Day three of a very hot and sweaty Rebellion Festival. Even in the relative cool of the early morning, there are plenty of Rebellionites, some of them a bit jaded, out and about, enjoying the calm before the punk storm in the Winter Gardens. Slagerij blow the cobwebs away with furious ska punk that’s reminiscent of a stripped down version of the much missed Dead Pets, heavy dub and ska bass lines are fired at you with terminal velocity and put a bounce into the early afternoon on another hot and sticky day at Rebellion. Meanwhile in the Empress Ballroom lurks Spider, an eight-legged punk band from LA that have nailed the angry political old school grind. Stoogey-proto punk done very well but an early slot in a cavernous Empress is not doing them any favours in terms of audience. A la...
