Rip It Up Unwrapped

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A BBC TV channel for Scotland which will broadcast every evening and will show drama, factual, comedy and news programmes made in Scotland

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Music: Rock & Indie

Stories of Scottish pop, told via unseen footage and interviews with those who were there.

Music series that uses unseen footage and interviews with those who were there to tell stories of Scottish pop.

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Pete Stanton

Rachel Bell

Rip It Up Unwrapped: Series 1: Punk

Punk

Series 1

BBC Scotland - Rip It Up Unwrapped, Series 1, Punk

Forget London and New York, in the 1970s, Fife was where it was at for punk.


This is the story of Scottish punk. The Rezillos and Scars burst onto the scene in dreary 1970s Scotland and laid the foundation for a DIY ethos that still survives today.

For many, Punk is seen as a movement of two cities – London and New York, both eternally sparring for the title of The Originator. But Scotland had its own distinctive Punk movement which laid the groundwork for a musical ethos that is still alive and well in the scene today. Bands like The Rezillos and Scars created their own punk movement before most of them even knew what a punk movement was. In doing so, they infused the scene with a do it yourself attitude that the next generation of musicians embraced wholeheartedly, taking Scottish pop in a new but still resolutely rebellious direction – New Wave.


Rip It Up Unwrapped: Series 1

A BBC TV channel for Scotland which will broadcast every evening and will show drama, factual, comedy and news programmes made in Scotland


Rip It Up: Unwrapped uses unseen footage and interviews with those who were there to tell stories of Scottish pop, promising depth, detail, and
music for fans to enjoy.

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