This site, created in 1998, provides photos, lyrics, discographies, and other information on the UK and Irish punk rock bands that existed from 1980-1984. This site popularized the term "UK82" (taken from an Exploited song), but was never meant to define a genre. Bands of this period did not consider themselves to be "UK82" - they were simply the punk rock bands of this time and place, who happened to play music that was raw, simple, and pure.

This site does not include all bands from that era, not through deliberate omission, but due to a lack of content (and time to format and post it). If you can provide any of this (photos, lyrics, etc) for these bands, please contact me: Last Rites, Skroteez, Toxic Ephex, Potential Threat, Ad Nauseum, Port Mortem, Undead (the Riot City band), On Parole, Hostile Youth. Also, I could use some good quality scans of the first 4 Instant Agony EPs.

UPDATES

June 13, 2009:

Added lyrics for "New Breed" to the Demob page.

You can contact me via my page on myspace.com.