Ungagged Bands

The Exiles

A punk-rock band on a mission to inject revolution back into rock’n’roll “The Exiles are proof that punk rock can still stand for something. In times like these, with universal suffering, they are needed more than ever” – 8/10 -Vive Le Rock on ‘Universal Suffering’ “Full of swagger and attitude, they play every note with […]

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Gladiators Are You Ready

G.A.Y.R. is the product of some trans(atlantic) queers making a mess with instruments in hand. As an ode to the Figure of the Gladiator in the recent past and the sometimes long and forgotten legacy of humanity’s struggle against itself, G.A.Y.R.’s Greatest Hits EP pays tribute to our fallen comrades (whether televised, preserved through writing, […]

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The Cundeez

The Cundeez are a band hailing from the streets of Dundee and bring a totally unique, fresh and exciting sound to the world music scene. The words are unashamedly performed in the raw Dundee dialect and combine punching guitars, pounding drums and occasional bagpipes to produce a sound free from the shackles of genre……… The […]

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Marisa (Rissa) Snider

  Marisa (Rissa) Snider is a Hunkpapa | Sicangu & Oglala Lakota Computer Scientist who lives on both the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations. She advocates for Youth Organizing, Native Women Who Code, and Native Technologists. She is currently in the process of creating language software for the Lakota Immersion Childcare and getting computational […]

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Robb Johnson

Robb Johnson is now widely recognised as one of the finest songwriters working in the UK today. His songs feature in the repertoires of a wide variety of musicians, from folk legend Roy Bailey to acclaimed cabaret diva Barb Jungr, & he enjoys a similarly diverse spectrum of critical acclaim – “a modern-day Dostoyevsky” said the […]

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Flavia Tudoreanu

Flavia Tudoreanu – Co-organiser of Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. I’m one of these bad Romanian immigrants you hear about from UKIP or tabloid newspapers. Keep your distance as I might be bad mouthing Trident and those backing nuclear weapons, brag about my wee daughter or even bore you to death with my crafty projects. […]

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A Tale of Two Revolutions: Russia and Iran

After Tom Perez’s “Night of the Long Knives” purge of progressives and entrenchment of centrists at the Democratic National Committee, no self-respecting leftist can hold anything for the Democratic Party but contempt. A thoroughly corrupt organization cannot be reformed, period. Capitalism cannot be reformed. Neoliberal bodies such as the EU or the UK of GB […]