Comments on: The Punjabi Punk

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 21:50:24 +0000

Nice to read your article Suresh. They were fun days. Its good to be part of change in a positive way and I hope the younger generation take a leaf from your book.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:29:30 +0000

I’m another from the same generation and enjoyed reading this very much. I suppose I was what was referred to at the time as a “plastic punk”. If you did an office job like me during the day then you had to be sensibly dressed, but in the evenings we went mad with our outlandish looks. I remember spending a small fortune on knitting big mohair jumpers, the hairier the better, and being asked to knit them for friends. When we left school in 1977 a friend became an apprentice hairdresser; she used to pinch Crazy Colour from the shop she worked in so we could colour our hair in outlandish shades for the weekends.

Happy days, I’m 60 in the spring but feel 16 again after reading this 🙂

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:27:14 +0000

Re Gregory.
Isn’t that a two tone suit on the left?
That would place the pic at around 79/80, alongside the
Mod revival.
Proud owner of Where’s Captain Kirk,as previously boasted!

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:59:23 +0000

“If your parents love and support you, you do not need to rebel against them because you know that they value you as an individual in your own right”

Love these words so much. I wish I had experienced this parenting, but I try to for my own children

By: Richard Smith

Richard Smith — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:25:16 +0000

I enjoyed today’s blog GA. I liked the confidence of Suresh and his family. I liked the love that obviously existed between them. I liked Scratti the Cat! Thank you.

By: Pamela Traves

Pamela Traves — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 07:42:33 +0000

I would Love to read this Book. I need to read this. Thank You So Very Much????????.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 07:27:48 +0000

Love these photos and love these memoirs – I am from the same generation and the same cultural-musical influences as Suresh: art, punk rock, dub wise, cultural expression. It’s so nice to see these good people, righteous people, artistic, adventurous, people of good spirit – I loved these days, listening to everything from Ali Akbar Khan and Hari Prasad Chaurasia to Jah Shaka Sound and King Tubby’s to JB’s funk, The Pistols and Fela Kuti.

As soon as ‘punk orthodoxy’ came in — it was all over : the point was, to use that original punk energy to do something different, not to reproduce the same old thing.

And ‘Where’s Captain Kirk’ was a fine record – it’s nice to know who played the drums!

Excellent post. My only minor query is the date on the first picture – that doesn’t look like 1977 – the DIY mohair and leather jackets pic – just a hunch, just intuition – but isn’t that 1979 or 1980? It doesn’t look like 77 to me.