Punk Brighton Screenings

On Wednesday, I went to the Duke of York's Cinema in Brighton to watch Kevin Wright's Punk Brighton documentary. It's been 15 years in the making and quite a few years ago a whole bunch of us met up at the Prince Albert to be filmed yakking about our own experience of punk in Brighton.I wan't sure how it would turn out- I think Kev was born in 1983- but he had done loads of research. It wasn't just masses of old photographs: he'd found audio of Vi Subversa talking, some footage of Peter and the Test Tube Babies, and basically did a whole slice of the scene complete justice. It was a real coup to get Rose Barnard talking about The Mockingbirds, a band of women fed up with being left looking after the kids while their husbands and partners were off making music with their bands- so they made their own band, and had quite a degree of local success, including a track on one of the Vaultage albums. It was obvious how different we all were from each other, and it was touching to see Darris…