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Anyone else going to this celebration of all things slightly punk? Looking forward to THE DAMNED THE EXPLOITED BOB VYLANTHE DICKIES BIG COUNTRY BAD MANNERS ANTI NOWHERE LEAGUE RUTS DC U.K. SUBS THE REZILLOS BAD BRAINS THE METEORS THE VAPORS GAYE BYKERS ON ACID WASTED YOUTH CONFLICT SPIZZ ENERGI HEADSTICKS and of course, DAFFODILDOS 😁

 

We've managed to get ourselves onto the Introducing Stage! [/thinly disguised plug]

 

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Don`t think I`ll be going unless my band manage to get on - we were in discussions but have had a brief pause due to health of one of the guys so don`t think we`ll get on this year.

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Never too sure about this.


Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas. Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. Pretty much every emotion punk generated in 1976/77 has been lost to a well-worn formulaic approach.

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3 minutes ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas

 

Of course it wasn't - it was about the media lumping everyone who made a band in the late 70s into the latest genre and a type of music.

I think it is just a type of music, you like it or you don't

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8 minutes ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Never too sure about this.


Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas. Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. Pretty much every emotion punk generated in 1976/77 has been lost to a well-worn formulaic approach.

There is a considerable element of truth to what you say (IMO of course) but scanning the band names in the orginal post I'd say at least half fall outside of what you describe.

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For me whether it’s a formula, an emotion or a whatever I just concentrate on one question, do I like the music. And I do. Punk for me was always about exciting sounding music, the “movement” and anti establishment stuff passed me by, but the clothes & music, great.

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8 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

I'd say at least half fall outside of what you describe.

We do!

We're most certainly not balding men playing 3 chord songs... Some of ours have only 2 chords, others have at least 20! 

I'm the only one who's a bit balding, and our singer isn't a man!

And I'm also looking forward to Sunday's prominent punk headline, Steel Pulse!

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39 minutes ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Never too sure about this.


Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas. Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. Pretty much every emotion punk generated in 1976/77 has been lost to a well-worn formulaic approach.

 

Have you checked out Bob Vylan? Highly recommended

 

Anyway, yeh, I've been to to last 5 or 6 Rebellion festivals running. A lot of it is pretty much as you describe, but I guess that's what people go for. I don't think my band fit into that category at all, and there must be loads more. Steve Ignorant's Slice Of Life for one, which is IMO very clever musically and lyrically. The same band plus a drummer are doing a set of crass songs - musically simple perhaps but an incredible show and certainly not just 4 chords with a one line chorus.

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1 hour ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Never too sure about this.


Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas. Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. Pretty much every emotion punk generated in 1976/77 has been lost to a well-worn formulaic approach.

I sort of get what you're saying, later punk did get a bit like that, having said that you've described one of my favourite bands, The Ramones, 4 barre chords and the title of the song sung (not shouted) 4 times, I don't know what made them special, but something indefinable did.

 

I won't be going, I've been a few times and didn't particularly enjoy it, it's just too big, too many bands, dodgy sound.

Apart from the odd exception, it just all merges into a mushy mess, for me anyway.

 

Last time I went I spent most of my time in the pub round the corner 😃

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3 hours ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Never too sure about this.


Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas. Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. Pretty much every emotion punk generated in 1976/77 has been lost to a well-worn formulaic approach.

 what's more punk than ageing baldies with beer bellies playing 'youth' music?

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4 hours ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. 

 

Phwoar, now you're talking! Sounds exactly like my side project The Lords Of Superglue. Where do I sign up? 😂

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Just in case I'm selling the bass for this event, but I think it's missing a lot of stickers and the holes should be going through the body, but that can be fixed very quickly... 🤪

 

 

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4 hours ago, joeystrange said:

I’ll be there. Playing at some point.

 

Mostly looking forward to seeing Descendents, The Damned, Republica, Bad Brains and Bob Vylan.

Which band are you playing with?

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11 hours ago, greentext said:

Corrr Bad Brains! NO WAY! 

I think it's only HR...

Remember seeing them in the early 90s though at Subterrania in Portobello. Crackin'!

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23 minutes ago, joeystrange said:

 

SV & the Eruptions

I thought I`d heard somewhere that you guys had split, Joey, am really pleased to find out that isn`t the case. Say hello to the chaps for me.

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42 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Remember seeing them in the early 90s though at Subterrania in Portobello. Crackin'!

That is awesome, very jealous of that 

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14 hours ago, joeystrange said:

Mostly looking forward to seeing Descendents, The Damned, Republica, Bad Brains and Bob Vylan.

 

Republica? At Rebellion? As much as I'd like to see them, that can't be right?

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