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Huh with The Varukers, Special Duties, Tear Up, The Defects, Noose and Varukers
9 April Apr 2026
Benidorm, Spain
The Warriors with One Way System, Special Duties, The Backstreet Abortions, Crashed Out, Nabat, One Way System, Special Duties and The Backstreet Abortions
31 January Jan 2026
London, United Kingdom
The Animals with The Wallflowers, Slade, 999999999, Alabama 3, Pain of Truth, Subhumans, Leftöver Crack, Dwarves, Deadline, Cockney Rejects, The Business, Anti-Nowhere League, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Los Fastidios, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, The Last Resort, The Lancashire Hotpots, Conflict, Random Hand, Hard-Ons, The Restarts, Sonic Boom Six, Martha Tilston, The Peacocks, The JB Conspiracy, The Empty Threats, Splodgenessabounds, Special Duties, Citizen Fish, John Otway, MDM, Pama International, Resistance 77, Foreign Legion, Paranoid Visions, Goldblade, T.V. Smith, Choking Susan, Fire Exit, Betty Blitzkrieg, The Radio Buzzkills, Guilty Pleasures, UK Subs, Funeral Dress, The Damned, Nick Cash, Max Splodge, Smith and Jones, The Adicts, Monkish, Sick on the Bus, John Cooper Clarke, Varukers, Abrasive Wheels, alias smith & jones, APB, Argy Bargy, Ari Up, Babar Luck, BabyBoom, Barnyard Masturbator, Bastard Squad, Billy No Mates, Blame, Blood or Whiskey, Captain Everything!, Captain Hotknives, Chas 'n' Dave, CHEMICAL KAOS, Church of Confidence, Crack, Criminal Class, D.B.D, Demob, Dik Guru, Dirty Love, Discipline, Dragster, Duff Muffin, East End Badoes, English Dogs, Evil Conduct, External Menace, Failsafe, Flamingo 50, Forgotten, Frank Sidebottom, Ghouls, Grown At Home, Harakiri Karaoke, Hardskin, Havana A Go Go, Hogwash, Holy Racket, Howards Alias, Instant Agony, Intensified, Intro5pect, Jonny One Lung, Kelly Kemp, Klasse Kriminale, Krawallbrder, KrawallBrueder, Kunt and the Gang, Lay Out The Traps!, Lowlife UK, Matthew Reynolds, Middle Finger Salute, Mouthwash, Mr Shiraz, Neck, Newtown Neurotics, No Choice, Northern Uproar, On Trial, Outl4w, Paul Carter, Penetration, Pickled Dick, Picture Frame Seduction, Pink Hearse, Pink Torpedoes, Play Daisy, Pork Dukes, Reazione, Rejected, Riot Squad, Roddy Radiation, Rory McLeod, Scrub, Section 5, Shark Soup, Sofa Head, Splitters. The, Stage Bottles, Strawberry Blondes, Stuntface, Suicide Bid, Texas Terri Bomb, The Adverts, The Agitators, The Baghdaddio's, The Blaggers, The Booze Boys, The Casual Terrorist, The Dead Class, The Duel, The Emotional Problems of Dirk Diggler, The Filaments, The King Blues, The Kirkz, The Lurkers, The Neville Staple Band, The Rebels, The Ruts, The Straps, The Tights, The Vibrators, Time Again, Turbo A.C.'s, Urban Dogs, Vice Squad, Western Promise and Wild Youth
9 August Aug 2007
Blackpool, United Kingdom
Special Duties are a British punk rock band from Colchester, Essex.
Special Duties was created in October 1977 by friends Steve Green (Aka Arrogant), Steve Norris (Aka Duty) and Nigel Baker. They were punks at school, but the idea of forming their own band came when they saw The Adverts in Colchester. The fact that the three schoolboys couldn't play and didn't own any instruments didn't discourage them. They decided to put Arrogant on vocals, Duty on guitar and Baker on Bass. Read more on