The Buzzcocks are back in Newport tonight for a gig at Newport City Live Arena.
The band is best known for its bitter-sweet punk love songs such as Ever Fallen In Love With.
They were one of the big three punk bands along with The Sex Pistols and The Clash who emerged from the 1976/7 explosion of new music.
Practically inventing the independent record scene with their seminal self-financed EP Spiral Scratch, Buzzcocks instantly forged a unique relationship with their public.
The band went on to break away from the Pistol's anarchy and the Clash's overt politics, signing to United Artists on the day Elvis died and producing a string of hit singles that welded high-octane guitar, bass and drum power with heartrending personal statements of love won and lost or dismay at the modern world.
Three classic albums - Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites, and A Different Kind of Tension are still worth buying today and no doubt will be heard in Newport tonight.
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