This Party Sucks – Leeds, England, United Kingdom The Party Sucks – Pop Up Yer Arse. Is it a statement with some historical ties to a faithful night that actually wasn’t quite so faithful and actually quite disappointing? Or is it a debut EP? Perhaps even both? We’ll go with the latter of the two
Manchester Punk Festival. “MPF 2020 and Other Tall Tales: Ian ‘Tree’ Robinson” is relevant to the question above. A question that is in its sixth iteration of annual linger. MPF 2020 is indeed fast approaching, that much is true but it simultaneously seems to be taking its sweet and possibly sentient time. As much as
The Palatines – McAllen, Texas, USA. The Palatines – Vacation To Helheim is a collection of words that denote to some sort of meaning implying two possible outcomes. It clearly pertains some sort of Punk release, that much is obvious but beyond and within that, in what manner do they associate with such sonics? With
Manchester Punk Festival. “Why Manchester Punk Festival 2020?” – Is the title of this written piece and the poster created by the festival that you can gaze and probably quite reasonably salivate over placed above is your answer! There’s no need for me to bore you away from your busy lives anymore, hooray! We can
Hell’s Ditch – Lincoln, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo: Steven Haddock – Photographer – Here. Supergroups. A concept that will likely outlive this stage of humanity and prosper in whatever is next. Enter, Hell’s Ditch and the ‘Vacant Hearts’ single. A band with some considerable pooled experience in the UK Punk and Alternative music scene
The Packets – Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. A disclaimer before we start, The Packets – Bad People, is not a serious release. So if you’re expecting some sort of seriousness, either stay and have some fun or trundle along in search of the revolution. Hailing from Adelaide, the five-piece take classic Punk and the Pop-Punk
The Liverpool Punk-Rock All-Dayer – Studio 2, Liverpool, United Kingdom. The Liverpool Punk-Rock All-Dayer 3: The Bands #2 – It’s really very self-explanatory why we are here. However, if this is the first instance of which The Liverpool Punk-Rock All-Dayer 3 or the event as a whole has graced your ability to decipher characters into words and
Always The Same – Helsinki, Finland. It’s time for another short one, this time introducing Always The Same, a Pop-Punk band from Helsinki, Finland. A band taking influence from the golden age melodic Punk music and repurposing to their needs through a lens constructed primarily from the Pop-Punk music of the early 2000s and 2010s.
The Liverpool Punk-Rock All-Dayer – Studio 2, Liverpool, United Kingdom. The Liverpool Punk-Rock All-Dayer 3, the cat is out of the bag… more so that it was prior to this lovely image and accompanying sentence. Next year on May 16th 2020, on the notorious and world-renowned Lagwagon day, LPRAD will be returning to Studio 2 Parr Street
Makeshift Promise – Zirc / Veszprém, Hungary. “Makeshift Promise” – “Humble Rage” are four words many didn’t expect to see returning to the European Punk circuit, but here we are. Five years is a considerable amount of time to elapse with no sonic activity but with the revitalisation of the Punk scene in recent years,
