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From Friday 28 September 2012

LIVE: La Dispute/Title Fight at Relentless Garage, London [20/09/12]

The anticipation for tonight’s gig is obvious as soon as the extensive queue outside of the normally reserved London venue is witnessed. This is the only show in the UK on the fourteen date European tour which sees the Michigan wave outfit La Dispute and the Pennsylvanian punkers Title Fight

LIVE: Motion City Soundtrack at Heaven, London [17/09/12]

Minneapolis based pop-punkers Motion City Soundtrack have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity over the last year, in part due to their relatively well received release ‘Go’, and owing to their energetic live performances at two high-profile album shows and Slam Dunk appearances. This energy that has become synonymous with the

Friday 14 September 2012

LIVE: Merthyr Rock 2012

SATURDAY SONIC BOOM SIX If you’ve ever been to Merthyr Tydfil, you’ll know exactly why it’s important that events like Merthyr Rock are taking place. It’s not exactly the centre of the universe, and there’s little doubt that it could do with plenty of investment when you look around the town

Thursday 13 September 2012

LIVE: Reading Festival Saturday 2012

Enter Shikari As the sun rose on the Saturday of Reading festival and those bleary eyed hangovers started to kick in, the word soon began to spread that Green Day would be playing the NME/Radio 1 stage at 11am. For those lucky enough to be in the know / on

Friday 24 August 2012

LIVE: Green Day at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London [23/08/2012]

There are some bands that just have it live. Green Day one of them. Mixed reactions to their new material has been something they’ve dealt with for a long time aloft stacks of cash and massive crowds, so with a slightly jarring prospect of the incoming Triple Album of

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