19/09/09: SUBVERT INFORMATION NOW UP
Thanks to everyone who helped fund Bristol Anarchist Bookfair by coming to/helping out with/playing the Born/Dead and Usual Suspects gigs; they were both great and so was the Bookfair!
Next up of course is Bristol’s ground-shaking SUBVERT festival this October 24th – the flyer is now online here! The line-up is now as follows;
Sangre
(wild rocking d-beat from Amsterdam)
Horrör
(rocking wild d-beat from Barcelona)
Give Up All Hope
(London’s crust monster resurrected with new line-up)
Constant State of Terror
(dis-veterans straight out of Brighton)
Jesus Bruiser
(persistent Bristol anarcho-punks)
Deportation
(Sangre side-project, more of the same…)
Murder of Crows
(Easton’s latest uprising)
It will be held at the same venue as last year, the White Hart in Easton. As you can tell by the fearsome line-up, it’s an early start, with doors opening at 6pm – so get down early!
We will be fundraising for both the anarchist mobilization for the COP-15 summit in Copenhagen, and a new squatted social centre project here in Bristol.
If you’re coming in from out of town the night before (as we hope a good few might!) for the full Bristol experience, there’s the usual Saturday morning vegan fry-up cafe at the Kebele social centre in Easton between 11am and 2pm, which also is when the infoshop there is open. On the Friday night (October 23rd) there will also be an evening of squatting films at Kebele from 7.30pm, and on Sunday 25th after resting your weary heads from the gig come down to Kebele for vegan dinner from 6.30pm and stick around for a talk afterwards by travelling members of the Zabalaza South African anarchist group.
15/08/09: BORN/DEAD DATE CHANGE! FLYERS UP! COMPILATION COMING (no really)!
Attention – Born/Dead’s Bristol date is now on Saturday (not Friday), making it the 22nd of August, and will now be at the White Hart, Whitehall Road, Easton Autonomous Zone. They are touring with Manchester epic d-beat posterboys War Coma, and the flyer is up here.
Also now up here is the flyer for the Usual Suspects gig; the Bastard Squad can now announce that a film will be shown at the venue from 6pm for your entertainment (“69″, a powerful hour-long dramatisation of the resistance to the eviction of Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, featuring former inhabitants of the house) so get down early!
Last but not least, the long-awaited compilation CD fundraising for the Kebele social centre is nearing completion. The tracklist and provisional cover art is now up here under the new page for Wretched Form record distribution, a Bastardly side-kick to deal with this and whatever next projects of that ilk. More will be up when it’s released, including ordering information.
Those of you with good memories (er, or who know how to scroll down on this page…) may also recall word of a fanzine “Against & Beyond”; this is still happening too, and will have it’s own corner.
22/07/09: TIME FOR YOUR TOP-UP
Hoho yes, plenty more crusty treats for Bristol this summer! Just in, we are excited to announce that outstanding Californian anarcho-punks Born/Dead will be back on their final tour, and are playing a benefit for the 2009 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair at an undisclosed venue… email us for the details. They will be joined by local crust/metal stalwarts Warprayer and one more touring band to be announced.
The Usual Suspects gig will now be at the Croft, so get on down for a Monday bank holiday special of finest dub-punk scorchers with Spanner, Jakal and Headjam also gracing the bill – there’s rumored to also be food and films earlier in the day, but more on that soon.
The September 17th Angry Brigade gig is still going ahead, but not being run by the Bastard Squad, so keep yer eyes peeled for info and email us if you don’t hear of it.
We can also dis-close (gettit?) that Barcelona’s d-beaters Horrör will be playing at SUBVERT 2009 festival, and we’ve got plenty more tricks where that came from… more soon.
26/05/09: GIG UPDATES
As the dust settles from MAYDAY EVERYDAY, we’re proud to annouce the next Bastardly events for you to scribble in your diaries:
Chicken’s Call will now be joined by Easton anarcho-skapunkers Spanner and Swindon’s manic two-piece 2 Sick Monkeys at their gig at the Queens Head on Friday 12th June, check ‘em out and get on down! The flyer has just been uploaded to here.
A brief scan of the upcoming events column will reveal more dark secrets, more coming soon when I’ve got more time!
22/04/09: ONGOING SAGA OF MAYDAY EVERYDAY…
Just when you thought it was safe to return to the streets… Cops murder you on your way to a football match. Nothing new there then. In the latest addition to the MAYDAY EVERYDAY festival agenda (sadly replacing the talk on Monday the 4th which has now been cancelled), we would like to draw your attention to a demonstration (remember them?) on Saturday the 2nd at 12 noon outside Bridewell Police Station (also in Bristol city centre) against police brutality and state repression of dissidence. Also, Moral Dilemma (London’s prettiest punkers) will now be playing Sunday, and The Rejected have sadly had to cancel their slot on the Friday (so see new flyer and revised Friday opening time here.)
