RUTS DC + support

RUTS DC
Nearly 50 years ago the Ruts were hot wiring barbed wire guitar, passionate poetry and rhythm weaponry together somewhere in a London that probably does not exist anymore. Splicing heat haze dub thinking to the energy flash of punk ,close to the big bang of late twentieth century culture. Open to ideas. Committed to ideals.

Some band’s sound punk. Some look punk. Some even look and sound punk. And some, simply, are punk. The Ruts were early challengers to the misunderstood notion that punk was a somewhat luddite dogma wherein complexity, creative exploration and musical prowess were considered a shameful affectation.

Ruts and Ruts DC songs move with a precise muscularity and carry lyrics of eloquent and graceful rage. No two-chord thrash with shouting over the top.

Go back. Listen to everything. From the very beginning to now, with the recently released new album ‘Counterculture?’, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2016’s incendiary ‘Music Must Destroy’ album.

Counterculture. Now is the time. Was there ever an age with more reason to rebel?

Counterculture. Do not think you can simply buy a way in.

To Counter; to push against, to oppose and redress.

By being a spectator, you are NOT a part of the counterculture.

Doors: 7.30pm

Tickets: £20 + booking fees available from:

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Also available from: seetickets.com / wegottickets.com / vinylrevelations.com

Tickets also available in person from:
Bar 85 – Hitchin
Our Favourite Shop – Hitchin
David’s – Letchworth
Vinyl Revelations – Luton
All Ages Records – Camden
Sounds of the Suburbs – Ruislip

Age: 16+ (bring ID) Younger patrons can be signed in at the door and accompanied for the duration of the show by a responsible adult.

Earplugs are available upon request (50p).

Downstairs bar open until 1am.

Like all our gigs this show finishes well in time for the last trains North and South to Cambridge/Peterborough and London and we are just a 5 minute stroll from the station.

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And remember… Club 85 loves you! xo