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Outbreak festival review – hardcore and pop hooks collide in impeccable genre-fluid lineup
Turnstile headlined with soaring high-tempo energy while Speed went route-one punk, Jane Remover caused pandemonium and Have a Nice Life electrified their fanbase in this most free-thinking of festivals
Yoking together hardcore, emo, hip-hop and alt-rock with impeccable taste, its first London iteration is part of the wider Lido festival series and so it means there are incredibly un-punk sights, such as a VIP area and branded tequila experiences – but the actual music retains its edge. US singer-producer Jane Remover causes similar pandemonium with breakcore-pop full of vocal hooks that hit like a video game power-up, enhanced by an appearance by rapper Danny Brown who later delivers a relaxed yet on-point main stage performance, with not a single word missed in the ratatat flows of When It Rain. Photograph: Sonja Horsman/The GuardianHeadlining are Turnstile, who epitomise Outbreak’s genre-fluid ethos: the insistent high-tempo attack of hardcore is never far away, but there are flute solos, soaring pop vocal hooks and on the wonderful new song I Care, perky and sassy new wave energy.
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