Fifth Column Ltd
Date
1977
Notes
Fifth Column is a screen-printing collective that helped define the look of Punk culture in late-1970s London. It was founded by Sodge Adams, Cat Santos, Pedro Santos, Chris Townsend, and Robin Richards in 1977.
History
Fifth Column started in 1977 when a group of friends - Sodge Adams, Cat Santos, Pedro Santos, Chris Townsend, and Robin Richards - decided to design and print – by hand – punk rock t-shirts for bands like X-ray Spex, The Clash, The Jam and The Damned. After they created the artwork on paper and cured the t-shirts in tumble dryers at a laundrette on Kilburn High Road, they sold them outside the London gigs.
