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From Thursday 02 September 2021

LIVE: Boston Manor @ The Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes

If anyone had any reservations as to whether Boston Manor would incite as much carnage post-pandemic as they did pre-, tonight quashes them all. Now back in one of the last venues they played in the distant past of 2019, the chaotic energy of set opener ‘Everything

Friday 27 August 2021

LIVE: Bob Vylan @ Tunbridge Wells Forum

Finally, time for a proper sweaty punk rock show. And where better to host it than a former public toilet, in a place headliners Bob Vylan less-than-fondly dub the “armpit of England”? The evening’s proceedings begin with an endearing and energetic performance from local three-piece Bruise.

LIVE: Bloodstock 2021 – Sunday

Raise your viking drinking horns to the sky and rejoice, Bloodstock is back! After two long years, the UK’s number one extreme music festival has returned to Catton Hall to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Punktastic couldn’t be happier to see them back in action either and neither can the

Thursday 26 August 2021

LIVE: Bloodstock 2021 – Saturday

Raise your viking drinking horns to the sky and rejoice, Bloodstock is back! After two long years, the UK’s number one extreme music festival has returned to Catton Hall to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Punktastic couldn’t be happier to see them back in action either and neither can the

Wednesday 25 August 2021

LIVE: Bloodstock 2021 – Friday

Raise your viking drinking horns to the sky and rejoice, Bloodstock is back! After two long years, the UK’s number one extreme music festival has returned to Catton Hall to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Punktastic couldn’t be happier to see them back in action either and neither can the

Thursday 19 August 2021

LIVE: Architects @ Pryzm

Sixteen long, gigless months have gone by, with the world spinning slower than ever. As the pandemic led to a new world of streaming shows and allowed bands time to be creative, Architects delivered their own stellar livestream performance from the prestigious Royal Albert Hall and, soon after, released

Wednesday 04 August 2021

LIVE: Yonaka @ Signature Brew, Haggerston

We went to a gig. A real life actual live performance. Not one where you have to click a link in your inbox and make sure your laptop has enough charge left in it, one where you turn up to an actual venue, go inside it and stand

Wednesday 14 July 2021

LIVE: Holding Absence @ Portland House, Cardiff

It starts with a crackle. The kind you hear when you first gently place the needle down on a record, waiting for the music to kick in. Shots of Cardiff’s Portland House come into view, and already the scene is perfectly set for what has always felt

Wednesday 07 July 2021

LIVE: Download Festival Pilot 2021 – Sunday

It’s been a long, long time since Punktastic have been able to cover live music as we’ve always known it, and to be able to dive back in at the one and only Download Festival is more than we could ever have hoped for. The crowd was smaller, as

Thursday 01 July 2021

LIVE: Download Festival Pilot 2021 – Saturday

It’s been a long, long time since Punktastic have been able to cover live music as we’ve always known it, and to be able to dive back in at the one and only Download Festival is more than we could ever have hoped for. The crowd was smaller, as