For an article on the British music scene before “punk exploded”, Alexis Petridis read early 1976 British music magazines and discovered what now-forgotten bands were being pushed, and how emerging punk bands were not received well. The journalists didn't understand, but two musicians whose bands had The Sex Pistols as an opening act did: At The Nashville in London on 3 April, Joe Strummer of The 101ers realized his band was "yesterday's papers" (and soon joined The Clash); at the Sayers nightclub in Northallerton on 19 May, Kid Strange of The Doctors of Madness recalled, “I knew it was over for us, I knew someone had just moved the fucking goalposts.” (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 7 June 2026)