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Punk's Not Woke

'Fife Punkfest 2024' (Day 2) at the Windsor Hotel, Kirkcaldy

Fife Punkfest 2024 (Day 2), featuring The Outcasts, Drongos for Europe, Sad Society, Twisted Nerve, The Eddies, The Red Eyes, Troops of tomorrow, They Theory, Fire Exit, Sequence 369, Scrag Fight, The Ex and The Dam Ratz, at the Windsor Hotel, Kirkcaldy, on 29th June, 2024. See event on Last.fm.

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Poster for Fife Punkfest 2024 (Day 2), featuring The Outcasts, Drongos for Europe, Sad Society, Twisted Nerve, The Eddies, The Red Eyes, Troops of tomorrow, They Theory, Fire Exit, Sequence 369, Scrag Fight, The Ex and The Dam Ratz, at the Windsor Hotel, Kirkcaldy, on 29th June, 2024.

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Twisted Nerve and Sad Society at Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh

Although I couldn't really afford to spend any money at all, I thought, 'Fuck it!', and decided to go this gig featuring Sad Society, Twisted Nerve and Shock and Awe at Henry's Cellar Bar on 8th December, 2018. Maybe it was just because the fizzy lager went straight to my head, but I enjoyed the gig and was glad I'd decided not to stay at home. I'd known of Twisted Nerve since way back around 1983, when they acquired The Actives' former drummer, Paul Kirk, but I'd never actually seen or heard them. At the gig, they played after Sad Society. Their first song didn't really grab me and I thought their singer was a bit of a cocky poseur, but in fact I ended up watching their whole set and thinking they were 'awright', as we say in these parts. I thought they were a lot like The Sisters of Mercy, but with a singer who can actually song, and they definitely have that early-eighties post-punk/trad-goth vibe. I thought that if they'd managed to get themselves on The Tube in about 1983, they'd have gone down a storm and would be a much better-known band by now. See event on Last.fm.

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Sad Society at Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, on 8th December, 2018.

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Angelic Upstarts, Twisted Nerve and State Oppression at The Nite Club, Edinburgh

Angelic Upstarts, Twisted Nerve and State Oppression at The Nite Club, Edinburgh, on 21st January, 1981. See event on Last.fm.


Poster for Angelic Upstarts, Twisted Nerve and State Oppression at The Nite Club, Edinburgh, on 21st January, 1981. [Paul Devlin]