In Bridlington, folk are used to seeing passers by sporting blue and pink rinses – but pale puce and pastel perms took a back seat on 16 May, when preening punks took over the town, resplendent in rainbow-coloured mohicans and crimson-dyed barnets.

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The troop descended on the sleepy East Yorkshire resort for Mutiny 2009, a festival of spit’n’speed vitriol for most, an excuse to shock and thrill for others. The timewarp town barely bothers with the 21st century at the best of times, but the calendar was put firmly back more than 30 years as revellers indulged in the glory days of their anarchic youth.

Headliners Stiff Little Fingers went down a storm and were ably supported by UK Subs and The Anti-Nowhere League. More recent acts such as Goldblade and Sonic Boom Six also made the crowd froth at the mouth, proving punk is alive and kicking, and not just a nostalgia trip for spiky-haired crumblies who should know better.