Dave The Punk

Stage Dives and Ironies

Hand-drawn illustration of a grungy ’90s venue, stage diving at a Fall gig with Mark E. Smith scowling, and John Lydon smirking beneath a giant “EMI” sign

Grit, sarcasm, and raw sound define this depiction of the 1990s. The stage dive that annoyed a legend, the sneer of John Lydon under a corporate banner, and the dark edges of a decade where memory outlived the paper trail. This image distils the spirit of the gigs that stuck — the ones without photo evidence but burned forever into the brain.