CRUSH HATE FEST 2019
Le Public Space, Newport
Sat 19 + Sun 20 Oct
South Wales gig promoters Crush Hate Fest started in early 2017, aiming to offer explosive punk and hardcore and a straight-to-the-point message on abuse and raising awareness on hate crime. Last year, they parlayed this into their first alldayer, headlined by Stoke’s hardcore punk gamechangers Discharge and relative upstarts Grove Street Families. Buoyed by its success, CHF have decided to expand this into a two-day event.
Hosted by Newport’s commendable Le Pub this time around, the festival will be headlined on Sat 19 by Strange Bones and one more name currently TBC – drafted in as double-dose substitutions for Raging Speedhorn, who had to pull out. Sun 20 is topped off by GBH, metallic punk legends originating in the same era and scene as Discharge. Other head-turning names across the two days – approximately 30 bands feature on this year’s bill, and with doors at 12.30pm it’s that rare event, a proper alldayer – include positive hardcore newjacks Vision Quest, thunderous metalcore types Shallow Graves and west Wales sludge band Lifer on Saturday; Bristol HC trio SickOnes, original-era anarcho punks A-Heads and Disjoy’s noisy, gothic postpunk.
Tickets: £35 weekend/£20 per day. Info: 01633 221477 / www.lepublicspace.co.uk (DL)
