On September 7, 8 and 9 the Rotterdam Rumble will be held at club Waterfront for the third time. This punk rock and garage festival complete with many extras like an art show is organized in association with Stardumb Records and is about to top its two previous issues due to this year´s amazing line-up.
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Supercharger Headlining on Saturday will be the legendary Supercharger, featuring Karen Singletary on drums. For the first and only time since their break up in 1993 they will be together on stage in their original line-up. Supercharger is (together with The Mummies) responsible for the lo-fi punk rock boom of the mid 90´s and beyond.
Paul Collins Beat On Friday Paul Collins Beat, featuring Michael Ruiz on the drum throne, will be performing as headliner. Their 1979 album \"The Beat\" is regarded as one of the best power pop records ever containing cult hits such as \"Rock ´N` Roll Girl\" and \"Walking Out Of Love\". Drummer-turned-frontman Paul Collins was also a member of The Nerves who wrote “Hangin’ On The Telephone”.
The Kids On Thursday Belgium´s godfathers of punk rock, The Kids, will play. Drummer Frankie Saenen and the rest of the band just rejoined with their original bass player to make things even better. Their self titled 1978 debut released on Polygram contains true punk classics like This Rock ´N´ Roll, Bloody Belgium and Do You Love The Nazis?.
More music Besides these three headliners the following bands will be making their appearance: Marked Men (USA), Campus Tramps (Mid 90´s Devil Doggy style rock ´n´ roll from the UK feat. Members of the Coyotemen), BBQ (soulful one man band from Canada, half of The King Khan & BBQ Show), Zatopeks (The Rumble house band for good reasons), Los Chicos (Spanish soul punkers), The Kidnappers (Rip Off Records), The Magnetix (French garage twosome), The White Suicide (Rotterdam rock), Cheaters (60´s garage, just played Roskilde), The Madd (Rotterdam Nederbiet), The Quotes (Rotterdam all star group feat. ex-Apers, ex-Wiseguy and Das Oath), The Stilettos, Griswalds and many more.
Art show and more extras To wrap it all up there will be a themed after party every night with the best international DJ’s, a cocktail bar and an exclusive art show.
The art show will feature 16 Dutch artists such as Cosh, Claudia Hek, Erosie, Jeffrey Warlich, Man On The Moon and Stefan Tijs who all made pirate-themed paintings especially for this art show, to celebrate the 666th anniversary of harbour city Rotterdam.
The fun will start early for every afternoon there will play two bands for free in the Waterfront cafe.
For all upcoming additions to the line-up, more extras and more info check out www.rotterdamrumble.com. You can buy your tickets through paypal there too. Weekend passes for all 3 days (Sept. 7, 8 & 9) cost € 35.