Survey Results

We decided we were going to conduct numerous surveys, for each participant they were given a general music survey centred around personal interest and opinions, for others a more redefined band specific survey was given out, these ranged over the three genres we are focused on alternative rock, grunge and pop-punk, many of these bands have at least some similar elements to the band we have chosen to focus our work on, while others are included to further emphasise how certain people feel about certain genres and about the respective fans, ultimately how fans of certain genres interact with that genre and others.

The personal survey covers a range of topics from favourite bands, genres, fashion, views on pop-punk, grunge and alternative rock and are they influenced by certain elements of the band and what they promote etc. This was to obtain a range of results from people interested in a multitude of genres and music style, collectively we should be able to gain a wide range of opinions, this should give us a glimpse into how the audience interacts with its fans for each genre and most specifically the Punk(pop-punk) and how they relate to or contrast fans of other genres.

Next we developed band specific surveys, some bands more rock (alternative rock), some more grunge and others being very Punk styled bands, this was to further decipher how certain fans feel about their favourite bands and genres and compare them with the audience of others. It is also useful because the majority of these bands have many similar elements to the band our work is focused with, from music stylings, the 'sound' or 'feel' of the music, fashion, genre, inspirations, influences and so on. there is no band included here that isn't relevant to the band in some way. Each band has considerable links to the three genres of influence ( Punk, Alternative Rock and Grunge).

Something that we wanted to make clear is that this is a genre specific set of surveys. We got a huge range of responses, both for and against the punk genre. It should be made clear as well that these surveys were not the sole motivator to inform our coursework but rather a component of the overall demographic exploration and research. In fact many respondents didn't listen to or even have a positive opinion on the pop-punk genre further emphasising its existence as a niche genre (although it was more popular than other genres_.