Episode 35: Andy Davies (Manchester Punk Festival)

Episode 35 sees Liam up in Manchester talking to one of the co-organisers and founders of Manchester Punk Festival (MPF), Andy Davies.

Some of you might know Andy from his time with the UK Punk outfit Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man (Which we do talk about), or some of you might know him as one half of the team behind TNSRecoreds (We also talk about that as well) But predominantly this is a chat about MPF.

So, what do we talk about?  Well, we talk about the art of selling tickets, taking criticism on social media and learning from past mistakes, as well as sticking to your 'Punk Ethics'.

I ask Andy about his thoughts on his punk rock festival competitors, Rebellion and Slam Dunk, and Andy explains how if it weren't for Strummer Camp there wouldn't be an MPF!

We talk about Dead To Me having to pull out of this year's festival as well as the introduction and the continuing roll out of comedy at MPF, and of course, we talk about Punks In Pubs and other podcasts finding its place at this year's festival. Plus much more.

All the music played in this episode are from bands playing this year MPF, and they went as such, The mighty Snuff kicked us off and then that's followed by a band called Folks Worst Nightmare, Then it's was King Prawn, Throwing Stuff, Dog Hand String Band and Authority Zero end the interview,  If you want to hear more from the bands playing at this years MPF head over to MPF Bandcamp webpage.

You can pick up your tickets for MPF by heading manchesterpunkfestival.co.uk and pick up some tickets and then you can pop along and watch me up on stage at The Font! That's right, Punks in Pubs will be performing its first ever live show at The Manchester Punk Festival this Easter Weekend (Friday, April 19 till Sunday 21st)

Conducting two interviews at The Font on the Saturday of the festival weekend (First show at 1:30 pm with guest TBA then back at 3:20 pm talking to Joe Tilston).

As always, your band play out the podcast, and this week’s band are coming at you from Liverpool and there called Seas of Neptune. If you would like to play out the podcast, please send your mp3’s to [email protected]

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