30 Vivid Photos From London’s Punk Past

Punk London is a year-long festival celebrating 40 years of icons and fans in the capital.

1.

Philip Grey/PYMCA

Blondie at the Roundhouse on 5 March, 1977, their first major headlining UK tour.

2.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

King's Road, some time in the 1970s.

3.

Philip Grey/PYMCA

The Mo-dettes on Denmark Street, 1979.

4 & 5.

Philip Grey/PYMCA

Philip Grey/PYMCA

Toyah Wilcox in Battersea, 1979.

6.

Chris Parker/PYMCA

Punk girls by the Thames, 1980.

7 & 8.

Chris Parker/PYMCA

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

Trafalgar Square, and the Pop Group's Margaret Thatcher T-shirt. 1980.

9.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

King's Road, 1980s.

10.

Clare Muller/PYMCA

Punk gig, 1981.

11.

Clare Muller/PYMCA

JoBoxers in a café, 1980s.

12.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

King's Road, 1980s.

13 & 14.

Clare Muller/PYMCA

Philip Grey/PYMCA

Viv Albertine of the Slits and Dennis Morris of Basement 5. 1980.

15.

Philip Grey/PYMCA

The Moondogs on the roof of the Roundhouse, 1980.

16.

PYMCA

Scala Cinema bar, 1980.

17 & 18.

Clare Muller/PYMCA

Clare Muller/PYMCA

Paul Simonon of the Clash, 1981.

19.

Clare Muller/PYMCA

Legendary Soho clubnight promoter Gaz Mayall at a Bodysnatchers gig, 1981.

20 & 21.

Clare Muller/PYMCA

Clare Mullar/PYMCA

Ian Dury (left) and the Pogues' Shane MacGowan, 1982.

22.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

King's Road, 1983.

23.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

Kings Road, 1983.

24.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

King's Road, 1983.

25.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

King's Road, 1983.

26 & 27.

Philip Grey/PYMCA

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

1983.

28.

Ted Polhemus/PYMCA

King's Road, 1983.

29.

Chris Parker/PYMCA

Matt Belgrano, the punk off the London postcards, with a royal guardsman in 1986.

30.

Adam Friedman/PYMCA

Trash Night at the Kilburn National, 1989.

The Lost in Music punk photography exhibition runs 5–17 February at the Print Space Gallery, London.