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The P-rock TV documentary on DVD
I'm in this!
Albeit only as a few still image photos, but I even got a credit!
If anyone else here on Tumblr is old enough to remember and watched this iconic UK music channel, then I salute you and we should be friends.
It shaped my musical tastes for the rest of my life and gave me access to bands that never got attention on the mainstream music channels. Despite only being on the air around six months!
I owe this channel a lot.
I'm off to a punk rock documentary screening this Sunday, and I cannot wait!
This TV channel was ridiculously important to me during my teenage years and introduced me to so many bands, ones that the mainstream channels would never play.
Tsunami Bomb, Rancid, The Starting Line, Allister, Less Than Jake, Tuuli, Reel Big Fish, Bad Religion, NOFX, Student Rick, The Ataris, Something Corporate, Goldfinger and Alkaline Trio to name but a few.
I'm incredibly grateful to this channel and will never forget blasting those tunes out all day, especially over the school summer holidays.
Is anyone on here old enough to remember it?
Also...I'm actually in the documentary!!!! Okay, so its just a few photos from my youth as part of a montage, but I'm absolutely over the moon to be able to contribute, even if in a small way.
A Pop Punk/Punk Rock Playlist
The UK channel P-Rock TV was responsible for 90% of my pop punk/ punk rock education from the years 2002 to 2007.
This playlist is a tribute to that channel, my youth, my friends and the origin of my love for music.
Featuring songs that played on the channel itself with a good couple of extras thrown in for good measure.
My rule was to only select one track per artist and the order was based on bunching similar styles & sounds together.
So sit back and buckle up for a nostalgic punk rock trip down memory lane.
Click here to check it out.
DISCLAIMER: Best served with friends, cold beer and sunny weather.
Summer feels
Pop punk/punk rock jams
bring back p-rock
You know the punk rock documentary that I said I contributed photos to?
Well I finally went to a screening of it the other day and watched it for the first time.
I expected that my photos might show up on an end credit montage or something...but no, my teenage face was full screen, mid-film about 3 times, and also a mention in the credits!
It was the most bizarre feeling.
That TV channel meant the world to me and shaped my musical tastes for decades to come. To be a part of this documentary, even in a such a small way, was amazing.
I met the director and one of the original owners of the channel and chatted punk rock and memories for about 40 odd minutes!
It was nice to say thank you in person, because that channel and the music they showed broke the mold and really did change the lives of the kids that watched it.
The documentary was so well put together, it answered all my questions and most importantly it was made with love. I couldn't recommend it more for people who remember it, and actually lived through that era.
To top it off, the director gifted me a cast and crew t-shirt for my little contribution!
The p-rock documentary had it's UK Premiere last night and I'm actually in it! (via a montage of photos from the that era and named on the credits!)
This music channel shaped my youth and was a very important part of the UK punk rock scene during the early 00's.
Unfortunately, I couldn't make it down to London for the premiere screening but I cannot wait to see the actual documentary myself.
Once again down the rabbit hole of nostalgia…
Inspired by a UK television channel named P-Rock TV, which had shut down that year, Stacey made me this mix CD that I’ve kept all these years.
Stacey was a platonic friend, one I’ve lost touch with in the near 20 years that have passed since this CD popped out of the writable disk drive of her PC.
Yet this remains one of my very favourite mixes of all time, not necessarily because of the tracks, the placement, pace etc. that usually defines a great mix, but because it instantly takes me back like a time machine.
P-Rock was an independent music channel that showcased pop punk, punk rock and ska, the stuff that would never have got shown on the mainstream stations. From that channel, I discovered Tsunami Bomb, Rancid, The Distillers and NOFX to name but a few, it became my punk rock education and one I’m still grateful for to this day. This mix with its cover and notes hand scrawled onto a Imation 700mb 80 minute disc captures the DIY ethic of the channel itself.
I had all these songs on my home PC, but the fact Stacey took the time to collate them all and create this CD meant a lot to me. We weren’t particularly close, just mutual friends who chatted at school, went to the same pub (underage) and had a mutual love for a TV station that changed our lives.
Between the ages of 16-18 (6th form college for any UK readers) the friends and times I had with them were some of the best of my life. I found others who shared my love for punk rock and will never forget the rather large group of misfits I hung around with. As we all moved on to University, the majority of us lost touch but I’ll never forget them and I hope they all look back on that time fondly too.
Time moves so quickly, you blink and it’s gone.
