After 30 Years, I’ll Finally See You In The Pit
admin A mosh pit is not a place I’ve really ever felt comfortable. I remember my first experience of a pit. It was September 1995, Green Day were touring Insomniac, and…
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The Ferocious Dog AGM: A Subculture Without Age
It’s been a big weekend in the folk-punk world: the release of the latest Ferocious Dog Album, Kleptocracy, and the band’s ‘AGM’, an all-day event at Rock City in Nottingham.…
Millie Manders And The Shutup Gig Review
It’s been a whole year since we first witnessed Millie Manders live. Back then, the band were a support act at Dogfest in Boston, and we were blown away with…
What Is Punk? Badlands 3 Festival In Lincoln
This weekend I had the immense pleasure of spending time amongst the Lincoln Punk Collective at the third annual Badlands festival. It was an eclectic weekend of styles, from pop-punk…
Ferocious Dog at The Drill
In 2016, I attended the Levellers ‘Levelling The Land’ tour gig at Rock City. That was my first exposure to Ferocious Dog, and I watched from the sidelines, entranced at…
Dogfest 2023 – Boston Gliderdrome
Dogfest, 2023 at the Gliderdrome in Boston. On paper, it sounds a lot like a low-rent Crufts in one of England’s backwater towns. In truth, it was more like a…
Comeback Kings
I’m caught in two minds over how to write about my experiences at The King Blues gig on Valentine’s Day. Initially I was tempted to do a review, but the…
Off With Their Heads: Why the return of The King Blues is so important.
“Guess who’s back and pissed off again, bastards in power and nobodies stopping them” It could surely only be the London based three piece ska punk anarchists The King Blues.…