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From Tuesday 31 October 2006

Minutes Lost new songs

Submitted: “Croydon based Minutes Lost have just uploaded 2 tracks from they’re forthcoming EP – to their myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/minuteslost, for anyone in the area we also play the Croydon Cartoon next Sunday (5th Nov) and the Black Sheep Bar on the 9th. “

New PT-TV number 1

There’s a new number one in the PT TV charts, with Fast Reaction taking over the top spot. This week we’ve added vids from Men, Women and Children, plus Thursday and MxPx. Visit www.punktastic.com/tv to see all the videos in

Mybe dates

Mybe have a selection of gigs over the coming months, sShowcasing more new songs before recording. Oct 28 – 2006 8:00P The Boardwalk, Sheffield Nov 9 – 2006 8:00P – The Charters Arms, Rotherham Nov 10 – 2006 8:00P – The Twist, Colchester Nov 11 – 2006 8.00p – The Marrs

Monday 30 October 2006

Can UK bands ever make it big?

Read my theories here.

Roger Miret and the Disasters – My Riot

Good quality street punk is hard to come by these days. There’s not enough new bands doing it well enough to comment on and as a result, we have to look to the past if we want to hear the good stuff. Fortunately, a man like Roger

The Take – Dolomite

This release has been a long time in coming. It seems an age since The Take released ‘Propeller’ – and to be fair it has been four years and in my eyes that does infact constitute an ‘age’. A swift move from Household Name to

Does anyone else think taxing alcopops more is wrong?

Submitted: “The next Alcopop! night has been confirmed for 13th November, and features the wonderful DARTZ! (www.myspace.com/darts), DATA.SELECT.PARTY (www.myspace.com/dataselectparty) and INBETWEEN DAYS (www.myspace.com/inbetweendaystheband), as well as special guest DJs including Sam (GET CAPE. WEAR. CAPE. FLY)! It all takes place at The Social,

Last call for new videos

I shall be updating the videos on PunktasticTV later this afternoon, so this is a last ditch call for bands to send me their youtube links – do so to paul@punktastic.com PT-TV can be viewed over at www.punktastic.com/tv

Vaux bassist quits

Vaux have parted with bassist Ryan Robinson. To replace him, the band’s guitarist/keyboard player Greg Daniels has switched over to bass.

Much The Same – Survive

This is very quickly becoming one of my favourite releases of the year. If you’re from the Staring Back, No Use For A Name, Bigwig and early-Over It school of pop-punk (read – fast and furious with a slightly technical edge),