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From Friday 16 May 2003

The Braham Festival!

This years Leeds Festival will take place at Bramham Park and NOT at Temple Newsam, it has been confirmed today. The festival’s promoter, the Mean Fiddler Music Group, obtained licences for both areas earlier this week. Temple Newsam was the preferred option, although there was opposition

The Fight – Home Is Where The Hate Is

If you haven’t already heard, The Fight are English. Wait a second, I hear you cry, an English band who you’ve never heard of, that aren’t in anyway related to Snuff or Consumed, releasing a CD on Fat Wreck Chords? Well, they must

Believe in November

From the Drive Thru mailout: “The Early November have just released a song called ”Make Believe” (which is a demo from a couple years back) on www.mp3.com/theearlynovember.”

Real McKenzies – Oot and Aboot

It’s very difficult to get me started on The Real McKenzies without launching into a foul mouthed tirade against them. I simply cannot stand them – what they look like, what they stand for and certainly what they sound like. To

Badge crazy!

The new Punktastic badges have arrived (take a bow www.bestbadges.co.uk) and are available at 50p each. We have 4 designs, black and red, white and yellow, Avril and Comical Ali and pictures and order details are available by clicking here. We have already shifted 75

i’m confusing people

To everyone who has emailed me about the guest passes for upcoming Hot Water Music gigs, I’d just like to clear things up. The competition for each pair of pases is only open on the day of each gig, for that one gig. Don’t email

If only i’d waited two more seconds…

…I could have posted even more Rancid dates! Thursday September 11th Birmingham Academy Saturday September 13th Manchester Apollo Thursday September 18th Brixton Academy Thursday September 25th Glasgow Barrowlands All tickets £12.50.Tickets for Birmingham, Manchester and Brixton available from www.gigsandtours.com and Way Ahead

More Rancid dates

Birmingham Academy – Thur 11 Sept Manchester Apollo – Sat 13 Sept Brixton Academy – Thur18 Sept Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Stretch Arm Strong support.

4ft Fingers – From Hero To Zero

I know this has been out for a good year or so, but I was checking through the database and saw it hadn’t been reviewed so I thought I’d whack one off, then do a review (Arf arf). I recently saw and reviewed the ‘Fingers in Norwich where I

See HWM for free in Dublin tonught!!!

We are giving away two guest passes for each remaining date of the Hot Water Music tour, starting today. If you want and are able to go at short notice then email me at mark@punktastic.com The winner will be the first person to email