Punk Rock legends THE EXPLOITED playing two shows in South Africa!
“Riot starting, bouncer bashing, cop baiting, hotel trashing, foul talking, noise making, chaos causing, venue wrecking, government hating, rulebreaking, unrelenting, punk rocking. Clearly we’re not talking about Pepsi adverts, or indeed the many so-called punk bands that would gleefully sell themselves to such corporate giants for a palm full of silver. Whoo-hoo! The taste of a generation! F#%k off! Let’s get one thing straight: The Exploited are not ‘punkers’ or any of the other cutesy, watered down, MTV friendly names you might want to call them.”
Formed in Edinburgh in 1980 by ex-soldier Wattie Buchan, The Exploited were at the helm of the harder, second wave of Punk Rock along with bands like Discharge and GBH. Their debut release was as much a rallying battle cry as a record and ‘Punk’s Not Dead’ went on to become the number one independent album of 1981 reaching number 20 in the UK mainstream charts Which kind of proved the point, If punk was indeed dead, no one had told the bands rapidly growing ‘Barmy Army’.
With a string of high charting independent releases and over 20 years of vigorous touring The Exploited have reached iconic punk status worldwide and have been covered and cited as major influences by many acts including Slayer, Queens Of The Stoneage (whom Wattie presented with a ‘Best International Newcomers’ award at the Kerrang Awards in 2000), Atari Teenage Riot, Nirvana (Ex-Exploited guitarist Big John even played for them briefly) and Massive Attack.
“F#%k The System’ their eighth studio album sees the band on more explosive form than ever, riotous, unrepentant and wholly uncompromising. Tracks like ‘Never Sell Out’ and ‘Chaos Is My Life’ (both self-explanatory) are as brutally heavy as anything bands half their age have to offer and prove beyond doubt that, not only is there life in the old dog yet, but this band’s got rabies! ‘F#%k The System’ isn’t just an album title; it’s a statement of intent. But then again, it is a punk rock album, and make no mistake…
The Exploited are punk rock!
FRI 27th JUNE @ THE ASSEMBLY, Cape Town
with Half Price, Mutiny & TDKM
Starts 8pm
SAT 28th JUNE @ THE BASSLINE, Johannesburg
with Fuzigish, Swivel Foot, The Vendetta Cartel, Bloodline Ltd and Dean & The Deadbeats
Starts 7pm
Tickets are selling fast at COMPUTICKET
Visit PUNKSAFARI.COM for info, phone 082 378 0307 or email jp@punksafari.com
Jozi’s getting colder and colder, except for the first floor of a corner in Norwood where, on Thursday the 24th of July, the heat’s going to be turned up until it reaches boiling point.
