Bugger

The Weakerthans have cancelled their planned UK tour in May.

FatMiketastic.com

My interview with Fat Mike is now up here. Excellent.

Mike – Punkvoter

BEN – You said in a Fat mailout that you’d been “whoring” yourself on commercial radio to get your message out – is that because what you’ve got to say now is more important than anything you had to say before? MIKE – I didn’t have anything important to say

BEN – You said in a Fat mailout that you’d been “whoring” yourself on commercial radio to get your message out – is that because what you’ve got to say now is more important than anything you had to say before? MIKE – I didn’t have anything important to say

Street Dogs – Savin Hill

Most people working day jobs dream of being able to leave their daily grindstones and do something they love and get paid for it too – not so Mike McColgan, who left the ineffable Boston-Irish punkers the Dropkick Murphys in order to become a fire-fighter. Now he’s

This will be a launch for Punktastic Recordings. Oh yes.

This summer’s Punktastic Bash will be held at the London Garage on Saturday, August 7. There will be 6 bands and tickets will be £6. So far confirmed are My Awesome Compilation and Phinius Gage. More details to follow…

Free stuff

Win a condom! And erm, other assorted goodies, by entering a new competition here on Punktastic. Lockjaw Records have hooked us up with some free stuff to give away, which you can claim by visiting this ‘ere link. The same portal will also give you the

Bad Religion – Astoria, London

It may be hard to believe, but there used to be downsides to living in the second largest county in the country, Lincolnshire. It may well be basking in history and full of fertile farming land, but nobody, and I mean nobody, used to play live shows there.

PT tour again

After a successful weekend in Scotland, Echofreddy and Poindexter bring the Punktastic Tour back to England for the rest of the week. Both bands have gone down very well indeed, check them out at the following venues: 17th Grimsby Matrix w/Pinto 18th Hounslow Rifleman w/TBC

TNAS quit (maybe) again

The Next Autumn Soundtrack have ‘probably’ split up for good. Guitarist Ed has quit the band, with vocalist/guitarist Sammie suggesting it would ‘probably’ mean the band would call it a day.