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From Friday 02 April 2004

Pulley – Matters

In a punk rock world full of clichés, one of the most common is that all Epitaph bands sound the same. Now in the past this had some glimmer of truth, but recently the label has been full of diversity, branching out into the fields of hip-hop, and

Bye bye Goon

The last ever Shootin Goon dates are as follows: APRIL 24th Southampton Joiners 25th Brighton Concorde 2 MAY 12th Bristol Croft TBC 15th Reading Roebuck Hotel 16th Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach (farewell gig)

C*E go across the pond

Captain Everything! head to Canada in May to support Bigwig, Death By Stereo and Tsunami Bomb. Dates (for the Canadians amongst you) are: May 24 Guelph, ON Trasheteria (also with Captain Everyting) May 25 London, ON Call The Office (also with Captain Everyting) May

People = stupid

I thought with it being April 1 and all Mark’s post may have been a little too obvious, but after the dozens of emails calling me a sell-out, I though I best state that I’m not actually leaving or joining Kerrang. They can’t afford me. Sorry, you’re stuck

Drawn to Scale – Long Story Short

Now this is an odd one. From the promo stuff Paul gave me I was thinking I had a Busted wannabe band on my hands. Slipping the CD into my walkman however and this is actually “punk”… I guess. I’ve always thought how strange it was. The

Instant Species – She Gives Me Nothing

Stealing Green Day riffs is a dangerous business. First the instant recognition that’s undoubtedly going to occur and thus the consequential remarks along the lines of “Green Day anyone?” or “Wait a minute, I’ve heard this before”; secondly, it’s really a rather dull pastime, there

Free-angle – Up and running

Oh boy. This release started off so well. Those first fifteen seconds of “Munsterbrau vs. Me” I was wetting myself with excitement, finger-tapping, this was going to be something spectacularly original or so I thought. And then it all went wrong. To be fair it didn’t

Thursday 01 April 2004

Drive Like You Stole It – Frequency

OK. Now don’t laugh. Let’s just try something for a second shall we. Right, picture in your mind Biffy Clyro: those Scottish lovelies capable of the beautiful guitars one second and squalls of feedback the next, right, now imagine what would happen if you t Canadian songstress

The End of an Era

It is my sad duty to report that Punktastic’s guiding light, Paul, is leaving the site to concentrate on new projects. He is leaving his full time job and the boredom of local journalism for a new position at superb rock weekly magazine Kerrang. He

Two Sick Monkeys – Nowhere Nothing

Two Sick Monkeys are two guys from the Punk Rock hotbed that is Swindon, Wiltshire (home to Buzztone and… um…). Formed in 2001 to support Darrin Mooney of Primal Scream, these guys kick up a righteous racket armed with only a bass guitar,