When it comes to punk, few men still in the business have the experience that John Robb has. Frontman of The Membranes, a band that was part of the original first wave of UK punk and that formed in 1977, Robb formed his current band Goldblade in the mid-1990s. Mutiny is their fifth album, and the second to be recorded by the current line-up.

Not surprisingly, Mutiny has a piratical theme, which works well with the swashbuckling tone of the band’s music and the inherently aggressive, anti-establishment nature of punk. In keeping with this, the band apparently plan to “tear up the stage like a gang of mutant pirates armed with a lyrical cutlass of searing social commentary”. Brilliant! Continue Reading