New Wave e Punk anni Ottanta playlist
New Wave and 1980s Punk
In the 1980s, rock music played English and spoke Italian. The imperative of independence applied only to production and marketing (it was fundamental to be independent from the big record labels) but not to music. New wave and, before then, punk, had planted solid roots even in the subsoil of the Bel Paese (Italy, as described by Dante), and the “hedonist” decade, which the tastes of the majority identified with disco music, revealed unexpected dark nuances in sync with the nihilistic youths throughout Europe.
Black was the dominating color in clubs, festivals and underground happenings, starting with the Independent Music Meeting, which brought together in Florence the best of European underground music and other artistic movements. Our playlist begins precisely with the city of Giotto, the undisputed center of rock music in the 1980s, with Piero Pelù's Litfiba and Federico Fiumani's Diaframma. It continues along the roads of Emilia, with the pro-Soviet and post-modern punk of the CCCP and with the Ustmamò (formed in 1991). We then travel along the Adriatic coast to meet the political rock of the band from Le Marche, Gang.
Our next stop will be in Campania to savor the Mediterranean sound of the group from Caserta, Avion Travel, with Peppe Servillo and Mario Tronco (in 2000 they participated in the Sanremo Music Festival as the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel winning the first prize) and the antagonistic rock of the Neapolitan band, Bisca, produced in Florence. Next stop, Sicily, with Luca Madonia and Mario Venuti's Denovo, then finally back to the North-West, where we test the sound of two groups from Genoa, Pivio's Scortilla (with the new interpretation of their only single for WEA in 1984, Fahrenheit 451, produced in 2020) and the Dirty Actions, pure punk. Our journey ends in Milan, historical capital of Italian rock, with the iconic smirk of the band Elio e le Storie Tese and the goth rock of Giancarlo Onorato's Underground Life from Monza.
