Tesco v Esselunga: a bag for life
One of the best things about punk was arguably the licence it seemed to give people to get creative with their appearance. To get creative with everything , really, but especially with clothing and hair. And with accessories - sunglasses, belts, chains, piercings. Someone once told me that the punters who turned out for the Sex Pistols/Clash show at Coventry's Lanch Polytechnic on 29 November 1976 included a person who'd customised a black bin bag into a dress and another who wore a lightbulb as an earring. Classic punk DIY! Classic but possibly untrue. An industrial design student who wrote up his memories of this gig says there were actually no punk-like people in Coventry at this point and there were "at most" only 30-40 people in total in attendance that night. Pre-Grundy, to me this seems much more plausible than the show being attended by hordes of people looking like the woman in this photo. (Meanwhile, Lavinia Greenlaw's account of seeing numerous peop...
