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Destroy! The Influence of Punk.

Richard Smith, BRB Studios, Inc.

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Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 23

From the Sex Pistols to The Raincoats, the Ramones to the New York Dolls, the punk movement's impact on society is still being felt today. Host Richard Smith interviews the outsiders and misfits who drove this cultural revolution to discover what inspired them and what shaped their careers.

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“Refusing to Behave”

Season 2 · Episode 4

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 • Duration 35:33

What happens when people stop performing the roles they’ve been assigned? Step outside the social guardrails. Take exception to the rules.

In E4, we look at the power of refusal: the women making noise before they were invited in, artists rejecting respectability in favor of disruption, writers recovering the voices left out of official histories, and outsiders turning noncompliance into culture.

Voices of Protest, Season 2 of Destroy! The Influence of Punk explores how punk’s real force was not just rebellion, but the courage to show up differently, louder, messier, disrupt the script, and leave the gatekeepers scrambling.

Featuring:

Audrey Golden, author of “I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records” and “Shouting Out Loud,” whose work documents the overlooked women who helped shape post-punk and independent music culture.
Vivien Goldman, the legendary punk journalist, musician, and author of “Revenge of the She-Punks,” a landmark study of feminist resistance through music and DIY culture.
Gina Birch, founding member of The Raincoats and acclaimed solo artist behind “I Play My Bass Loud” and “Trouble,” whose work continues to challenge convention through art, music, and activism.
With contributions from Celeste Bell and Ana da Silva. Archive excerpts include Poly Styrene, Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, Bill Grundy, Siouxsie Sioux, Miss World 1970, Women’s Liberation, Bob Hope, Abigail’s Party, Nick Knight, Ray Stevenson, and Kurt Cobain.

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“Speaking Without Permission”

Season 2 · Episode 3

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 • Duration 24:44

How does language operate under pressure? Rather than focusing on what is said, this episode looks at how speech is shaped, managed, or displaced when legitimacy is controlled.

From institutional governance to cultural practice, expression is rarely banned outright. It is formatted, filtered, or redirected.

Some voices move within those systems. Others persist outside them. Voices of Protest, Season 2 of Destroy! examines that struggle over expression.

Featuring:

Aja Monet, the Grammy-nominated surrealist blues poet, organizer, and author of “when the poems do what they do,” whose new album “the color of rain” continues her exploration of resistance, grief, jazz, and collective liberation.

Denise Fahmy, founder of Freedom in the Arts and a leading advocate for artistic freedom and the protection of cultural expression under political pressure.

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"Against the Machine"

Season 2 · Episode 2

Thursday, April 9, 2026 • Duration 24:19

What happens when protest enters the system it opposes? This episode follows the collision between urgency and corporate control, where visibility comes with conditions and expression meets ownership. Voices of Protest, Season 2 of Destroy! The Influence of Punk examines that tension directly.

Featuring:

Steve Ignorant, the iconic voice of Crass, whose uncompromising politics helped define anarcho-punk and whose recent work with The Steve Ignorant Band and solo performances continue to carry Crass’s anti-war and anti-authoritarian message to new audiences.

CrimethInc., the influential anarchist collective and publisher behind works including “From Democracy to Freedom” and decades of writing on direct action, resistance, and anti-capitalist organizing.

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"When the World Caught Fire."

Season 2 · Episode 1

Thursday, March 26, 2026 • Duration 25:41

Set against 1970s Britain and a world in upheaval, this episode traces how youth culture, political rupture, and lived experience collided, forcing protest out of the background and into everyday life. Voices of Protest, Season 2 of Destroy! The Influence of Punk begins where dissent became impossible to ignore.

Featuring:

Red Saunders, the legendary anti-racist activist, photographer, and co-founder of Rock Against Racism, whose work helped unite music and political resistance in 1970s Britain.

Jake Burns, the highly influential frontman of Stiff Little Fingers, whose writing chronicled violence, division, and working-class life during the Troubles, with the band continuing to tour internationally.

Ana da Silva, co-founder of The Raincoats and a pioneering voice in feminist post-punk, whose work continues to influence generations of independent artists and musicians.

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“Voices of Protest” S2 Teaser

Season 2

Thursday, March 19, 2026 • Duration 00:25

Voices of Protest isn’t about celebrating rebellion. It’s about tracing the conditions under which protest becomes an impervious force.

In Season 2 of Destroy! The Influence of Punk, we explore those conditions through our guests’ lived experiences - how protest moves from expression to consequence, through refusal, repetition, and the context that gives rise to action.

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"Vaughan Oliver: fond affections.” Pt II

Season 1 · Episode 15

Thursday, June 26, 2025 • Duration 39:16

“Fond affections are never said, they’re only sung in song.” (Michael Allen, Rema Rema)

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Born in 1957 in County Durham, northeast England, British designer Vaughan Oliver stepped out of a world steeped in tradition and into the nonconformist realm of the music industry.

Growing up in an environment devoid of culture, it was through Surrealism and Pop Art that he discovered modern art, its power to open up his imagination, and provide a doorway to new adventures rich with possibilities.

Inspired by the work of record cover designer Roger Dean, he eventually found his calling at independent record label 4AD, where he worked with many of post-punk’s early pioneers: Cocteau Twins, Modern English, Colourbox, Lush, and of course This Mortal Coil.

In 1982, with school friend and photographer Nigel Grierson, he founded the design studio 23 Envelope, which quickly became a center for creative innovation and revolution.

In 1988, after Oliver and Grierson decided to part ways, Oliver went on to establish V23, fostering creative relationships with a new band of like-minded revolutionaries such as Chris Bigg and Simon Larbalestier, whose collaboration on the Pixies' Minotaur box set would earn them all a Grammy in 2010.

