How has it been a year since we last put on our party boots ready to head out into the sunshine and Manchester Punk Festival, this also raises the question how do they manage to ensure good weather in a city famous for it’s rain, not that a bit of precipitation would deter us but it’s absence does improve the weekend. Every year Manchester Punk Festival manages to be a testament to the spirit of the DIY punk scene as the team responsible put together a line up that is hard to match, one that focuses on the underground and the current, or at least recent, wave of punk bands, along with one or two more familiar faces, but there is no spirit of ’76 present, there are no historic reminders of punk’s past, apart from maybe a few perennial favourites such as Discharge and Snuff. This a represent...
