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From Thursday 25 December 2003

Glory fades

http://punkrockvids.com has got Brand New performing ‘Sic Transit Gloria…’ live via the method of acoustic guitar. Worthy of your eyes and ears…

Driving thru the dark

The winners of the Drive Thru tickets are: Portsmouth – Adam Hames London – Marwan Shakarchi I’ll be emailing you both soon. We have loads more Drive Thru comps coming after Christmas, including those aftershow party guest passes.

Deck the halls

Submitted: “Biff from the Little Explorer (also know as emphemetry!) has a Christmas single available for £1.50 postpaid. It’s a split with a lovely boy named Christmas Robin. There are two tracks totalling about 13 minutes, all in beautiful hand made packaging! If anyone wants

Osker – Treatment 5

Another in the why-haven’t-we-reviewed-this-earlier series, this time it’s teen punks Osker and their raucous 2000 release ‘Treatment 5’. We’re so far behind in scoring this album that the band split up over a year ago – but the fact remains this is

Wednesday 24 December 2003

Black gash

The new band spawned from the ashes of Gash is to be called Black Flame Dispute.

Saves The Day – Through Being Cool

I can’t believe that one of us hasn’t penned a review on this record yet, so I thought I’d give my thoughts while I’m sat here bored at work. For me there are two schools of Saves The Day fans – those who believe the band

Slap happy

Submitted by The Ninja – Slapshot tour with Knuckledust in March.

Free songs

Seeing as it’s Christmas, below are a stack of MP3s for your download pleasure. they are songs by bands that have collectively rocked our socks this year, or we think will blow up big in 2004. Just right click and ‘save as’ on the name of the

Merry Christmas

Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and thanks for everyone’s support with Punktastic this year, it’s very much appreciated! We will be updating the site throughout the festive period (as some of us have to work!) but the frequency of which will depend on whether Dan

Win the last tickets….for now

Want to win tickets to the Portsmouth and London dates of the Drive Thru tour? I have a pair to give away for both gigs, which will feature Homegrown, Allister, The Early November and Hidden In Plain View. To