Rockaway Beach review — this alt-rock festival was a riot
★★★★☆
Forget dry, are you doing loud January? While the rest of the country stayed at home to try the “watch Saltburn with your parents” challenge, 4,000 noise-hungry festival fanatics descended on Bognor Regis Butlin’s for alt-rock’s own belated Hogmanay, pitched at a zeitgeisty midway point between the cultured All Tomorrow’s Parties events of yesteryear and the indie retro Shiiine On Weekender.
There was a strong seam of classic punk too. The 2 tone legends the Selecter headlined Friday, Hugh Cornwell delivered a fragile set of surf rock and sporadic Stranglers tracks on Saturday, and Skids tore fervently through Into the Valley and threw vitriolic shade at their indie-chart rival Leo Sayer. “I blame him for everything,” the singer Richard Jobson ranted. “The
