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Revelations proudly presents

For the first time EVER in Hitchin:

RUTS DC

RUTS and RUTS DC 2023
What do you know about Ruts DC? What do you want to know about Ruts DC? It?s nearly fifty
years since the two sevens clashed. In a little over fifty more years, they will clash again.
Roughly around the time they last clashed 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 forthcoming release of
new album ?Counterculture??, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2016?s incendiary ?Music Must
Destroy? album, due this November 11th via their own Sosumi Recordings.
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.
?Counterculture? For us, it never went away,? says bassist and vocalist John ?Segs? Jennings.
?We?ve always been on the outside and still are. It?s ok to be a freak. That?s why The Ruts started in
the first place. If it?s still inside you, it?s time to light that flame again. Get to know what you don?t
know. Come and borrow my lighter.?
Drums and Bass building the defence wall. Guitar and whatever else lobbed in stun/attack mode.
That is Ruts DC. That is all you really need to know.
People unite.
?Counterculture?? will be officially released into the shops across Europe on April 21 st 2023 via
Sosumi Recordings/Code 7 Distribution. A 10 night UK Tour will take place to celebrate between
May 10 th and 21 st 2023.

The set will be a mix of classic tunes like Staring At The Rude Boys, In A Rut, West One and Babylon's Burning alongside exclusive preview of their new material. All killer, no filler

Very special guest:

TV SMITH

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Hertfordshire's Premier Music Venue

74 Whinbush Road,

Hitchin,

Hertfordshire,

England,

SG5 1PZ.

01462 434801