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From Friday 08 August 2014

LIVE: WonkFest

Alex Wonk Unit outside The Grosvenor Pub | Photo Credit: Mark Richards WonkFest was a resounding success. The organisation that went into it can only be described as pain-staking, backed up by an all-round effort from the bands, the bar staff, the film crew and the sound technician. Not only

LIVE: Lower Than Atlantis, Decade @ Dingwalls, London

Last week saw an utterly fantastic line up hit Dingwalls in Camden: Lower Than Atlantis, Decade and Yearbook (who we sadly missed, but by all accounts, they went down a storm). Not only are all three great bands, but they’re all great British bands, and it’s something we should

Thursday 07 August 2014

LIVE: Reel Big Fish @ Rose Theatre

So here we are, for the very first gig at a venue that isn’t traditionally used for music, The Rose Theatre in Kingston. There’s a real sense of ‘will it work out right?’ but The Rose is completely packed out downstairs so there’s no doubt here tonight. Reel Big

Wednesday 06 August 2014

LIVE: Judge, Survival, Inherit, xRepentancex @ The Dome, Tuffnell Park

Hardcore by its very nature is a genre filled with superlative statements through the years such as “It will never happen again”, “The last time ever” and so on. It is because of statements like these that when Judge announced their return at The Black and Blue Bowl

Thursday 31 July 2014

LIVE: Exes / Death Rattles @ The Black Heart, London

It’s hot. Not the type of heat that encourages you to grab those swimming shots and jump into the nearest body of water, but the type of hot that leaves you clinging to the closest fan – be it yours or not. The majority, if not all, of The

Thursday 24 July 2014

LIVE : Made Violent @ The Old Blue Last

American trio Made Violent played their first ever UK show in the Old Blue Last in London on 15th of July. It was definitely more than what you would expect seeing on Tuesday night from a rising rock band. ‘Always starting off with Inside Out’ as a front man

Sunday 20 July 2014

LIVE: 2000 Trees Festival – Saturday

Photo courtesy of Dom Meason / 2000 Trees, from the official 2000 Trees gallery. Haven’t caught up with what we got up to on Thursday and Friday? Saturday “…flooooooooooooor.” Why am I on the floor? After being reliably informed that I used the half-full campsite bin-bag as a pillow when returning

Thursday 17 July 2014

Twin Atlantic – Penguin Plugged In, The Hospital Club

Life as a Punktastic writer isn’t always a side stage view at the latest 5 Seconds Of Summer basement gig, free drinks with Dave Grohl, or finding a pre-release copy of the new Brand New album in your inbox. Sure it’s often exactly that, but occasionally us writers just

Wednesday 16 July 2014

LIVE: 2000 Trees Festival – Thursday/Friday

Photo courtesy of Dom Meason / 2000 Trees, from the official 2000 Trees gallery. 2000 Trees is a quintessentially British festival. There’s really no denying it. As I stand underneath the ironically singular tree on site and survey my surroundings, a few things jump out at me that

Monday 30 June 2014

LIVE: Download Festival 2014 – Sunday

Missed what we got up to on the Friday and Saturday? Our Sunday morning at Download started in a rather over-filled hotel room (we may have chickened out of camping at Download this year, sorry punks). It proceeded into digging up the remnants of energy from our souls