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From Thursday 23 August 2012

LIVE: Hevy Festival 2012

Andrew WK headlining the Punktastic stage on Saturday night Over the past four years, Hevy Festival has built up a fearsome reputation as being amongst the UK’s premier underground small festivals. Taking place near Port Lympne Wild Animal Park just outside Folkestone in Kent, it boasts a lineup composed of

Friday 17 August 2012

LIVE: Billy Talent @ The Garage, London [16/08/2012]

Ahead of a Reading/Leeds festival appearance next week, Billy Talent join the Reading/Leeds Warm Up crew for 2012 with a date at the relatively intimate Relentless Garage in North London. The Garage has had its moments with poor sound quality and atmosphere in the past, but tonight is nothing of

Friday 10 August 2012

LIVE: Boysetsfire / Off With Their Heads / Gnarwolves @ The Haunt, Brighton

So Boysetsfire have come and gone. And come back again. Still doing the rounds after reuniting in late 2010, the post-hardcore vets have hit Brighton shores for the first night of a short UK tour. How are they holding up after all these years? Let’s find out. Local punks Gnarwolves

Wednesday 25 July 2012

LIVE: Hellfest 2012 (Clisson, France)

Far from being a self-confessed metalhead, my beach-blonde locked 9-5er with a mild obsession with Polar Bear Club gives me away quite quickly, but my open mind was far too curious to give up a spot at Hellfest 2012 and thus, Punktastic went metal. Located in Roman Catholic Clisson, Hellfest

Friday 13 July 2012

Futures / Don Broco / Natives @ XOYO

Futures We have our fair share of ups and downs with the sound and atmosphere at XOYO. For punk shows in the past it’s felt a little stale (and the beer is pretty terrible), but Motion City

LIVE: Crash Doubt Festival 2012

No Trigger Now in its second year, Lincoln’s Crash Doubt Festival has a lot of potential. With bands spanning a number of genres including punk, ska, hardcore and a smattering of indie, this two-day booze fest could end up being one of the most highly anticipated weekends of the year. Right

Tuesday 10 July 2012

Kerouac’s final ever show @ The Old Blue Last, London

I don’t think anyone has been to a better funeral than this. Not only have Southampton’s Kerouac been laid to rest, but so too has the banner term for the scene they were progenitors of, “#UKSWELL”. What started as a silly in-joke on Twitter has become a hypernym for

Wednesday 13 June 2012

LIVE: Download Festival 2012 – Sunday

Download Festival has always guaranteed one hefty alarm clock, and with Kent based hardcore crew Feed The Rhino arriving on stage before midday on the Sunday, any punter left remotely dazed from previous shenanigans is in for a hell of a wake-up call. The band clearly have no intention

LIVE: Download Festival 2012 – Friday

Take almost 100,000 rock and metal fans, throw in five stages playing host to more than 130 bands, a copious amount of alcohol and overpriced burgers, and top it all off with an almost literal shit-tonne of mud and you are close to the alternative spectacle that absorbed the

Monday 11 June 2012

LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival 2012

Punktastic were in attendance at both days of this year’s Slam Dunk festival, and alongside our photos from across the weekend, we’ve got a full review. We’ve done things as confusingly as possible and mixed all the sets up from both days, but you’ll figure it out as you