About

The Non Starters are a Hertfordshire-based punk covers band. Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Damned: the classics, played fast and loud and with everything we've got. But here's where it gets interesting: every song gets the punk treatment. Every. Single. One. That means Abba. Taylor Swift. Dolly Parton. Whatever you loved growing up, we'll play it, and we'll play it with significantly more distortion than the original intended. Formed from the wreckage of failed side projects and a shared conviction that most songs are improved by a Marshall stack and a bad attitude, we've been making Hertfordshire's pub-goers question their taste in music since 2025. We play pubs, clubs, basements and anywhere else that'll have us. Enquiries welcome.

The set

• Teenage Kicks, The Undertones
• I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones
• I Fought the Law, The Clash
• Do Anything You Wanna Do, Eddie & The Hot Rods
• Ring of Fire, Social Distortion
• Alternative Ulster, Stiff Little Fingers
• Born This Way, Lady Gaga
• Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) - 1996 Remastered Version, Buzzcocks
• Los Angeles Is Burning, Bad Religion
• Pretty Vacant, Sex Pistols
• Basket Case, Green Day
• What a Wonderful World, Joey Ramone

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