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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. 

This project is a re-examination and/or a re-imagining of my own post-punk music making journey and a way to re-establish a connection to music making after many years absence. A testing of ideas, techniques and approaches from a post-punk pre-digital past in the digital present.
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