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LIVE REVIEW: North East Calling, Northumbria University, Newcastle, 28 September 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keith ‘Monkey’ Warren of The Adicts, who stole the show at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Sue Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The last Saturday in September means one thing to the North East\u2019s punk rock community: their own one-day version of the wonderful Rebellion Festival.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

North East Calling<\/strong> started life as Durham Punk Festival back in 2005, moved to Newcastle in 2013, and after a year at the O2 Academy, has now found a home from home at Northumbria University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s line-up featured the usual mix of old favourites and newer acts, and organiser Jon Connor of JS Promotions is to be commended for keeping the bill so diverse, as there’s something to suit just about every punk\u2019s taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The honour of opening the mini-festival went this year to Uproar<\/strong>, a four-piece from Peterlee who had a good local following back in their 80s heyday. They reformed a couple of years ago, and recently released a new EP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a tough slot opening a gig of this size, as many of the crowd haven\u2019t arrived yet, while others are checking out the merch tables, but Uproar pulled it off with aplomb, with their political punk slipping down as a nice appetiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kicking off with No War No More from their debut EP, they also played its title track Rebel Youth and old favourites Better Off Dead and Have A Good Laugh, before rounding off their nine-song set with We The North from their latest record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uproar opened the proceedings at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Next up were Cyanide Pills<\/strong>, a band who are new to North East Calling, but who have been around the punk scene for about 10 years now. With four of the five members wearing leather jackets of various colours, they look like a gang very much in the vein of 1977-era The Clash, but their melodic sound owes more to the likes of The Boys, The Vibrators and, at times, The Dickies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d had a small taste of the Leeds band at Rebellion one\nyear, but knew little about them, so was mightily impressed as they hammered\nthrough 14 songs in their allotted half an hour, with not a duff one among\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have a trio of studio albums to their name, and the\nset was drawn from all three, with the standout songs including the singles Up\nAgainst The Wall, Where Did It Go? and the closing Suicide Bomber. If you get\nthe chance to see Cyanide Pills I\u2019d strongly suggest you take it \u2013 they\u2019re\nexcellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cyanide Pills at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Kid Klumsy <\/strong>are another band who are new to NEC, but their frontman will be familiar to many as the former singer of Dirt Box Disco. Hailing from Coalville in Leicestershire, they were actually Weab\u2019s band before DBD took off, and they\u2019re starting to get a following of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the fourth time I\u2019ve seen them, and I was a little unsure what to make of them at first \u2013 perhaps I was expecting Dirt Box Mk II? \u2013 but they\u2019re a very different band, with a slightly nu-metal edge. After a couple of EPs, they\u2019re starting to grow on me. Their opener Mr Right Man is infectiously catchy, but their best song remains Grow Up from their first release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kid Klumsy at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Sue Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The DeRellas<\/strong> are another name who are new to NEC, and different again to those who went before them. The London four-piece play sleazy punk rock \u2018n\u2019 roll which will appeal to fans of bands like The Dictators and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs like Soho Hotel, Kids Wanna Slam and Stick It To\nThe Man went down a treat with those who like their punk served with a Glitter\nBand-like glam stomp, while the band pulled every rock \u2018n\u2019 roll shape in the\nbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The DeRellas playing at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s offering for the anarcho\/post-punk contingent were Zounds<\/strong>, a four-piece from Reading who were a big part of the cassette culture, free festival and squatting scene of the late 70s\/early 80s. They played NEC a couple of years ago, and went down so well that they were invited back this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocalist Steve Lake is the only original member, and\ncuriously shies away from centre stage, but their 40-minute set contained such\ncrowd favourites as Dirty Squatters, Can\u2019t Cheat Karma and Demystification, and\nended with what for me is their best song, War\/Subvert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zounds performing at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

