Jason Fletcher, (co-owner of Reverence Festival Valada) – “You fancy a DJ slot?”

That question of 14th March 2016, set events in motion which would culminate in my alter ego, ‘chromaticism‘, playing 3 DJ sets at what has become, “Southern Europe’s best underground rock festival, held in the beautiful village of Valada, on the banks of the River Tejo…”

“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?