Contemporary Art with a Rock n'Roll edge!
In 1974, Andy Warhol sat with David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Patti Smith in the back room of New York Club venue Max’s Kansas City, whilst the New York Dolls played and Debbie Harry served drinks as a waitress. They had all been drawn to the club by the New York school artists who had used it years before as a hang out - Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Marisol et al alongside William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. In 1975, Max’s Kansas City became the birthplace of Punk in New York.
Across the Atlantic in South London during the swinging sixties, Malcolm McClaren and Jamie Reid staged a protest at their art school in Croydon and Vivienne Westwood sold handmade silver jewellery, after studying silversmithing at Harrow school of art. In 1971, a shop on the King’s Road came up for rent - a perfect boutique for the art school graduates to create one of the birthplaces of Punk in the UK.
Meanwhile, just after Joe Strummer had thought about being a cartoonist and Dave Vanian considered going into graphic design, in a hundred dingy basements and bedrooms, t-shirts and 7 inch singles were being hand screen printed, cuts up and photos from the NME and Sounds were being photo-copied and stapled together and black and white screen printed posters were being hand coloured. Hands-on printmaking was the other birthplace of punk.
Neat Neat Neat explores and celebrates this connection, as music fans in a digital world - we now step back to see the vital link between the poster, the pin badge, the LP cover and the music.
"I want your skull
I need your skull
I want your skull
I need your skull"
- The Misfits - Skulls
"I want your skull
I need your skull
I want your skull
I need your skull"
- The Misfits - Skulls
"and only the wounded remain
the Generals have all left the game
with no will to fight
they'll fade with the light
there's nobody left they can blame"
- The Damned - Generals
"and only the wounded remain
the Generals have all left the game
with no will to fight
they'll fade with the light
there's nobody left they can blame"
- The Damned - Generals
“Oh, God, I’m bored. Might as well be listening to Genesis”
- Rick - The Young Ones
“A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.”
- Billy Childish
“A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.”
- Billy Childish
"It's at night when they come,
When I'm alone, and not with anyone,
Through the shouts and music,
of the crowd down the road boozing,
Near the free car park,
The bins and the alleyway, of the Chinese restaurant,
Number 3 for 2, and number 4 for 1"
- Sleaford Mods - BHS
"It's at night when they come,
When I'm alone, and not with anyone,
Through the shouts and music,
of the crowd down the road boozing,
Near the free car park,
The bins and the alleyway, of the Chinese restaurant,
Number 3 for 2, and number 4 for 1"
- Sleaford Mods - BHS
"It's at night when they come,
When I'm alone, and not with anyone,
Through the shouts and music,
of the crowd down the road boozing,
Near the free car park,
The bins and the alleyway, of the Chinese restaurant,
Number 3 for 2, and number 4 for 1"
- Sleaford Mods - BHS
“We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes”
- Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
“We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes”
- Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
“We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes”
- Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
“We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes”
- Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
“We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes”
- Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard”
- X-Ray Spex - O Bondage Up Yours
“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard”
- X-Ray Spex - O Bondage Up Yours
“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard”
- X-Ray Spex - O Bondage Up Yours
“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard”
- X-Ray Spex - O Bondage Up Yours
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
- Henry Rollins - (Black Flag)
“This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights
All three of them.
Know Your Rights - (The Clash)
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
- Henry Rollins - (Black Flag)
“This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights
All three of them.
Know Your Rights - (The Clash)
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
- Henry Rollins - (Black Flag)
“If you've been trying for years we already heard your song”
- Death or Glory - (The Clash)
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
- Henry Rollins - (Black Flag)
“I got this feeling I’m gonna die before I get old. I don’t know why. I just have this feeling”
- Sid Vicious
"For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul."
- Joey Ramone - (The Ramones)
"For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul."
- Joey Ramone - (The Ramones)
“I think that National Pride leads to nothing but Wars and Hate”
- John Lydon - (Sex Pistols/P.I.L)
“I think that National Pride leads to nothing but Wars and Hate”
- John Lydon - (Sex Pistols/P.I.L)
“The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful”
- Malcolm McLaren - (Manager Sex Pistols / New York Dolls)
“I think that National Pride leads to nothing but Wars and Hate”
- John Lydon - (Sex Pistols/P.I.L)
“I think that National Pride leads to nothing but Wars and Hate”
- John Lydon - (Sex Pistols/P.I.L)
“I don't believe illusions 'cause too much is real. So stop your cheap comment cause we know what we feel”
- Pretty Vacant - (Sex Pistols)
“I don't believe illusions 'cause too much is real. So stop your cheap comment cause we know what we feel”
- Pretty Vacant - (Sex Pistols)
“I don’t like fashion. I don’t like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.”
- Wendy O.Williams - (The Plasmatics)
“I don’t like fashion. I don’t like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.”
- Wendy O.Williams - (The Plasmatics)
“Middle men,
The metropolis of discontent,
Red and orange lights and old men”
- Sleaford Mods - Middle Men
“You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.”
- Queen Elizabeth II
“You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.”
- Queen Elizabeth II
"They say that death kills you, but death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you."
- Iggy Pop
“And watched the world turn day-glo”
- X-Ray Spex - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
“Two inch nails,
Micro waist,
With a pale white feline face,
Inclination eyebrows to there”
- The Misfits - Vampira
“Punk Rock shouldn’t be quality, it should be fucking mania”
- Dave Vanian - (The Damned)
“Typical girls are cruel and bewitching
She's a femme fatale”
- Typical Girls - (The Slits)
“Typical girls are cruel and bewitching
She's a femme fatale”
- Typical Girls - (The Slits)
“Typical girls get upset too quickly
Typical girls can't control themselves
Typical girls are so confusing”
- Typical Girls - (The Slits)
“Typical girls get upset too quickly
Typical girls can't control themselves
Typical girls are so confusing”
- Typical Girls - (The Slits)
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
- Barack Obama
“Pop Music doesn’t challenge anything”
- Glenn Danzig - (Misfits)
“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right”
- John Lydon - (Sex Pistols/P.I.L)
“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
- Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)
“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
- Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)
“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
- Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)
“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
- Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)
“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE."
- Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)
“It’s on Amerika’s tortured brow,
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow"
- David Bowie - Life on Mars
"Following the footsteps
Of a rag doll dance
We are entranced
Spellbound
Spellbound
Spellbound"
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
