
A Chance Encounter With My Post-Punk Past
Research Portfolio
Introduction
In 2019 I saw, quite by chance, an exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery entitled ‘Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus’. A substantial part of Section 5 of this exhibition was devoted to the influence of Leeds’ art schools in the late 1970s and early 1980s on visual art and post-punk music making. This exhibition served to remind me that I was at art school in Leeds at what seemed to be a particularly significant time and making music, being in a band that played and recorded in and around Leeds, in venues such as the F Club, The Warehouse, the York Pop Club and Ric-Rac Studios, released a 7” inch single on Bill Nelson’s Cocteau Records and one 12” album on Situation 2 Records all during the period referred now to as post-punk.

