Join us for a rare screening of British Rock Ready for the Eighties: Punk and its Aftershocks + Q&A with director Wolfgang Büld and the authors Daniel Rachel, Cathi Unsworth, and Richard Weight
doors: 7:00 start: 7:30
Tickets: £10
This sequel to the Munich-based filmmaker Wolfgang Büld’s classic doc, PUNK IN LONDON, finds punk not dead but Britain now on fire with the fresh sounds and street styles of Ska, Mod and New Wave.
An unmissable snapshot of the musical landscape of the nation in 1979, BRITISH ROCK READY FOR THE EIGHTIES: PUNK AND ITS AFTERSHOCKS features live performances and exclusive interviews with the likes of The Clash, The Jam, Ian Dury, The Pretenders, Secret Affair, Spizzenergi, The Boomtown Rats, Gary Numan, and 2-Tone pioneers The Specials, Madness, and The Selector.
Büld will be joined in a discussion about the film and the sounds and fashions of the late 70s by the authors Daniel Rachel (Too Much Too Young), Cathi Unsworth (Season of the Witch) and Richard Weight (Mod) hosted by pop culture historian Travis Elborough.
Don’t miss this rare screening of one of rock’s finest documentaries and a portrait of Britain on the cusp of enormous musical, political and social change.
Wolfgang Büld is a German-born but London-based filmmaker, scriptwriter and producer who studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. His graduation film in 1977 was the music documentary PUNK IN LONDON, which became an instant international cult classic and resulted in two sequels before Büld branched out into making feature films.
Birmingham-born Daniel Rachel is a former musician-turned-award-winning and bestselling author whose books include Don't Look Back in Anger: the Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia and Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story.
Cathi Unsworth is a lifelong Goth. A teenage music journalist turned acclaimed crime writer and biographer of punk icon Jordan, her latest book, Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth, is a personal and social history of an enduring counter-culture – one that steadfastly refuses to give up the ghost.
Richard Weight is the author of the acclaimed MOD From Bebop to Britpop, Britain’s Biggest Youth Movement and the forthcoming Pleasure Island: Drugs & the British, A Global History.
The author and broadcaster Travis Elborough has been described by The Guardian as ‘one of Britain’s finest pop culture historians.’
