To the uninitiated, or uninvolved, punk may seem to have disappeared with the 70s, as the original punk rockers either traded in their safety pins for nappy pins and settled down… or burned out.  But as a movement, punk didn’t ever go away, it just faded from the mainstream, as the over-commercialisation of punk cultureclashed with the anti-establishment, DIY ethics upon which the scene was founded. [Read more...]