OK, things were about to step up a notch, and then some. Dirt Box Disco<\/strong> are one of the biggest success stories the British DIY punk scene has seen in years. Since 2012 the East Midlands outfit have released six studio albums on STP Records<\/strong><\/a>, and played hundreds of shows in this country and beyond. They are one of the most-anticipated bands every year at Rebellion in Blackpool, filling the Empress Ballroom, yet they still play small pub and club gigs to a couple of hundred people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the departure of vocalist Weab.I.Am in February\nthis year they\u2019re now a four-piece, consisting of Spunk Volcano on guitar and\nvocals, Deadbeatz Chris on bass, Danny Fingerz on guitar and drummer Maff\nFazzo, and they still put on one hell of a show. In fact, if anything, they\u2019re\neven tighter without the mischievous big guy in the onesie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spunk Volcano of Dirt Box Disco at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This was essentially a \u2018greatest hits\u2019 set, though frankly they could have played any of their songs and the crowd would have lapped it up. Burning, Tragic Roundabout, Joyce\u2019s Voices and My Girlfriend\u2019s Best Friend\u2019s Sister sparked a wave of crowd surfers, and Let\u2019s Get Wasted and My Life Is Shit prompted the biggest singalong of the day\u2019s far. To paraphrase one of their songs, they are Dirt Box, they are bastards, and we love them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dirt Box Disco are always a hard act to follow, but whoever did the running order got it absolutely spot on when they put local heroes Gimp Fist<\/strong> on next. The three-piece from Bishop Auckland, County Durham, have been staples of the oi\/street-punk scene for more than a decade, and were back at NEC after a year off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have a great new album, Blood (reviewed here<\/strong><\/a>), which was released last month at Rebellion, and four of its songs made the cut during their slot here as their fans gave Dirt Box Disco a run for their money in the crowd-surfing stakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have plenty of big hitters in their own arsenal, and\nmost of them were wheeled out here: First In Line, Skinhead Not Bonehead, A\nCountry Divided, Heart Full Of Pride and the closing Here I Stand \u2013 but where\nwas Dougie? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonny Robson of Gimp Fist at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Watford Jon and guitarist Daryl Smith (who also plays in Cock Sparrer) are two of the best-known names in oi! music, and they showed why as Argy Bargy<\/strong> turned in a blistering set of hard-hitting street-punk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was their first North East appearance for a few years, and we were treated to some of their biggest songs: Out With The Old, Burning Skies, Homeward Bound, Looking For Glory and No Regrets paving the way for the superb closer One More Drink. Don\u2019t leave it so long next time please guys \u2013 and a new record wouldn\u2019t go amiss either\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watford Jon of Argy Bargy, who played a hard-hitting set at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now Argy Bargy have been going since the early 90s, but now it was time to turn the clock back even further, to the days of UK82, with the return of NEC favourites GBH<\/strong>. They\u2019ve played this all-dayer several times, and always gone down a storm with those who like their punk served loud and fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are one of bands who kept the flame burning, formed in 1978 and never breaking up, but continuing to tour at home and abroad, and still releasing new music, most recently their 12th studio album Momentum in 2017. It contributed a handful of tracks, with I Never Asked For Any Of This the pick of the bunch, as well as dusting off classics like Knife Edge, No Survivors and Big Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GBH singer Colin Abrahall at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Sue Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Biker-punks Anti-Nowhere League<\/strong> are another band who have played this event umpteen times, and keep being asked back, so they must be doing something right. Not everyone’s a fan, however, and they nearly didn\u2019t make it after frontman Animal was stabbed in the neck a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t keep a good punk down, however, and he seemed on good form, despite not being able to sing some of the usual set due to a limited vocal range after the attack. We still got We Are \u2026 The League, Woman, the obscene but wonderful So What, and I Hate People (dedicated to \u201cthe little shit that stabbed me\u201d.). Love \u2018em or hate \u2018em, the League always deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anti-Nowhere League at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Sue Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From regulars to a band who don\u2019t visit the North East nearly often enough, probably because they\u2019re from Ipswich. It was time for The Adicts<\/strong>, the band\u00a0 I was most looking forward to at this year\u2019s NEC. I\u2019d seen them, but never in a venue as relatively small as this. And what a show! If they were anything other than a punk band they\u2019d be legends in the world of entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the moment singer Keith \u2018Monkey\u2019 Warren comes\nonstage wrapped in a silver cloak which unfurls into a pair of giant wings, you\nknow it\u2019s going to be a remarkable 50 minutes. You can\u2019t take your eyes off him\nas he dips into giant takeaway bags full of props to send playing cards,\nstreamers and confetti into the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Adicts singer Monkey unfurls his cloak at North East Calling 2019. Pic: Sue Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This is a band who put the fun into punk, while playing\ncatchy-as-hell songs like Joker In The Pack, Easy Way Out, Chinese Takeaway and\nBad Boy, and their piece de resistance is the closing one-two of Viva La\nRevolution and You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone, where giant inflatables and beach balls\nare added to the general craziness. Yes, it\u2019s very silly, but it\u2019s enormously\nenjoyable, and the huge smiles on the faces of the security staff as they\njoined in said all you needed to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Adicts were the highlight of North East Calling 2019 for many. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

How the hell do you follow that? Well, that was down to our headliners, the Cockney Rejects<\/strong>, who I\u2019ve never seen give less than 100% when they\u2019ve stepped onto a stage. Would that be enough tonight? Well, just about would be the answer, as the band put on their usual high-octane show, but the crowd seemed worn out by the sheer euphoria of The Adicts\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The East End boys drew most of their set from their first two albums, the modestly-named Greatest Hits Vol I and II, with a few thrown in from third album The Power And The Glory. Most of the songs you\u2019d expect to hear were present and correct: Flares And Slippers, I\u2019m Not A Fool, Join The Rejects (dedicated to Sunderland musician Tony Van Frater, who played bass for them for many years), Bad Man, and the closing Oi Oi Oi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cockney Rejects had a hard act to follow as they headlined North East Calling 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Most of the talk as the by-now tired and emotional crowd\nfiltered out was not about how good the Rejects were \u2013 and they were \u2013 but\nabout The Adicts. Their performance helped make this what more than a few\npunters were saying was the best North East Calling yet. The question is, how\ndo the organisers top that? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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