Screaming Fatal Truths II Joe Briggs

Out of print

Front cover of the book, Screaming Fatal Truths II, by Joe Briggs.

About the book

Screaming Fatal Truths II is the second collection of disposable punk photographs and text by Joe Briggs. Joe’s appetite for shows is insatiable (he travels from Oxford to every single punk gig in London, and many others further afield). His ‘method’ is fast and democratic just like these grainy pictures—the results are full of energy, burst flash and mutual respect. Maybe he takes a couple of frames per band? Who knows—this is a ‘collection’ looking forward; single use cameras are usually processed, captioned and published online the next morning, and then he’s at the next show.

This new volume includes (in order of appearance): Game • PMS • Screaming Toenail • BIB • Negative Space • Farce • Strong Arm • Disguise • Permission • Pinkgrip • Arms Race • The Snivellers • Razor • Good Throb • Rat Cage • Hex • Top Deck • Child’s Pose • Vile Spirit • Maladia • Owner • Bodily Fluids • Lovescum • Public Service • Score • Blóm • Hank Wood and the Hammerheads • Anxiety • Primitive Future • Cuntroaches • Nosferatu • Disjoy • Firewalker • Haram

Purchased by UAL London College of Communication.

History is not just a dry plod of facts, or it shouldn’t be. It’s a process unfinished, a marker or warning for what could lie ahead. The act of documenting a scene is not an archiving or an embalming, but a reaffirmation of these things we share, these things that can be created. These places that these gigs happen and these people making this music, or taking it in.

Joe Briggs, from the introduction

About the photographer

Joe Briggs lives in Oxford and goes to a lot of punk shows. He is a member of SCRAP BRAIN and also writes the punk crit zine Brutalist Shimmy.

Specification

Format
Paperback
Trim Size
210 x 148 mm
Pagination
52 pp
Illustrations Colour
39 colour
Publication Date
12 May 2018
Edition Quantity
200
Edition Details
Offset print, saddle stitched binding. Pre orders come w/ a 7.5 x 5" hand-stamped C-Type print of Game or Firewalker printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper.
Designer
Robin Christian