RUTS DC – a short biography
What do you know about Ruts DC? What do you want to know about Ruts DC? It’s nearly fifty years since the two sevens clashed. In a little over fifty more years, they will clash again.
Back then the Ruts were hot wiring barbed wire guitar, passionate poetry and rhythm weaponry together somewhere in a London that probably does not exist anymore. Splicing heat haze dub thinking to the energy flash of punk, close to the big bang of late twentieth century culture. Open to ideas. Committed to ideals.
In 2025 Ruts DC have moved forward- taking these ideals and updating them to embrace the current cultural mindset.
Drums and Bass building the defence wall. Guitar and whatever else lobbed in stun/attack mode. That is Ruts DC. That is all you really need to know.
“Ruts and Ruts DC songs move with a precise muscularity and carry lyrics of eloquent and graceful rage. No two-chord thrash with shouting over the top.”
“Some band’s sound punk. Some look punk. Some even look and sound punk. And some, simply, are punk. The Ruts were early challengers to the misunderstood notion that punk was a somewhat luddite dogma wherein complexity, creative exploration and musical prowess were considered a shameful affectation. “
Go back. Listen to everything. From the very beginning of The Ruts in 1977 to now, with the latest Ruts DC album ‘Counterculture?, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2016’s incendiary ‘Music Must Destroy’ album, both released via their own Sosumi Recordings.
People Unite.
Never Surrender.
Ruts DC are Segs Jennings, Dave Ruffy and Leigh Heggarty TV FACE
Lancaster noise-rock-post-punk trio TV FACE have built up a fierce reputation for their ability to weld dissonant chaos to pop hooks and turn it into something blistering, witty, and impossible to ignore… “it’s rare to hear a band this grainy and coarse produce such classy, infectious music” (Vive Le Rock).
Their much anticipated second album, WOLF RENTS BARK, released in September 2025 via Preston’s cult label Crackedankles Records, received rave reviews from Louder Than War, Vive Le Rock, The Punk Site and many more. It made several best of 2025 lists, including landing at number 7 in Louder Than War’s Top 100 Albums of 2025.
TV FACE deliver explosive, high-intensity sets — a kinetic mix of brutal soundscapes, humour, and ferociousness: they are “a tremendous power trio... a juggernaut live... leaders of the pack!”” (Louder Than War).
2026 is going to be a big year for this trio. Don’t switch the channel.
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