Punk Garden Party 3 at The Old House at Home, Milton REVIEW: 'As funny as they are furious'

What makes the Dinz the Perfect Pompey Punk band?

This is why: they are four gifted musicians with many years experience of performing between them.

They have a lot to say about you, me, us and them. They can feel and see the apathy, tyranny, lies, selfishness, race, gender, and sexual inequality, the manipulation, the disease, the war and the terror which is steamrolling over us all.

They thrust it into your face: you WILL stand up and face the music.

The name is a somewhat funny use of a very Pompey slang word. When your mate does something dumb: they are a ‘din’, an idiot. However, being a din is a dual-headed serpent.

Most of the human/sheep population are considered dins. It’s more of an insult, like the day you have to go to the city centre and all around you seem to be extras from a zombie film: ‘Town was horrible, full of dins.’

Those native to the kingdom of Portsea 100 per cent will know what you mean.

They’ll smile as they roll their eyes and shake their head. This is in brief why the Dinz have created our beautiful, local Frankenstein’s Monster. Gaining notoriety across radio from local to countrywide to the USA, where they have been invited to New York to show our cousins how it’s done, what it’s all about and how life really is.

Name-checked by the mighty Henry Rollins, widely savaging the Japanese and European radio stations. The Dinz want you. They’re coming for you, giving the lost a tough-love lifeline.

Their assault live in Milton is politely lower in volume than normal, respecting the neighbours.

A huge serving of new and bitingly astute, daring songs are set loose, anti-racist, anarchic, fresh and catchy. Politically pugilistic without doing it for the sake of it – just a deserved smack in the face. As funny as they are furious. New song Carry On Dinz features the comedy classic quote: ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in fer me’ which remains a classic pun as well as mutating into a paranoid 21st century howl.

Welcome to the real world. Stand up, stop trembling behind the sofa, and tell ‘The Man’ NO! I WON’T If you are a Din get in! But don’t be a din.