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From Sunday 24 October 2010

Funeral For A Friend

Paul: Hey Ryan, how is everything in the Funeral for a Friend camp right now? RYAN: Hey there Paul. To be honest, everything in the camp is better than it’s been for a long, long time. With the new lineup and new tracks, it really does feel like

Congratumalations to the man below

The winner of our recent Swingin’ Utters comp is Duncan Ward. Duncan, we’ll be in touch with details!

Everything On Red – The Light Again EP

When a band lists their genre as punk/electro it spells a recipe for disaster and EVERYTHING ON RED have hit that nail royally on the head. The electro/punk/whatever outfit’s new EP ‘The Light Again’ is a 12-minute long car crash of an EP. Opening track

Suns – Close Calls In The U.S. Space Program / The Howl And The Many

Since the break-up of Wax On Radio guitarist/vocalist Mikey Russell hatched a plan to reinvent himself in the shape of another band and this band is SUNS. The Chicago-based band’s debut EP is a highly ambitious and bold record. Split into two separate

Solutions – Ends Meet

Cardiff quartet SOLUTIONS return with self-released EP ‘Ends Meet’ and continue on with their Hot Water Music-esque punk rock. ‘Ends Meet’ is very much what we have come to expect from this brand of punk. Opening track ‘Ghost Writers’ is punchy with raspy

Through Colour – Dream In Black And White

If you were to capture both Kids in Glass Houses and Daggermouth before brutally blending them and adding a Drop Dead shirt or two, North Wales’ THROUGH COLOUR‘s ‘Dream in Black and White’ would undoubtedly be the result. Better than ‘not bad’, not

Better Left Alone – Self-titled EP

BETTER LEFT ALONE are a five-piece pop-punk outfit from Lancashire, and with this self-titled EP release, it looks like they’re taking things seriously. They’re doing everything professionally with their website, press packs and they’ve even employed John Mitchell (You Me At Six, Funeral For

Dinosaur Pile-Up – Growing Pains

DINOSAUR PILE-UP have a massive name. No doubt about that. It sounds huge. Thankfully for them, they manage to live up to their name sake and provide twelve tracks of balls-to-the-walls straight up rock. Whilst Dinosaur Pile-Up sounds is almost borderline plagiarism,

Burn So Bright – Sparks EP

Essex based five piece BURN SO BRIGHT have pretty much mastered the straight-up and non-threatening, albeit geographically confused pop punk sound with the release of this five track EP ‘Sparks’. This release is an unfortunately standard affair in that it’s possible to dissect the songs in

Saturday 23 October 2010

Failsafe Macbeth Acoustics

Punktastic favourites Failsafe, fresh from being on some TV program or something, have teamed up with Punktastic favourite shoe manufacturers Macbeth for some Acoustic performances in and around their November tour at Macbeth stockists. Dates are below, and their new single ‘Routines’ is available on iTunes now! 3rd