News

Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent

By Ian Trowell

Late 1970s Britain... before, during, and immediately after the Winter of Discontent. Punk and Throbbing Gristle. This book explores how the band worked in and against the time, and how they worked in and against punk, as punk worked in and against the time and place. Punk acts as a mediating factor and nuisance value in the band’s story, as Throbbing Gristle emerged with punk in late 1976, grappled with it through 1977, and went on to create and eventually criticize a number of post-punk scenes that had flourished around 1979.

Drawing on archives and live performances, Ian Trowell traces the impact - then and now - of the activist and antagonistic band Throbbing Gristle.


Part of Intellect's Global Punk series
www.intellectbooks.com/an-endless-discontent