{"id":805,"date":"2012-04-01T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T23:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=805"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:35:25","slug":"the-independent-anarchy-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-independent-anarchy-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent: Anarchy In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/features\/anarchy-in-the-uk-the-queens-silver-jubilee-in-1977-was-also-the-year-that-punk-hit-7594669.html\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/features\/anarchy-in-the-uk-the-queens-silver-jubilee-in-1977-was-also-the-year-that-punk-hit-7594669.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-806\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"indpunk12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/indpunk12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/indpunk12a.jpg 200w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/indpunk12a-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>An interesting article on punk in &#8216;The Independent&#8217; yesterday. It includes a gallery of great photos, featuring rare shots of Adam Ant, Jordan, Billy idol, Little Nell, Siouxsie etc, plus Derek Jarman at the premiere of <em>Jubilee<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anarchy in the UK: The Queen&#8217;s Silver Jubilee in 1977 was also the year that punk hit<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Photographer Simon Barker was there to capture it. Michael Bracewell opens his archive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Punk lasted in the UK for little more than 14 months, between 1976 and the Jubilee Summer of 1977. Thirty-five years later, in another Jubilee year, how might we regard the intense, chaotic, moody, surreal, futuristic-yet-Victorian aesthetics of the movement? In answer to this question, photographs taken at the time by Simon Barker, also known as Six, go a long way to articulating the ways in which a phase of youth culture attained the impact of a manifesto \u2013 while never quite losing the cool allure and faintly slapstick temperament of its confrontational amateurism.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading, at \u2018The Independent\u2019, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/features\/anarchy-in-the-uk-the-queens-silver-jubilee-in-1977-was-also-the-year-that-punk-hit-7594669.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article on punk in &#8216;The Independent&#8217; yesterday. It includes a gallery of great photos, featuring rare shots of Adam Ant, Jordan, Billy idol, Little Nell, Siouxsie etc, plus Derek Jarman at the premiere of Jubilee. Anarchy in the UK: The Queen&#8217;s Silver Jubilee in 1977 was also the year that punk hit Photographer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,15,27],"tags":[194,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}