Well, there’s announcing festival bands early, and there’s announcing your headliner over a year in advance! Blackpool’s Rebellion Festival have announced that NOFX will be one of the headliners for their 2014 event, posting the following online:
“NOFX – CONFIRMED FOR 2014
With Early Bird tickets available from next weekend, we’ve been busy making plans for 2014 already….
We’re really excited to announce that the mighty NOFX are confirmed as headliners next year. NOFX remain one of the most requested bands we’ve had and now we’re pleased to say we can give you what you want! As with the RANCID booking last year, we expect loads of you that only know the band by name to be really impressed once you see them live. Fat Mike and his band have been playing since 1983 – so make no mistake they are the real deal and have been on our ‘wants’ list since we started booking gigs a long time ago! We welcome NOFX to the Rebellion family and can’t wait to be partying with them in the Empress Ballroom next year.
Dutch Oi band EVIL CONDUCT are also confirmed for 2014 – this will be their only UK date next year.
SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS make a welcome return next year and we’ve also already booked SPIZZ ENERGI, DIRTBOX DISCO and a few others. We’ve also got requests in for our other headliners so as usual the festival will take shape over the course of the next year but with NOFX already confirmed, we know it’s going to be a big year.”
Rebellion 2013 is next weekend, with The Exploited, Cock Sparrer, Sham 69, The Buzzcocks, The Misfits, Leftover Crack and many, many more playing!