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From Sunday 19 August 2007

SoA Recs news

Submitted by Dan: http://www.siegeofamida.net (Siege of Amida Records) says they’ve signed Essex based band My Cross To Bare, and also Annotations of An Autopsy.

SAC comp winners!

Winners of our recent Self Against City comp are: Main winner: Mark Miller, runners up: Rosie Kerr, Kyle Mcpartlin and Laura Chivers. DTR will be in touch in the near future!

Ghost of an interview

Andy recently interviewed Ghost of a Thousand and you can read his thoughts at www.punktastic.com/interviews/191

Fat Phace – 8-track album

If you look at the single elements that make up Fat Phace‘s sound, they tick all the right boxes. Well produced, catchy, excellent vocal harmonies – they’re all there. The problem for me is I grew out of all the silly pop-punk stuff quite a few years

Red: The Resistance – Headlines

For me, Red; The Resistance are one of the UK’s best new bands. While there are elements of early Rise Against in their sound, there is a distinct Britishness and an awareness in their lyrics which makes them stand out from a lot of other

Desperado – S/T

Imagine a Scandanavian AFI-tribute act and Desperado won’t be too far from your thoughts. With a vocalist who switches from a Davey Havok scream to a The Hives sound in the blink of an eye, Desperado aren’t the most imaginative band

Saturday 18 August 2007

Black Tie Brawl – 3-track EP

If bands are going to be as unambitious as to just doing verse/chorus/verse/breakdown with the usual riffs and screaming vocals, at least do it well. Black Tie Brawl aren’t bad by any stretch of the imagination, but they are just tediously

Aiden – Conviction

A couple of points worth noting after first hearing ‘Conviction’: 1 – No matter what I say, this will end up in the charts and sell hundreds of thousands of copies 2 – Where’s the screaming? 3 – Why the change of sound towards a more pop direction? 4 – Have AFI sued

Ghost of a Thousand

Parked up outside the Barfly’s entrance are three white vans. At the rear sits The Ghost of a Thousand’s reliable transport, inside which frontman Tom Lacey and drummer Memby Jago tell me how things have been going on what seems like a constant tour for the Brighton-based

Ghost of a Thousand

Parked up outside the Barfly’s entrance are three white vans. At the rear sits The Ghost of a Thousand’s reliable transport, inside which frontman Tom Lacey and drummer Memby Jago tell me how things have been going on what seems like a constant tour for the Brighton-based