WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, and trashy treasures.

Episode 86

Cane Punk Chronicles - Tales of the Sunny Coast’s Punk Underground - Part One - DISRUPT YOUTH

This Episode sees the kick off of the long awaited Wastelands sub series / the Cane Punk Chronicles - Tales of The Sunny Coast Punk Underground - This week hear Mark-O-Mark talk about how and why he started the notorious hardcore/ street punk band Disrupt Youth.

Disrupt Youth played a perfect blend of HXC mixed with a snotty UK punk sound. Their songs lyrically talked about politics (such as the OJ Simpson BS) and about everyday social problems. Originating on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia where they slogged it out in the local scene before moving to Brisbane.

In Brisbane where they enjoyed a loyal following which resulted in Disrupt supporting such bands as The Misfits and Propagandhi.After releasing 2, 7 inches between 1996 -97, they released their debut album Look'n for Answers on October 10, 2000 on Beer City Records from the States. Disrupt disbanded at the end of 2000 and are currently on an extended break.

links -Disrupt Youth - Disillusioned - Mooloolaba Pub - 1996

Disrupt Youth - 49 Dollars - USC - 1997

Listen to Disrupt Youth here

The origins of cane punk

The origins of cane punk is as murky and mysterious as the individual misfits, weirdos & kids that claimed the title and celebrated their individuality in the face a culture less, harsh, beige and often violent mainstream coastal mentality.

The world wide Punk movement of the late 70s and 80s traditionally had a particular urban flavour. Generally city kids feeling disconnected from the metro monstrosities that housed them, ignited a revolutionary fired music fashion and culture that screamed independence from the main stream.

The pre internerd punk kids of the late 80s early- 90s that happened to find their sorry asses in the culturally void rural region know as Queensland's Sunshine Coast, had a different yet no less lobotomising cultural challenge. These young coastal dwellers still shared the disconnectedness felt by the city kids, but their experience was compounded by the physical isolation that resulted in residing with in a rural community...lack of transport, employment, entertainment and opportunities to express themselves ....that and being surrounded by rednecks and footy boof heads.

So what did they do... lay down, conform and try to fit in?... Hell no. Much like their city cousins, they organised against bland oppression, they formed bands, made zines, organised punk shows, held markets, opened alternative shops and generally made a stand!!

So why's it called cane punk then I hear you ask... We'll curious reader, the primary industry on the Sunshine Coast (prior to its utter collapse in the late 90s) was sugar cane farming. Local cane punk folk law recalls a night in Woombye when the term was hurled as abuse at the punk kids during a violent altercation outside a gig between the punters and a bunch of drunk footy players that should have know better. We can only assume the taunt was based on the fact that a lot of the punk kids grew up on, in or around sugar cane. The sugar cane industry may have disappeared but the name stuck. So basically speaking the worlds' cities may be responsible for the invention of punk, but.....Sunshine Coast put the cane in it!!

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