This was just about the time punk was breaking and discovering the new music out there changed my life.

FORBES: You and Your Musical Rut

In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.

BBC: Should we despair at the kids of today?

The festival opens with Good Vibrations, the story of Terri Hooley, the music producer who discovered the Undertones and who championed the rise of punk music during a very dark and violent time in Northern Ireland's history.

BBC: Bumper crop of local movies at Belfast Film Festival