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From Monday 17 November 2003

Happy birthday to us (soon)

It’s our second birthday next Monday (Nov 24) and we shall be celebrating this landmark by giving away some rather nifty stuff, including a limited edition Punktastic t-shirt and a ticket to the Bash on December 6. The bash will double up as a birthday/Xmas party, so if

Converge with me…

…In January with some tentative UK dates… 18 Canterbury UK @ The Scout Hut 19 Manchester UK @ Satan’s Hollow 20 Dundee UK @ The Reading Room 21 Leeds UK @ Josephs Well 22 Dublin Ireland @ Voodoo Lounge 23 Cardiff UK @ The Engine

Big D coming back

The new ‘Big D and the Kids Table’ album is slated for an early 2004 release and will be called ‘How it Goes’.

Snotty lil’ brats

Nicked from Drownedinsound.com: “Rather strangely, Funeral For A Friend will headline the NME ‘Brats’ tour (or whatever it’s called these days) in Jan/Feb 2004. Joining them will be The Von Bondies and The Rapture, while Franz Ferdinand will be the first-on each

the Cut-Offs – Fat, Drunk and Angry

We here at Punktastic each have personal tastes that are unavoidable. We all have particular bands that we like and particular styles of music that get us going, but that’s not to say that these are firmly rigid and inflexible. Usually I love fast, dirty street punk that’s as

Denali – The Instinct

I don’t like this record much. I know that’s a pretty blunt way of starting a review, but I just cannot get into it. I’ve been flexing my ears by listening to ‘The Instinct’ and Give Up The Ghost in tandem, probably the two

Millencolin – Millencolin and the Hi-8 Adventures DVD

So many bands seem to be releasing DVD’s at the moment. Some are bad and simply seem like label or band cash-in sessions, while others are full of content and you can tell a lot of work has gone into them. Thankfully this is a case of

Sunday 16 November 2003

Give Up The Ghost – We’re Down Till We’re Underground

I’ll apologise now because I’m not a massive fan of hardcore (although when it’s done with a bit of melody it’s a different prospect entirely) and I don’t know all that much about Give Up The Ghost either, suffice to say I know all about their name

Catch 22 – Dinosaur Sounds

If I actually believed reviews of Cds I’d have dismissed this as shite before I’d even heard it. Sure, this isn’t the same Catch-22 that made ‘Keasby Nights’, and come to think of it the band differs from ‘Alone In A Crowd’ too, but ‘Dinosaur Sounds’

The All-American Rejects – Too Bad For Hell DVD

Every man and his dog seems to be hastily throwing together a DVD package in the run up to Christmas, so much so that we almost get as many DVDs to review as CDs now. Some of them have been good, others have been good but not exactly