Punk, DIY culture and loud music since 2001.https://menvafan.net/https://menvafan.net/pirat/the-pirate-bay-and-swedish-piracy/https://menvafan.net/pirat/the-pirate-bay-and-swedish-piracy/How Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay, the 2006 raid and the 2009 trial turned Sweden into a battleground over file sharing and sparked the Pirate Party.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/american-hardcore-book/https://menvafan.net/bocker/american-hardcore-book/Steven Blush's 2001 book and the 2006 documentary map US hardcore 1980–1986. What they get right, and the scenes and people critics say they miss.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/fotboll/anti-fascist-football-fans/https://menvafan.net/fotboll/anti-fascist-football-fans/A guide to anti-fascist football fan groups: St. Pauli, Celtic's Green Brigade, Rayo Vallecano's Bukaneros, AEK's Original 21, and Football Against Racism…Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/geek/archiving-zines-scanning/https://menvafan.net/geek/archiving-zines-scanning/A practical guide to scanning zines and flyers: resolution, file formats, OCR, metadata, and uploading to the Internet Archive. Keep your punk ephemera alive.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/geek/bandcamp-guide-for-diy-bands/https://menvafan.net/geek/bandcamp-guide-for-diy-bands/How DIY punk bands and labels can use Bandcamp: setting up, pricing, Bandcamp Fridays, physical merch, and alternatives when you need them.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/battle-jacket-guide/https://menvafan.net/annat/battle-jacket-guide/A practical guide to building a punk battle jacket: choosing the right vest, patches, sewing with dental floss, setting studs, and painting a backpatch.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/black-flag-damaged/https://menvafan.net/Musik/black-flag-damaged/How Black Flag's 1981 album Damaged, with Henry Rollins on vocals, defined American hardcore and set the template for DIY punk.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/fotboll/casual-culture-terrace-fashion/https://menvafan.net/fotboll/casual-culture-terrace-fashion/How Fila, Sergio Tacchini and Stone Island became terrace staples, and where casuals overlapped and clashed with punk and skinheads in late-70s Britain.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/fotboll/celtic-and-irish-folk-punk/https://menvafan.net/fotboll/celtic-and-irish-folk-punk/How Irish folk punk from The Pogues to Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly connects with Celtic FC fan culture and the songs sung on the terraces.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/conflict-anarcho-punk/https://menvafan.net/Musik/conflict-anarcho-punk/Conflict came out of early-80s Eltham with a harder, angrier take on anarcho-punk. A look at their records, animal-rights politics and why they still matter.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/crass-and-anarcho-punk/https://menvafan.net/Musik/crass-and-anarcho-punk/How Crass built anarcho-punk from Dial House in Essex: their own label, Gee Vaucher's stencilled art, and the bands who followed their lead.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/crust-punk-origins/https://menvafan.net/Musik/crust-punk-origins/How Amebix, Antisect, Doom and Hellbastard spawned crust punk – its politics, its look, and its messy split from grindcore.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/d-beat-discharge/https://menvafan.net/Musik/d-beat-discharge/A plain guide to the d-beat drum pattern, Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, and how Swedish bands turned it into käng.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/dead-kennedys-fresh-fruit/https://menvafan.net/Musik/dead-kennedys-fresh-fruit/How Dead Kennedys' 1980 debut Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Jello Biafra's satire and Alternative Tentacles defined San Francisco punk.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/discharge-hear-nothing-see-nothing-say-nothing/https://menvafan.net/Musik/discharge-hear-nothing-see-nothing-say-nothing/Released in 1982, Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing fused nuclear-war fury with Cal's barked vocals and Bones' guitar wall, shaping crust…Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/diskonto/https://menvafan.net/Musik/diskonto/Diskonto, the Swedish hardcore band from the 1990s: their sound, their records and their place in the käng scene.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/dr-martens-and-subcultures/https://menvafan.net/annat/dr-martens-and-subcultures/How Dr. Martens boots became staples of skinhead, punk and goth style, the truth behind lace colour myths, and the boot's history since 1960.