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From Wednesday 06 December 2006

Win Xmas Bash tickets!

We have two pairs of tickets to give away for this weekend’s Deck Cheese/Punkermentality Xmas Bash in London featuring Babyboom, Mouthwash, Failsafe, Babar Luck, Howards Alias, Jesse James and Sonic Boom Six. All you need to do

Have A Go Hero – Demo #6

The four tracks that make up this demo are the best four songs Leicester’s Have A Go Hero have ever written. Fact. I’ve been quite critical of the band in the past for taking too much from their influences, and at the same time not

Tuesday 05 December 2006

National Razor – Naked Before God and Country

Press releases are a wonderful thing, often more entertaining than the CD they’re actually describing. According to the blurb accompanying this 17-track album, National Razor are “a surly, uncontrived blend of the Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers, the Beatles, Johnny Cash and the Clash.

I like the fact everyone has cut their prices…

Drive Thru Records are having a CD sale where all CDs are half price until the end of December. Get bargains here

Shootin’ Goon free show?

Punktastic understands Shootin’ Goon are playing a FREE ‘secret’ warm up show for their ‘one-off reunion’ at the last Adequate Seven show, this Friday at Le Pub in Newport! They shall be on at 10pm-ish.

Dopamine – Experiments with the Truth

Coming from the same South-Wales clique that produced Lostprophets, Funeral For a Friend, Hondo Maclean et al, Dopamine are here with their second full-length, ‘Experiments with the truth’ to try and mirror the success of their better-known hometown friends. It’s only

This is my Honesty – Make The Most Of Now

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with This Is My Honesty, let me get that clear. Their Iain Wetherell-produced pop punk is relatively catchy and presses a number of melodic buttons when it comes to this type of music. The thing is, when you play a brand of pop-punk

More info on PKLL stabbings

Submitted by Nick of breakthesky who played with Penknifelovelife in Tessenderlo in Belgium on Saturday where 3 people were stabbed. “It turned out that some kids off the street sneaked into the show with scalpels (not knives) and were swinging it about in the mosh pit. im

UK tour of the year?

In one of the best UK package tours in recent years, Sonic Boom Six, King Blues, Failsafe and Mouthwash will hit the streets next February: 06th Newcastle The Venue @ College Performance Academy 07th Glasgow Barfly 08th Aberdeen Moshulu 09th Leeds Josephs Well

The Used to release another DVD

The Used will release a new live CD/DVD entitled ‘Berth’ on February 6.