Since I uploaded an article on punk scenes, I thought I should highlight a punk archive for my nugget. Collections like this one are a godsend for me in terms of my interest in cultures of small-scale performance, because they preserve records of not only these ephemeral performances themselves, but also of the ways in which the communities surrounding them interact with performance. The most robust punk archive in the United States is in D.C., but this Vancouver collection at the Simon Fraser University library also has some great stuff, some of it dating much earlier than the D.C. Punk Archive’s holdings, and some of it digitized. I’m attaching a piece from a 1978 issue of a local zine, Snot Rag, where they review a concert by the American band Enemy. I thought this (decidedly negative) piece was particularly rich because it touches on the Vancouver scene’s relationship with American metal and “Art School trendies,” and it also has some fantastic details about crowd response, saying that forays into the crowd earned band members “laughter and a right hook to the jaw,” as well as “loving spit offerings” that the author disapprovingly says were met with only “fear and hostility.” The last portion is also written backward, a weird little detail that I don’t know what to do with, but which I like.