I’m tired

Submitted by Toby: “I was talking to the guy who drove dropkick murphys around on their uk tour the other day and he said that was probably the bouncing souls last tour and they’ll be a studio only band from now.”

BOE tour starts tomorrow

Best Of Enemies hit the road this week promoting material off the soon to be released ‘Blood Red Under Blue Skies’. Catch them alongside Chucky No Stars at these dates: 18th – Verdis Weymouth (w/ Chucky No Stars), 19th – Blythe (w/ Chucky

Open up

Open Hand come to the Uk to support My Chemical Romance and then play 3 headline dates of their own: Sun April 10 – Oxford Zodiac Mon April 11 – Leeds Cockpit Tue April 12 – London Barfly

In a band and need a driver and van for a tour? Shaun from $up will provide his services (including a rather delightful 6-seater van) for £75 a day plus petrol. He’s available from the 5th April, and will negotiate for big tours. If you are interested, email me

The Bled to appear at Download

An update on The Bled: “Arizonas rock n’ rollers enter the studio this week with producer Mark Trombino to record their follow up to the mighty ‘Pass The Flask’. The album will be released through Vagrant Records in July. The Bled appear at this years

Give us more ‘gimpy shit’ for Un-Scene 2

We’re still accepting submissions for potential inclusion on Punktastic Un-Scene 2, our second compilation CD. The record will feature around 16 brand new or previously unreleased songs from a stack of UK bands. So far confirmed are new songs from The Maple

New Songs

One Way Letter have posted two new songs in anticipation of their debut full length entitled “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”.

Alomo – A Life Of Missed Opportunities

ALOMO come from the leafy Upton-upon-Severn, a name which screams of private schools, coffee mornings at the village hall and other such upper class-isms. It’s probably none of the above (I’ve never been so I wouldn’t know), but I can’t think of any bands

A Small Break-up

Lobster Records’ A Small Victory have broken up.

This band will be something special

Random Hand hit the road to promote their new 6-track CD “On The March”, available for £3 from www.myspace.com/randomhand Thursday 17th March 2005 @ Charters, Rotherham Friday 18th March 2005 @ Phoenix, Plymouth Saturday 19th March 2005 @ Mr Smiths, Bournemouth Tuesday 22nd March