![]() Filipino punkdom, however, would derive most of its features from punk fanzines in the U.S. ![]() Manila becomes curious.Ī wave of wealthy teenage Pinoy expatriates brings punk to Philippine shores from Britain. The article popularizes the term “new wave” as punk develops into a musical and cultural phenomenon worldwide, overshadowed only by disco’s peak of popularity then. Time magazine runs a two-page cover story on “Punk Rock’s Primal Scream” on its July 11 issue entitled “Anthems of the Blank Generation”. Oh, and here is a “sanitized” version of the article that inspired it in part.)Ī new form of music and lifestyle takes the American and British underground scenes by storm. So, thanks to a friend of a friend of a friend, “Punk’s Not Dead” was aired on GMA-7’s iWitness program in the same year. And as fate would have it, my friend somehow got to talk about our project with a DJ friend who works at an FM radio station, who in turn has a friend who does documentaries for TV. For the 30th anniversary of Punk in 2006, a friend-slash-financier and I were supposed to put out a full-length book Loud, Proud, Brown & Punk but the fucker backed out at the last minute. Inspired by Edwin Sallan’s “The Evolution of Pinoi Punk: A Chronicle of the Finest Hours” which appeared in Herald X #2 (1987), this timeline has since been reprinted by friends in other local/foreign zines and posted a couple of times online as the “Unofficial History of Philippine Punk”, “Pinoy Punk: The Early Years”, or “20 Years of Pinoy Punk”. (In celebrating the 20 years of Punk in 1996–which broke in ‘76 or ‘77, depending on who’s talking, doesn’t matter cuz punks have always been broke!–I wrote the following article: “1976-1996: A PinOi Punk Revolution” in Teenage Anger Fanzine #2 back in the day. The First Wave Of Pinoy Punk (by Hippie Commie)
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