Black and white flyer with red writing for Decolonise Fest benefit gig. Picture is of punks of colour in a concert crowd smiling

Decolonise Fest Benefit

Fri 4th Nov at The Unicorn, 227 Camden Rd, London NW1 9AA

FREE ENTRY: So drink up at the bar!

TRASH KIT

London’s finest post punk trio will be headlining bringing their own unique polyrhythmic, enticing and spontaneous charm.
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/trashkit.shtml

Big Joanie

Big Joanie like to describe themselves as The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis.
http://bigjoanie.bandcamp.com/

SABATTA

Punk Grunge Soul. Sounds like the perfect combination.
http://www.sabatta.net/

JUNK.

JUNK. create short and sweet, jangly lo-fi rackets; infectious, lovable tunes that ultimately don’t take themselves too seriously.
https://junkbandyork.bandcamp.com/

Stage times:

Door open: 7pm
JUNK- 7.30pm
Sabatta- 8.15pm
Big Joanie- 9pm
Trash Kit- 10pm
Doors close- 11pm

Wheelchair accessible entry. Toilets are step-free but there is no large stall

Bring your spare change as we’ll have a raffle where you can win:

  • Merch from: Skinny Girl Diet, Big Joanie, Shopping , NOVA TWINS, JUNK., Love Sex, Hate Sexism
  • a tape and zine compilation from australia called girls radio offensive, its a mixtape of women identifying people in punk bands in australia, theres a bunch of p.o.c. on it
  • Sebastian of Creative Body Art offering one free piercing
  • 1 tattoo, selected from a series of specially designed Decolonise Fest flash from Nate of WavyInk.

The contributions of Black, Latinx, Asian, Middle Eastern & Indigenous people to punk music and culture has been consistently and grievously ignored by history and continues to be undervalued to this day.

This is why we, the DIY Diaspora Punx, a collective of musicians, artists and creatives, have come together to organise the first ever Decolonise Fest, schedulled for June 2017!

Decolonise Fest will celebrate all the brilliant Diaspora Punx, who we define as people who are descended (through one or both parents) from the original inhabitants of Africa, Caribbean, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, Australasia, North America, and the islands of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean.

We want to celebrate the Diaspora Punx that are creating right now, acknowledge our elders and the doors they opened for us, while also making room for more DIY diaspora punx to take centre stage and make noise.

We’re totally DIY, so this is a fundraiser for the not-for-profit festival next year. COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE FIRST EVENT FOR MORE GREAT THINGS TO COME!