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From Wednesday 22 December 2004

One question. Why?

Submitted by Tommy: “Shouting Myke have changed their name to A Silent Film.”

He speaketh the truth

Posted by Dan on the forums – don’t email me asking when we’ll be back! “Due to nasty men on the Internet sticking their cyber penises in many a website’s virtual ‘backdoor’, the Punktastic forums will be down for an undetermined period from 8pm tonight (21/12/2004), so we can

PT tour take 17

For varying reasons I’m 2 dates short again on the PT Tour for Feb/March, which The Maple State and Echofreddy will be on. Both bands are on the Drive Thru comp in February and both, as many of you have witnessed, are top bands.

Any Day Now – Who Lies For You Will Lie Against You

Any Day Now are from Cricklade, near Swindon, and profess to be a very energetic emo band. At least they’re honest, telling us what kind of music they play so to not confuse us miserable hacks who get blamed for pigeonholing bands. They’ve also changed their

Tuesday 21 December 2004

Happy holidays part 2

We’ve got more ‘what do you want for Christmas’ answers from random people we pulled off the street! Click ‘discuss this item’ to find out how members of Midtown, Echofreddy, My Dad Joe and Short Warning will be celebrating this year.

New label wants bands

Yorkshire based record label, Small Town Records are looking for emo/hardcore bands from Yorkshire and the North East to put on a compilation, due for release in January. If you want to submit your band contact info@smalltownrecords.co.uk or check out www.smalltownrecords.co.uk

Roadside In December – Love Songs

Rotherham’s Roadside In December gain half-a-star just for not being one of those ‘screamo’ bands – I mean, with a name like that there’s no way I ever thought they’d turn out to be an Alkaline Trio-influenced troupe. The foursome claim to play ‘energetic emotional

I possibly should be working…

…but The Ruined‘s PureVolume page is tearing me away, and can be found here.

Solebay Alliance

The now defunct Solabeat Alliance are selling their van and have put it up on ebay for all to see. You can bid for the vehicle – currently at a bargain £200-odd – here.

Leftover Crack drummer dead

Brandon Impossible, the drummer with Leftover Crack, has apparently died. Stza Crack is said to have issued the following statement: “At some point on the morning of Friday, December 17th our friend & drummer Brandon died in his sleep at a Dallas, Texas hotel after