Agitator | fr

It all started in Antwerp in the year 2000, when The Agitators were founded from the ashes of a few bands like Double U.S. and Eightball. The purpose of the project was to make sing-a-long streetpunk with lyrics about stuff happening in daily life. The style of The Agitators is best described as hard in-your-face Oi!/Streetpunk with catchy sing-a-long parts. After the recording of a demo in 2001 they released a split 7 (with another Antwerp punk band called The Heartaches) on Rock and Roll Radio. The success of the lads got noticed within and far beyond Europe. The band...

This rabble-rousing act feature 24yr-old Derek Meins on vocals, accompanied by both Robert Dylan Thomas and ‘T-Train’ on thunderous double-drums. Derek’s force-of-nature voice and rallying-call songs are unashamedly political but aim to inspire and energise rather than dictate some dubious ideology. The Agitator’s music is stripped-down, loud and in yer face. No frills, primal. “Guitars are for decadent capitalist sissies!” Though starkly contemporary, their sound contains classic ingredients harking back to the fifties and depression-era thirties. It will undoubtedly be a crucial soundtrack for the coming era of austerity and unrest. “I wanted a new kind of music, nothing more...

There are at least three artists that have used this name 1. A hardcore band from the United States 2. An rac band from Germany 3. A hardcore band from the Netherlands 1. Heavy straight edge hardcore in the vein of merauder, ringworm, judge, excessive force, xchorusx, earth crisis, ect. They have released a 5 song demo, "enter vice lords" ep (harvcore records), "walls closing in" ep (six feet under records) and most recently a full length entitled "Bleak" They are from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They will be playing this years Sound and Fury and This is Hardcore. http://www.facebook.com/agitatorstraightedge http://www.twitter.com/agitatorxxx .