07/09/2022
*** CW: LONG AND GUSHING POST! ***
After a whirlwind 10 days, a project that took 6 months of planning and preparation - bringing together an awesome team of artists, set-builders, sound engineers, lighting techs, and photographers - to build, run, and then dismantle a live music venue in a field in Northamptonshire is over in a flash!
Over 4 nights, Shambala Festival 2022 's newest and only dedicated punk/DIY live music venue - SQUATTER’S TIGHTS - hosted 54 of the most talented musicians from the UK’s punk/DIY scene (and the Faroe Islands!) packing the venue each night with audiences of first-time festival-goers and seasoned veterans alike - all dancing and moshing (and even some crowd-surfing!) together into the small hours!
We are very proud to have created a space representing the UK’s punk, DIY, and New Traveller culture that has been so enthusiastically received, and are overwhelmed with the love and support we have been shown from all directions - thank you all so much ###
As we finally head back to reality - physically battered and mentally exhausted, but smiling from ear to ear - we would like to thank the following awesome humans:
THE PERFORMERS
THURS: Efa Supertramp , Brewers Daughter , Ushti Baba
FRI: Perkie , Molly Samson , Mono Dots , Tarantism, Panic Shack , T-Bitch
SAT: The SinicTones - Psycho Surf Noir , Foxy Acetylene , Migraines , WONK UNIT , The Sporadics , Fiachra O Bradaigh AKA Fukrag McGinty
SUN: Joe & The Sh*tboys , Defo not Killdren , Dissident Noize Factory , The Blunders ft Convoy Cabaret
THE CREW (in alphabetical order)
Akasha Dryden , Billy (Hank H Bonney) , Conniss, Darren Revell , Gabriel Ufir, Jane Tidiman , Jess Addison, Joe Schnider , Jon Stockley , Matt Furneaux, Paul Revell, Priya Modi , Rachael Fountain , Ro Ze , SkaPete Dawson, Steve Rudall , Tommy Gunn, Vita Sunter - you are all amazing, we fu***ng smashed it!! 🖤😁🖤
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:
As well as our resident artists, Zerk (SkaPete) and Ro Ze, huge thanks to the following artists for the loan of artworks on display throughout the venue:
Luke Out of Designs in Air for his pyramid artwork and 'Caution' tape - they massively added to the aesthetic!!
Debs Wrekon for the massive robot welcoming everyone into the venue.
Bad Diva Designs for the awesome frontage, painstakingly sign-written using traditional techniques and materials
Joe Publix Graphix (Arthur Lowbridge) for the wealth of both personal artwork and historical party and protest art
And all other featured artists:
$ Zine Collective Rock Step-dad (Weaponised Apathy) Georgia Quality Kent, Zara Fox Arthur Ellis Chris Dibnah
Special mention to Dan Brown and Laura Downing of the The Red Rash Inn for lending us the ATM sideshow game - Shambala loved the bums!
Thanks to all the great crew at SHAMBALA FESTIVAL that make it happen, and for making us feel so welcome - looking forward to working with you all again!
Special thanks to Becka Whiteley and Christine Dent of Kambe/Shambala Festival for the name and original concept of Squatter’s Tights, for continually pushing for representation of punk/DIY culture at Shambala, and for bringing us on board to make it happen - thank you for the opportunity, and for your support!
And last but not least, to all of the lovely enthusiastic folks that came to the venue and made all the bands in our Naughty Corner feel welcome - thank you all, and much love from the Squatter's crew! 🖤
We will be putting together an album of all the pics taken by the various photographers that worked with us over the weekend and will post a link here on the new Squatter's Tights page, and on the Punk Diva Promo page ASAP.
Big love to you all - Up The Punx!! ☠️🖤☠️ See less
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