Are They "Woke" for Changing Their Band Name? 

That is very funny 😅

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Sounds like an Eminem lyric the way i read it in my mind 😂

Thats a dumb lyric its just stating the obvious. Its a nothing statement, it means nothing.

@@GaryBlack-m1l it doesn’t have to have a deep meaning to be a good lyric.

What a fuckin awesome gig that was! 👍🏻

Bob vylan is solid

Never knew that was the reason..makes sense, interesting.

source?

@@0xM4ND bob vylan said it himself at a live show I went to, the rock city one

@@tgw7069 very good! I heard the guys not really give a clear answer about how they chose the name and it did sound more or less like they chose it themselves 😂 vylan is a more interesting backstory

Why are you swearing for no reason?

@@FormulaProg who the fuck cares

was about to say the same, seen them twice now and each time is fucking hectic haha

Paul Punk?

@@silver47officialno the whole genre

@@SubparLoki Eh?

Benny Harvey RIP ❤

He was just a fuckin kid

So you love them even more for selling out and pandering to the woke crap

they showed great courage by folding like wet blankets

​@@tcon2809Do you have any idea how risky it is to change the name of an established brand, especially when the brand is a band?

@@Bagofnowt you mean like changing Twitter to X ?

@@tcon2809WHOOOOOOOOSH 😂😂😂

They deserve cancelling by everyone who cares about REALITY

I wish they were supporting Bob Vylan instead of the prodigy next month

Couldn't agree more, for every 1 person getting offended there's a thousand "you can't say anything these days" merchants having a meltdown

It's so funny because the whole point of the punk movement is to do what you want and to not be beholden to other people. There's a certain irony in people being pissed off over something Isaac and Laurie wanted to do and saying punk is dead because of it.

@@-Jesternah, they pussied out. End of story.

@@MattCassCook​​⁠nah, you are just a crybaby “waa waa slaves have been around since humans began waa”

​@@MattCassCook Snowflake

great comment

@@BigHeartMusicOfficialthanks. Just commenting on how many times I’ve heard punk is dead…but soft play carries the torch with this song. You can’t be more punk than destroying your own “fans” for (the ways and reasons they were) complaining about changing your band name. Watch their live in Reading video. Punk is alive and well, cheers

10 stars for the comment , pure genius!

As a forward facing progressive movement punk should be changing with the times. The only people saying punk is dead are fat old men who didn't care about politics and wanted to drink and fight. The Ramones playing rock and roll really fast was kinda cool I guess but they also wrote boring rock 'n' roll cliches lyrically and had shit politics. There's a reason they had mass appeal.

Crass - Punk is Dead (1979)

Kowtowing to the deranged faux-moralising of modern day mainstream leftism isn’t ‘punk’ in the slightest 😅

@@lewisbracken5520 Whatever man 🙄

@@lewisbracken5520whinging about it, even less so

@@lewisbracken5520 the music's still banging mate. What's in a name?

I had no idea bands even came to Scunny. I'm only 20 minutes or so down the road. Any decent venues I should keep my eye on?

It is dead though. The ethos is dead definitely. Instead of anarchists the people wearing the punk uniform advocate for authoritarianism.

Or they think Green Day is punk.

Most people who utter the word punk have no idea what they are talking about. They were/are not part of punk culture, made no contribution and merely glanced from the outside, like a white boy walking past a Chinese restaurant once and thinking they now know Mandarin and Chinese history and culture.

Crass declared punk dead in 1978 and they were probably right...

Woke

@@Beanbag777Keep crying 😂

​@@Beanbag777waaahhhh waahhhhh waahhhhhh somebody thinks differently than me waaahhhh wahhhhhhhhhhhh

The irony of the pop punk thing is the pixies are far more punk than anything in that era.

Everybody just loved punk. No one ever had a bad thing to say about punk.

So sad. Gone too soon. Xx

You haven't seen Killing Joke live recently obviously.

Punk isn’t dead. It’s just up for sale.

@@Xindigoh Why ? Is Postpunk dead, too?

Awesome show!

Girl Band became Gilla Band and Scalping became Scaler too.

Viet Cong also changed their name to Preoccupations. A little longer ago

⁠@@stittastuttaGilla Band are awesome ❤

As much as it's nice Slaves (US) changed their name in memory of their Manchester show and I liked not having to explain it wasn't Slaves (UK) who still had their name then I don't get the need to change it for reasons outside of wanting a change since they changed lead singer. I mean, there was a valid reason for being called Slaves and no one complained. I don't get it with some of the bands that jumped on the trend to rename.

@Void-Realm Fear of cancelation, I guess. Even though I'm fairly certain that most bands or companies actually gain a following when they publicly refuse to bend the knee. 🤷‍♂️

It’s never gone away, you just haven’t heard the bands..

@@tobyb1018 Yup, probably true. So I’ll rephrase; nice to see it becoming more available to people who aren’t deeply invested in the punk scene but who still enjoy punk rock and have been missing it due to it’s underground nature over the last 2-3 decades. That better? 😂

Reacting to the music in bad ads would be classic 😅👌

Are you a Tunny Wells-er?

@@fireblade4205 Yeah! Ive met Isaac a couple of times at various gigs at The Forum. Don't know if properly but seems like a cool guy. And his mum is a fan of my band so I like his mum too 😅

@@cjlister8508 that's awesome! (I've seen him from a distance a few times around Tunbridge Wells, not much else) Kent's a smaallll world though

Check out John then... you'll love them!

"Soft play is an activity for children that involves playing in a specially designed area with soft surfaces and equipment" almost seems like a bit of f*ck you to people who criticized the original name but was all the more strange when they decided to keep the name permanently

Punk is dead i grew up durring the 3rd wave of punk, everyone wanted to be an individual we made alot of our own clothes to react to the styles we liked. It was all about being yourself and being able to talk and share ideas whether troublesome or not. So much of it was about being yourself. Now it's all band wagon jumping all the kids out there pretending to be gay and transgender for the like or views it's so disrespectful to my friends who were out being themselves while the rest of society was making fun of them or putting them down and they were still out and openly being themselves. All the hard work they did to live they're own life and supporting others. Kids and punks today have no idivuality everyone copies what ever happens to be popular everyone is afraid to state they're real feelings about anything because it might now be how the other 90% think. Thank goodness I never claimed for be a punk just a rock and roller. The punk scene aside from some old school bands is just lame as all hell.

@@jonnyhafer936 Punk is all about being yourself so people should.... not talk about being gay or trans? I live in one of the most progressive cities in the world and my gay and trans friends are still regularly threatened and attacked for being who they are in public. It's not a fun little bandwagon, it's spitting in the face of the establishment, a new frontier. You claim there's no individuality and yet you want everyone to just go back to the way they were 30 years ago. Talk about being a conformist.

Patter theft

@@IainBru Patter recycling ♻️

Recorded inadvance to US tour. Currently only on 3 rd show, LA, in the US. Still weeks to go

Preach 🙏

A-fucking-men 🤘🏽

Very punk to change a band name because it's causing offence 😂

@@rkk578 The punk thing is not really caring that your audience will care, which they did, and they dedicated a song to it

@@Hejon25 Yeah because of caring what the general public finds offensive. You can twist it any way you want, they bent over to society's demands which is basically the opposite punk supposed to be.

@@rkk578 Nah, they did what they wanted to do, that's what punk is.