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From Saturday 21 August 2004

A Lesson In Vandalism

Vandals tourdates: November Thursday 11 Newcastle Uni Friday 12 Glasgow Garage Saturday 13 Liverpool Academy Sunday 14 Leeds Metro Uni Tuesday 16 Nottingham Rock City Wednesday 17 Birmingham Academy 2 Thursday 18 Norwich Waterfront Friday 19 London Astoria Saturday 20 Manchester Mdh Sunday 21 Newport TJ’s Tuesday 23 Dublin Temple

No replacement for NFG

Apparently New Found Glory will not be replaced at the Reading/Leeds festivals, leaving nine main stage bands. NFG will instead play at the MTV VMAs. Their other UK dates are unaffected. A Mean Fiddler spokesman said: “We are disappointed the band feel that this is

New Straylight Run MP3

A new Straylight Run song? Download ‘Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway)’ here.

JEW play London one-off

Jimmy Eat World play a one-off at the Islington Academy on September 23. I don’t know when tickets will go on sale, but I guarantee they’re sold out within 5 minutes. ‘Futures‘ is the album of the year, so this

Best band to see when a bit pissed?

Flogging Molly tourdates: November: 02 Colchester Arts Centre 19 London

copeland – Know Nothing Stays The same

The best way to gauge a cover version is not to see if the band have played it well, covering it note for note, but to see if they can make it sound like their own song. After all, covers are very, very rarely improved on. Thankfully

Friday 20 August 2004

Helpcore

My band is embarking on a short tour this September and we need a couple of dates filled. We play fast, melodic punk rock, pitched kinda between Pennywise and Captain Everything and will play for petrol money! We’re not looking to headline, we just want

The Devil Rides Out – Don’t Drop The Coffin

The Devil Rides Out are inspired by horror films and a Groovie Ghoulies-esque style of pop-punk. Based in Ipswich, the trio are made up of two-thirds of All Else Fails and recorded these four tracks at the Amblin Man Studios in their home

Get this in your sights!

If you only download one track today, make it ‘Vague Sights’ by Echofreddy. You can get it from www.purevolume.com/echofreddy. It’s an acoustic version of a track that will appear on EF’s forthcoming EP, due to be released on Punktastic Recordings later this year. It would be

All-dayer goodness

There’s a tasty all-dayer in Edinburgh tomorrow, click ‘discuss this item’ for the line-up.