
2018 TOP 10 by Ian Glasper
Ian Glasper (interviewed here) – bassist for the great WARWOUND (interviewed here) and bassist for DECADENCE WITHIN, STAMPIN’ GROUND or FLUX OF PINK INDIANS in the past, just to name a few bands, contributor to TERRORIZER magazine and a book writer. He wrote 5 books on punk, hardcore and thrash metal scenes in UK and […]
Glasper’s Burning Britain with a musical soundtrack on 4 CDs: UK82
Those of you who have read the book called Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 19801984 by Ian Glasper (interviewed here) know that this is the only well documented source of UK punk bands of the period. And not only the ones that made it further than a demo, 5 gigs and perhaps an […]