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The Day the Country Died features author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper (Burning Britain) exploring in minute detail the influential, esoteric, UK anarcho punk scene of the early Eighties. It was a time when punk stopped being merely a radical fashion statement, and became a force for real social change; a genuine revolutionary movement, driven by some of the most challenging noises ever committed to tape. Anarchy, as regards punk rock, no longer meant cash from chaos.' It meant 'freedom, peace, and unity.""

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For those with a burning desire to dig deeper than The Clash and Sex Pistols to discover below-the-radar groups from the original British punk rock scene, then Burning Britain is your new Bible. --John B. Moore, New Noise Magazine [A] chatty, engaging history [that] follows the regional lines along which UK punk's 'second wave' scene divided. --Guardian

[A] chatty, engaging history [that] follows the regional lines along which UK punk's 'second wave' scene divided. -- Guardian

[A] chatty, engaging history [that] follows the regional lines along which UK punk's 'second wave' scene divided. -- Guardian For those with a burning desire to dig deeper than The Clash and Sex Pistols to discover below-the-radar groups from the original British punk rock scene, then Burning Britain is your new Bible. --John B. Moore, New Noise Magazine

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Ian Glasper is a writer, the founder of the now-defunct Blackfish Records, which released 20 punk, hardcore, and metalcore albums, and a member of many DIY punk bands. He is the author of Armed with Anger and Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 19851989.

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