Tomorrow, 6 December, Turn Up the Volume travels to the city of Nijmegen
in The Netherlands for the 3rd edition of the ZEITGEIST festival, featuring multiple
small/bigger indie acts. Lots to see & hear. Review and impressions will follow
next week.
21 August 2025
Band: SOAPBOX
Who: Bewildering punks
from Scotland.
Thank you Upchuck for pulling out at the last minute
from Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium last Saturday.
Mind you, they’re a great band, but so are Scottish Oi-Oi punks Soapbox
who filled in the empty spot. What the fuck, what a bang-on discovery.
Although the fact that these maddening motherrockers had to play
at 2.30 pm, they attracted a couple of hundred awake enthusiasts. Why?
Because these Scottish pitbulls steamrolled mercilessly through their set, from start to finish, led by their fired-up loudmouth-frontman who doubled our adrenaline production with his hyperkinetic performance, running and jumping around like a hopped-up, human pogo-stick, igniting the first clashing moshpit of the day.
Behind him, a sizzling three-piece, all locked in, produced a truculent havoc,
blustery enough to start a riot. Soapbox came, saw, and exploded. Hells bells.
Come back soon, hellraisers.
Here’s a blasting live clip from last year that
shows exactly what I just tried to put in words.
And their new 4-track EP Lock In will make you a fanatic fan.
“Hey, there’s my t-shirt”
