Title: No Future Nu: Punk In Nederland 1977-2012
Editor/Writer: Leonor Jonker
Year: 2012
Publisher: Lebowski Publishers
Language: Dutch
Pages: 304
Size: A5
Cover: Softcover
Review:
One of the very few books that writes seriously about Dutch punk. It goes indepth and all aspects are in here. From music, clothing and fanzines to punkgraffiti. Unfortunately this all ends after the first years although the title suggests otherwise. Absolutely no research has been done after the early 80s, except for some useless interviews. Page 194 starts with a chapter about the connection between punk and art followed by another uninteresting chapter about disco-parties, the Mazzo, de Koer and the Roxy in Amsterdam. Next is a chapter about cyberpunks, hackers and internet. And on page 251 there’s a new chapter about punk and DIY in 2012. It suggests that because of better economics and the internet, DIY has become mainstream… It looks like the writer is stuck in the late 70s/early 80s, continuously talks about punk in the past time and has no idea or care about anything that happened in between 1983 and 2012. She talks about Nirvana and Green Day, how multinationals took over, there’s a chapter about street art with Banksy, Hugo Kaagman and Laser 3.14. And always getting back to the early days of punk as the definitive standard. Very tiring and a good example of pretty bad research that only focuses on the early days. This could better be called Punk in Nederland 1977-1982. Still it’s worthwile because of the first chapters, but if you want to know anything that happened after 1983 then this is definitely not for you. PPPPP ***