John Robb - Punk Rock Ruined My Life
Schedule
Mon, 18 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
15 Sea Street, PO30 5BD Newport, United Kingdom | Newport, EN
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Edge Street Live in conjunction with Triple A Records presentsJohn Robb - Punk Rock Ruined My Life
John Robb is a many-faceted creature.
Not just a well known face from TV but also a best selling author, musician, journalist, presenter and
pundit, music website boss, publisher, festival boss, Eco warrior and vegan behemoth and talking head
singer from post-punk mainstays The Membranes.
John Robb is all these things and more.
He grew up in Blackpool before punk rock came along and saved his life and he formed the Membranes -
the highly influential post punk band whose current albums keep pushing forward with added choirs and
textures and are critically acclaimed.
He was one of the leading post punk fanzine writers in the UK with ‘Rox’ before he went on to write for the
rock press with Sounds in the 80s and was the first person to interview Nirvana and coined the
expression Britpop and was instrumental in kick starting and documenting the Madchester scene with his
writing. His music and culture website louderthanwar.com is currently the 5th most read music and culture
sites in the UK and at the front of diverse modern culture.
He is a constant on TV and radio commenting on music, culture and politics and one of the UK’s leading
in conversation hosts who has his own successful youtube channel and his own books and music festival
in Manchester every year called Louder Than Words.
For the first half of the show, John Robb will be discussing his brand new memoir 'Punk Rock Ruined My Life', Robb's memoir tells of deep friendships with figures from Poly Styrene to Chris Packham. Packed with riotous stories, it provides an alternative account of British musical and cultural history and a triumphant blueprint for a punk rock life.
In the second half of the show, John will be interviewing a very special guest. Concluding the interview, John will then be participating in a Q&A
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