Punk Britannia

Back when the first wave of punk nostalgia hit, around the start of the War on Iraq, Sandra was immediately dismissive of it. Punk was all about not being like your parents, not being a self indulgant hippy wanker and here we are indulging in the same nostalgic shit. And now, in 2012, it’s another jubilee year and of course there must be another punk retrospective on BBCFour, Lizzie and the Sex Pistols still drawing top crowds. It’s all very and interesting and this time around and at least this time they’re not ignoring pub rock, but it is still painful to see the vanguard of this particular youf revolution as boring old middle aged farts, no different from their hippy and proggy counterparts.

Time flattens all those differences that seemed so important when you were young and in the end all this becomes just more fodder for music nerds, happily playing Yes followed by the Clash with a bit of an obscure delta blues chaser to finish.

But isn’t it time for a Wurzels cornrock revival yet?