Armed with Anger: How UK Punk Survived the Nineties

Following on from his successful trilogy of books about the UK's underground punk scene of the Eighties, Ian Glasper's "Armed with Anger: How UK Punk Survived the Nineties" is the fourth and final book in this well-received, critically-acclaimed series, this time focusing on the much-maligned period of the Nineties. Thought by many to be an absolute nadir in the history of UK punk, this overlooked era still spawned many important and intriguing bands, and no stone is left unturned when uncovering the inspirations and motivations that drove the acts of the time.
From the likes of Therapy?, Understand and Lostprophets, who all went on to major label success after starting in humble underground bands, through to bands who only released one demo or a lone 7-inch single, "Armed with Anger..." examines almost a hundred bands, allowing them to tell their own stories in their own words, and is brimming with previously unseen photographs and long-thought-lost gig flyers. The many disparate sub-genres of the scene are all minutely examined; from old school punk rock through pop-punk, ska-punk, raging hardcore, militant straightedge, metalcore and even love-it-or-hate-it emocore, the leading lights of all these styles (and many more, of course), reveal their warts 'n' all stories with honesty and conviction. And, as well as the music, "Armed with Anger..." also ponders the importance of sincere politics, underground fanzines and DIY labels, standing by your friends and never betraying your roots.

A must for anyone who enjoyed the first three books, this 'fourth book in the trilogy' pulls together many of the threads started in those earlier volumes and brings Glasper's celebration of the UK's underground punk heritage to a very satisfying, informative conclusion.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction

The Northeast
-Voorhees
-Ironside
-Stalingrad
-One By One
-Health Hazard
-Witchknot
-Canvas / Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon
-Hellkrusher
-Aftermath
-Rampage
-Kito
-Embittered
-Leatherface
-W.O.R.M.
-Truth Decay
-Imbalance

The Northwest
-Withdrawn
-Dead Wrong
-Area Effect
-Extinction Of Mankind
-Cress

East Midlands
-Hard To Swallow
-Bob Tilton
-Substandard
-Panic
-Slum Gang
-X-Rays
-Nerves
-Apocalypse Babys
-Freebase
-Disgust

West Midlands
-Assert
-Police Bastard
-Spithead
-Eastfield
-Rotunda
-Intention
-POA
-Step Back
-Excrement Of War
-Set Against

The East
-PMT
-Braindance
-Vanilla Pod
-Goober Patrol
-Combat Shock
-Urko
-The Shreds
-Sick On The Bus

The Southeast
-Above All
-Understand
-Fabric
-Blaggers ITA
-Coitus
-Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys
-Throw Bricks At Coopers
-Sink
-Wat Tyler
-Hard Skin
-Knuckledust
-Chineapple Punx
-Strength Alone

The Southwest
-Older Than Dirt
-Minute Manifesto
-Demonic Upchucks
-Bus Station Loonies
-Wordbug / Analyse
-Citizen Fish
-Spite
-Maggot Slayer Overdrive
-Statement
-Medula Nocte
-Shutdown
-Stampin' Ground
-Whippasnappa

Wales
-Four Letter Word
-Public Disturbance
-Disco Assassins
-In The Shit
-100,000 Body Bags
-Rectify
-Taint
-Vaffan Coulo
-Wanton Thought

Scotland
-Disaffect
-Shank
-Ex-Cathedra
-Confusion Corporation
-Turtlehead
-Bloodshot / Slain

Ireland
-Therapy?
-Jobbykrust
-Bleeding Rectum
-Consume
-Griswold
-Striknien DC

Fanzines
-Artcore
-Gadgie
-How We Rock
-Ripping Thrash
-Suspect Device

Labels
-Armed With Anger
-Flat Earth
-Household Name
-Simba
-Subjugation
-Sure Hand
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