{"id":617013,"date":"2025-12-07T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617013\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:35:16","slug":"birkenhead-poet-brings-punk-back-to-old-probe-records-site-in-liverpool-birkenhead-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617013\/","title":{"rendered":"Birkenhead poet brings punk back to old Probe Records site in Liverpool \u2013 Birkenhead News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wirral poet, Barry Woods, has launched his latest punk-inspired book at an event inside Liverpool\u2019s Wall of Fame bar, once home to the old Probe Records shop, a place where punk was sold over the counter by the likes of Pete Burns and Julian Cope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Where Did All The Punks Go? is a collection of previously published and new works using punk, social issues, and 1980s Birkenhead as a backdrop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe had fifteen poets performing inside the once iconic Probe Records building on Button Street, a place where Pete Burns of Dead or Alive worked before he got famous,\u2019 says Barry, a regular on the Merseyside poetry scene for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe punk movement was a little before my time, but it had a big impact on me as I was growing up. Generation X had a lot to deal with \u2013 unemployment levels were high, and so a DIY ethic prevailed back then, sometimes with a ferocious roar!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cMalcom McLaren and Vivienne Westwood were particularly good at this, changing attitudes towards music and fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Barry studied under award-winning poet Alison Chisholm, and received a Poetry Medal of Honour in 2019 from Wirral\u2019s John Gorman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He has organised many spoken word events in Merseyside over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Where Did All The Punks Go? by Barry Woods\u00a0Is available to buy in hardback, paperback, and Kindle from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.eu\/d\/5LRiUaS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.eu\/d\/5LRiUaS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:20px;\"><strong>Why not follow Birkenhead News on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Birkenhead.News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/birkenheadnews.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Bluesky<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VbAi9LN35fLncHyckC3k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/user?screen_name=birkenheadnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@birkenhead.news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Threads<\/strong><\/a>. <strong>You can also send story ideas or letters to the editor to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birkenhead.news\/birkenhead-poet-brings-punk-back-to-old-probe-records-site-in-liverpool\/mailto:news@birkenhead.news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>news@birkenhead.news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wirral poet, Barry Woods, has launched his latest punk-inspired book at an event inside Liverpool\u2019s Wall of Fame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[2644,748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-617013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-birkenhead","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115675721011220802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}