07/04/09: MAYDAY FLYER!
VENUE ANNOUNCED!!
LINE-UP CONFIRMED!!!
It’s been a hectic few weeks at the Bastard Squat HQ, but we emerge, grubby but victorious, holding aloft the finalized flyer for the MAYDAY EVERYDAY festival. View it here.
As those of you with eyes can see from it, all three days are unvieled as being at Chesters, on Frogmore Street, right in Bristol’s city centre. Hoho yes, the punks are coming to town. The last line-up creases have been ironed out – The Restarts are no longer playing Sunday, but legendary Northern anarcho-punks Cress will now be headlining that night.
Also to add in your diaries is Monday the 4th of May – survivors of the weekend are invited to a Bank Holiday talk and discussion at the Cube Cinema in Bristol by the authours of ‘No Retreat’, a gripping depiction of the underground struggle of British anti-fascists against the far-right. It’s from 8pm, £4/3 on the door (although, as at all Bristol Indymedia-hosted film nights, no-one will be turned away for luck of money).
18/03/09: MORE MAYDAY BANDS CONFIRMED,
C.S.E FLYER UP, MORE GIGS ANNOUNCED
We are pleased to confirm the Sunday headliners of our soon-to-be-legendary MAYDAY EVERYDAY festival: London’s international punk rock explosion The Restarts. The event will be raising money for the EDO ‘decommissioners’ defence fund, Anarchists Against the Wall, and a Bristol activist bust fund. Look out for one more Sunday band announcement, time, price and venue details (OK OK, a flyer) up soon, and spead the unholy word….
Better later than never.. Following long-running technical difficulties, here’s the Cross Stitched Eyes flyer for March 29th.
Also upcoming in the Bastard Squad insurgence:
- Friday June 12th – Powerful and melodic French punkers Chicken’s Call will be on these shores, and playing a fundraiser for the mobilisation for the No Border camp to be held in Calais this summer.
- Thursday June 25th – Surrender from the States, theatrical anarcho-retro
- Late August – Belgian riot-dubsters The Usual Suspects return for their third innings in Bristol, and the second supporting our Anarchist Bookfair.
- Thursday September 17th – Angry Brigade from Prague (featuring a certain ex-Bickles Cab drummer!) with fellow Czechs Zemezluc.
- Late October – The Dutch d-beat whirlwind that is Sangre will be touring and playing the ‘09 SUBVERT halfdayer, more on that one soon.
All of these gigs will be in the Bristol area.
10/02/09: MAYDAY DETAILS, CROSS STITCHED EYES VENUE UPDATE (AGAIN)
Cross Stitched Eyes will now be playing at the Junction on Sunday the 29th of March in 2009’s first Bristol Anarchist Bookfair benefit, along with Warminster’s long-running anarcho-punks A-Heads and Bristol’s hard-grafting retrobates Jesus Bruiser. Get down there, should be a treat. Now, to expand on our tantalizing tints in the previous post of the international MAYDAY EVERYDAY festival line-up that will be hitting Bristol, we can now announce a rough agenda for the weekend:
Friday May 1st =
Power Is Poison
(belting anti-fascist punx from Holland)
Haywire
(still here, still gnarly!)
The Rejected
(up-and-coming Newport anarcho)
Dead Subverts
(fresh outta Devon with attitude)
Saturday May 2nd =
Visions of War
(Belgium’s drunkest export)
Victims
(Swedish d-beat juggernaut)
Constant State of Terror
(Brighton’s hard-hitting Dis-veterans)
Jesus Bruiser
(political crustpunk, breakdowns ‘n junk)
Jesus Of Spazzareth
(turn you upside down and thrash you inside out!)
Spectra Hawk
(metally hardcore from London)
Sunday May 3rd =
more bands T.B.C, but includes:
This System Kills
(blazing Taff-core)
The Viktims
(“pop music for crazy people…”, France)
Molotov Complex
(fast fast fast Dutch-based H.C)
Hellscrack
(French punk-rock ‘n rollers)
Venue/s for the fest have yet to be released so watch this space for updates, and spread the good word! A basic flyer should be out soon, as the eagle-eyed of you may have noticed (I flatter myself in the assumtion that SOMEONE has looked…) we have been having trouble uploading flyers to this page in the last few months, working on fixing that too. Busy busy!
02/01/09: RIISTETYT VENUE CHANGE!
