A grass-roots revolution in popular culture, punk rock exploded in the late seventies – but it wasn’t until the early nineties that the dam wall burst in the form of grunge.

The new generations of Australian bands like You Am I, Spiderbait, and Magic Dirt spring from the same source, extending a tradition that stretches all the way back to local punk pioneers, the Saints and Radio Birdman, and takes in other rebels and precursors like Nick Cave, the GoBetweens, the Triffids, the Scientists and the Hard-Ons along the way.

‘Stranded’ is the story of the marginalisation of this music movement – and its eventual victory. Clinton Walker published Australia’s first punk fanzine in 1977 and, as the country’s leading music critic in the eighties, chronicled the independent scene. Lively, thought-provoking and sometimes tragic, ‘Stranded’ is a personal account of people who before the information revolution and multiculturalism opened everything up, showed that there could be an alternative.

Contains black and white photographs.