The Adrian Flux Waterfront Studio, 29 Nov 2025
Cult punk since 1977
What do you know about Ruts DC? What do you want to know about Ruts DC? It’s nearly fifty years since the two sevens clashed. In a little over fifty more years, they will clash again.
Ruts were hot wiring barbed wire guitar, passionate poetry and rhythm weaponry together somewhere in a London that probably does not exist anymore. Splicing heat haze dub thinking to the energy flash of punk, close to the big bang of late twentieth century culture. Open to ideas. Committed to ideals.
Some bands sound punk. Some look punk. Some even look and sound punk. And some, simply, are punk. The Ruts were early challengers to the misunderstood notion that punk was a somewhat luddite dogma wherein complexity, creative exploration and musical prowess were considered a shameful affectation.
Ruts and Ruts DC songs move with a precise muscularity and carry lyrics of eloquent and graceful rage. No two-chord thrash with shouting over the top.
Go back. Listen to everything. From the very beginning to now, Listen to their acclaimed album ‘Counterculture?’ Listen to the incendiary ‘Music Must Destroy’ album, Get a hold of a copy of ElectraCoustiC volume 3 with its instant classic ‘Bound in Blood’
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