You're browsing the archives « Previous PageNext Page » From Thursday 07 October 2010 For sale: Punktastic.com After nearly 11 years at the helm I have today put the ‘for sale’ sign up at Punktastic.com. Tom and Andy will take full control of the site until its future has been decided so please send them anything PT related from this date further. I shall Blitz Kids Interview Click the image above to see our interview with the irrepressible Jono Yates, guitarist and backing vocalist for PT favourites Blitz Kids. Canterbury competition Canterbury start their UK tour with Not Advised in just three days time. Hurrah! To celebrate this wonderful news we are giving one lucky person the following prize: A Canterbury ‘Sweet Rock’ t-shirt (can be seen here: canterburythankyou.com/store), a ‘Eleven, Twelve/Friends?’ Straight Lines – Camden Barfly South Wales’ Straight Lines are having a great year. Debut album on Xtra Mile ‘Persistance in this Game’ has been well received, and the band seem so much comfortable in their own skin on stage than their venture out with InMe prior to its release. Tonights Donots – The Long Way Home We last reviewed Donots in 2002 when Nick wrote about ‘Pocketrock’. I think that kind of sums up the band’s influence on the UK scene – they’ve done marvellously well on the continent, but not so well in this country. The band have been over once The Maine – Birmingham Academy 2 Only 2 bands played the show which meant they got just over an hour each. Whilst Mayday Parade made the most of this, The maine did not. In matching black shirts they opened with a pretty dreary number which to me set the Wednesday 06 October 2010 Awful band name, but this is pretty fun Check out Veetacore’s new video over on their Youtube Channel. A Day To Suck You can check out a clip of “2nd Sucks” from A Day To Remember‘s new album over on the Victory Records Facebook page. Hopeless Scotland Hopeless Heroic have a few Scottish dates coming up: Glasgow, Nice’n’Sleazy – Oct 13th Dundee, Dexters (w/ Azriel) – Oct 14th Dundee, Waterstones (Lead singer’s book signing & acoustic performance) – Oct 16th Inverness, Madhatter’s – Oct 16th Edinburgh, Bannerman’s – Oct 18th Both of their EPs are available for The Xcerts talk Scatterbrain If you haven’t already, check out our interview with The Xcerts about their new album in the video player above!