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Exclusive: Backstage with the punk robots

For a day during Neurotic and the PVCs' three-night stint at the ICA, cs4fn was given free rein with a camera backstage. Here's what we found.

a dressing room with a shirt thrown over a chair

A remarkably tidy dressing room

This band are so punk they sometimes don't even fold their shirts!

A brick wall with 'ICA' stencilled on it

You are here

The ICA kindly helps out any bands who forget where they're playing

a tank of compressed air

Mysterious machinery

Where does the hose from this tank of compressed air lead? Find out below...

one of the robots with its bottom cover opened

The guts of a punk

Oh dear. Robots of a sensitive nature should look away now

Extra videos

Testing the robots earlier in the day (1 MB) The end of a song, seen from backstage (3 MB)

The original story

Punk robots learn to pogo