Wash The Flag

Three Nights
Three Cities
Three Gigs

The Hatrick (unfortunately by chance - rather tiring, but well worth it)

Tonight I went with a Nottingham friend to a punk gig on the launch night of PUNK; RAGE + REVOLUTION  punk exhibition in the Backlit gallery basement.

It's a punk exhibition with stories of local and non-local content and highlights local feminist, Black and LGBTQueer subculture. This was reflected in the bands and audience. I'll visit it another time.

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Gig Review

Unified Roots (Punk) - Better live then recorded. Coolest guy wearing best trousers of the night - Tartan with Zips

Marvin's Revenge (Post Punk) - Best sounding recorded, but less good  live

Arch Femmesis (Electro Punk) - Striking and charismatic lead singer; music not quite to my taste

Cheap beer and a few chairs - much appreciated by the veteran audience members.

Wash The Flag

Web search suggests it's named after a civil rights action in Peru where national flags were collectively washed in public squares in cities  as a call for democracy and better human rights, Political persecution and poverty etc.

Particularly apt because it was held in an old hosiery factory, whose 19th Century owner Samuel Morley was a philanthropist, treated his employees extremely well - pensions, sick pay etc, and was an MP!

https://sur.conectas.org/en/wash-stitch-wave-the-flag/