As It Is, The Dangerous Summer, Woes, Moose Blood, King Prawn, Guttermouth, Templeton Pek, Astroid Boys, Brutality Will Prevail and The Devil Wears Prada will join the likes of Jimmy Eat World, Taking Back Sunday and more at the festival which takes place in Leeds, Hatfield and Birmingham, from the 26th to the 28th May 2018. More acts will be announced soon.

It should be noted that next year will see the Hatfield site expand to Hatfield Park due to outgrowing its previous home at the University. Tickets are available now and cost either £49 or a £55 option which includes entry into the afterparty. They will be available here.

MAY 2018
26 LEEDS City Centre
27 HATFIELD Hatfield Park
28 BIRMINGHAM NEC

This is taken from the Cali punks’ upcoming new double LP, ‘The Whole Enchilada’. This features live renditions of old cuts, unreleased songs, and remastered versions of their 2016 EPs, ‘New Car Smell’ and ‘Got It Made’. It will be released on the 23rd June via Bird Attack Records and Rude Records and can be pre-ordered here.

This is taken from their upcoming new double LP, ‘The Whole Enchilada’. This features live renditions of old cuts, unreleased songs, and remastered versions of their 2016 EPs, ‘New Car Smell’ and ‘Got It Made’. It will be released on the 23rd June via Bird Attack Records and Rude Records and can be pre-ordered here.

The record is due for release on the 25th November via Rude Records and Bird Attack Records. You can pre-order it here.

You can hear the title track below!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUhSuaivXQ8

Having never really broken through the glass ceiling and reach the heights that many of their contemporaries managed to accomplish during their prime (in the UK at least), and partly thanks to their controversial onstage antics in the past, Guttermouth have always had a cult-like essence to them. This makes the fact that they’re still releasing music at such an impressive quality all the more endearing and all the more reason to get behind them.

This six track EP kicks off with ‘The Point’, a track that sticks to their tried and tested, fast, goofy and in your face method that will hit home with their old school fans. Not one to change how they do things, the band still have noticeable similarities to NOFX and Descendants; both lyrically and stylistically. But when has that ever been a bad thing?

Each song is short and to the point, with some hilarious lyrics that keep you laughing out loud throughout. ‘I’ve Got It Made’ has the type of chorus and vocal intricacies that will have you humming to it all day long. The closing track, ‘Old Man’ doesn’t hold back verbally either and even has a mediocre guitar solo for added punk rock measure.

Guttermouth have certainly added a new fresh chapter to their legacy, ensuring that the show isn’t going to be over anytime soon. Let’s hope that the odd, catchy, flamboyant and simply flawless ‘Got It Made’ EP is a promise that more things are to come soon because the punk rock world needs a new Guttermouth full length.

LOUIS KERRY

Today’s additions: Guttermouth, WOLF x DOWN, Night Birds, Reel Big Fish, A Wilhelm Scream and Old Man Markley.

Punk Rock Holiday takes place in Tolmin, Slovenia this August.

http://www.punkrockholiday.com/

Chaotic and offensive is one way of describing a Guttermouth show. Weird and wonderful, is another either way; when a bands set consists of more banter than songs, they are either trying to prove something, or really don’t give a fuck. I’m going to go with the latter option.

Taking tonight’s show as my base point, let’s look at the facts. Take out the bands opening song – a five minute, off microphone chat to the front row. Take out the randoms pulled up on stage to ad lib, be it the guy forced to sing, the girl who drummed better than the bands own drummer or the various guys brought up to play guitar / bass. Then take out Mark Adkins swapping shirts with a young girl and allowing her to touch Mark Jnr. Take out the sticking of someone’s personal effects into the guitarist’s rear, and take out the vomiting on stage. Then, further to that take out the psychology student licking chunks of vomit off the mic lead for two t-shirts, no encore and a venue only a third full. What have you got? Your guess is as good as mine.

Bakers Dozen, Derek, Lucky The Donkey, Do The Hustle, Chug a Lug Night, Scholarship in Punk, Asshole, Bruce Lee vs. The Kiss Army, 1, 2, 3 Slam. They are all there amongst others. But given the above, statement, one has to wonder, does the music really come into it? Did it ever? Was the band only a front to purvey childish mannerisms? Does anything actually even matter anymore? Well yes.

Six years ago Guttermouth came to the UK, and they (relatively speaking) conquered it. Their witty banter, furious pop-punk-punk (yes. Two. For good measure.) and all round good time attitude was not only appealing but it was addictive. Now, the banter is akin to a verbal rendition of a Young Ones episode and the comedy is wearing thin. The music stands up like it always did, but when you have to listen to ten minutes of abuse in between songs, you have to wonder why. It’s a shame really, more than anything else that Guttermouth have descended to this point. Potentially a brilliantly funny band, with the added bonus of having some very catch tracks. In reality it would appear they are a band far from their glory days, riding the last few waves of their career out on the back of a monstrous wave built upon chaos, disorder and offensive live shows. That is potentially no bad thing. The Pistols (arguably) pulled it off but then again, Guttermouth are not anything like the pistols. A fairly empty Camden Underworld says that alone.

So where’s this going? Well. More to the point, one wonders where Guttermouth are going. When, at your live shows you don?t make any new fans, or impress any old ones. Not giving a fuck doesn?t seem like a particularly cunning game plan. I guess only time will tell?

Gary