2017 Programme 2oth – 22nd april 2017 #MPF2017 about Manchester Punk Festival is a multi-day and multi-venue DIY punk rock festival held in Manchester City Centre, brought to you by TNSrecords, Anarchistic Undertones and Moving North. If you’re reading this it means MPF wouldn’t be possible without you’ve picked up one of the countless hours of volunteer programmes to go along with planning throughout the the third ever Manchester Punk year, volunteers on the day, Festival. Since we started in the expertise of all sound 2015 we have been going from engineers, venue managers, strength to strength thanks to security and bartenders. Be your support and our unwavering good to them and to each other, focus on promoting the very best have a great weekend. of DIY punk rock from the UK and across the world. We’d also like to thank the following people who without their help, MPF We want to provide an wouldn’t be half the festival it is. Mark Bell environment where people want and Luke Johnson for their illustrations to watch bands they’ve never that we’ve used on the branding and heard of alongside bands they merch. Millie Cordingley for her relentless love and an environment for efforts in designing everything MPF from bands to play in front of their best the logo to all the layouts, including this friends and complete strangers. programme! Shay for printing the merch and then Big Hands and Kaz for their great We want everyone to feel work organising all the volunteers and the comfortable and enjoy packing and sending of merch. themselves at MPF, we take a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination. BANDS PUNK CINEMA DISTROS & STALLS Alphabet Brewery are based in Manchester and if you were This year we’ve been able to Located in the basement of Font If you’re looking at doing some lucky enough to get a ticket, you piece together a truly special line- Bar, we’ll be screening films, record shopping over the MPF might have seen Iron Chic play up that sees two legendary bands documentaries and have a little weekend, then head to the Font inside of it in 2016! They’re also who’ve not played in the U.K. for Q&A session as part of our Punk Bar basement and flick through brewing a Paint It Black IPA live over seven years return! Paint It Cinema. some great records in the distros on Sunday as part of a Grub Black and Strike Anywhere are of TNSrecords, Pumpkin Records Hangover Session with music, two bands that truly embody the We’ll be screening the brilliant and Specialist Subject Records. food and of course - beer and ethos of our festival. Descendents documentary everyone is welcome! Filmage, the hilarious and Anti-Fascist Network will having a Each band is of equal importance eye-opening Fat Wreck stall in the basement of Font Bar. VENUES to us and every band playing this Chords documentary A Fat They are a team of independent weekend is worth your time. If you Wreck and a very special and grassroots groups working MPF2017 will have 80 acts find yourself with a gap in your screening of a Columbian punk together against the rise of racism performing across seven venues schedule, just take a chance and rock documentary with the and fascism is our communities. in Manchester City Centre. All go and find someone to watch, filmmakers also filming across venues are in close proximity to there’s a ridiculous amount of MPF weekend. Censuradas MANCHESTER PINT FESTIVAL each other and support local talent over these three days and is a short documentary series promoters and music in the you might find your new favourite that is touring across different There’s another MPF this city. We’re happy to be adding band. For a full breakdown of countries, focusing on women weekend, we’re bringing some Gorilla to the list of great venues bands playing MPF, check out the in the punk rock scene who delicious beers to The Thirsty used last year, this will be our ‘Bands’ section on page 7. have decided to take a stand Scholar as part of Manchester largest stage so far. Note that our against an oppressive and violent Pint Festival. We’ll be having acoustic stage has moved from system. The very first international beers stocked and brewers The Thirsty Scholar to Underdog screening will be at Manchester present from Signature Brew and for a greater capacity! Punk Festival, where they will also Alphabet Brewery. be filming the English element of Please bring your ID and say the series. As well as all this Signature Brew are based in thanks to all staff and door we’ll have a showing of Grrrl London and have been teaming staff as they’re going through Love & Revolution, Punk in Africa up with bands to produce beers the same weekend as you, but and American Hardcore. since 2011, their all-day