CROSS STITCHED EYES VENUE REVEALED!
ZINE & COMPILATION CD IN PIPELINE!
MAYDAY FESTIVAL UNVEILED!
Well well looks like you sniviling maggots have survived another year in the grim company of the Bastard Squad Collective…
Apologies for the couple of months of no updates (the website maintainer was evicted then went away adventuring) but we have been by no means inactive: in the wake of the SUBVERT fest that many of you surely graced in October, Bristol will now be host to a three-day international punk banquet on the weekend (mercifully followed by bank holiday Monday) of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of May 2009. The more radically-minded of you may traditionally associate MayDay (the first of May) with social justice struggles across the world; while acknowledging it’s rich history of resistence, we cannot help but feel that EVERYDAY is ripe for revolt… hence we present MAYDAY EVERYDAY festival. Confimed so far are Dutch anarcho-punks Power is Poison on Friday night and Belgian crust giants Visions of War for Saturday, more info very soon on the expanding line-up, should be a corker. Money raised will, of course, go towards the legal costs of people fighting the power the world over.
The Riistetyt gig on Sunday the 18th of January will now be held at the Queens Head in Easton, Bristol and is not only a fundraiser for TWO cool Brazilian groups (Autonomos FC anarcho-footie nuts and Ativismo ABC radical social centre, Sao Paulo) but also a birthday party for TWO cool people (Mart of Filthy Habits, who also play the gig, and Punky – the Easton Cowboy’s dirtiest secret…) so get on down there, early start/finish (opens 6pm).
After some faffing on our behalf over exact date, the mighty Cross Stitched Eyes will be playing the Croft in Bristol on Sunday March the 29th as the first Bristol Anarchist Bookfair benefit of 2009, more info about support bands and running times soon (also likely to be an early gig).
Taking the time from relentless gigging, after a year plus of compiling, “Still Kicking” a CD of bands from across the seven seas contributing tracks in benefit of Easton’s hard-working social centre Kebele is set to be the first release of Wretched Form record distribution, a Bastard Squad Collective side-project. A page will be set up here featuring more info.
Also incoming is “Against and Beyond”; a Bastardly fanzine. Hip hip hooray. Over and out.
03/11/08: LATEST AND GREATEST
Thanks to everyone who came along to SUBVERT, a cracking night was had by all and monies raised for sound causes. Winner. Thanks also to people who came along to the Bath Bomb benefit the following Wednesday, unfortunatley Project Hopeless had to pull out of their UK tour at the last moment so Leed’s finest Warboys continued in their wake. Next up on any decent Bastard’s calender is the November 13th benefit gig for Bristolian squat massive the Space Invaders and our good friend Nate’s birthday bash; featuring the return of Machester dub-punks The Autonomads, new punk ‘n breaks upstarts No World Borders, and Easton’s very own noise rawkers Belladonna, all at the Plough in Easton for your pleasure. Flyer here. Also just confirmed, Finnish hardcore legends Riistetyt will be rocking the Junction in Bristol on Sunday the 18th of January to warm yer toes, more on that one soon. After getting over-excited by rumors they were over in December, Irish epic crust band Divisons Ruin look unlikely to be here before New Year but is still in the pipeline.
02/10/08: SUBVERT 2008 VENUE CHANGE
After problems and headaches, the October 25th crust extravaganda SUBVERT 2008 has found a new home at The White Hart, Whitehall Road, Easton, Bristol. New updated flyer online here so please pass it on! Also, Tractor have dropped out (boo) to be replaced by snotty Swansea anarcho-punks Filthy Habits, but are now playing the Project Hopeless gig the following Wednesday (yay), the flyer for which can be found here.
22/09/08: PROJECT HOPELESS CONFIRMED!
The Bristol premier of Sweden’s furious hardcore punks Project Hopeless (with Warboys from Leeds and the usual locals Jesus Bruiser) will be held at the Junction on Wednesday the 29th of October (that’s just four days after our SUBVERT 2008 fest) in benefit of our friends at the Bath Bomb radical freesheet, flyer here. Also keep an eye out for possibilities of Divisions Ruin from Ireland in November and the U.S/U.K/German hybrid that is Cross Stitched Eyes in March. More soon.
