| Tremor is a cultural aftershock within The History of Rock & Roll—a visual reckoning that charts the migration of punk music and its explosive development in London.
It marks a pivotal moment: when rebellion becomes movement, and myth becomes map.
At the center, a stylized red tiger roars—its mouth open, teeth bared, expressive and volatile. The tiger remains a symbol of Europe, as in
The Tiger’s Tale, but here it is no longer triumphant. It is fractured, reactive, caught in the tremor of cultural upheaval.
Behind it, fragmented text references the rise of punk: New York’s underground, the Ramones, and the October 1976 moment when the genre crossed the Atlantic and ignited a national phenomenon in Britain. The text is partial, broken—like memory, like myth under pressure.
Superimposed are blue and black lines from the London Underground—a literal transit map and a metaphor for cultural transmission. Punk didn’t just arrive—it spread, tunneled, and erupted through the city’s veins.
Tremor captures the moment when rock & roll fractures, mutates, and refuses containment. It’s the roar of resistance, the echo of migration, the seismic shift that reshaped music history.
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