Punk Beginnings
In 1976 Helen McCallum moved from Wylam near Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Brighton to study Fine Art Printmaking at the Polytechnic. In 1977 she began to play bass in the punk band, Joby and the Hooligans. The following year, Carl Evans, a 17-year old guitarist from Haywards Heath, joined the band, who changed their name to the Smartees. In the Smartees, Helen wrote and sang ‘Thrush’, a song about the sexually transmitted disease (‘Darling you diseased me, I thought you did not care/ You never tried to please me when I was lying there’) and co-wrote ‘Let’s Make Up’, about cosmetics (‘You line your lips with darker shade/ Blot with tissue then you’re made’)
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Famous quotes containing the words punk and/or beginnings:
“When there’s no future
How can there be sin
We’re the flowers in the dustbin
We’re the poison in your human machine
We’re the future
Your future
God Save the Queen”
—The Sex Pistols, British punk band (1976-1979)
“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)