LA punks The Bronx follow next, their own brand of hardcore feeling a little at odds with the weather, though it goes down well enough with a gradually growing crowd at the front of the main stage. Pioneers of the early ’90s ska-punk scene, tracks such as High Anxiety and New Girl are a welcome way to the start day, and with the sun already beating down before midday, it couldn’t be further from the windswept hills of the Peak District back in 2019. Though the first track or so suffers from a muddied sound, it doesn’t take long before things are levelled out.
Perhaps fittingly, the first band of the day falls to ska-punks The Suicide Machines fitting because they featured on the original Tony Hawk’s game, which is what turned me on to alternative music to begin with. Indeed, with a line-up that runs a gamut of ska, metalcore, pop-punk, emo and just about everything in between, it feels like the UK’s answer to the Warped tour or Riot Fest, filling a much needed gap in the country’s festival calendar. A feeling that I’m sure will be familiar to the thousands of others in attendance today as well.
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Having grown up on a steady diet of Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Jackass, American punk, and, later, emo bands, Slam Dunk is a festival that seems curated almost solely for me. Even the sight of outdoor urinals does nothing to quell the palpable sense of anticipation in the air. With the pandemic having essentially killed live music for a year, and festivals for twice that time, the feeling of an almost homecoming, as we enter the gates at Temple Newsham Park for this year’s Slam Dunk festival, borders on the emotional. Little did I know just how prescient that turned out to be.
Louder Than War’s Dave Beech and Neil Chapman were there.īack in 2019, I dragged myself through ankle deep mud on a Sunday morning tired, cold and aching, leaving Y-Not festival early, convinced that I was unlikely to ever waste another weekend in a rain-soaked, wind-battered field. Slam Dunk, the UK’s premiere punk and emo festival returns to Leeds’ Temple Newsham Park for its 2022 iteration.
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