28/08/08: SUBVERT FLYER LOADED…
The poster for the Bastard Squad Collective’s October festival ‘SUBVERT 2008′ is now online here (inluding listings of the workshops and cafe events over the weekend), so please save it and distribute it everywhere you can imagine. For any more information or to ask about floor space to crash for the weekend, please contact us here. Niiiiice…
24/08/08: SEPTEMBER 5TH/8TH UPDATES
Evening all, Hackney punkers Moral Dilemma and Manchester dubsters The Autonomads are now added to the September 5th gig at the Porter Butt in Bath (flyer here). Bristolian hardcore youth Pleghm are now added to the September 8th gig at the Junction (flyer here). A flyer will be shortly loaded for SUBVERT 2008 detailing workshops on offer over the course of the weekend by the recipients of the benefit money, more soon. Just uploaded the flyer that was distributed at the May 17th gig detailing the situation in Berlin and the mobilization of the European autonomist squatter movement, found here. Other projects to look out for; Sweden’s finest thrash hardcore anarchists Project Hopeless may be in Bristol on Wednesday the 29th of October, still waiting for confirmation.
24/07/08: AUGUST 3RD UPDATE
Bad news, as ever, tempered by good – Discarga, who have cancelled the UK leg of their tour (due to a well-founded belief that they would not be let into the country), will no longer be playing the August 3rd anti-fascist benefit at the Junction, giving way to a new line-up of Spat On (London fast-core) and 3 Second Memory (tuneful Gloucester punk rock) joining Hello Bastards and Jesus Bruiser. Should be ace, flyer here.
02/07/08: SUBVERT 2008!!!
Three years since the Bastard Squad lurched into action with the first SUBVERT fest in Bath, on Saturday the 25th of October 2008 we proudly present an alldayer (in Bristol) of the finest up-and-coming punk and hardcore acts. So far confirmed are Burning the Prospect (furious driving d-beat from Boston), Whole in the Head (short, fast and to the point Southampton-ites), Beginning of the End (epic metallic London punk), Skiplickers (Sheffield kids play Swedish hardcore, raw as fuck), Tractor (noise glorious noise) and Jesus Bruiser (dammit, they just won’t quit eh…). The event will be a joint fundraiser for Bristol No Borders and Bristol Anarchist Black Cross. Also thanks to everyone who came down on Sunday to the benefit at the Plough for the London Fete Against the G8, who will be having it large against capitalism this weekend in Croydon.
26/06/08: CRUST NEVER SLEEPS
Although of course we Bastards love to mix up styles and keep it fresh, in a return to style here’s some more good heavy shit for unwashed punk bastards from hell -
On Sunday the 3rd of August, the Junction in Bristol is host to Brazil’s hardcore legends Discarga, along with London thrashers Hello Bastards and Bristol regulars Jesus Bruiser. This gig will be raising funds for the worthy plot to scupper the fascist British National Party (BNP, or simply scum to you) ‘Red White and Blue’ festival planned in Derbyshire. No Pasaran!! Alerta Antifascista!!! Et al. Flyer soon.
Then way off in the mists of time (well, September the 8th) we’ve got Sotatila (Austrian/Finnish snotty Scandi-crust) alond with their tourmates Ruidosa Inmundicia (from Chile/Austria) and (wait for it) Jesus bastard Bruiser at (wait for it) the Junction… flyer here.
16/06/08: GIG OVERLOAD UPCOMING!
We may have been quiet on the virtual front line for the last few months, but now we’re posting info for not two, not three, but FOUR Bastard Squad events upcoming…
First is this Friday 20th June, celebrating a certain Bastards’ birthday do at the Porter Butt in Bath, with the likes of Kilnaboy, Dirty Revolution and the Cheetah Slicks in benefit of both the Bath Bomb (excellent free radical newsletter) and the first of a string of fundraisers for the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair (planned for Saturday September the 13th 2008 at St Werbergs Community Centre). Flyer here.
Second is Sunday 29th June, marking a return to the Plough, Bristol, raising money for actions around the London Fete Against the G8 in Croydon June 5th. Bands are Anarcho Folko, Bones from the Bottom of the Barrels and Those Gay Hippies. Flyer here.
Third is the second Bristol Anarchist Bookfair benefit on Wednesday the 16th of July, with Inner Terrestrials, the Usual Suspects and Spanner hitting the Croft, Bristol. Flyer here.
Fourth and last so far is Friday 5th of September, the last benefit before the Bookfair itself. Bands are as yet to be confirmed, but will include our old mates Eastfield for sure, and will be at the Porter Butt in Bath.
More soon.
