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From Thursday 10 January 2002

The Bastards pull out

Due to a back injury to frontman Lars Frederiksen, his band, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards have had to cancel their planned supporting shows in the UK. The Dropkick Murphy’s, who were headlining the gigs, issued this statement: “Due to the fact that Lars Frederiksen recently suffered a debilitating

Lit go Atomic in the UK

Sunshine punkers Lit have announced a UK tour for the end of January. The So-Cal heroes will sing about ziplocks on the following dates: Manchester Hop & Grape January 30, Nottingham Rock City January 31, London Mean Fiddler February 1.

Weezer UK dates confirmed

It was on, it was off, now it’s back on again. Weezer have confirmed the rescheduled dates for their postponed October 2001 UK tour, and have even gone to the effort of adding an extra Birmingham gig. The dates are as follows: Tue 19 Mar –

New End Original split shock

Emo rockers New End Original have lost two of their band members. Charlie and Scott have left the band due to the old “personal reasons” chestnut… Anyway, explaining the decision on his onelinedrawing.com website, frontman Jonah said: “Just so everyone has official info actually from me, here’s

Wednesday 09 January 2002

Have some Good Clean Fun…

Punktastic friends Good Clean Fun Records have sent us a special message that they want us to share with you. So without further ado, here we go: “First of all, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for all the support you’ve shown the label in 2001. It was

Tuesday 08 January 2002

Drive-Thru have Warped stage

Punktastic label faves Drive Thru Records have announced that they will be having their very own stage at this years US Warped Tour! Although there are no plans to visit the UK, on the US legs of the tour all of the Drive Thru bands will make an

Monday 07 January 2002

Nirvana covers compilation

Rumours abound that a few well known punk bands will be recording for a Nirvana tribute compilation, to be released by sonic fuzz records. So far, Bigwig have recorded ‘Sliver’ (from incesticide for you uncultured fellows) and Jettison have recorded ‘All Apologies’ (In Utero). Split 50

Sunday 06 January 2002

Audio Karate release news

Audio Karate are hoping to release the follow up to their debut self titled album in the near future. Here are the details:- ‘Happy New Year! Hope everyone had fun on New Years Eve, last year was a great year for AK and were looking foward

That meat is all Sloppy…

Pop punks The Sloppy Meateaters have been holed up in the studio recording more classic tunes. The band told us: “We spent the remaining days of 2001 locked up in the studio putting the finishing touches on some new recordings. We went in and re-recorded Outta Control (from

Uncle Brian say hi!

UK skap-punks Uncle Brian have announced plans for a busy 2002. Band member Dan said: “Hope you all had a good Christmas and your new years celebrations were cool! Thanks to all the people that came out to see us on the Buck O Nine &