Genre Research- Who listens to Punk?

Punk- Enlightening youths since the 1970's.

What sort of person listen's to Punk?
As I explained earlier, Punk is more of an attitude than an actual genre of music, and it's the attitude that most teenagers share. (The rebellious attitude). It doesn't matter if you grew during the 70's, at the birth of Punk, or in the 90's, making you a teenager at the moment, the vast majority of teenagers have that rebellious side to them. Punk has been so popular because it speaks to that side of every teenager, and has done for near 40 years. Because of this, the audience that listens to Punk expands from 40-50 year olds, right down to today's teenage audience. Simply because everyone from the 70's onwards has grown up listening to a form of Punk, people who are 40+ might have listen to the Pistols, Ramones, etc, whereas today's youth might edge towards bands such as Green Day. Different music, same Punk attitude.



I guess you could argue that there are casual Punk Listeners, and Hardcore Punk listeners, which makes Punk concert audiences vary from 40 year old stereotypical family men, to the gentlemen you see above. Like I said, this middle aged man could have in his earlier days had hair as socially awkward as this, which is what I mean by, everyone from the birth of Punk, has been affected by it in some way.

I asked 40 Punk fans (As I had 4 age categories) in Rugby Town Centre which age category they fitted into:



The evidence I found backed up my claim that age wasn't a particular factor in the Punk Audience, as the results were for the most part, relatively equal in all categories.

I also noted how many of the fans were male, all the people who weren't fans weren't included:


This evidence shows that around 3/4 of the Punk fan population are male.

Although the Punk audience is large, Punk is split into two parts, original Punk, and Modern punk, old and new I suppose. Old being bands that formed Punk, New being the bands that have shaped it. The youth's of today being the Modern Punk audience. Because, the age of a Punk fan is a big factor in which kind of Punk they listen to, the exposure is totally different, articles for tours and specific gigs in magazines etc shape the audience on a punk gig. Green Day and Blink gigs might be advertised in a magazine like Q, whereas I have seen gigs for original Punk bands such as Killing Joke in MCN, (Motorcycle news).


I asked the proprietor of a music shop in Rugby who's name has eluded me  the general age/ gender of the people who come in and buy Punk Albums, and he said, although his shops market is mostly teenagers, most of his Original Punk albums are bought by middle aged men, whereas the albums such as Sum 41 and Blink are mostly bought by teenagers of either gender.