Brisbane Punk Rock

The Brisbane punk rock scene between 1975 and 1984 is generally regarded as producing "some of the most anarchistic bands of the Australian punk rock era". The development of Brisbane's punk rock movement differed to other cities because of its previous remoteness and distant isolation from the rest of Australia, along with all the effects caused by the subtropical heat. The Brisbane scene was also considered to have received rather an excessive amount of attention from the local police. This helped generate a uniquely antagonistic and individual "snot" driven punk bands that were generally musically different from each other.

Whilst these Brisbane bands had the environmental and political factors at play, it also could be seen from hindsight that the movement can be roughly dissected into three phases. First, there was the pioneering chapter, which lasted from 1975 to 1977. These bands were either innovators or part of the first wave of punk bands. Foremost of all Brisbane bands, The Saints were considered as "Aussie punk pioneers". Then the second phase could be placed somewhere between 1978 and 1980 for which Ian McFarlane described the groups as "the second generation". The last period faceted "the third generation" of punk groups that spanned from around 1981 to 1984 and diverged into two categories; the hardcore punk and the post-punk punk or dark punk. Brisbane's dark punk has been identified as closely related to the sub-genres of horror punk and Deathrock from the West Coast U.S.A. that happened roughly around the same time.