Discussing Poison Girls on the Punk Rock Creatives podcast

AUTHOR RICH CROSS is the guest on the latest edition of the always unmissable Punk Rock Creatives podcast. Host Marie Repulsive discusses with Rich the history of Poison Girls, the new PM Press book on the band, and the new seven-CD retrospective boxset Persons Unknown: The Complete Recorded History. Their conversation ranges wide – taking in the challenges of being a writer and historian; pitching a book to a publisher like PM Press; teenage punk rock life in Exeter; the ebb and flow of countercultures; and the insistence of resistance; the dynamic between ageing, activism and inclusion; and much more besides. But the key focus of the conversation is the extraordinary and remarkable Poison Girls – their significance, their music, their practice, their creativity and their cultural and political impact. In this episode, we’re joined by writer and anarcho-punk historian Rich Cross to dig into radical music culture, DIY ethics, and the legacy of anarchist art. We talk Vi Subversa and…