IPA without the band and beers. ‘Roadie’ is delicious and should For full running times for the Punk be available in most venues Cinema, check page 23 involved in MPF. RETRO BAR Belvedere venues Home of DIY punk rock shows bands Well respected melodic skate in Manchester since forever. punk out of Calgary, Canada. SOUND CONTROL Basement venue with no windows, A Great Notion Back this year with their first We’re taking over all three but lots of character. Fun, energetic and honest album in 12 years. floors of Sound Control again Capacity: 150 acoustic-led punk rock from FFO: Propagandhi, Lagwagon this year. Bands in the loft Age Restriction: 18+ Peterborough. This Is A Standoff and basement, merch and FFO: Singing with a beer in one beers in the middle floor. UNDERDOG hand, and a friend in the other Billy Liar Capacity Another new venue this year, Scotland’s finest angry young Basement: 300 Underdog is located in the After The Fall man turned incredible storytelling Loft: 450 basement of Black Dog Ballroom Fast melodic punk rock acoustic punk poet. Age Restriction: ALL AGES and will be hosting our acoustic from Albany, New York. FFO: Joe McMahon, Dave Hause U14s must be accompanied by an adult stage this year. FFO: Descendents, Capacity: 300 Such Gold, No Trigger Black Star Dub Collective GORILLA Age Restriction: 18+ Supergroup dub ensemble loosely Adding Gorilla to our venues AOS3 based out of Manchester. for the first time this year, ZOO Veterans of the UK scene, FFO: RDF, AOS3, located literally round the corner. One huge room playing host AOS3 are a psychedelic dub Radical Dub Collective Capacity: 550 to afterparties on Friday and punk band from Sunderland Age Restriction: 14+ Saturday. This always fills up with an incredible history Bobby Funk super quick so if you want to get of politics, rave and culture! Energetic hardcore punk rock in, get down early! FFO: Citizen Fish, PAIN from Cornwall. Delivered with ZOMBIE SHACK Capacity: 400 speed and a distinctive swagger. Resting on top of The Thirsty Age Restriction: 18+ Bear Trade FFO: Off!, Slaves, Cerebral Ballzy Scholar is Zombie Shack. It’s an Punk rock from the North West intimate tiki-themed venue so get of England, gravelly vocals Bolshy your cocktail fix here and watch and pounding sing-alongs. DIY ska punk mash up from great bands in a tiny room. ALL VENUES FFO: Leatherface, Iron Chic Liverpool. Capacity: 150 HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY FFO: Black Star Dub, Uncle Meat Age Restriction: 18+ Once a stage is at full & The Highway Children, Afrobeat capacity, we can’t let any more people in. Please ensure you get to each stage early – Wheelchair accessible venue to avoid disappointment. BrainDead Crocodile God Doe Epic Problem DIY fast punk vs. dub reggae Old school pop punk from Catchy indie-punk three Street punk favourites from Hamburg. Liverpool, left their legacy on a piece from London. Fresh from from New Mills. FFO: Autonomads, Inner number of US bands! an appearance at SXSW! FFO: Rancid, Street Dogs, Blitz Terrestrials, Operation Ivy FFO: The Ergs!, The Ergs!, FFO: Muncie Girls, The Ergs! Sleater Kinney Faintest Idea Brightr Politically fuelled street ska Heartfelt acoustic tunes Crywank Ducking Punches from King Lynn. from Eastbourne. Anti folk from Manchester wailing Heartbreaking and honest punk FFO: The Filaments, FFO: Dashboard Confessional, out thoughtful and honest songs. rock from Norwich. New line-up Operation Ivy, The Slackers Heathers FFO: Andrew Jackson Jihad, with a take on the world vibe! Paul Baribeau FFO: Frank Turner, Fair Do’s Brutal Youth The Loved Ones Technical melodic hardcore Fast and energetic punk rock Denim & Leather based in Manchester. from Canada. The real deal from Manchester, Edward In Venice FFO: A Wilhelm Scream, FFO: Kid Dynamite, Lifetime no gimmicks just incredible music Melodic hardcore with an Belvedere, Strung Out performed intensely. Italian flavour based out of Chief FFO: Pissed Jeans, The Brian Pesaro, Italy. One of the best Foetal Juice Melodic hardcore formed Jonestown Massacre live bands around. The masters of death grind in Liverpool. Will be their first FFO: Refused, Such Gold, from Bury. show in 6 years. Despite Everything Strike Anywhere FFO: Cannibal Corpse, FFO: Capdown, H2O, Greek punk rock that makes your Infected Earth, Ex-Nihilo Theory Strike Anywhere heart beat faster than it should. Efa Supertramp FFO: Off With Their Heads, Acoustic folk punk from Cardiff. Grand Collapse Clowns Antillectual, Astpai FFO: Gwen Stefani, Fast as fuck thrash punk/hardcore Hardcore punk band from Louise Distras hailing from South Wales. Melbourne, Australia. New album Dirty Twisters A unique blend of metal riffs, “Lucid Again” out in May.