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From Friday 13 July 2012

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

Thursday 31 May 2012

Say Anything @ XOYO – 24/05/2012

SAY ANYTHING Some venues were clearly meant to be venues. As you step into the room in these places, you feel yourself immersed in the live music experience. I can emphatically say that XOYO is not one of those places. A dingy, industrial basement someone thought to shove a stage

Thursday 10 May 2012

LIVE: Xtra Mile ‘Twas the night before Wembley

Xtra Mile’s ‘Twas the Night before Wembley’ show at the Camden Barfly sold out on the day the tickets were announced. This is in part due to the great line-up which acted as a showcase for other Xtra Mile bands, but also because you could be fairly sure that

Wednesday 09 May 2012

LIVE: Groezrock 2012 part two: Sunday

Fair? As the effects of heavy nights and interrupted sleep come into play, The Dangerous Summer take to the Impericon Stage to sooth those weary heads. Their slow-paced melodic rock should be perfectly suited to the early afternoon crowd, but a lacklustre audience suggests that there may be more

Tuesday 08 May 2012

LIVE: Groezrock 2012 part one: Saturday

Belgium may not be particularly famous for its mainstream musical exports, but once a year the reasonably sleepy village of Meerhout changes all that. It’s is bombarded with tens of thousands of punk fans from across Europe for Groezrock festival, and Punktastic makes the trip every year to get

Monday 07 May 2012

LIVE: Camden Crawl 2012 – Sunday

Rolo Tomassi @ KoKo After a thoroughly deserved rest from Saturday’s proceedings, we ventured out for day two of Camden’s multi venue adventure. We got an early start today as it was the “bigger” of the two days for us, and the first act we had in our targets today