Gerrion Jones a.k.a. Wacky (born 1963 in Merthyr Tydfil)
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. Jones lived on the Gurnos Estate for over 25 years and was educated at the local Pen-Y-Dre High School. He worked as a cook, roadie, sound engineer and DJ followed by 12 years at

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in Pentrebach.Punk exhibition takes to the road
, Merthyr Express, 28 January 2010, retrieved 6 February 2010 Whilst at

Merthyr Tydfil College Merthyr Tydfil College ( Welsh: Y Coleg Merthyr Tudful) is a further education college located in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. From May 2006 to April 2013, it was a constituent college of the University of Glamorgan and thereafter, a college of the Uni ...

he trained as a

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and welder. He started collecting subversive art at an early age, having been inspired by seeing the

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on television in his early teens.Punk lives in Bangor exhibition
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, 16 January 2010, retrieved 6 February 2010 He now tours the exhibition regularly; most recently at Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery in

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Punk Forever
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