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From 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

Saturday 28 June 2014

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