THEY’RE the punk collective who have hosted Southampton gigs from bands as huge as Green Day.

Justin Young from The Vaccines played his first ever gig as a 14-year-old for the S.T.E, who are set to celebrate 25 years this week.

Their legendary dates were attended by Graham Coxon from Blur and a young Frank Turner.

On June 29, 1988 the S.T.E’s first gig, featuring Culture Shock, Hate That Smile and Corporate Grave took place at the city’s West Indian Club in Trinity Road, now the African Caribbean Centre.

Over the years, all the gigs were organised along DIY punk principles of mutual trust and co-operation with no contracts and the bands often slept on the floors of members homes.

25 years and hundreds of punk and hardcore gigs later, they mark a quarter of a century with an all dayer at The Joiners, the home of many of those historic gigs, today

The line up includes West Country early 80s style hardcore band Violent Arrest, West Midlands pop-punk from Skimmer and Southampton’s own emotive punk band Circus Act among others.

n FORMER Strangelove frontman Patrick Duff makes a solo appearance in Southampton tomorrow.

The lead singer of the alternative rock band, who released three critically acclaimed albums in the 90s, went on to travel the world collecting musings for his solo material.

Patrick spent time collaborating with the African master storyteller and musician Madosini, with whom he lived and worked in the township of Langa, in Cape Town, South Africa and, more recently, he has released The Mad Straight Road (2009) and Visions of the Underworld (2013).

Southampton musician Pete Harvey will be supporting at his Platform Tavern gig.