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/ebba-gron-swedish-punk-1977/https://menvafan.net/Musik/ebba-gron-swedish-punk-1977/How Swedish punk broke out of Stockholm's inner city between 1977 and 1983, from Ebba Grön and KSMB to Rude Kids and the suburbs of Rågsved.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/englands-dreaming-review/https://menvafan.net/bocker/englands-dreaming-review/Jon Savage's England's Dreaming (1991) remains the definitive history of the Sex Pistols, UK punk and its roots in Situationism and art schools. Here's why.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/essential-punk-books/https://menvafan.net/bocker/essential-punk-books/Ten books on punk that are worth your time, from Please Kill Me to Lipstick Traces, with honest notes on what each does well and where it falls short.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/european-squats-and-diy-venues/https://menvafan.net/annat/european-squats-and-diy-venues/Ungdomshuset, Rote Flora, Köpi, Metelkova and Christiania: how Europe's best-known squatted and DIY music venues survived, changed or disappeared.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/fotboll/fc-united-of-manchester/https://menvafan.net/fotboll/fc-united-of-manchester/How FC United of Manchester was founded in 2005 in protest at the Glazer takeover, and how fan ownership works at the club and in general.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/geek/fediverse-for-punk-scenes/https://menvafan.net/geek/fediverse-for-punk-scenes/Why punk scenes are leaving big platforms for Mastodon and the fediverse, and how to set up an account or your own instance. Practical, DIY, no jargon.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/flipside-slash-and-la-zines/https://menvafan.net/bocker/flipside-slash-and-la-zines/How Slash and Flipside documented the late-1970s and 1980s Los Angeles punk scene, from photocopied reviews to the bands and venues they covered.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/fotboll/football-chants-history/https://menvafan.net/fotboll/football-chants-history/Football chants draw on hymns, music hall, pop songs and folk tunes. From Liverpool's 'You'll Never Walk Alone' to 'Seven Nation Army', here's where terrace…Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/fotboll/football-fanzines-when-saturday-comes/https://menvafan.net/fotboll/football-fanzines-when-saturday-comes/The 1980s football fanzine boom, led by When Saturday Comes, borrowed punk's DIY ethos to change how fans wrote about the game.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/pirat/golden-age-of-piracy-myths/https://menvafan.net/pirat/golden-age-of-piracy-myths/What pirate ships were really like during the Golden Age of Piracy, how democracy worked on board, and why anarchists still romanticise them.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/geek/hackers-dictionary-jargon-file/https://menvafan.net/geek/hackers-dictionary-jargon-file/The Jargon File, or New Hacker's Dictionary, is a lexicon of early hacker slang. We look at its origins, its maintainers and its DIY ethos.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/geek/home-recording-punk-demo/https://menvafan.net/geek/home-recording-punk-demo/A practical guide to recording a punk demo at home on a budget: audio interfaces, SM57 mics, free DAWs, drum recording and mixing basics.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/how-to-make-a-zine/https://menvafan.net/bocker/how-to-make-a-zine/A practical guide to making a punk zine: cut-and-paste layout, cheap photocopying, folding and stapling, distribution, trades and what it actually costs.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/how-to-make-punk-patches/https://menvafan.net/annat/how-to-make-punk-patches/A practical guide to making punk patches: stencilling, screen printing, painting and sewing. Materials, techniques and hard-won tips from the DIY tradition.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/how-to-start-a-diy-label/https://menvafan.net/Musik/how-to-start-a-diy-label/A practical guide to running a small DIY punk label: cassette and vinyl pressing, distro trades, Bandcamp, realistic costs and the mistakes to avoid.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/pirat/jolly-roger-flag-meanings/https://menvafan.net/pirat/jolly-roger-flag-meanings/How the skull and crossbones went from pirate ships to punk patches and football terraces. History, designs, and why it stuck.