The Stranglers
Punk's most musically awkward first-wavers — swirling organ and sneering menace where their peers just went fast, 'Golden Brown' the elegant outlier.
Rebellion 2026 Lineup
Four days and nine indoor stages of punk in Blackpool's Winter Gardens — the genre's biggest annual gathering.
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Slaughter & The Dogs
Wythenshawe's glam-punk originals, on the bill at the gig that famously started Manchester punk — boot-boy anthems still swinging.
Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set
The voice of Crass performing the anarcho-punk canon that turned punk into a genuine political project — history, shouted live.
UK Subs
Charlie Harper still fronting one of punk's most relentlessly touring institutions, an album for nearly every letter of the alphabet.
Bar Stool Preachers
Brighton ska-punk with a genuinely political heart and a frontman who works a crowd like a preacher — singalongs first, sermons snuck in after.
The Courettes
Wall-of-sound '60s girl-group pop played by a two-piece with a fuzz pedal and no restraint — Danish-Brazilian duo, Spector-sized.
The Good, The Bad and The Zugly
Norwegian punk with Turbonegro's swagger and a genuinely great line in song titles — Oslo irreverence at full speed.
The Dollheads
Face Up
18 Fevers
Sham 69
Terrace-chant punk built for a thousand people shouting the chorus back — the template for oi!, 'If the Kids Are United' still uniting.
Anti Nowhere League
Deliberately obnoxious, biker-adjacent punk that got its debut single seized under UK obscenity law — 'So What' remains the filthy standard Metallica couldn't resist covering.
Ferocious Dog
Fiddle-led folk punk with a devoted following and a strong line in righteous anger — Levellers-lineage anthems built for muddy-boot dancing.
Goldblade
John Robb fronting high-energy punk'n'roll with the evangelism of a man who genuinely loves this music — part gig, part revival meeting.
TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers
The Adverts' songwriter playing his first-wave catalogue with a young band behind him — 'Gary Gilmore's Eyes' still unnerving.
Riskee and the Ridicule
Punk spliced with grime cadences — a genuinely modern take on shouting about Britain, both scenes' energy in one set.
The Hotknives
Long-running Brighton ska with a brass section and zero interest in slowing down — Two Tone spirit kept warm for decades.
Split Dogs
Rumkicks
Korean street punk trio bringing genuine UK82 fidelity from the other side of the world — studs, speed, and total sincerity.
The Whops
Cock Sparrer
Fifty years of working-class anthems, and still the band that closes a punk festival better than anyone — 'Because You're Young' guarantees wet eyes in the pit.
Cockney Rejects
The band that gave oi! its name and its football-terrace singalong instincts — East End punk that never pretended to be anything else.
Die Toten Hosen
Germany's biggest punk band by a distance — stadium-scale at home, playing a Blackpool ballroom here, forty years of anthems compressed into one gleeful set.
GBH
Spiked-hair UK82 hardcore whose buzzsaw riffs fed directly into American thrash — Birmingham veterans still playing at full pelt.
Chron Gen
Second-wave UK punk with more melody than the leather-and-studs crowd usually allowed — UK82 veterans with genuine tunes under the spikes.
Subhumans
Dick Lucas's rapid-fire wordplay over anarcho-punk that never lost its sense of rhythm or humour — four decades in, undimmed.
Gimp Fist
North East oi! with more melody and less posturing than the genre's reputation suggests — working-men's anthems from Hartlepool.
999
First-wave London punk with a power-pop instinct that made them unusually durable — 'Homicide' and a catalog of sharp, hooky singles still delivered at full pelt.
Los Fastidios
Italian antifascist oi! and ska with three decades of unambiguous politics behind it — terrace anthems for the right side of history.
Pubic Enemy
Stiff Little Fingers
Belfast punk written under the Troubles — Jake Burns's sandpaper roar over songs about getting out, 'Alternative Ulster' still the loudest exit plan.
