Bad Cop/Bad Cop, The Lawrence Arms, Buzzcocks, The Bones, Authority Zero, The Flatliners, Sick On the Bus, Rat in the Wall, Vicious Circle, The Glory, The Struggle, and Cadaver Club will join the likes of Adolescents, Lagwagon, UK Subs and more at the Blackpool based punk fest at the Winter Gardens, from the 2nd to the 5th August 2018.

Weekend tickets cost £150 plus £5 booking fee and can be purchased here.

The song is taken from their latest album, ‘Broadcasting to the Nations’, which was released last month on Bird Attack Records.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OH0qTjTY0TE

The song is taken from their latest album, ‘Broadcasting to the Nations’, which was released last month on Bird Attack Records.

The song is featured on the band’s upcoming new album, ‘Broadcasting to the Nations’, which will be released on the 2nd June via Bird Attack Records.

Produced by Descendents’ Bill Stevenson, the album will be released on the 2nd June via Bird Attack Records. To coincide with the announcement, the band have also released a behind the scenes video where they speak about the making of the new record. You can view this below.

Authority Zero have released a new video for their track ‘Today We Heard The News’. The song is taken from their latest album ‘The Tipping Point’ which was out earlier this year. Check it out below:

AUGUST
10 BLACKPOOL Rebellion Festival
11 DERBY Hairy Dog w/The Fear
12 LONDON New Cross Inn w/Demon Smiles, My Third Leg, Red Rag Front and one more TBC.

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The sterile atmosphere, in truth, went on for most of the evening. First on stage were ska band ALMOST PRESIDENTS [2/5], who somehow managed to transport me back to 2000 and a time when things were different. When chef trousers and Hawaiian shirts infested venues like rats. In truth, the crowd present were tailor made for some old school ska-punk – baggy jeans, Etnies and Fat Wreck t-shirts ahoy – but Almost Presidents? basic problem was a singular lack of intensity. Tight enough, but contrived and at times a little cheesey – the whole thing hit a low point when they pulled out ?Under The Sea? from the Little Mermaid. The room emptied.

7 DAY CONSPIRACY [3/5] followed to a suitably deadened crowd – half of the people who paid in were anxiously waiting for Authority Zero in the bar, nursing some relatively-cheap-for-North-London pints. The ?I?m sure none of you that are in the room care about us anyway? attitude didn?t serve the band well, alienating yet more of a dwindling numbers. In truth, 7DC are a more than competent old-school skate-punk fourpiece and got a rough deal tonight. It is nice to see a band pedaling some of the least fashionable punk rock going, and enjoying doing it.

By after 10pm, the night badly, badly needed a pick up. Cue a band who I thought I would probably never get the chance to see on these shores ? AUTHORITY ZERO [4/5]. Walking round the venue before the set and chatting to anyone and everyone, I was struck with the humility of the band – obviously tonight playing a really intimate show compared to their usual fare. What was striking was that nearly everyone of the 50 or thereabouts people there tonight were from foreign shores – proof that AZ are an unknown quantity to most people round here. What was great about the whole thing was that the band were clearly just happy to be playing in London – and they gave it some. Liberally borrowing from their back catalogue – mostly a lot from debut album ?Passage In Time? and third record ?12:34?, the Arizona fourpiece gave everyone in the room a real lesson in how to play old-school ska infused skate punk. As generic a basic concept as the band have always been, they work on the ?same meat, different gravy? ideology, with singer Jason?s exceptional voice the driving force for making things work. He spent half the set in the crowd, throwing Minor Threat style group shouting photo opportunities out liberally. Songs like ?A Passage In Time? and ?No Regrets? are genuine classic punk rock, and it was great to hear everyone in the room singing along. Authority Zero are one the truly great post-millennium West Coast punk bands and they warmed things up nicely on a cold, sterile London evening. I was glad to be there to witness it.

MIKE SCOTT

All photographs by Maryam Hassan. Click here for the full gallery.