1-2-3-4 festival | Pop review

Shoreditch, LondonLondon's trendiest festival is back for a third outing, but this year the young fashion rebels, with undercut hair and sock-suspenders, face an assault by the older generation. Survivors of punk circa 1976, Subway Sect mesh catchy melodies with defiantly scratchy guitars – although, as singer Vic Godard points out, teen hymns such as Stool Pigeon aren't "really meant for old people to sing". The same could be said of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, but Peter Hook, joined by...

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