A photography exhibition curated by the Museum of Youth Culture in Coventry, including images submitted by the public, opens in July
Sonia Long was a Black punk from Nottingham in the 1980s. She remembers having to rope her friends in to help straighten her naturally curly hair to achieve her spiked hairstyle.
“I’d left home and was staying with a friend in her flat in a high-rise. I wasn’t working at the time, so we just used to hang around, meet up with friends and go and see bands,” she said. “[My friend] was like: ‘Let me take your photo.’ I can’t remember where we were going but there was definitely a pub involved and maybe a gig later on.”
