European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 5,1977 the stars and stripes Page 19 is ugh. By Aline Mosby United press International it Alors at the top drawer opening of an Art show at the new be Aubourg museum a group of parisians in their doors and Saint Laurents stared at an unshaven Man. He wore a Black Beret dark glasses splotches of Rouge on his face flapping military Greatcoat Clumpy hiking boots and a Panama top with military medals and buttons sewn All Over it. One of the first fighters cried out Why it s Pierre. What on Earth Are you doing in that get up with a flourish of his Cigar the first Nighter replied Alors be Soiree suis Punk tonight i m Punk. Be Punk has come to Paris. After ravaging the United states and Britain Punk has found a Grimy foothold on the continent in trendy France. A Survey by up bureaus in Europe also turned up a Punk tendency in Sweden and a few traces in the Netherlands but that was All. So far Punk is virtually unknown in Switzerland and in West Germany where Punk invades Frankfurt sept. 9 when the stranglers play at the Volks Bildua Nosheim Punk Rock what s that inquired a couple of Bonn teenagers. Vienna disc jockeys refuse to play Punk Rock. I would not even pick up such a record let alone play it one austrian disc jockey grunted. Portugal Spain and Belgium Are just getting around to Rock. And Punk has not yet scratched the scene in Italy such horrible goings on never could catch hold in civilized Italy is the theme of italian magazines showing picture spreads on the English Punk scene. In the Netherlands one station broadcasts 15 minutes of Punk Rock each wednesday. Punk types have been spotted around Rotterdam and department stores offer the Punk symbols razor Blade and safety pin jewelry. Even More bunkers Are seen on the streets of Stock Holm. The British top Punk Rock group the sex pistols toured to sell out crowds in Sweden in july. But in France the mania has come on Strong. Punk took a year to catch hold in France. The first Punk Rock festival last summer was a Flop. Then throughout the Winter French Punk Rock groups imitating the British bunkers started playing in smoke filled cellars in the Blu Etoilar areas of Les Halles the former food Market Region and the place de la Republic que. Walls that used to be blackened with Grafitti about the French army Israel and women s lib were scrawled with be Punk. Organizers of the second Punk Rock Festi Val in France at Mont de Marsan in August thought they would be Lucky to draw 2,000 spectators. Four thousand showed up including about 100 bunkers in pin dripping costumes and lurid makeup from London and Paris. The French Punk Rock groups bore English names such As Asphalt Jungle Little Bob Story and Luv an All female band. The festival was judged a noisy Success. Even the music critic from the prestigious Paris newspaper be Monde showed up he wrote of Punk Rock the noise is infernal almost insupportable. When no ecologists appeared to demonstrate against nuclear Energy plants the police left the festival alone. Shopkeepers did not bang Down their window shutters and close As they do in the face of Rock festivals but stayed open one saying i m not afraid. These Punk people Are not  just look  this summer Punk even has been taken Over by the Chic left Bank of addicts in Paris. Punk sters have been observed drinking Fine wine in the expensive restaurant Cloi serie de Lilas in Montparnasse area of artists and the in set. Punks Parade through the Chic couple cafe at Midnight. The Singer Regine made Punk High fashion with a Punk party Given at her Paris night club new Jimmy s. The tout Paris social crowd wearing safety pin covered rags ate from a Buffet table labelled  France s great pates and cheeses were served in chamber pots. Plastic garbage bags were draped around the luxurious  party was a Ball until some real punks showed up from the East of Paris and tried to crash the party. Fists flew and police raced to the scene to restore order. You knew that Punk really was in when the intellectuals and social commentators attempted to politicize Punk As they politicize everything else. The satirical weekly be canard enc Haine argued that the Rich adopted Punk in order to prepare themselves for a left Wing takeover in France s general elections next March. One serious left Wing newspaper decided be Punk tude is the final stage of Western european decadence before the Advent of Neo fascism in France. Right Wing newspapers blamed Punk on the socialists. A far left Wing paper said Punk was a right Wing plot to scare the Middle class voter bringing a Punk delegation to the newspaper office to protest about articles putting political labels on them. We Are new we Are creative we refuse any cultural inheritance a delegation spokesman said. For us Marx Mao and Hitler Are completely  the intellectual be Monde in an analysis of Punk said it s childish naive and disarming. But these apparently innocent provocateurs Send a shiver Down your  the Magazine l express summed it up Punk is not truly funny but it s