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  Review by Richmond Hill ★★★ 1

  I’m always in two minds about ‘punk’: it’s either angrily articulate or childishly provocative. Regardless of this, ‘not my cup of tea’ is a truer statement than any slight interest in these things. Anyway it’s the underlying socio-economic conditions that are more telling than a gob and a safety pin. 

  Although this rote documentary is well illustrated and is careful to contextualise history before, during and after - and resists hagiography without reason - it comes off a little too cautiously straight, beset as it is with annoying graphical interjections and a sense of geography that bewilders (I’m not sure who did research or editing, but to use footage of Liverpool to fleetingly illustrate Manchester is quite ignorant).

  In two minds I remain, although in only one about something I’ll not watch again.

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  Review by Lencho of the Apes ★★★

  Random footnotes to the main story, heavy on the X Ray Spex and the Chelsea. A different eentrepreneur that wasn't McLaren or Bernie Rhodes came forward with his punkfashion shop and the band he was sponsoring, so Chelsea. Lengthy Gene October interviews.

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  Review by Comrie ★★½

  while there are some fairly interesting interviews this plays it very straight down the middle and takes no risks- which is kind the antithesis of what punk started as

  a little disappointing.