ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an examination of the anarcho-punk movement and terms of influence and quantity of participants. The year is 1976 and punk is experiencing what we might describe as one of its original rebirths. It is teatime and a young man, in his late teens, is sitting amongst the three other members of his band, in front of regional mass audience. He had a low-attendance record at school and spent time in institutions for juvenile delinquents. He is a serial thief with a criminal record, and a sex addict. The term punk had been applied to music before but, just as importantly, its etymology is said to include the denotation of a petty thief being a name for a type of dried tree fungus used as tinder for ignition. Bill Grundy was an important supplementation of certain broad traces; a supplementation that added a new cultural connotation to the word punk of the older connotations.