29/01/08: THE BASTARD SQUAD MARCHES ON…
Thanks to everyone who supported Salon Mazal at the gig last Saturday, a top night with top bands for a top cause. Next up is the benefit for our good friends Gagged! at the Junction, flyer here. Also just added, on May the 17th the Junction will be visited by a godless bunch of noisy heathens for the next BASTARD SQUAD HALFDAYER! Featuring War All the Time, Hello Bastards, Jesus Bruiser, Altare, Threat Manifesto and Warprayer. In benefit of street actions for autonomous spaces in Berlin 30th – May 2nd June. Flyer here. Keep on keeping on… A//E
17/01/08: LAST MINUTE ADDITION…
Baby Boom, advertised as playing the Salon Mazal benefit at the Plough on the 26th, will now appear as Sonic Boom Six. Also just added to yer new 2008 calender, London punks Defcon Zero and Moral Dilemma will be hitting the Queen’s Head in Easton, Bristol, with support from local crusties Jesus Bruiser on Saturday the 22nd of March (or Equinox to you), in benefit of the Westside Climate Action Group formed at the Camp for Climate Action. Flyer here. See ya there. Links page on this site is almost finished, look out for gig gallery coming soon. Over and out.
05/01/08: STOP PRESS – BASTARD SQUAD 2007 DEBRIEF
A calender year once more since this site has been updated, but we have been busy little bees… Lurking like a crocodile under the surface of t’Internet, the Bastard Squad can now disclose an array of activities previously unreported on this site (OK OK, will try to be more on it from now on!) that we did unannouced (at least through this medium) in the last year. Look forward to more frequent updates from now.
21st of December was a benefit for Bristol No Borders group at the Junction, Bristol, featuring The Rejected, Anarcho Folko, Spanner and Those Gay Hippies. Flyer here. More info on the No Borders network here.
24th of November the Bastard Squad returned to Bath’s Porter Butt with avengence, this time in benefit of the ‘Westside‘ group that emerged at the 2007 Camp for Climate Action. With Tofu Love Frogs, Spanner, Kilnaboy, Threat Manifesto, Jesus Bruiser and The Clap (Drug Sniffing Dogs, who are on the flyer here, were unable to make it.)
19th of October was an Anarchist Black Cross benefit (split between Leeds ABC and Brighton ABC, with the Bristol group doing stall and projections) at the Junction, Bristol. Playing were Born/Dead, Jesus Bruiser, 7 Crowns and War/System. Flyer here.
31st of August was a birthday party at the Plough, Bristol for not one but three Rachels and a fundraiser for Lustafari Soundz, a youth music project set up by the family of a deceased friend. With Kilnaboy, Eastfield and Jesus Bruiser. Flyer here.
25th of July was a Fight the Pipe benefit at the Plough, Bristol, with Inner Terrestrials, the Usual Suspects and Cop On Fire. Flyer here. More info on Fight the Pipe here.
The Bastard Squad was also active in the running of the eviction festival at the notorious Brigstock Road squats in St Pauls in spring 2007, with a distinguished line-up including Spanner, Pinstickers, Don Bradmans, Glitzy Baghags, Jesus Bruiser, Crowzone, Drug Sniffin Dogs, Kilnaboy and Reggae Revolution alongside multiple sound-systems. R.I.P Brigstock Road, up the squatters!
04/01/07: Believe it or not, we’re still here! 2006 featured little on the internet front due to lack of access, but with imminent participents with regular update abilities (s/he promises with a straight face…), we return to the technological fray! The Bastard Squad struck again on the 18th of November ‘06 with a benefit at the Queen’s Head in Easton (a last minute relocation due to returning from a month travelling Spain and Morocco a few days before the gig to discover the planned venue was mid-renovation…) for the Bristol Climate Change Action Group (now Bristol Rising Tide, check them out here), well attended and much funds raised (this gig was possible due to the cash raised by the previous Bastard Squad benefit at the Junction in March), flyer here. Sadly the Bastard Squad Sound System is no more, due to the previous owner breaking into a Forest of Dean squat to reclaim… but enter stage left Ben Bastard with P.A in tow! Hooray. Back on the road.
02/03/06: Still no half-way eligible website going (admit it you’d be disappointed if there was…), the ‘festive’ (haha) season has been pretty quiet for the various cells of the Bastard Squad Collective, but now we’re back and hitting the ground running with a night at The Junction in Bristol for yer ungrateful ears, flyer here (post-note: in the end this gig was a dual benefit for the Bastard Squad Collective to buy sound equipment and for Jack, singer from American groups Severed Head of State and World Burns to Death, who was stabbed trying to prevent a fight at a concert in Texas January 2006, info here). Look out for actual updates (gasp!) and possible additions (faint!) to this site soon, including details of more events in the Bristol area.
11/07/05: So what’s this Bastardly lark all about then? When I can be fucked to do the proper site I’ll tell you. Until then, get down to SUBVERT 2005, the Bastard Squad (the Sound System)’s opening night (and day) at the Porter Butt, flyer here, you never know you might just enjoy yourself… more soon.