The Dickies
Cartoonishly fast California punk covers and originals, played entirely for the joke and entirely well — five decades of controlled silliness.
The Godfathers
Sharp-suited, hard-driving rock'n'roll with punk's aggression and none of its scruffiness — 'Birth, School, Work, Death' still the résumé.
Discharge
Invented an entire drumbeat and a genre named after it — nuclear-dread hardcore stripped to pure noise, and still the loudest warning siren in punk.
Cro-Mags
NYHC founders whose 'Age of Quarrel' remains the crossover blueprint — hardcore fury and metal precision fused before the terms had settled.
Haywire
Chelsea
First-wave London punk whose early lineup splintered into Generation X almost immediately — Gene October kept the flag up anyway, for decades.
Channel 3
Early-'80s Southern California punk with more melody than their hardcore neighbours — first-generation SoCal scene veterans still swinging.
Rat Hole
Mikabomb
Japanese garage-punk played at a giddy sprint with hooks buried in the fuzz — Tokyo-to-London racket with a grin.
Millie Manders & The Shut Up
Genre-hopping punk with a powerhouse vocal that swings from ska skank to full scream — protest and party in one set.
Maid of Ace
Four sisters playing ferocious, unfussy punk with no gimmick beyond how hard they hit — Hastings family business, all fury.
Scream
The Adolescents
The Drowns
Bad Cop Bad Cop
Control
Popes of Chillitown
Slackrr
Subalternos
Dog Rotten
The Liarbilitys
The Business
Oi! played straight down the middle — no politics beyond solidarity, no frills beyond the chorus, South London to the bone.
The Boys
First-wave punk with the melodic instincts of a lost power-pop band — London '77 played with a songwriter's care.
Booze & Glory
Skeptix
Random Hand
The Kids
Meryl Streek
Citizen Fish
Unrivalled
Broken 3 Ways
Fantazmaz
Battery Acid
Glam 45
Skids
Richard Jobson's theatrical Scottish punk, with guitar lines that would later become Big Country — 'Into the Valley' still a rallying cry.
The Chameleons
Cavernous, chiming post-punk that half of modern indie rock has quietly borrowed from — 'Script of the Bridge' the secret source text.
The Wurzels
Somerset's cider-fuelled 'scrumpy and western' institution, booked entirely on purpose and greeted like heroes — 'Combine Harvester' guaranteed.
Spunk Volcano & the Eruptions
Deadline
Tear Up
Knock Off
Paranoid Visions
Ireland's long-running anarcho-punk agitators, still recording with their heroes — Dublin's conscience at full volume, four decades of righteous racket.
Hung Like Hanratty
Spunk
Phat Problem
Dirtbox Disco
Silly, hook-stuffed UK punk that treats every show as a party first — glam-daft costumes, huge choruses, zero self-seriousness.
M.D.C.
American hardcore's most reliably furious political band, name changing with each record — Millions of Dead Cops onward, rage undimmed.
Total Chaos
Liberty-spiked American street punk that took the UK82 sound and made it louder — Pomona's most committed mohawks.
Shanghai Treason
The Insane
Culture Shock
The Subhumans' dub-and-ska-inflected sibling band, built for movement rather than confrontation — Dick Lucas leading the dance instead of the charge.
Mess
Las Fokin Biches
On the Huh
Segregates
Buzzcocks
The band that proved punk could carry a love song, and wrote the best ones anyone managed — Manchester's original singles machine, still buzzing.
Bow Wow Wow
Malcolm McLaren's Burundi-beat pop project, all tribal drums and teenage swagger — 'I Want Candy' and a sound nobody has quite replicated since.
Au Pairs
Angular, politically pointed post-punk built on the tension between two vocalists and a very tight rhythm section — Birmingham's answer to Gang of Four, sharper on gender politics than anyone.
The Primitives
C86 jangle-pop with a fuzz pedal and one perfect, permanently sunny single — 'Crash', still crashing.
