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News: Rebellion Festival 2024 Returns 1st-4th August At The Winter Gardens In Blackpool
Returning this summer over four days from the 1st to the 4th of August at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, Rebellion Festival has once again pulled together a line-up that runs the full length and breadth of worldwide alternative and punk rock culture. From the four iconic, genre-defining headline artists of The Stranglers, Sham 69, …
Countdown To Rebellion – Day 29: Introducing Desperate Measures NZ
Desperate Measures, a fierce and unrelenting punk band hailing from the underground scene, unleashes a sonic assault that leaves listeners breathless. Formed in New Zealand in 1981 and now based in London, and stylized as Desperate Measures NZ they bring a raw and aggressive sound that harkens back to the roots of punk. With blistering …
Countdown To Rebellion – Day 49: Introducing The Battery Farm
Next up in our series of bands to check out at Rebellion this year, The Battery Farm. The great thing about the “punk family” is that there are so many different strains, like an out-of-control virus, continually mutating. Remind you of anything? Whether it’s “77” punk, oi, hardcore, straight edge, skate punk or street punk, …
Rollins Completes Rebellion Line-Up For 2023
In 112 days the 2023 Rebellion Festival kicks off at Blackpool Winter Gardens. The annual gathering runs from Thursday Aug 3rd to Sunday Aug 6th, attracting visitors from all over the globe and is an anticipated highlight of Blackpool’s summer, by the local community, who embrace it with both hands. “Better than when those bloody …
Track: Jekyll return with the expansive and shimmering single ‘Tear Ourselves in Two’
We’ve closely followed the career of Blackpool’s finest, Jekyll, since their debut and enthusiastically reviewed their last release – the magnificent EP ‘The Whispering Gallery’ – last year. With only a splendid cover of Japan’s Nightporter released since then (showing exemplary good taste), it is great to see the band back in full post COVID …
TRACK: Strange Bones feat. Bob Vylan – ‘Menace’
BLACKPOOL punk legends Strange Bones have released a brand new cracker of a single, ‘Menace’. ‘Menace’ is the result of the anger and frustration resulting from lockdown. The night before release, September 24th, the band teased details about the new track on their Facebook page:“‘MENACE’ is a cathartic release in response to the world being …
Album Review: The Membranes – Everyones Going Triple Bad Acid Yeah 5 CD Box Set
Blackpool`s finest post punk band formed in 1977 get the box set treatment from Cherry Red and about time too. John Robb and Mark Tilton formed the Membranes at Blackpool Sixth Form College in 1977 and based their ideas on Punk and DIY music, something JR still champions today with his magazine Louder Than War …
Track: Twin Graves – Strife
Despite having a name that screams ‘death metal’ at you (well, it did at me anyway) Twin Graves, aka Irish/Blackpool duo Jeremy Aris Polychronopoulos (vocals/guitar) Zarah Lawless (vocals/bass/synth) actually make the most engaging and catchy synth pop this side of Kim Wilde and ABC. Seriously. If you don’t immediately fall for new single Strife then …
Track: Aiden Grimshaw – The Way We Are Free Download
There was this lad at my school called Tom. I didn’t even know him that well, only enough to nod to really, but I think at the time I almost wanted to be him. He had cool clothes, was captain of the school football team, had the latest haircuts and the girls crowded around him, …