Riot grrrl spurred on an angry generation of female musicians to take up arms, as well as guitars, and fight back against the patriarchy, both in the record label boardrooms and across society in general.

It's a chance to listen to the remarkable progression from 1977 to 1982 over six increasingly impressive albums.

Your Sex Pistols and your Joe Strummers got things right, but these days it can be hard to come by a tune to entertain your brain as well as the temptation to dance.

I've grown to hate Don Letts... I'm just sick of his sunglasses-indoors-bedecked face cropping up every five minutes to tell the same boring stories about punk. He has become the George Martin of punk - and not in the 'creative genius' way - more in the 'couple of years of doing something, four decades of agreeing to every interview and saying the same old boring crap again and again' way.

The threat of a right wing coup hung over 1976, as a fifteen year old in a backwater coma town, my next door neighbour decided to take a 'defiant pose' and form the Cortinas.

The Damned were always a little different to most punk bands, with singer Dave Vanian possessing the kind of voice many crooners would kill for and guitarist Captain Sensible being a skilled musician. Contrast this to Paul Simonon writing chords on his fretboard and Sid Vicious who had the right attitude, but no ability to play a guitar, and you can see why they stood out.

David Lynch’s work is known for being dark, disturbed and sinister. And his latest music video is no exception. Featuring a mohawked punk settin...

What began as an artistic movement, as an expression of counter-cultural angst, crossed continents into film studios, literature, poetry, theatres, art galleries and catwalks. By the mid-1990s, punk was a global commodity. Green Day, Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance are now household names.

There is some criticism of Ian Brown's voice, but in Manchester we don't have singers we have communicators - the only person from that generation who could sing properly was Mick Hucknall - I rest my case...Ian Brown is a communicator, he will walk on that stage and 75,000 people will understand.

The music now is just a selection of rave presets we used to listen to in the 90s along with beats so weak they wouldn't challenge clock radio speakers. David Guetta is everywhere, ruining everything he touches. Kanye West has decided to become a singer. Cher Lloyd is...oh balls to her. Matt Cardle is...nah, balls to him too.