Joan āJuiceā,Ā one of the original punks of the early Mancunian punk scene, posing for Kevin Cummins in the streets of Manchester in 1977.Ā SheĀ can be also seen in another Kevin Cumminsā picĀ in the gatefold sleeve for The Drones ā77 EP āTemptations Of A White Collar Workerā.
Along with other key players of that burgeoning scene, such members of The Fall, Buzzcocks or Joy Division, Joan Juice was a regular at the Ranch Bar and a part of the northern equivalent of the Bromley Contingent called āTheĀ āRanch Posseā, who would often hop in the back of a transit van full on Manchester punks to travel to London to see the Buzzcocks headline at the Roxy (while Joan was piercing peoples ears on the road) or toĀ Wolverhampton to see the Pistols.
ā...Manchester during this period was a dangerous place to stand out from the crowd. If the Perry Boys [an ultra-violent subculture of soul boys who sported wedge haircuts and Fred Perry t-shirts] didnāt get you, then the Teddy Boys or the soccer hooligans were waiting around the corner. Manchester punks had little choice but to take refuge in gay clubs (...) Thatās how a small downstairs gay nightclub called the Ranch Bar on a desolate street surrounded by empty warehouses became the Manchester punk sceneās headquarters...
...At first, the place catered mainly to Bowie and Roxy fans. As more and more of them grew bored with the glam look and started to sport leather jackets adorned with safety pins and razor blades, it turned into an exclusive social club for the Manchester punk set. On a typical night, youād find scattered about the room musicians from all the major bands that formed in the wake of the Sex Pistolsā Lesser Free Trade Hall gigs, preeminent among them Buzzcocks, the Fall and Joy Division prototype, Warsaw.
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