Diary of a punk rock nobody

The truncated journal of a new wave dreamer in North Berwick, 1980

I kept a diary for a few weeks in 1980. Recently, I found that diary. Many of the pages have been ripped out because they were too interesting. A few pages remain. These are those pages.

Tuesday, 17 June

Had haircut, £1.00, Elliot’s (man)

Translation: Elliot’s was a barber on Market Place in North Berwick. There was a men’s barber and a ladies’ hairdress…