Post-Brexit punk and austerity anthems - 2017's political rock resurgence
- It was Copernicus
who first calculated that the horridness of any given government is
inversely proportionate to the brilliance of the rebel rock music it
inspires. It became known as Bragg’s law,
but in the 21st century this reliable age-old adage broke down. Iraq,
student fees, rocketing rents pricing musicians out of cultural hubs,
banks causing a global recession, banks getting bailed out so they can
keep paying themselves the sort of bonuses that ancient Egyptian kings
used to get buried with, creeping NHS privatisation, austerity, the rise
of the far right, mass corporate tax avoidance, Syria and TTIP; all of this came, and largely stayed, with barely a whimper of objection from the rock community.
