Blackpool, Lancashire, UK. 31st July, 2019. Rebellion Festival world's largest punk festival in Blackpool. At the beginning of August, Blackpool’s Winter Gardens plays host to a massive line up of punk bands for the 21st edition of Rebellion Festival attracting thousands of tourists to the resort. Over 4 days every August in Blackpool, the very best in Punk gather for this social event of the year with 4 days of music across 6 stages with masses of bands. Credit; MediaWorldImages/Alamy Live News
The Rebellion Festival, formerly Holidays in the Sun and the Wasted Festival is a British punk rock festival first held in 1996. The festival has attracted mainstream press coverageEngland. It is still held there now, although on some years the festival has been held in nearby Morecambe. Festivals have also been held under the Rebellion and earlier brandnames in Australia, United States, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, the Basque Country, Ireland and Austria. It is still a family-run, family-orientated event which celebrates Punk in all its forms, but also puts on bands from other alternative genres plus some Glam Rock artists and seminal bands from the 1960s and 1970s . There are up to seven music stages plus also an acoustic stage, a literary stage and a Punk Art gallery along with many workshops, and stalls for clothes, music and other products. Each year, over 300 acts perform at the festival over a four-day period, usually spread over the first weekend in August from Thursday to Sunday. The festival maintains a positive relationship with Blackpool Council and the people of Blackpool in general and has been commended for its involvement with local charities.[5]
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