For fifteen-year-old Joe Martin, growing up on the outskirts of West
London, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, busy pubs, disco girls,
stolen cars, social-club lager, cutthroat Teddy Boys and a job picking
cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet--until he is attacked by a gang
of youths and thrown into the Grand Union Canal with his best friend
Smiles.
Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is travelling home on the Trans-Siberian
Express after three years away, remembering the highs and lows of the
intervening years as he comes to terms with tragedy. Fast forward to
2000, and life is sweet once more. Joe is earning a living selling
records and fight tickets, playing his favourite 45s as a punk DJ, but
when a face from the past steps out of the mist he is forced to relive
that night in 1977 and deal with the fallout.
Human Punk is the story of punk, a story of friendship, a story of
common bonds and a shared culture--sticking the boot in, sticking
together.
