Caledonia Screaming

Scottish Punk 1976-1977
Scotland, 1976. The Ramones' debut album arrived in the UK and made its way to Glasgow. Negative headlines about the band were splashed across the front pages. This only made the kids love them more. A few days after this, the Stranglers played in Hawick, followed shortly after by the Sex Pistols appearing in Dundee. Punk had entered Scotland.

Scotland appeared to embrace punk early. The Ramones' debut album reached Glasgow within days of its mid 1976 release, provoking alarmist headlines that only deepened local enthusiasm. Soon after, the Stranglers and the Sex Pistols played: punk seemed to have arrived.

That momentum was abruptly halted however. Following the Sex Pistols' Anarchy Tour in December 1976, Scotland effectively imposed a near-total ban on anything "punk", driven by moral panic. While punk flourished elsewhere, Scotland's scene appeared strangled - or so the story goes.
In reality, 1977 was far from a lost year. Hundreds of bands formed across towns and suburbs, working entirely DIY: organising secret gigs, producing fanzines, recording cassettes and developing sounds that anticipated post-punk and indie. Drawing on 200 interviews, Caledonia Screaming reveals this last untold chapter of punk's year zero.

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