Punk festival inspires a name change at popular resort diner

A popular Blackpool diner has gone all out to celebrate the return of the annual Rebellion punk festival - even so far as to change its name for the week.

- by Richard Hunt

The West Coast Rock Café will be playing host to 21 Californian bands as part of the fringe festival this week.

To mark the event, owner Robert Wynne has put up a new sign which renames the restaurant the West Coast Punk Rock Café.

Rebellion takes place at Blackpool Winter Gardens from Thursday August 7 to Sunday August 10 and features more than 300 bands, but performers will be playing at various other venues in the town too.

Big names coming to this year's festival include The Damned, Public Image Ltd and The Undertones.