'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976 to 1984 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop. Rejecting both tired clichés and nostalgic myths, Matthew Worley provides the definitive account of how punk was constructed and utilised from the ground up. He takes youth culture seriously as a way of understanding history, demonstrating how punk not only reflected but directly impacted social and political history through its unique ability to provoke, disrupt and subvert. This revised and updated edition marks fifty years since the birth of punk and includes a new foreword from acclaimed music journalist, Paul Morley. It remains the foremost history of British punk.

‘illuminating and thoroughly engrossing’

Source: Shindig

‘The combination of scholarly discipline and authentic insider knowledge is what sets No Future apart from the crowded shelf of punk literature.’

Source: Louder than War

‘UK punk is revealed in all its furious glory’

Source: Classic Rock

‘there's something refreshing about the way this history is built not on gossip, myth or individual memory, but on what actually happened and when’

Source: Record Collector