NEWSFLASH
Where to see Hastings Punk Choir in 2025
We’ll be performing at the following events – come see us!
7.00pm – 10.30pm Saturday 15 November – Punk Night with The Spiffing Good Eggs at Bexhill Rowing Social Club
7.00pm Thursday 20 November, Mikabomb and Love Bites at The Jenny Lind, Hastings
7.00pm – 12.30am Friday 5 December – Love Music Hate Racism at The Pig Hastings
We are the anti-choir!
Hastings Punk Choir is built around the idea that we can all sing and the punk ethos of making music DIY style. There’s no need for any formal training or auditions, just bring your passion and your enthusiasm. We are the anti-choir!
We just love singing together. We practise weekly and perform a mixture of a cappella and guitar and drum-accompanied arrangements of songs by punk bands past and present. Included in our current repertoire are numbers by the Buzzcocks, Ramones, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Delta 5, Wire, X-Ray Spex, Blondie, The Clash, Iggy Pop, The Lovely Eggs, Dead Kennedys, The Damned, Sex Pistols, Tom Waits, Kid Kapichi, The Undertones, the list goes on.
Some of the punks...
Tom Elvy
Meet musical director extraordinaire Tom Elvy. Directing the choir is rather like herding cats; fortunately, Tom is a master at cat-herding. He also arranges our songs, accompanies us on guitar, and tells us, in a nice way, when we are off key, at the wrong tempo or just wrong!
Karen Burgess
Responsible for the manic mayhem that is Hastings Punk Choir, meet Karen Burgess, our fearless leader. Seeking to spread a little joy and a lot of irreverence through the medium of punk songs, Karen founded the choir in 2021.
A few more of us
Here we have (from left to right): Marion, Tom, Paul, Karen and Chris.