‘Punk has always been about the music’: An interview with James Dick of the Red Propellers

American James Dick is the lyricist and singer of the Red Propellers, a now Bristol-based band who make music inspired by the Velvet Underground and other New York bands of the punk and post-punk era, as well as film, performance and the visual arts. In this interview we discuss what the term ‘punk’ means, discordance, musical influences and infatuations, rebellion and reinvention.