

Legendary British punk band UK Subs played Amsterdam's Melkweg two days after frontman Charlie Harper's recent 80th Birthday! Just as in Utrecht in 2023, pop punks Nasty Rumours from Switzerland opened for the Subs. They played their melodic songs fast and enthusiastically! The UK Subs sounded even better than during their 2023 shows in Utrecht, Eindhoven,
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On 11 May, the Resistor venue in Leiden, the Netherlands, hosted a concert by one band from China, and one band from Belgium. Resistor is a DIY place, often attracting enthusiastic audiences to punk gigs.
Dummy Toys play fast, raw, punk with lyrics about subjects like environmental destruction, freedom and domestic violence. Support band Unwanted Tattoo sounded a bit like Continue Reading

Dutch Punk Music Scene Loses an Icon: Tony 'Slug' Leeuwenburgh's Death Marks the End of an Era.Continue Reading

Siouxsie Sioux played her second concert after a ten-year gap on 4 May in Paradiso, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Herman de Tollenaere was there for Punktuation.Continue Reading

OneTwoThree: The Innovative Swiss Punk Band with a Unique Line-Up.Continue Reading

The Siouxsie & The Banshees frontwoman has announced three additional live dates in Europe in the spring taking in Brussels Amsterdam and Milan.Continue Reading

One week after the UK Subs, their younger punk compatriots, Big Joanie, started their 2023 European tour in the Netherlands. Herman de Tollenaere was there!Continue Reading

Punktuation's 'man on the ground' in the Netherlands, Herman de Tollenaere, was at The UK Subs first night of their European tour! Was it any good?Continue Reading

In the spoken tour AABZ ‘22: Rebranding Anarchism, the frontman of Dutch punk band Hang Youth, Abel van Gijlswijk explains to the audience how rotten our capitalist world really is. The Leiden Theatre in the Netherlands opened in 1705. The audience’s average age is beyond decrepit when the theatre hosts a Shakespeare play (which is a […]Continue Reading

A brilliant night was had earlier in the month at the OCCII club in Amsterdam at the book launch of the must-have new book ‘Punks Listen’. The book documents stories from hundreds of people from the world of punk as they discuss what records have impressed them most. Published by the anarchist punk Hope Collective in Ireland, with […]Continue Reading