A performance seminar on DIY Punk from the late 70s. In this case, the notion of ‘bad’ music applies to the deskilling, or plain old ineptitude, of the musicians whose fearlessness generated some of the most remarkably interesting music of the late 70s early 80s.
DIY applies to a lot of records issued in this period that put family and friends’ money into pressing a 7” single or LP. DIY punk (sometimes Xerox music, after the method of duplicating the record covers) is something else, although the two categories sometimes overlap.
The set began with playing or discussing the following records—
Buzzcocks–Spiral Scratch EP, 01/77
The Fall–Bingo Master’s Breakout, 08/78
Desperate Bicycles–The Medium Was Tedium, 07/77
Television Personalities–I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives, 1981
Swell Maps–Read About Seymour, 01/78

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/22698