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Legendary punk poet, the loud, warm heart of DIY culture, Attila the Stockbroker brings 40+ years of razor-sharp verse to Southampton.Attila is the UK’s longest-running, hardest-touring punk poet: a one-man broadside of politics, wit and early-music punk who’s clocked thousands of gigs since 1980, from squats and community halls to Glastonbury’s Cabaret.
Punk’s DIY ethos - especially The Clash’s outspoken socialism - propelled him from bass player in local bands to solo ranter with poems and songs between punk sets. In 1982 John Peel aired him twice on Radio 1; Cherry Red signed him; Melody Maker put him on the cover. That same year fascists smashed his on-stage electric mandolin; he switched to the deeper-voiced mandola, nicknamed “Nelson” (after Nelson Mandela,) and never looked back.
A lifelong Brighton & Hove Albion fan, Attila was central to the 16-year fight to save the club after the Goldstone was flogged off. He became the Albion’s poet-in-residence and, for a time, the home-stadium PA voice, using the tannoy to slip poetry into football, like smuggling veg into a fussy toddler’s dinner.
“Live, he’s “not your average poet”: a night of punk, poetry and pints — accessible, political, funny.” - (Peppermint Iguana, 2025)
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Planet Sounds Rehearsal & Recording Studios, Southampton, United Kingdom
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