Nite Songs

  Kubix Day 1 Review here And so on to Day 2 of Kubix. While yesterday was a fairly slow-paced opening day to the festival, today proves to be a lot more busy with several stage clashes. In the interest of covering as much as possible, please be aware that for quite a few of the bands I've reviewed here, I didn't catch the full set due to hot footing it to/from the other stage. But hopefully I've done this justice... It's weird how a nice sunny day (a stark contrast to yesterday which alternated between clouds and rain) can make even bands you weren't a fan of first time out seem pleasant enough and Republica , who open the Main Stage today, are a case in point. Back when I was 18, I generally found their Essex girl techno-Britpop about as much fun as root canal surgery without the anaesthetic but today they're enjoyable enough with an energy and enthusiasm to their set that means you'd have to be a bit of a miserable bugger not to enjoy it. They play the hi...

So your correspondent finally makes it back to a festival a mere decade or so after his last one (well, if you discount a few trips to the Bishops Stortford Music Festival when I lived down there). Kubix Festival is now in its seventh year (discounting 2020 where Covid put paid to it) and this is your correspondent's third attempt at attending - as I mentioned, the 2020 attempt was wiped out by the pandemic and the 2021 version ended up moved back to October for the same reason. And maybe this is just a sign of me getting older but the prospect of sitting at the bottom of Penshaw Hill to watch some bands in the freezing autumn rain didn't appeal somehow. Still, better late than never... Local lads Crashed Out  are pretty much a perfect band to open this festival and draw an impressively large crowd for this point in the day. With a barrelling punk energy, they even manage to get a small moshpit going as old favourites like The Town That Died  and Jarrow Song  rub shoulder...