Greek Punk
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Greek punk scene was small but powerful in greek capital, Athens, in the 80's. Bands like Adiexodo, Genia Tu Haus, Stress, Panx Romana, Ex-humans a.o. functioned as a bunch of related bands, who gave concerts together, in the same locations. Like elsewhere, punk attitude has been loosely used by various individuals, but most of the times the key element was the youthful anger, the provocative anti-establishment attitude.
A lot of newer crust, hardcore, punk bands like Ksehasmeni Profitia, Naftia a.o. of the 90's followed DIY ethics, gradually forming a small but powerful network in most big greek cities. This network has sometimes been linked with local anarchist - related groups, squats, cultural / social / left-wing centers. Most of the concerts of greek bands nowadays in Greece have none or seminal entrance fee and many of them are arranges according to DIY ethics.
Contemporary punk bands have seldom archieved to form a solid scene outside that DIY / anarchopunk movement, but sometimes a band might attract an enthousiastic core of dedicated fans, like in the oi! or streetpunk subgenres.
Few attempts have been made to record greek punk, one of those being a limited edition brochure of Anarchist Library (Anarhiki Vivliothiki). Some greek webzines have put remarkable effort on recording greek punk history, but bibliography still needs a study on the matter.
[edit] External links
- punk.gr
- (site on greek diy movement)
- (site with lots of resources, also many greek rock bands)
- more links
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