Rebellion Festival Confirms First Bands For 2020

Although the memories, the hangovers and the hearing loss of this August’s immensely successful Rebellion Festival are still vivid and fresh, with hardly a pause for breath, the Rebellion Festival Family are already hard at work planning next year’s event and 39 bands have already been confirmed for 2020. Scheduled to take place Thursday August 6th to Sunday 9th 2020 at it’s home, the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, Rebellion Festival is now wildly recognised as the largest gathering of punks in the world and continues to grow every year.

You can view a recap of the 2019 Rebellion Festival and the first confirmations for 2020 below

Although very much at the early stages of booking, the bands confirmed for the 2020 event already include some surprises and many returning favourites. Jimmy Pursey’s legendary herberts Sham 69 will be returning to the festival for the first time since 2015, whilst former Crass frontman Steve Ignorant will be performing a full Crass set. Also returning are The Dickies, Angelic Upstarts, GBH, Anti Nowhere League, UK Subs, Neville Staple Band, The Boys, Scream, Toxic Reasons, MDC, Chelsea, Dirtbox Disco, The Samples, The Stupids, Bonecrusher, Zounds, Mau Maus, Channel 3, Everly Pregnant Brothers, Spunk Volcano And The Eruptions, Paranoid Visions, Colera, Bar Stewards Of Val Doonican, Blyth Power, The Cravats, Resistance 77, Hung Like Hanratty, The Cundeez, Choking Susan, Fire Exit, Knock Off, Dedo Podre, A Heads, Billyclub and Litterbug.

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