Meryl Streek

Meryl Streek

With Special Guests: Soapbox

Born and raised in Dublin, MERYL STREEK remembers his childhood in Ireland fondly. “Growing up it was great,” he says. “I had a lot of family around me and things were good, we were a working class family of independent screen printers.” During the leaner and more difficult years that followed, he grew up and the world changed around him. He lost several family members, and austerity closed in on the country.

As the recession hit and work became steadily thinner on the ground, he moved to Canada—a 7 year experience that shaped MERYL STREEK both as a person and as an artist, as he explains, “Seeing how countries work outside of Ireland, and seeing how unfair Ireland's work ethic and living situations are, I came back here fuelled to try and make a change.”

With his father a talented drummer in his own right, and the call of punk rock’s ethics and morals so strong, it was perhaps an inevitability that he would eventually fall into that same world. “My dad was an unbelievable drummer, I was raised being around punk bands like Crass and anarcho-punks Rudimentary Peni. I remember seeing him play growing up as a kid and that was the start of my growth as a musician.

“A musical force like no other” - Far out magazine

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