The stages were set, the amps were turned up, and the crowd were literally doing lunge stretches in preparation for 3-days of two-stepping and moshing. Manchester Punk Festival has made its deafening return for its glorious 10 th anniversary; 3 days, 8 venues, a jaw-dropping 150+ acts, and the city is full of punk/rock-adjacent fans to support the musicians leading the charge on the anti-establishment scene. In the current climate of fascism, anti-LGBTQ+, racism, and misogy

“ And how can this story not break your heart? ” This line from the track Terence , shouted into the audience, did not feel like a statement but a genuine, pleading question to the world. MERYL STREEK stepped up onto the stage from the audience, not the last time he was amongst the crowd during the set, as the intro to The Beginning played “We should not have 150,000 vacant homes,” set the tone for what was about to come, as MERYL paced back and forth across the stage lik

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Meryl Streek is the frontman of a politically-outspoken Irish avant-garde punk band from Dublin. The group began when he left his former...