No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984

About the show

No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976 to 1984 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude, and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop.

Rejecting both tired clichés and nostalgic myths, Matt Worley provides the definitive account of how punk was constructed and utilised from the ground up. He takes youth culture seriously as a way of understanding history, demonstrating how punk not only reflected but directly impacted social and political history through its unique ability to provoke, disrupt, and subvert.

This updated anniversary edition of No Future marks fifty years since the birth of punk and includes a new foreword from writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic, Paul Morley. It remains the foremost history of British punk.