Description And All Around Was Darkness is “the third in the Tales from the Punkside series; a collection of books whose main concern is to provide a space for stories, anecdotes and various other shenanigans by those persons rarely heard – the fans and everyday participants in the punk movement.” Published by Itchy Monkey Press, the book is A4 size, 288 pages, and full to bursting with essays, reflections, memories, photographs, flyers, poems and drawings. ISBN 978-1-291-74025-7 Contents Introduction, Mike Dines So You Joined a Band to Change the World, Gregory Bull Recording No Doves/Laughing, Mark Wilson Confessions of a Pre-Teen Punk, Chris Low The Girl in the Band, Kathy Freeman Anarcho-Feminism and Greenham Common, Lucy Robinson Tales From the Ghost Town, Alan Rider “No, It’s a Zine, Not a ‘Fan’ Zine”, Anth Palmer Punk in Norway, Viggo Mastad Should We Help the Miners?, Andy Hardcore Poems, TS Paviour The Mob Touring Finland (2016), Antti Lautala Crass, Graham Burnett Green Anarchist, Graham Burnett Hyper-Active as the Day is Long, Neil Transpontine A Woman in a Male Dominated Industry, Gail Thibert Notes Written on a Tattered Page, Nick Hydra Tales of a Teenage Punk, Andy Owen How Much Longer?, Russ Bestley Increasingly Right Wing, Ted Curtis Fifteen Shades of Grey, Rich Cross When John Met Clem, Rich Cross The Stranger in the Pit, Francis Stewart The Mother of all Soapy Stamp Stories, Phil Hedgehog Tonge Amebix Art, Jonny R Stopping the City – A Micro Memory, Stephen Spencer-Fleet Smash the System, Persons Unknown ‘Running Wild in the Disco’, Mike Dines
