“Goedenavond. Vanavond afwijkende set, afwijkende gelegenheid, afwijkende mensen. Veel instrumentaal.” Wally van Middendorp, introduction to the first ULTRA evening, Oktopus club, Amsterdam, September 1980. (Quoted in Harold Schellinx, ULTRA, Opkomst en ondergang van de Ultramodernen, een unieke Nederlandse muziekstroming (1978-1983) 26-27.) Contents: – List of Illustrations – Introduction and Historiography – Chapter 1 Analysis of Vinyl Magazine – Chapter 2 Analysis of the ULTRA interviews – Conclusion – Notes – Bibliography – Appendix Throughout the spring of 2012, a number of events, exhibitions and publications were unveiled in the Netherlands to celebrate the Dutch punk and post-punk counter-cultures, that flourished between 1977 and 1984. Many were timed to coincide with a major retrospective on the era; the God Save the Queen: Kunst, Kraak, Punk 1977-1984 exhibition at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht; which ran from March 3 to June 10, 2012. A small number of books based round the subject were published by Amsterdam’s Lebowski Publishers, who also printed a “box set” special issue of Vinyl magazine. (1) Vinyl, which ran from 1981 to 1988, was often seen as the mouthpiece of the ULTRA or the “ultramodernen” scene, a short-lived but “puur Nederlandse stroming” of avant garde post-punk music; one … Meer lezen over Richard Foster – “Afwijkende mensen”: Formulating perspectives on the Dutch ULTRA scene