Roundhouse announce punk weekender

London’s Roundhouse are celebrating 40 years of punk with a weekend of music, poetry and film screenings

This year marks the 40th anniversary of punk culture so London’s roundhouse have invited a crop of the finest modern punk bands to play at a special weekend-long celebration.

The celebrations kick off on Friday 8 July with a talk entitled How Did Reggae Influence Punk? – a discussion featuring panelists including Steel Pulse founder Mykaell Riley, dub reggae stalwart Dennis Bovell, and Punch Records’ boss Ray Paul.

The musical portion of proceedings takes place on Saturday 9 July with False Heads, Birdsong, Molasses, The Antiseptics, Bully Bones, Mystified, The Vas Deferens, Drones, Screech Bats and noise-punk trio Youth Man all playing the festival’s main stage.

The Saturday will also see a selection of punk poetry performances from Phil Jupitus Joseph Beaumont-Howell, Sophie Cameron, Kate Fox, Salena Godden, Garry Johnson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Liam McCormick, Tim Wells and Thee Jezebels frontwoman Laura Anderson.

The Raincoats Gina Birch and Helen Reddington will close off proceedings on Sunday 10 July with with a “documentary-in-progress” called She-Punks: Women In Punk which will feature brand new interviews with influential female punk musicians of the 1970s.

Tickets and more information about the Roundhouse’s punk weekender available from their website.