… we always view our own age as being the end of civilization, ‘its prophets false’ and so forth. Which is probably true. What was interesting about punk was that it actually celebrated and drew energy from this otherwise rather depressing generational habit.

Punk – this idea that you suddenly felt in your head as though we were living in the ruins of modernity. Jarman: It’s like the bomb has gone off in our heads already.

Michael Bracewell, The Space Between