A few of my blog posts will be teasers for Punk Leadership - the book itself - which should be published at the end of September 2024.
I am delighted to say that the AMAZING Iesha Small has written the introduction, carrying the title Lust for Life. Iesha has been exceeding generous in her Introduction, so much so that I am co-opting it as my eulogy. Thank you, Iesha.
Iesha chose the track title, not me; but bloody hell do I love Iggy Pop. I mean, how the hell is this guy still alive? He's three years older than my dad and still throwing himself around the stage semi-naked. Legend.
He looks like an angelic choir-boy on the front cover of the single from 1977. Iggy, and the proto-punk band he fronted The Stooges, had been going for ten years at this point.
The song, always a belter, had a second life after it was used eloquently in Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996). It fit the movie well "With the liquor and drugs" but its so much more than that for me.
Without knowing it, Iesha has selected a piece of music that sits at the core of my teenage memories, on a recorded from a friend's vinyl on a TDK-90 tape until the Walkman chewed it up. It's there being played loudly in the spit and sawdust pub The Hat and Feather as I queue up for a snakebite and black. Its the soundtrack as my friends and I hide behind the churchyard, desperately trying to find something to do in 1980s rurality. It's there as I pretend to do my homework; learn to drive; get a crush on that exchange student.
Iggy must have played this live a million times, but the version below is absolutely top drawer.
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