Summer 1977. I was 16. The Labour government was on the rocks. The Nazi National Front was on the rise. Life in London was like an old black-and-white film – stuttering. Washed out. Bleak. 

Then Punk Rock exploded on the scene. Everything changed. My life changed. Forever.   

Part documentary, part musical journey and part coming of age tale, Punk Days is the story of a mixed race, working-class kid growing up in 1970’s London, plagued by racism, poverty and social conformity who finds hope, freedom and identity in the noise and rebellion of Punk Rock and the fight against fascism.  

There is no future
In England’s dreaming
Don’t be told what you want to want to
And don’t be told what you want to need. There’s no future, no future
No future for you.

Production photography by Rehan Jamil