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Billy Puntton @ The Record Crate, 30th Dec

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 31 December 2016

“Billy Puntton is both furious and hysterical, which is a fairly disturbing mood, like he’s about to go for your throat. He comes off like Billie Joe Armstrong, Rik Mayall, Emilio Estevez’ Billy The Kid from “Young Guns”, and gets repeatedly called ‘Dad’ by the audience. He sings about things that make him cross, which seem to include everything in the news, prescription drugs, and old men who fondle him in Adelaide. It is made even madder by the fact that this particular hardcore set is performed on an acoustic and a harmonica. It’s precisely as brilliant as it sounds.”

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