The Cruel World festival on Saturday features legends such as Siouxsie of Souxsie and the Banshees, Iggy Pop and Billy Idol, but it’s also a stage for the younger acts they inspired.
Young punks, old New Wavers and goths of indeterminate age turned out in their finest black for the return of Cruel World in Pasadena on Saturday, May 20.
Fans packed the grounds of the Brookside at the Rose Bowl golf course early in the day to hear a mix of vintage acts that either broke out in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s or younger bands for whom that sound and style is a primary influence.