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/pirat/libertalia-pirate-utopia/https://menvafan.net/pirat/libertalia-pirate-utopia/Libertalia, the pirate colony from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 General History of the Pyrates, was likely invented.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/geek/linux-for-musicians/https://menvafan.net/geek/linux-for-musicians/A practical guide to making music on Linux with Ardour, Audacity, PipeWire and Ubuntu Studio. Is it worth it for a DIY band? We weigh the pros and cons.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/maximum-rocknroll-history/https://menvafan.net/bocker/maximum-rocknroll-history/How Maximum Rocknroll, the San Francisco punk zine, ran from 1982 to 2019 — its scene reports, columns, ethics rows and what it left behind.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/men-va-fan-2001-2016/https://menvafan.net/annat/men-va-fan-2001-2016/A look back at the original Men Va Fan!, a homemade Stockholm punk website with MP3s, zines, football pages and an anarchist Melanie C fan club.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/minor-threat-and-straight-edge/https://menvafan.net/Musik/minor-threat-and-straight-edge/How Minor Threat and Dischord Records launched straight edge in Washington DC, 1980–83, and what the X on the hand came to mean.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/mohawk-history/https://menvafan.net/annat/mohawk-history/How the mohawk became punk's most recognisable haircut: its tribal and military roots, UK82 adoption, liberty spikes, and a practical guide to making one…Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/Musik/never-mind-the-bollocks-album/https://menvafan.net/Musik/never-mind-the-bollocks-album/How the Sex Pistols made Never Mind the Bollocks, the label chaos with EMI, A&M and Virgin, Jamie Reid's cover, and why it still defines punk.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/fotboll/oi-and-football-terraces/https://menvafan.net/fotboll/oi-and-football-terraces/How Cockney Rejects, Sham 69 and Cock Sparrer channelled football terrace culture into Oi! — and how the scene pushed back against the far right.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/our-band-could-be-your-life-review/https://menvafan.net/bocker/our-band-could-be-your-life-review/Michael Azerrad's 2001 book profiles 13 American indie bands from 1981–1991, tracing DIY touring, independent labels and the underground network that shaped…Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/pirat/pirate-folk-punk-bands/https://menvafan.net/pirat/pirate-folk-punk-bands/How pirate imagery and nautical songs shaped folk-punk, from The Pogues' sea-soaked ballads to The Dreadnoughts and the pirate stage image.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/pirat/pirate-imagery-in-punk/https://menvafan.net/pirat/pirate-imagery-in-punk/From the Jolly Roger to Hamburg's St. Pauli skull and pirate radio, we trace why punk and folk have long borrowed the pirate myth for anti-authority ends.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/pirat/pirate-radio-caroline/https://menvafan.net/pirat/pirate-radio-caroline/How Radio Caroline and Radio London broke the BBC monopoly, why the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 shut them down, and how offshore radio helped new…Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/please-kill-me-review/https://menvafan.net/bocker/please-kill-me-review/Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's 1996 oral history of punk, from the Velvet Underground to the Ramones and beyond: what it covers, how it works, and where…Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/bocker/profane-existence-zine/https://menvafan.net/bocker/profane-existence-zine/How a Minneapolis collective, zine and label built a crust punk infrastructure from 1989, and why 'making punk a threat again' stuck.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/geek/punk-and-free-software/https://menvafan.net/geek/punk-and-free-software/How punk's DIY ethos connects to GNU, the GPL and copyleft, why early punk websites ran on Linux, and what free software still offers DIY scenes today.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/punk-faq/https://menvafan.net/annat/punk-faq/New to punk? A plain-spoken guide to what punk is, its subgenres, finding gigs, DIY ethics, pit etiquette and where to start listening.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://menvafan.net/annat/punk-fashion-history/https://menvafan.net/annat/punk-fashion-history/How Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's SEX shop, bondage trousers and DIY clothing shaped punk fashion — and how high fashion absorbed it.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT