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From Monday 09 June 2025

LIVE: Slam Dunk South 2025

Slam Dunk South; traditional kick off to the UK festival season, it delivers the elusive festival highs and global lineup that sets the bar for the rest of the summer. A political undercurrent cuts through the day, like the rain clouds which threatened and never burst into controversy, but

Slam Dunk Festival 2025

Thursday 14 November 2024

Less Than Jake – ‘Uncharted’ EP

Everyone loves Less Than Jake, but who’s really engaged with their music since ‘Hello Rockview’? The endlessly touring and effortlessly entertaining ska kids have found themselves as a reliable staple support band and festival afternoon fixture, becoming the musical equivalent of mozzarella sticks; no one’s sad to see them

Saturday 09 March 2024

LIVE: Bowling For Soup / Less Than Jake @ Eventim Apollo, London

Bowling For Soup have sold out their entire UK tour. This may be surprising to some; if you ask anyone with even a passing interest in pop punk their opinion on the band, you’ll likely be told that they were written off as genre front-runners a long time ago.

Friday 01 March 2024

Bowling For Soup, Less Than Jake, The Vandoliers @ Academy, Manchester

Tuesday 19 January 2021

INTERVIEW: Less Than Jake

After a tumultuous year of change, uncertainty and melancholy, Less Than Jake brought some well needed familiarity with the release of their ninth full length album ‘Silver Linings’. The positivity, energy and consistency of the Florida ska punk outfit is a welcome break from the doom and gloom that

Friday 11 December 2020

Less Than Jake – ‘Silver Linings’

Having kept the ska-punk flag flying for the best part of 30 years, Less Than Jake have carved out a career as being a live standout for festivals all over the place – and in a year that has been filled with doom and gloom, the Gainesville brass-filled collective

Friday 06 September 2019

Fireball Fuelling The Fire announce two all-dayers, Less Than Jake to play Hello Rockview in full

We’re less than two weeks from the Fireball Fuelling The Fire tour kicking off, and we’re counting down the days. In an effort to make us even more excited, Fireball and Academy Events have announced both the Birmingham and London are being extended into all-dayers, the first in Fireball

Friday 05 July 2019

Save Ferris Added To Fireball Tour Lineup, plus Hottest Band competition returns

Every year, the Fuelling The Fire Tour brings together some fantastic bands to create spectacularly memorable nights. And the 2019 tour looks no different. Legendary ska punk band Save Ferris will join co-headliners Less Than Jake and Goldfinger, as well as the winners of last year’s Fireball’s Hottest Band

Friday 07 June 2019

Fireball Fuelling The Fire Tour announced

Fireball’s Fuelling The Fire UK tour 2019 has now been announced – and ready yourselves, because it features not one, but two ska punk legends in the form of co-headliners Less Than Jake and Goldfinger. And just in case a few rounds of hits like ‘The Science Of Selling Yourself