The Scene That Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post-Millennial Punk In The UK, by Ian GlasperAfter covering the UK thrash metal scene of the last forty years with Contract In Blood: A History of UK Thrash (2018), Glasper has finally deemed it time to bring his coverage of the ever evolving UK punk scene to a triumphant conclusion, rounding up the last two decades with The Scene That Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post Millennial Punk In The UK. An awful lot has happened since 2000 not least of all the advent of the internet and social media,

Brexit and coronavirus have blighted both the political landscape and the live music scene

Glasper brings his series of books documenting UK punk to a close in fine style

It was during his stay in London that he first got a hankering for writing a book on anarcho-punk

to places where change mattered and the spirit of revolt burned brightest

The Offspring

kindly tip your hat to a lady

After this run is sold through - that's it

“I added a lot of funny stuff: more messages and hate mail and I expanded on some of the funny experiences I should have really told better

The book also contains a poster of the DC Band Family Tree

originally printed and distributed in Washington

An awful lot has happened since 2000 – not least of all the advent of the internet and social media

The compilation record played a pivotal role in the spread of the idea and conversation of the independent punk underground and now remain as audio and visual time capsules that capture the zeitgeist of the music