Rebellion Festival / R Fest – Blackpool, UK, Friday 5th August 2022

After much grumbling about everything hurting, especially for those of us who were here from Wednesday and attended some of the warm up fringe events, we make our way back into Blackpool town centre, after several hits of caffeine and a return to our favourite breakfast haunt, The Compass Cafe, we are vaguely back on an even keel and ready to go for day two as we head back into Rebellion, and R-Fest, for the second day of the UK’s largest, and arguably best, punk festival. Well it IS Almost Acoustic. Bite Me are a fierce, sassy four-piece whose huge, wailing sound should not work in this more intimate setting. But it does, even though everything is vying to be louder than everything else. Tight, bluesy rock topped with a soaring vocal. We’re not sure if Pauline Murray is nearby, ...

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