My daughter is 13, so of course she knows it all!

She recently informed me that I am clueless as to what Punk music actually is.

This conversation came up as my fiance` and I prepared to go to the Psychadelc Furs concert, who were preceded by a local punk band called British India (they went off by the way, great gig!).

 I kept a straight (ish) face and asked her to tell me who, in her opinion, are Punk bands of this decade?

"Greenday, The Living End and Blink 182", she promptly replied.

This time I did laugh. I laughed really hard...

and I told her that they might be considered grunge rock, or attitude rock, but they definetley weren't Punk music. ( I like the Living End by the way, have seen them live 3 times!)

So she informs me that no-one cares about some boring old punk bands of my generation and that no-one remembers who they are anyway.

I asked her if any of her so-called 'punk' friends liked the Sex pistols..

"Who the heck are they?" she asked me scornfully.

I gave up at that point!