u/TurboSardine

Charlie Harper, long time singer for the UK Subs, claims to have “brought hardcore to America”. I have never heard anyone cite the UK Subs as a big influence on that first generation of US bands. Happy to be told I’m missing something - what do you think?

The article is paywalled in a right-wing British magazine called the Spectator. But here’s the key quote:

“America saved them and gave Harper his career. Young, angry, suburban men began propagating the idea of 'hardcore punk - punk that eschewed all frills and melody in favour of aggression and velocity.

Instead of singing, frontmen barked, just as Harper did on those hits.

“We brought the hardcore thing to America and then it went really over the top,” he says. “Everyone tried to be faster than everyone else. And now these bands look on me as the godfather of hardcore.””

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Whatever storms and arguments followed, June 23rd 2016 remains a remarkable moment when voters insisted that political authority should answer to the national electorate.

To everyone who campaigned, argued, voted, and kept the faith through the years that followed: Happy 10th Anniversary.

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