The studio’s work also expanded into TV and film, but Oliver was always at his most content sitting down with a group of students, talking about ideas and football.

He was a generous man, a loving father, a dedicated teacher, and an inspiration for generations of designers and musicians.

After he died in 2019 at age 62, his legacy continued through his wife, Lee, who helped establish the Vaughan Oliver Graphic Design Scholarship program with Northumbria University and 4AD in 2021.

"Vaughan Oliver: fond affections." Pt I

Season 1 · Episode 14

Thursday, June 26, 2025 • Duration 44:23

“Fond affections are never said, they’re only sung in song.” (Michael Allen, Rema Rema)

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Born in 1957 in County Durham, northeast England, British designer Vaughan Oliver stepped out of a world steeped in tradition and into the nonconformist realm of the music industry.

In 1982, with school friend and photographer Nigel Grierson, he founded the design studio 23 Envelope, which quickly became a center for creative innovation and revolution.

The studio’s work also expanded into TV and film, but Oliver was always at his most content sitting down with a group of students, talking about ideas and football.

He was a generous man, a loving father, a dedicated teacher, and an inspiration for generations of designers and musicians.

After he died in 2019 at age 62, his legacy continued through his wife, Lee, who helped establish the Vaughan Oliver Graphic Design Scholarship program with Northumbria University and 4AD in 2021.

"Legs McNeil: Armagideon time."

Season 1 · Episode 13

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 • Duration 29:09

Legs McNeil didn’t just witness punk’s birth, he helped name it. From the chaos of late ’70s New York, McNeil carved out a space for misfits, outsiders, and anyone who didn’t fit the mold. As the co-founder of Punk magazine, he gave voice to the subculture, capturing its raw defiance and shaping its legacy in ways no one could have predicted.

In this episode, we trace McNeil’s journey from Connecticut to New York City, where he collided with the anarchic energy of CBGBs and the raw force of bands like The Ramones. His magazine wasn’t just about music, it was a declaration of war against the establishment.

“I never thought what I did was shocking, I just thought it was normal.” (Legs McNeil)

But McNeil’s story isn’t just about punk. His curiosity took him into worlds few would dare enter, the criminal underworld and the adult film industry. In this episode, we discuss how he went from punk provocateur to chronicler of outsiders, writing The Other Hollywood, a raw, uncensored oral history of the porn industry, and uncovering the dark truths behind Frank Lucas and the infamous American Gangster story.

“I’ve always wanted to understand the things most people don’t want to see.” (Legs McNeil)

Through his unflinching gaze, he found humanity in the shadows. McNeil’s journey is about more than rebellion; it’s about understanding the unseen, listening where others turn away, and finding truth in the chaos.

Or visit us online: https://destroypunkpodcast.com for transcripts, show notes, and more.

“Spizz: the final frontier.”

Season 1 · Episode 12

Monday, April 14, 2025 • Duration 49:28

As a punk provocateur, design obsessive, and relentless shape-shifter, Spizz emerged from the chaos of late ’70s Britain with a DIY ethos and a sci-fi imagination that still defies categorization. He’s never fit the mold, not as a punk frontman, not as a designer, not even as a radio host.

In this episode, we trace his wild trajectory: from gatecrashing the Birmingham Punk Festival to supporting Siouxsie and the Banshees, from four John Peel sessions to touring with the Human League, and designing record sleeves, fonts, and alter-egos along the way.

“I saw The Clash and thought, I want some of that… I blagged my way on stage and just made it all up.” (Spizz)

Over the decades, he’s played Wembley and the Marquee, written Star Trek musical trilogies, and used monikers like SpizzOrwell to collapse past, present, and future into one surreal performance.

A relentless shape-shifter, we talk about Bowie and Orwell, about rebellion and surveillance, about fandom, identity, and why he’s still remixing the future in his 60s, broadcasting from the edge of tomorrow, hosting Spizz FM, generating AI musical experimentations, and performing acoustic sets as Spizzology – proof he’s still a cult figure with extraterrestrial ambitions.

Or visit us online: https://destroypunkpodcast.com for transcripts, show notes, and more.

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“Jon Savage: resistance is not futile.”

Season 1 · Episode 11

Monday, March 31, 2025 • Duration 24:43

Jon Savage’s journey into the heart of youth culture began at Cambridge University, where he turned his back on a career in law to pursue his passion for music and cultural criticism.

From his early days writing fanzines in the 1970s to his influential roles at Sounds and Melody Maker, Savage became a defining voice in the world of punk and beyond.

His landmark book England’s Dreaming captured the essence of punk, which, for Savage, was never just a genre, it was a cultural movement that challenged the status quo and created a space for personal expression and rebellion.

In his latest book, The Secret Public, Savage explores the transformative power of LGBTQ+ resistance in popular culture and delves into how groundbreaking artists like Little Richard and David Bowie used their music and public personas not just to break taboos but to redefine the very concept of identity, carving out new spaces for self-expression, leaving a lasting impact on music and culture.

Savage’s place in the history of music journalism is firmly established, and his passion for music and its power to affect change has never waned. To this day he sees punk’s DIY ethos as still offering a framework for artists to create and express themselves on their terms, despite the overwhelming influence of corporate interests in the modern music industry.

“Punk was about doing things for yourself—if you want to say something, play an instrument, or write, then just do it. That’s the most important lesson it left us.” (Jon Savage)

Savage continues to write and contribute to publications like The Guardian and Mojo, offering fresh insights into the intersections of music, culture, and politics. His work remains vital in understanding the cultural forces shaping our world, whether through his writing, public lectures, or interviews.

In this episode, Savage reflects on the lasting influence of punk, the changing media landscape, and the ongoing impact of artists like Bowie and Little Richard in reshaping societal norms.

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