Timeline of Punk Rock - 1976

1976

• Bands formed
  • The Adverts
  • Alternative TV
  • The Art Attacks
  • The Boys
  • Buzzcocks
  • The Clash
  • The Cramps
  • The Damned
  • Dead Boys
  • DMZ
  • Eater
  • The Fall
  • The Flowers of Romance
  • Generation X
  • The Jam
  • Johnny Moped
  • London
  • The Lurkers
  • Madness
  • Masters of the Backside
  • Métal Urbain
  • Penetration
  • Pork Dukes
  • The Prefects
  • The Rezillos
  • Richard Hell and the Voidoids
  • Sham 69
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • The Slits
  • Subway Sect
  • UK Subs
  • Ultravox!
  • The Vibrators
  • VOM
  • Wire
  • X-Ray Spex

• Albums
  • Various Artists - Max's Kansas City, 1976
  • Blondie - Blondie
  • Ramones - Ramones
  • The Runaways - The Runaways
  • Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers (recorded 1971, released 1976)
  • Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia

• Singles
  • The Damned - "New Rose"
  • The Saints - "(I'm) Stranded"
  • Sex Pistols - "Anarchy in the U.K."

• Disbandments
  • The 101ers

• Events
  • Ramones make their first non-US appearance supporting the Flamin' Groovies at The Roundhouse, London, July 4, often pointed to as a galvanizing event for the UK punk scene.
  • Stiff Records is created in London by entrepreneurs Dave Robinson and Andrew Jakeman (aka Jake Riviera), signing almost exclusively punk and punk-inspired musicians.
  • Malcolm McLaren organized a two day punk festival on Sunday, September 20 and Monday, September 21 at the 100 Club on Oxford Street in London. The Sunday performers were: Subway Sect, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Clash, and Sex Pistols. The Monday line-up consisted of the Stinky Toys, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, The Damned, and Buzzcocks.
  • Sniffin' Glue, Mark Perry's punk fanzine is first published, shortly after Ramones' Roundhouse appearance. Perry would soon form the band Alternative TV.
  • Sex Pistols, The Damned, and The Clash begin the Anarchy Tour in November. Most of the previously booked gigs refuse to let the bands play however.
  • On December 1 Sex Pistols and several members of the Bromley Contingent (including Siouxsie and the Banshees singer Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steve Severin) appear live on ITV to be interviewed by television host Bill Grundy. The band unleashes a torrent of curse words when Grundy attempts (unsuccessfully) to hit on Sioux. The following day the Daily Mirror runs the headline "THE FILTH AND THE FURY!".
  • Andy Czezowski organised three gigs at the Roxy. The first, on 14 December, was Generation X, a band Czekowski managed. The second on the following night was The Heartbreakers. The third, on 21 December, featured Siouxsie and the Banshees and Generation X.