Sailing from UK and into Italy, Punk music modified its DNA, losing the rage and nihilism of the British movement to become mocking and clownish. The documentary “Mummy gimme gas”, which is also the title of a famous Italian Punk song, is an overview of the Italian Punk movement which is still almost unknown despite the innovative charge it injected into the veins of Italian music between the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. The documentary is divided in three chapters: The Sons of Odeon (1977-1979); B.R Brigate Rock (1979-1980); A for Anarchy (1981-1982). Three are also the cities where the scenes are set: Milan, Bologna and Pordedone. In this short film the Italian Punk Rock genre finds an expression through the crude and violent sound of Tampax and Andy Warhol Banana Technicolor and the experimental and New Wave sonorities of Gaznevada.

The narrators of this story are the main exponents of Punk music of the time (Glezos, Enrico Ruggeri, Steno of Nabat and Plastic Girl from HitlerSS) and the most important Italian musical critics such as Federico Guglielmi, Claudio Sorge and Red Ronnie. These testimonies expose the clichés related to the Punk movement, the peculiarities of the Punk style and the different sounds of this genre that “ferried” Italian music from the shore of Progressive Rock to the New Wave of the early ‘80s. The dressing of this tasty dish consists of interviews and original recordings made during concerts.