What happens when aggressive, riotous music becomes the peacemaker? Since its inception, punk has defied convention. Angry, unruly, and equipped with an ‘anti’ ethos – aggressively anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian, anti-corporation, and anti-conformity – it became a rebellion bound in leather, secured by safety pins. But it also became so much more.

Chronicling a brief history of punks at war, Blitzkrieg Bops studies those who have soundtracked a movement, whether Belfast’s Stiff Little Fingers against the backdrop of the Troubles, the integrated National Wake in Apartheid-era South Africa, through Kyaw Kyaw witnessing violence pierce through peace in Myanmar’s Saffron Revolution, to those protesting for a free Palestine to this day.

Journalist Alli Patton speaks to musicians who wield their music as a weapon on the frontlines for their future, spanning decades and continents, and digs more deeply into the intersection of politics, protest and punk – of those creating music to overthrow corrupt governments, stomp out oppressive regimes, fight the establishment and, in turn, fight for their lives.

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