Zion Train
UK dub soundsystem veterans providing the bass-heavy comedown to a weekend of guitars — echo chambers set to heal.
Light of Eternity
Black Water County
Molly Vulpyne Band
Blyth Power
Anarcho-punk about English history and cricket, sung by a drummer, and far better than that sounds — four decades of literate, galloping folk-punk devotion.
Carol Hodge Band
Menace
'GLC' and a lifetime of London punk delivered without a shred of nostalgia — first-wave veterans still swinging.
Hagar the Womb
Cheerfully shambolic anarcho-punk with several vocalists and no interest in being grim about it — the scene's most smiling veterans.
Rezillos
Scottish sci-fi punk in matching outfits, playing everything at cartoon speed with a grin — 'Top of the Pops' irony fully intact.
Lene Lovich
New wave's great eccentric — yelps, trills, and a vocal style nobody has successfully copied, 'Lucky Number' still gloriously odd.
Mick Rossi's Gun St
Roman Jugg Band
John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
A double act built on genuine musicianship and total physical chaos — self-described as rock's great failure, and beloved precisely for it.
Radical Architects
Gypsy Pistoleros
Lost Cherrees
50 Foot Woman
Marc Valentine
Penetration
Pauline Murray fronting first-wave punk with genuine melodic ambition underneath — 'Don't Dictate' still a landmark.
Dave Formula & Noko
Spizz Energi
Owner of the first-ever UK indie chart number one, and a band that has changed its name a dozen times since.
Salford Jets
Ruts D.C.
The Ruts' surviving members carrying forward punk that always had reggae in its bloodstream — 'Babylon's Burning' still smolders.
Anderson from Crazyhead
The Outcasts
Belfast punk from the Good Vibrations scene, rougher and funnier than their neighbours — Troubles-era grit with a smirk.
Johnny Moped
Shambolic first-wave punk once featuring Captain Sensible and Chrissie Hynde, still gloriously unpolished — Croydon legend status fully secured.
Heathen Apostles
I, Doris
Voodoo Radio
UK Decay
One of the bands that accidentally invented goth, still trading in cavernous, tribal post-punk — Luton's darkest export.
Gina Birch & the Unreasonables
The Members Play at the Chelsea Night Club
Attila & Otway Present 'Cheryl - a Rock Opera
The Darling Buds
Oorya
Eastfield
The London Sewage Company
Dash!
The Mob
Haunted, minimal anarcho-punk that traded rage for genuine melancholy — 'Let the Tribe Increase' still casts a long shadow.
TV Smith
The Carpettes
Spear of Destiny
Kirk Brandon's grand, saxophone-flecked post-punk, built on conviction and reverb — cult-canon status long secured, 'Never Take Me Alive' still the rally cry.
Eater
Punk's original teenagers — the band members were barely fifteen when the first wave broke, and the songs still sound like a school-night escape.
Guitar Gangsters
EXTC
Ricky Warwick & the Fighting Hearts
Theatre of Hate
Tribal drums and howling vocals — post-punk at its most operatic and least apologetic, 'Westworld' still towering.
Sick on the Bus
Fast, funny, thoroughly unserious London punk with a long back catalogue of bad decisions — proudly unreformed.
Riot City Radio
The Bolokos
Bite Back
Kombi Killers
Janus Stark
Gizz Butt's post-Prodigy punk vehicle, faster and more melodic than the day job — guitar-hero chops in three-minute bursts.
Headstone Horrors
Foreign Legion
Straight-ahead oi! for the Empress Ballroom singalong — veteran terrace-chant punk played loud, proud, and without frills.
Ambition Demolition
Splodgenessabounds
Novelty punk with a legendarily long song title and no pretensions whatsoever — two pints of lager and a packet of laughs.
Dead Dates
Noose
Litterbug
Blackpool punk lifers on genuinely home turf — scrappy, local, and louder for it, scene regulars with local bragging rights.
