…if so, be sure to be at The Old Blue Last on Monday night. 80s Japanese hardcore-thrash survivors Crucial Section will be playing a rarer than rare UK show. Not to be missed, once in a lifetime opportunity, etc. Seriously though. Support comes from Wigan punks Bail-Bond and Deptford thrashers Colt Seavers. Entry is only a fiver and there are no advance tickets because using Ticketmaster isn’t very punk is it? So, be there early or judging by last month’s Insect Warfare show you won’t get in at all. Click on for details and a video of what to expect. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘Hardcore’
Mob Rules Are Not a German Power-Metal Band
Leeds, for me, is a horrible place. Cold, grey and grim. Both my parents worked all day every day during the week so when I was a kid I got carted off to my auntie Jane’s place near Chapeltown in Leeds for large chunks of the summer holidays every year. To this day, the drive up the M1 fills me with dread. It came as little surprise to me when I discovered that the MP3s circulating on punk forums by a band called Mob Rules were the product of the city of Leeds. Powerviolence might have originated bathed in West Coast sunshine but its unrelenting, uncompromising brutality and anger perfectly reflects just how grim and fucking depressing the north of England can be. It has helped make Mob Rules the best punk band in the UK, though, so maybe it’s not all bad.
