In many ways, the much-loved and revered Ruts DC are British music’s best kept secret, a band that have kept a particular kind of faith since the tail end of first wave of British punk. They never did showbiz, never became cartoon figures in off-the-peg punk fashion. The original Ruts were scarily tough, brutally musical and pumped with a kind of furious energy that saw them ride that wave of scene popularity that also gave us Max Splodge and Plastic Bertrand. Yeah, where there’s a Lord Mayor’s Show there’s always a shit cart. That wave broke with a particular ferocity with the loss of frontman Malcolm Owen to heroin in 1980 and, ebbed to nearly nothing when founding and by then very occasional guitarist Paul Fox succumbed to cancer in 2007. But to frame Ruts/Ruts D...