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From Wednesday 10 April 2024

LIVE: Hot Water Music @ SWX, Bristol

Rolling into Bristol on a poetically warm, rain-soaked Friday night, Hot Water Music arrive ready to kick off a celebratory UK run that culminates at Manchester Punk Festival. Armed with 30 years of genre-defining material (certainly a solid decade of which remains hugely influential), this is something like their

From Wednesday 27 September 2023

LIVE: Reading Festival – Saturday + Sunday

As another day of Reading Festival dawns, the girls in bikinis have switched to tracksuits for comfort and the need for coffee becomes more urgent. Fortunately, a day of hardcore awaits with enough heat to blister paint, let alone merely drive off autumnal chills. Words: Kate Allvey. Images: Abbi Draper-Scott All

From Thursday 31 August 2023

LIVE: ArcTanGent Festival 2023 – Wednesday

In the decade since its inception, ArcTanGent Festival in Bristol, England has become a mecca for fans of music that is loud, experimental and, often, downright weird. It has carved out a niche as the go-to place for fans of the metal underground in the UK and further afield,

From Wednesday 09 August 2023

URNE – ‘A Feast On Sorrow’

If you haven’t heard of London metallers URNE yet, you will soon. After all, loads of your favourite bands already count themselves as fans. Trivium’s Matt Heafy has loudly championed the band on social media and given them shout-outs at shows, while Joe Duplantier of the mighty Gojira is

From Saturday 10 June 2023

LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival 2023 @ Hatfield Park

Sold-out and stacked with some huge names, 2023 marked the now iconic Slam Dunk’s biggest event to date. Fans sardined in caused plenty of teething problems on the day, but did the music deliver? Silly question, of course it did. Words: Aaron Jackson and Yasmin Brown

From Monday 16 May 2022

LIVE: Architects, Sleep Token, Malevolence @ Alexandra Palace

In February 2018, Architects played their biggest headline show to date at Alexandra Palace, just months after their future as a band was in major doubt. That show restarted their momentum and lit a fire in them that has seen them go from strength to strength. They’re currently on

From Wednesday 16 February 2022

Gregor Barnett – ‘Don’t Go Throwing Roses In My Grave’

Anyone familiar with the latter work of The Menzingers will already be well aware of guitarist Gregor Barnett’s penchant for soulful tales of Americana. Ever since the band moved away from their scratchy, screamy punk beginnings and delved into reflective and soul-searching songwriting, Barnett’s love affair with the landscape

From Wednesday 17 November 2021

LIVE: Biffy Clyro / Bob Vylan @ The Forum, London

There is a moment during Biffy Clyro’s headline set that collectively makes the crowd lose their minds; ‘Mountains’ is arguably the biggest commercial single the band have ever had, and they dropped it ninth in their set, of twenty three songs. The audacity! Thankfully, their back catalogue boasts some

From 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

From Wednesday 02 June 2021

LIVE: Jamie Lenman: Separation Event

2020’s ‘King of Clubs’ was a new milestone for Surrey-born illustrator and ex-Reuben front man, Jamie Lenman. Dirty and dark, the seven-track EP was a more streamlined, simplistic sound compared to previous works but it continued to play to the strengths of this charismatic, brace-wearing veteran of