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From Wednesday 26 May 2004

Silly sods

Info submitted by Sig: Avenged Sevenfold turned down the chance to play at the Reading/Leeds Festivals because they believed it clashed with the Warped Tour. It doesn’t. The band are allegedly now attempting to get back on the Carling bill, but nothing is confirmed.

The Setbacks have a, erm, setback

Submitted: “Bath punkers The Setbacks have unfortunately parted company with their current drummer. The rest of the band intends carrying on, especially as they have commitments we would like to fulfil so we are now looking for a new drummer. The idea candidate will be at least

Hmmm

Submitted: “Trainwreck Promotions Glasgow (www.trainwreck.co.uk) are currently looking for a couple of bands to appear on the same night as SUBURBAN LEGENDS, ARMY OF FRESHMAN & Rbf’s scott and dan’s side band The Littlest Man Band in GLASGOW in September. Bands unfortuneatly need to

Help the fall out

Submitted: “I play in a rock band called Fall-Out. We are based in Ireland. We’ll be touring the UK from July 14th untill August 2nd. We would really appreciate if anyone could hook us up with some shows (especially any all day gigs with a few other bands would

Lift off

, Howards Alias, Not Katies and Graveltrap tour together in July. Dates are: Tue. 20th July 04 London – ULU Wed. 21st July 04 Swansea – Patti Pavillion Thu. 22nd July 04 Bristol – Fire Station Fri. 23rd July 04 Yeovil – Flicks Sat. 24th July

Alexisonfire have an accident

You can hear a new Alexisonfire MP3, ‘Accidents’, at this link. The track is taken from the band’s new album, due out later this summer.

Help out The Wayriders

All you Scottish good samaritans have the chance to help out one of the country’s finest bands, The Wayriders. They’re playing in Aberdeen on June 3rd but as it’s a bit of a mission for them they’re looking to play a show in Scotland on

Onslow – Five Simple Words

I suppose it should be hard to review a CD by a band I’m pretty close to, seeing as they gave my band our first leg up onto the gig circuit as well as being damn fine drinking buddies. It might be tempting to suggest that there’s a touch

The So-Called – S/T EP

Embracing both the post-hardcore sound and the more palatably punkier edge, The So-Called are an impressive quartet that might well have a bright future in front of them. The EP’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it admirably avoids all cliché and manages to

Wowsers

My man Ollie from BigMonsters… in Manchester is hosting an all-dayer and a half on June 13. The likes of NoComply, Howards Alias, Stories and Comets and Echofreddy all on one bill. Click ‘discuss this item’ to see the line-up