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From Monday 19 March 2007

Walter likes alcopops

Walter Schreifels has been added to tonight’s Alcopop! gig at The Social in London along with The Maple State, Sam Isaac and Nathaniel Green. It’s £6 on the door but tickets are still available through www.wegottickets.com

Win Thursday secret show tickets

Thursday are playing a ‘secret’ show at the Metro in London on Wednesday and PT has two pairs of tickets to give away. Just email the name of Thursday‘s singer to paul@punktastic.com, with your full name, NOW! The 25th and 50th correct

Sasoin UK shows

Saosin have a couple of post GIAN dates planned: Apr 30 ABC2 Glasgow May 2 Academy 3 Manchester May 3 Cockpit Leeds May 4 Metro Club London

New Bad Religion album in July

Bad Religion‘s new album will be titled ‘New Maps of Hell’ and released on July 10.

Sunday 18 March 2007

C*E! support Lagwagon

Captain Everything! support on the forthcoming Lagwagon UK tour.

Barfly owners buy The Forum?

Submitted: “Although not 100% concrete, it’s pretty much confirmed that MAMA Group (Owners of Barfly) will be buying The Forum from Mean Fiddler.”

Saturday 17 March 2007

DARTZ! – This Is My Ship

I shall keep this short – this is a really fun, and a really good, record. PT forum faves Dartz! are indie-rock goodness on CD and every bit as good live. Henry’s vocals are fantastic throughout and the band write short, sharp angular pop songs that have

Enter Shikari – Take To the Skies

Let’s get one thing straight – in terms of working hard, getting a bit of luck along the way and being in the right place at the right time to cash in on a musical trend (whether the band meant to or not), Enter Shikari probably deserve

The Tossers – Agony

I’m going to sum this album up in one very easy sentence. Flogging Molly do it much better. The long and short of it is The Tossers are perfectly acceptable cetic-influenced punk rock and their songs are catchy, but there’s little originality here and FM have already

PT tour/bash

Punktastic bands Day of Rising and Over and Out are to head out on a special PT tur in June/July, culminating in a Punktastic bash with some special guests. Anyone who wants to book a date on this tour should email me at