Distorted Perspectives 2017, was yet another tautologic triumph, a peripherally poetic, wigging out ‘er limits, on Donegal’s ragged edge…

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This Sunday at 9pm on Primal Music, chromaticism’s revolutions on the radio, celebrates April with a nod to Distorted Perspectives 2017….

“beauty is in the street”… (May 1968 uprisings street poster)

The other week, the BBC repeated it’s ‘Punk Britania’ television triptych – ‘Pre-Punk 1972-1976’, ‘Punk 1976-1978’ & ‘Post-Punk 1978-1981’, first aired in 2012.

I could, and frequently do, watch things like this until the cows come home. Gleaning ever more intersections, connecting ever more “goddamned dots”, with each renewed viewing.

This time I was struck with two things, firstly that the copy of, ‘The Truth of Revolution, Brother: An Exploration of Punk Philosophy’, that I had bought a year or so ago, still sat languishing, unopened on the bookshelf. Secondly, that if 1977 had been the high-water mark of the Punk movement, was there something more to this, just beyond half-way through the decade, watershed moment?

Listen again to ‘chromaticism‘s revolutions on the radio’ – episode 01, first broadcast on Primal Radio on Sunday 31st January, 2016…