10 March - Punk & Rip-offs

The Selfridges Future Punk exhibition in the Ultralounge in the basement is naff!!! And that’s official. I was in there for max 10 mins, was all it took to ‘tour’ it. And had to ring a friend to ask ‘Er… it’s full of t-shirts with skull and bones motifs, er.. that was never punk right? That was Rocker or Goth right?’. She confirms. Another girlfriend later says she was most disappointed as well. None of us went to the opening club/night but in a sense that’s better. Who wants to see fat Buzzcocks and ugly witches Slits on a stage? These people are older than me and should not be on display ranting their old hits. May as well go and see Yes or Emerson Lake and Palmer in terms of dynosaurs.
Apart from anything else, everything is ultra expensive in the Ultralounge, maybe that's why it's called that? Ultra taking the piss? It’s pretty much a joke to want to charge £40/60 for a punk t-shirt. But if you have to team it with Alessandro dell'Acqua shoes at over £250 that makes sense. To someone.
Though I guess it could be ok to make your own badge or t-shirt. Except that the only customers doing that are 12 year olds and could be making pottery or face painting and have same amount of fun. The Malcolm MacLaren line for kids is indeed brilliant but that is it. So much for the relentless promoting of the event. Am a sucker, I went along. Funnily enough the only things I purchased in Selfridges that day are some extremely good quality fake/fabric hyacinths. They’re really good. Two of us bent down to smell them they seemed so real. At a fiver a stem they’re very decadent but there you go. I cannot be a punk in 2006. I moved on, suggest this lot do the same.