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From Friday 20 January 2006

FFAF special supports to be announced Feb 6

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND plus special guests MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK and a whole host of up coming UK talent play regionally including DAYS IN DECEMBER, THINK:FIRE, MY AWESOME COMPILATION and others. London’s shows have very surprise guests

Congratulations on a blinding decade chaps!

The Household Name update can be read by clicking ‘discuss’ below. It involves their new signings (including You, Me And The Atom Bomb and The Delegates, sterling choices if I do say so myself) and their thoughts on a mixed 2005.

TSL/Mxpx tour continues

The Starting Line, MxPx, The Matches and I am the Avalanche continue their UK tour tonight! Fri 20 Jan 2006 UK Bristol Academy Sat 21 Jan 2006 UK Portsmouth Pyramid Sun 22 Jan 2006 UK London Astoria Tue

PT podcast

The January Punktastic Podcast will be available next week – it’s looking good and is set to again feature Spud and guest hosts Ianos and myself. We have confirmed interviews/snippets with Panic! At The Disco and a drunken The Junior Varsity, tracks by upcoming

Fightstar supports

REUBEN are main support to FIGHTSTAR in MARCH. Also supporting are LARUSO and LAST DAYS IN APRIL.

Murder on the dancefloor

MURDER BY DEATH are the main support on AGAINST ME! tour in March. Special guests on the NEWPORT TJ’s show are BLACK COUGAR SHOCK UNIT and GRABASS CHARLESTONS.

Colourful Grey – Songs for Solitary Soccer Stars

Colourful Grey have describe themselves as “up tempo pop punk, melancholic emo passion and post hardcore grind”; a statement which is, on balance, two thirds accurate. Quite where the post hardcore nature of this record is supposed to emanate from I’m not sure, as I don’t think

The deBretts – 4-track EP

The press release with this CD states that making a comparison to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would be “lazy”. Lazy it might be, but it’s quite obvious that The deBretts are rather keen on making their own date with the night (ah, you see what

Ramallah – Kill A Celebrity

Ramallah‘s ‘Kill A Celebrity’ is definitely one of the more interesting releases I’ve listened to lately. I’ve been racking my brains for ages, but I can’t remember another record to combine brutal hardcore, cutting lyrics, occasionally nu-metal-esque sounds and piano ditties into a single release.

m2s/failsafe tour starts tonight!

Failsafe and Milk2Sugars start their UK tour tonight, check them out at the following venues: Friday 20th Jan 2006 – Leeds – The Vine w/The Future, Nine Volt Shot Saturday 21st Jan 2006 – Nottingham – Junktion 7 w/ Short Warning, Mind