Buzzcocks, The Damned to celebrate 40 years of punk at Rebellion Festival


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The Rebellion Festival will be celebrating 40 years of punk with Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, The Damned, Flag, Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra, CJ Ramone and others in August.

“This is an exciting year for us,” says Rebellion promoter Jennie Russell-Smith. “2016 is a year of celebration. It’s our 20th year of putting on punk festivals and it’s also 40 years of punk – so a double celebration! We’ve got a bigger event than ever with more bands, new stages and lots of special things planned.

“With the 40 years of punk anniversary there’s going to be a full year of events up and down the country with bands and independent promoters celebrating this amazing scene.”

After starting out in 1996 as the Holidays In The Sun event, Rebellion returns this year between August 4th-7th at Winter Gardens in Blackpool.

“There’s also of course the bandwagon jumpers that will just be putting on a ’40 Years of Punk’ style gig and then disappear again the following year. Well, we’re proud that we’ve already started booking bands for next year, so we will be here in 2017 doing what we love when everyone is ignoring punk again. No five minute fashion for us.”


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