Sham 69 - Rochester, NY

Photo City Presents:

Sham 69
w/ No Consent, & more

* Thursday, June 27th in Rochester, NY

Doors open at 6:00pm, Ages 18+

- Get your tickets at: www.PhotoCityMusicHall.com

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* Sham 69 : https://www.officialsham69.com

Now in 2024 the band find themselves like everyone trying to get back to normal with just completing a sell out Euro tour in January. The band released their 7th original album TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH which followed BLACK DOG back in 2021, which the band wanted to reflect in some way the events and happenings without the boring cliches.

The band, which was formed in 1975, to which its original founding member and guitarist Neil Harris remained in this line up, until his untimely death 6 years ago. Neil Harris who formed the band with Jimmy Pursey in 1975. Neil Harris was along with the other original members Albie Slider, Johnny Good-for-nothing, Billy Bostik performing live with such hits as Borstal Breakout and Hey Little Rich Boy prior to the bands second line up change in late 1977.With hits such as BORSTAL BREAKOUT and HEY LITTLE RICH BOY being performed in 76-77, the band went on to have others such as HURRY UP HARRY, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES and the anthem IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED.

The band had many line up changes but the most notable was Jimmy Pursey's departure following his sacking in 2006, in which he was immediately replaced by the now vocalist Tim V.

Tim V's reign saw him take the band from its lowest point to get it touring worldwide with 7 successful selling albums along with World Tours and major festivals...and he has clocked up more shows than any other previous line up. The band currently features along with Tim V, the bands longest serving drummer at 38 years behind the kit for SHAM 69.. Ian Whitewood. On Lead Guitar we have Paul Brightman who joined for the bands US Tour in 2016 and on Bass Al Campbell who joined the band in 2009, he has a pristine pedigree in Punk after serving 13 years with UK SUBS and playing with both Marky Ramone and Jayne County and the Electric Chairs.

Now with such anthemic like songs as SING WHEN YOUR WINNING making the charts both here in the UK and Europe and other songs in the last 4 years such as LAST GANG IN LONDON / GOODBYE BILLY BLUE / SHOUT and more recent SIGN OF THE TIMES being used in movies, the band have achieved so much against the tide. The band who are praised for kicking arse onstage and at a ripe old age are dumbfounding audiences worldwide with their passion and total stage presence.

AND NOW…With a new album out be ready for some full on Street Punk!!!

So, this is SHAM 69 now and though many have scoffed at their existence they have come to regret it having been overwhelmed by the power of the performance.

* No Consent (members of Donnybrook!) : https://www.instagram.com/noconsentband

With modern punk bravado, scorched guttural vocals, meaty hooks aplenty, and serious musical chops that sometimes lean into elements of crossover and metal, No Consent pour their attention on the ills of society with a powerful vengeance and conscience. For people who gravitate towards the anthemic anger of Rise Against, The Casualties, and MDC, this will be a top-notch affair. For instance, tunes like the surging "No Escape" tries to tear down the self-enclosed safe spaces around people in order to expose the police as well as the ecosystem of greed, corruption, and brutality that makes the dire dysfunction all possible. "Fuck All Cops" needs no introduction: the slower, but highly-charged tempo is a backdrop to their belief that cops have become class traitors who disgrace and traumatize communities: with a crushing tempo and gruff vocals, they emphasize the dire need to reform the system that legitimizes brutality in the name of so-called safety. Without arming themselves with loads of leftist books, they make a plainspoken case in the harrowing, uptempo "Division of Wealth" that the money world has reached a tipping point, an inflection: the credit card debt, and the seething gap between the have and have-nots, are not sustainable and are a recipe for piling up grievances against injustice, forced poverty, and exploitation. The band's politics of despair and disorder, raw insight and basic intelligence, are bolted to each word, and none of it feels like a classroom lesson. Other tunes like "Sugarloaf" depict the small-town, fucked-up kids of the gutter-prone night, riddled with pain and alienation, rejection and loser status, while "Alone" feels like a rage against the human machines: the people who try to block, subvert, and repress our wills and energies. Those same enraged sentiments and outlooks also pervade "Live Free," which is a testament to free agency in the middle of a new American authoritarianism. It's a throaty shout-out to a burning desire to shred the plans, inherited ideas, and roles placed on us. And not to be missed, "Bastard Nation" assails "the home of god, hate, and slavery," a dark inherited American history whose myth begins to crumble under the weight of observation, in which the politics of red and blue are just another kind of dope. It's a weighty tune about the power of dissatisfaction, the false promises of a system baring its problems daily, and the fear of an overarching government whose policies are worrisome, at best.

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Thursday, June 27th

- Doors Open at 6:00pm

at: Photo City Music Hall

543 Atlantic Ave

Rochester, NY

Get your tickets at: www.PhotoCityMusicHall.com