Founder Of Local Punk Legends X Does Not Want A Knighthood

Founding member of pioneering Australian punk band X, Steve Lucas believes the current Australian political climate is similar to that of the time when his band first started kicking against the pricks.

“It's like the world's spun on it's axis and gone back to 1977,” Lucas protested when speaking theMusic.com.au's Cam Findlay. “We had Malcom Fraser [as Prime Minister], everyone was disillusioned after [Prime Minister, Gough] Whitlam had been sacked. 

“Now we've got the Abbott government instead, bringing back the dames and the knights and just generally making everything seem like it's the '70s again. It's strange how we're back in that political mindset where social conscience is rapidly becoming a thing of the past and corporate privacy is rapidly becoming the dominant factor.”

Lucas also railed against the lack of social consciousne, he believes that self-interest is prevalent again today, “When people start making statements like, 'the homeless are homeless because they choose to be' and 'it's ok to be bigoted', and they start selling Qantas and Medicare…" 

It's all reminding Lucas of why X were writing songs like Suck Suck and I Don't Wanna Go Out in the late '70s. “Back in those days, they were just trying to get rid of Medicare full stop. And all those things were happening, and now they're happening again. It's weird to see it all happen again, because we were supposed to be over this. But it's like we're saying, 'Okay, we've done all these great things over the last 20, 30 years, let's go back to the past and live like we did when Apartheid was a thing.”