When you work all year round just to save up enough money for a week away most people would want to go somewhere exotic. Sem Futuro though have punk written through them like the writing on a stick of Blackpool rock. That’s why for their time out they’ve...
Tiger Sex are a three piece full on tour de force that had the Rebellion stage packed to the rafters. Their show was a riot with front girl Kelly Chelston spending much of her time in the audience and on the speaker stacks. It turns out the wildcat...
Music is a powerful tool. It can inspire, change perceptions and invoke deep emotion. The music of Louise Distras perhaps more than any other act at Rebellion festival does these three things plus a lot more too. With her song Aileen (about convicted...
It needs to be said that Kiss My Acid are enjoying themselves hugely at Rebellion. They played on the introducing stage last year and the festival decided to invite the Irish trio back for a second stint. Gary Trueman spoke to two thirds of KMA ...
September Mourning isn’t just a band, it’s a trans media project that encompasses music, comic art, dance and theatre. The character of September as a human/reaper hybrid has captured the imagination of many, her power and her fragility, her complexity...
Freedom of expression comes in all guises. The real freedom to be yourself, to not follow the pack and to live your life by your own rules can often come at a price paid in isolation and intolerance. The Soap Girls have been maligned and pilloried...
Northamton might not seem the obvious place to look if you want to find great industrial metal but the town has spawned a band that Devolution just had to investigate. Fleisch are a three piece heavily influenced by the daddy of them all Rammstein. ...
Mark Bestford caught up with Devildriver’s Mike Spreitzer to discuss how illness has made him healthier, his love of European metal and the endless search for the perfect guitar sound. There was a long break between Winter Kills and Trust No One,...
Drones are a feisty London five piece that have undergone something of a personnel makeover recently. Their brand of melodic alt punk is the stuff the future of music looks set to be built on. Gary Trueman chatted to the band about political videos...
The first band on the Dogtooth stage She Must Burn played to a packed tent showing just how good the music on the fourth stage was going to be this year. Mark Bestford caught up with James, Frank, and Annina after the show. Last year you were...
