The Year Gone By / The Year Ahead

2011 & 2012 - Bloody hell what a year, probably the best so far for gigs. We have a new venue, The Maidens Head, in Canterbury that we frequent regularly in addition to our usual haunt, The Bridgehouse. 2011 saw us make some good friendships with local bands like The Warriors, Surgery Without Research and The Halfwits and others from further afield, The Charred Hearts and The Septic Psychos. The highlight of our year was of course Rebellion 2012 where we spent 5 days drinking beer, watching bands and meeting many new and old friends. The Rebellion 2011 lineup was the best so far and gave us the opportunity to see the likes of Infa Riot, Exploited, Adicts, ANL, The Business, Major Accident, The Outcasts and The Subhumans to name but a few.
Unfortunately there was a down side to the year as well, with the very sad loss of Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex) and Ari Up (The Slits), we will miss them both as they were founder members of the Punk movement.
My GutterPunk business is starting to get known now and a new site for The Maidens Head venue was built earlier in year. I am now getting more and more into the photography side of things at gigs and all photos are showcased on the GutterPunk site.
And for 2012, well, there is the 'Punk Weekender' at the The Maidens Head to celebrate Davee's birthday and of course we already have our tickets for Rebellion headlined by Rancid with other names like The Only Ones, The Notsensibles and Hagar the Womb. We have a few more gigs and bands in the pipeline like Sham 69, Infa Riot and the Buzzcocks and we will have to wait and see where the rest of the year will take us.