Rebellion. We go again.
Next year it will be 30 years of rebellion and the excitement is mounting a year in advance of those festivities. For now we are on year 30 minus 1 and the fringe events are getting bigger and higher in number. What’s happening around the festival is a mini festival in itself and if you weren’t of the 10,000 ticket holders for the winter gardens you could make do around its environs.
Most people playing these gigs have sets at the festival but one such artist bucks the trend. Dublins Meryl Streek has added a drummer to his venom as he parades around the stage spitting out his anger at many world events. Pissed off in Dublin easily translates to pissed off in Blackpool as the sold out bootleg social kicks It all off in major style.
As Meryl departs the stage and enters into the crowd to sing about Terence Wheelock there is a certain irony as the selfie brigade clamour for their phones while he sings of a person dying in the custody of the cops as the family seek justice. The crowd smile and clap along but the justice for Terence wheelock campaign goes on.
This was a man in form. One man, one drummer, a loud backing track and an attitude that belongs in a festival like this.
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