Returning this summer over four days from the First to the Fourth of August at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, Rebellion Festival, respected the world over for bringing together the best new and iconic punk and alternative bands annually, has confirmed the day splits for this year’s stellar line-up.

Details for the Rebellion Introducing and Almost Acoustic stages to follow, with 50 bands yet to be announced for the Introducing stage and many acts to look out for on the Almost Acoustic area where festival goers will get the chance to see their favourite artists stripped down, raw and up close. For listings head to: http://www.rebellionfestivals.com/line-up

Since its original inception in 1996 as the then named Holidays In The Sun festival, Rebellion has always aimed to bring together the best punk and alternative music from across the globe, and is still a family-run, family-orientated event that celebrates punk in all its forms. 2019 is without doubt, one of the strongest line-ups yet.

Rebellion Festival is an ALL AGES, family friendly event and children under 12 are admitted free of charge (accompanied by an adult).

Highlights for the main stages each day include:

Thursday 1st – The Descendents, Fear, Flipper (featuring Jesus Lizard’s David Yow on vocals), Spear Of Destiny, The Casualties, Poison Idea, Queen Zee, Peter & The Test Tube Babies.

Friday 2nd – The Stranglers, Dead Boys, Angelic Upstarts, Leftover Crack, Ruts DC, The Avengers, UK Subs, Subhumans, Penetration

Saturday 3rd – Cock Sparrer, The Exploited, Cockney Rejects, Walter Lure’s LAMF, The Business Event, HR from Bad Brains, Giuda

Sunday 4th – The Damned, The Skids, The Professionals, King Kurt, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Dwarves, DOA, Conflict, The Chameleons Vox, CJ Ramone, Vice Squad.

NYC five-piece Barrie have shared their new single and visually stunning accompanying video ‘Darjeeling’. The track is taken from their forthcoming debut album, Happy To Be Here, which is to be released on May 3 via Winspear. Ahead of the album's release, the band kick off their European tour with a string of UK live dates at the end of April.

At the core of Barrie is an amalgamation of various cultures; an integral characteristic tying all tracks on their debut album together. The video for the second single to be shared from the album, ‘Darjeeling’, was directed and produced by Zach Stone and Madeline Leshner and acts as a cinematic representation for how the group came together. 

About the video, frontwoman Barrie Lindsay says: "The opening line of the song – “The city towed my car the first night I got in” – is true; my car got towed when I first moved to New York. The first night I hung out with Spurge and Noah, we went to this warehouse party in Bushwick on the train tracks, which was totally new to me. My car was in Manhattan, and when I went back to find it at 3am it was gone. So I walked along the West Side highway to the impound lot. At 4am it was this eerie wasteland of abandoned cars. It was in the honeymoon phase of moving to New York and I remember feeling very happy and surreal in the tow lot. I’ve had a lot of experiences like that in the city, and I think I had that feeling in mind with this song — it’s kind of a collection of those vignettes."

Barrie is a Brooklyn five-piece made of Barrie Lindsay, Dominic Apa, Spurge Carter, Sabine Holler and Noah Prebish. On their debut LP, their multidimensional take on classic pop sounds awake and present, like a group that’s daydreaming but firmly there with one another. ‘Happy To Be Here’ offers snapshots of the band coming together in the city, after having lived all over: Boston, Baltimore, upstate New York, London, São Paulo via Berlin. “The scaffolding of this album is moving to New York and finding these people that make up the band,” Barrie says. “We’re very different, but we cover each other’s gaps personally and creatively, and are eager to learn from each other.”

Barrie live dates:

Apr 24 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade Bristol

Apr 26 – London, UK @ Moth Club

Apr 28 – Manchester, UK @ YES