Rebellion 2025 - the year starts or ends it is up to you. Now it’s time to be productive
Rebellion 2025 – Day 3
Day 3 and it is starting to get emotional. As I walk back to my accommodation I chat to the seagulls about how Rebellion is nostalgia but it also helps pave a way for the future. They think I’m mad and don’t talk back but I finish the day with a smile on my face. I guess you needed to be here.
Rebellion 2025 – Day 2
Rebellion Day 2 Suitably refreshed after a nights sleep in the bunk beds and a hearty porridge breakfast I am ready for today’s marathons. The Kowalskis play a nice rocky tuneful brand of punk. Completely new to me which is another aspect of this fest that is so positive. Turns out the band formed in … Continue reading Rebellion 2025 – Day 2
Rebellion 2025 – Day 1
It’s still a.m. and the seagulls have been partying all morning. I have a wander through the decay of 1970s Blackpool and wonder if vapes had never become a thing what would these small businesses survive on. The shops are all despatch vehicles for cash and carries, with stock near its sell by date.
Rebellion 2025 the prequel
This was a man in form. One man, one drummer, a loud backing track and an attitude that belongs in a festival like this
Rebellion 2024 Day 4
I can’t explain how much punk rock means to me. The words on the page don’t do it justice but it became a way of living. Not thinking what would the punks do just what feels like the right thing to do. This weekend epitomises it. It’s a huge family and like any family gathering there are some you like more than others.
Rebellion 2024 Day 3
As I prepare for the onslaught of steps and sounds on day 3 I contemplate my 48 hours so far in Blackpool. The punks have taken over, touts are the only ones selling tickets and this punk rock party is in fine form. There’s a haunting spectre of a match from the EDL later as we hope that attendees of the festival will be out in protest of the hate and division that the edl espouse.
Rebellion 2024 Day 2
Here we go again. Day 2. The sun is still shining and the floors of the venue are getting sticky. Last night I kept feeling splashes on the parts of my legs my shorts weren’t covering as people dropped their not so empty plastic beer glasses to the floor. The floor absorbed most of it but by the time I was leaving Bar Stool Preachers my feet were beginning to stick to the floor.
Rebellion 2024 Day 1
Is there a more synonymous saying associated with punk rock than 1-2-3-4. And with that on our first day August 1 the festival kicks off
Rebellion 2024 Day 0
So it’s the night before the day when the maddest collection of musicians, punks, vagabonds and those on the outside of whatever it is they feel they aren’t part of, come together for their annual celebration in the tatty seaside town that is Blackpool.