Greek punk

Greek punk

The Greek punk scene was small but powerful in the Greek capital, Athens, in the 1980s. Bands like Adiexodo ("Dead end"), Genia Tou Chaous ("Chaos generation"), Stress, Panx Romana, Ex-humans, Anti ("Contra") 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 ("Forgotten prophecy"), Naftia ("Nausea"), Deus Ex Machina and others of the 1990s 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 punk bands in Greece have no, or minimal, entrance fee and many of them are arranged 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 document information about Greek punk; one of those being a limited edition brochure of Anarchist Library (Anarhiki Vivliothiki). Some Greek webzines have also documented Greek punk history.

External links

* [http://www.punk.gr/english punk.gr/english]
* [http://www.diymusic.org/ (site on greek diy movement)]
* [http://www.anexartisi.gr/ (site with lots of resources, also many greek rock bands)]
* [http://www.squathost.com/host-sites.htm more links]


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