Ben Adsett

Where did you spend your Saturday night? We spent ours on an industrial estate in Gloucester watching the return of local heavy punk misfits Stillbust. It’s been a decade since their last show and in line with their DIY attitude they decided that rather than playing a standard venue, they would instead build a stage out of pallets in an empty room, fill it with lights and invite people to come along and watch with their own beer (and a ticket).

After the giddiness of the first day of Manchester Punk Festival, we spend Saturday morning trying to work out how you watch three bands at the same time. Not unlike every year, the line up Manchester Punk Festival have put together is a vast and exciting combination of bands from all walks of the punk scene. WORDS: BEN ADSETT / IMAGES: DORY VALENTINE Jodie Faster Looking around The Union, there are a lot of sore heads as Jodie Faster explode into life.

Some weekends are better than others and if you’re lucky enough to have bank holidays away from the daily grind, Easter is one of the better, or at least longer, of these extended weekends. If you can spend three days watching the finest punk and punk adjacent music within the DIY scene bubble, full of support and kindness, you are probably having one of the best weekends of the year; and you’re almost certainly at Manchester Punk Festival.