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LIVE: Download Festival 2014 – Saturday

After Friday turned into a blur, we were looking forward to the biggest night of every Download Festival – Saturday. With the added “bonus” of England’s opening World Cup game after the headliners, we knew it was going to be a long old day. After

Wednesday 25 June 2014

LIVE: Download Festival 2014 – Friday

Donington has been the site of many legendary performances over the years, and this year’s Download lineup – despite raising a few eyebrows with some of the additions – had plenty to offer in terms of new music and some of our personal favourites. We were getting rather excited

Tuesday 17 June 2014

LIVE: The Menzingers, Lemuria, Cayetana, Pup @ Bottom Lounge, Chicago

To say that Chicago was excited for this show would be a colossal understatement. Selling out well in advance was not the least bit surprising; Chicago has always embraced the Menzingers. One of my favorite things about seeing this band is that it reminds me of when I

LIVE: Pulled Apart By Horses @ The Black Heart

So yesterday I popped my Black Heart (Camden) gig cherry with a typically awesome show from Pulled Apart by Horses. And when I say ‘awesome’ I mean it in the truest sense of the word – you haven’t lived until you’ve seen these guys live! They are a

Tuesday 03 June 2014

LIVE: Camden Rocks 2014 [31/05/14]

Apologies, I Have None @ Groezrock 2014 One of the first things students learn when training to teach is that all the planning in the world can’t prepare you for the unpredictability of a classroom (oh yes, us Punktastic writers have a multitude of hidden skills). Always have a

Wednesday 21 May 2014

LIVE: Feed The Rhino / The Howling / Zoax @ The Quarterhouse, Folkestone [16/05/14]

Folkestone may seem like an odd place to close off their UK jaunt, but the reasonably notorious south coast port happens to be bassist Oz Cragg’s hometown, as well as a regular location during the Kent based hardcore band’s early years. In essence, tonight is as close to

Tuesday 20 May 2014

Alkaline Trio and Bayside @ The Forum, London

It’s no real lie that we’ve been big Trio fans at Punktastic over the years. Most of us got hit at the right age by the first few records, and their tour with Bayside sees the band out supporting their finest record in years in ‘My Shame Is True’. We

Tuesday 13 May 2014

LIVE: Groezrock 2014 – Saturday [03/05/14]

Head here to catch up with all of Friday’s shenanigans. With Friday proving to be one hell of a punk rock party, Saturday has got a lot to live up to. Not quite as well rested and refreshed as we were the day before, first thing on the

Monday 12 May 2014

LIVE: Groezrock 2014 – Friday [02/05/14]

Out in the far reaches of the Belgian countryside, surrounded by picturesque lakes, rivers and rickety bridges lies the little town of Meerhout. Characterised by its uniquely Belgian architecture – not one house looks the same as the next – it is the expansive purple tent poking up

Friday 25 April 2014

Hit The Deck 2014

Hit The Deck usually signals the start of festival season for us here at Punktastic. We chose to hit up Bristol (with a couple of snippets from Lais over in Nottingham.) Perhaps rather unusually 3/5s of the team were nursing pretty hefty hangovers after DJing at clubnights in both London