Bite Me Bambi
Horn-driven California ska with a frontwoman who commands a room from the first bar — Orange County third-wave revival with showtune-sized energy.
Cult Maniax
West Country punk that kept mutating between anarcho, psychobilly, and straight-up rock — Devon eccentrics who never fit the uniform.
Special Duties
Essex oi! with an enduring grudge and the songs to back it — four decades of terrace snarl.
The Samples
Gatecrash
The Baby Seals
Funny, furious feminist punk that says the quiet parts extremely loudly — body-positive anthems with proper hooks.
Spectrum 4
Bullitz 23
Rivalry
Anti Virus
Club Brat
Covid 21
Spleen
Rubella Ballet
UV-painted anarcho-punk that insisted the movement didn't have to dress entirely in black — day-glo defiance since the Crass days.
Notsensibles
Lancashire punk best known for a satirical anthem people keep taking at face value — 'I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher', forever misread.
The Attack
Last Tree Squad
Liberty & Justice
Grippers
The Gakk
Fire Exit
Dead Pollys
4Ft Fingers
Channel Islands ska-punk veterans back together for the festival circuit — high-tempo, grin-first punk built for a beery mass singalong among the UK scene faithful.
Diaz Brothers
Under the Influence
One Way System
Blackpool's own UK82 veterans, closing a room in their home town — spiked-hair anthems played where they started.
Sensa Yuma
Iconoclasts
Pete Bentham & the Dinner Ladies
Black September
Mc16
Threats
Convict Class
Choking Susan
Michigan punk with a confrontational frontwoman and a very short fuse — snarling, old-school defiance with no filler.
John E Vistic Rock N Roll Soundsystem
All Coasted
Drongos for Europe
Vomit
Deadbeat at Dawn
Pizzatramp
Screaming Dead
Deaf Devils
Borrowed Time
The Puncturists
Disorder
The Restarts
Resistance 77
Pussyliquor
Dummy Toys
Ex-
Red Moon Heroes
Grail Guard
Be N!Ce
Hairdye
The Dollies
The Glitterbombs
Minimal Faff
Aftrshocks
Smoking Fingers
Thrown Away
Tomorrow Burns
The Coathanger Solution
A Murder of Crows
Defused
Versaints
Critical Candy
Catfight
Wrishlas
Malad
Thronk!
R.P.C.
Cock-Batteth
River Ratts
Nothing Thrives
The Jungles
The Nanaz
Bloody Benders
Wrex
Clitspit
Skint Knees
Bambees
Talllon
Lady Lazarus
Hawxx
Whoremones
Yakkie
Breakup Haircut
Wokerati Party
Witch Spit
Mona Freaka
Thwack!
Gaydar
Hex Poseur
Violet Violet
Beans on Toast
A man, an acoustic guitar, and a running commentary on the state of things, delivered pub-side — a new album every December and a grin through all of it.
Muddy Summers & the Dfws
Babar Luck
Jess Silk
Henshaw
Kent Nielsen
In Evil Hour
David Delinquent
Menace with Leigh Heggarty Play G.L.C. Rip
Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls
Emily Flea Plays the Damned
Cryssis
Henry Cluney
Mick Rossi
Helen Mccookerybook
Nick Cash
Charlie Harper
Rev Peters
Ricky Warwick
Music in Our Underpants
Cherry and Peesh
Jessi Eastfield
Jonny Robson
The Antipoet
Faebhean Kwest ( Feat Rachel Darq)
Arturo Lurkers/999 Punktry Set
Jc Carroll
Millie Manders
Ramona's Tea Party
Nell Davies
Christmas Kwon from 18 Fevers
Carol Hodge
Mauri Clash
Bitzy
Dinner Ladies Disco
Shell the Alternative Folkie
Maisie Jo & the Rogans
Emily Flea
Nye Foxx
Molly Vulpyne
