Reviews
"Absolute KLASS....Brilliant...shud be compulsory listening for all 12-25 year olds in the country....Of course RUDI still #1.....Loved the ,Punk= Question Everything ..great t-shirt and of course.."Joe Strummer saved my LIFE"...top class...it will all be back sooner than we think...."
Peat Burns via Facebook
"Brilliant...brilliant....Love the line..."as a riot it probably scored abouiiit one ouitta ten"....The Harp- strippers, punks, the IRA and squaddies in the one place..."We were all distorted human beings"...Love the ending..agree with Pete, should be compulsory listening"
Cormac Ryan via Facebook
"Listened to the show, great job. You would give Dave fanning a run for his money haha ... funny how surreal something is, just when we thought we where beyond the wire some mad bad ass jerks want to entrench us once more within it. But just as we prevailed in the 70's we will do so once more.
Cheers
Punk Never Dies"
Dwyer via email
"I really enjoyed the documentary last night, excellent stuff, and the contributors gave a great impression of what it must have been like there in the late 1970s. I was particularly interested in the contribution of Ruefrex Paul Burgess who was talking about feeling and seeing himself as Irish and yet coming from a Loyalist background.
Well done again. I'm certainly going to check out a lot of that music."
Kernan Andrews - Arts Editor & Political Correspondent Galway Advertiser
"Congratulations!! I really liked all aspects of the programme – research, source material, presentation, the music obviously and the humour.
A very interesting slant to Belfast Punk from a social history point of view. This brought a freshness to this subject that in many ways is a bit tired being more than thirty years old in parts. I learnt some new things from the programme.
I liked some of the tenets of Belfast Punk you put forward – positivity, cross community role and DIY ethos, AND how people developed these later in their working lives.
Personally, It made me remember some people I hadn’t thought about for years as well as some small things - like the smell of Good Vibrations – that health food shop (Sassafras?) below Good Vibes made the whole place fecking stinking. Also, I nearly forgot about seeing Crass in the Anarchy Centre.
Many thanks – a brilliant effort."
Alan/Suftu@Last.fm - Belfast Punk