UK Subs

UK Subs play Gloucester Guildhall on Saturday 27 February, and it's one of their final ever live shows. They've been a constant in British punk for half a century, and this is one of the last times you'll see them on stage.

They started in 1976 when Charlie Harper turned his R&B outfit The Marauders into The Subversives, and later became the UK Subs, driven by the Harper/Garratt songwriting partnership. By 1979 they'd signed to Gem Records and ran off seven consecutive UK Top 30 hits between 1979 and 1981, including 'Party In Paris', alongside two UK top-ten albums, Brand New Age and Crash Course. Now fronted by the 70-year-old Harper, who's been called the godfather of UK punk, the band won the 2010 Punk World Cup and released the album Ziezo in 2016. They're described as one of punk's most consistently successful acts, pioneering the genre's true spirit without the compromise that affected many of their contemporaries.

Opening for them are The Meffs, an Essex punk duo who burst onto the UK scene in 2019. They've released debut EPs produced by Frank Turner on Bottles to the Ground, the label founded by NOFX's Fat Mike. Between the two, you've got a band that's been at it since the seventies and a duo that's a newer addition to the scene, both coming from the same punk tradition.

It's Saturday 27 February at Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate St, with the music starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are £29.70, which includes the booking fee.