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From Tuesday 11 February 2003

AFI – we’re coming back!

AFI’s brand new album ‘Sing The Sorrow’ will now be out on March 10 and not as you may have read anywhere else. In even better news, the band will undertake a full UK tour at the end of May… watch this space…

American who?

Who knows what they will call themselves, but the band formerly known as American Nightmare will be on tour in the first week of May . They will be playing at the Kerrang weekender on April 12 with Glassjaw. The May tour dates will be

Cars As Weapons – Bigger Pictures EP

It seems like every single release that lands on the Punktastic doormat is a post-hardcore effort, not that I’m complaining because I am partial to the odd dynamic guitar and crashing drum every once in a while. Just before Christmas we received the brand new five

Stretch!

Stretch Armstrong will be in the UK on tour between September 29 and October 6, 2003. Actual dates and venues should be available soon.

Toy – The EP

Post-hardcore is definitely all the rage at the moment and another young band off of the punk rock conveyor belt is Toy, a four piece from that musical hotbed known as Falkirk. But where too many bands wear their collective influences on their sleeve,

There is still some Hope!

Despite some rumours going about, the Hope Conspiracy tour is still ON. Apparently some ‘hardcore’ kids thought it funny to announce everywhere that they flew home this weekend. Apparently the rumour stems from Andy from Snapcase who got in a fight and broke

Monday 10 February 2003

How’s about this then?

Talk about Punktastic friendly gigs involving NoComply… Feb 23rd – Leeds Josephs Well (with Six Foot Nothing and Vanilla Pod) Mar 7th – Scunthorpe Baths Hall (with Tomorrow Never Came) I’ll see you there at both…

Fancy being a zombie for the day?

Send More Paramedics have re-recorded the track ‘Zombiefied’ for their and IATDE’s first video to be shot in Leeds next month. This will also be part of a 7 track MCD due out to in June, which will also feature ‘245 Trixion’, ‘Redneck Holiday’ re-recorded

Are you a winner?

Did you enter the competition we ran in connection with those fine chaps at In At The Deep End records to win a copy of the new Steel Rules Die record? Well if your name is Loz Thackeray or Dave Clifford then congrats because you nabbeed

Me And Three Others – Shibby EP

One of the best parts about running Punktastic is the fact that we get a lot of demos by unsigned bands. It was this way I happened to come across My Awesome Compilation and was pointed in the direction of an MP3 by Jerry-Built.