Unim- Press Release September (2005) (Catalogue Number – JSNTGM 018) The Ugly Truth About Blackpool CD Volume 1 of the Ugly Truth About Blackpool – released on Sunday, 28th August 2005 at a free all day launch event (Summer Daze 2) featuring 13 local bands at Stanley Park. An 80 minute historical odyssey of 27 …
What Is The Blasted Festival? The festival was the idea of Craig Halliday and ukNige on a cold winters night down at the SICK56 rehearsal room. Having decided we wanted to put Craig’s rather large band rehearsal PA to some better use we thought it would be a good idea to put on a small …
I was recently doing an interview for the Punk Rock Show on ‘Halton Community Radio’ when the interviewer Peter Ridealgh remarked how, as an outsider, he always looked upon the town of Blackpool as a really significant location for punk, both past and present. After the interview his comment got me thinking and when I …
Punk in Blackpool …. Rebellion Programme – Article 2015 Read More »
It’s amazing to me how quickly the festival seems to come around each year so for someone of my advancing years it was good news to discover that with the assistance of the venerable Jonny Wah Wah, Rebellion and I will be putting together a CD to document new bands to the festival ….. so …
Rebellion 2016 – Festival Programme – Article by Andy Higgins Read More »
SS – why did you start JSNTGM (Just Say No To Government Music) Records and how has this evolved since you started in 1990? Originally it grew out of the activities surrounding putting on punk gigs in Blackpool. Blackpool has always had a pretty good little punk scene and when my crowd got active in …
