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From Tuesday 20 July 2004

The Halo Friendlies – Get Real

When I first listened to this record I was immediately reminded of Dance Hall Crashers, not really in terms of the music, more in the vocal delivery. Then I looked inside the booklet to discover this all-girl quartet were managed by Elyse Rogers, who I believe is/was

Mr Belding – In Your Hands EP

Sadly for Mr Belding we misplaced their CD they sent in for review about 2 months ago, so I’m sure one day one of our reviewing team will find it down the back of the sofa. Anyway, the Exeter quintet now have a fully fledged review

Walter and Garrison split

Submitted: “Sorepoint Records is to release the Walter Walter (Walter from Rival Schools/QuickSand/Gorilla Biscuits) split with Garrison entitled ‘ASK/PANIC‘ on vinyl on August 2.”

Dead adder

Morgan’s Puff Adder have split up. The band, who have been together 4 years, have decided to split after their drummer called it quits. They will make their unreleased record available for free download from www.morganspuffadder.com in the coming weeks.

This is hell

Fred Hell has left Tigar Army due to health issues.

Ask Drive Thru

I am interviewing Richard Reines, co-owner of Drive Thru Records, this week. If you have a burning question about the label, please hit ‘discuss this item’ and I shall pass them on.

All One Pinto

Pinto and All One Word tour together next month: Sat Jul 31st Grimsby Matrix w/ Echo Freddy, Andy Glenn and Ritch Sun Aug 1st Leeds, Fenton w/ Pylon Mon Aug 2nd Northampton, Racehorse w/ Coming of Age Wed Aug 4th Brixton, Windmill Thu Aug 5th Scunthorpe, Lincoln Imp

Fabulous!

Fabulous Disaster tour in September. 19.09. UK Bradford รขโ‚ฌโ€œ Market Tavern 22.09. UK Leicester รขโ‚ฌโ€œ Charlotte 23.09. UK Gloucester รขโ‚ฌโ€œ The Welsh Harp 24.09. UK London – Underworld

Strung in oblivion

The new Strung Out record will be called ‘Exile in Oblivion’ and will be released on fat Wreck on November 1. It looks like there may even be a UK tour in September as European dates have already been booked for the mainland. We’ll keep you

Bledy hell

The Bled return to the UK in September: 2nd = Liverpool Barfly 3rd = Glasgow Barfly 4th = Nottingham Rock City 5th = York Fibbers 7th = Cardiff Barfly 8th = London Barfly