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From Wednesday 24 July 2002

Leeds Fest goes ahead!

The Leeds Festival will go ahead at the Temple Newsam site after magistrates in Leeds decided just hours ago to give the festival the green light. In an apparent change of heart, Leeds City Council came to this morning’s appeal and unsurprisingly changed their minds, to the dismay

RBF cheer up the UK (well, some of it)

Loveable skanksters Reel Big Fish have announced three dates for a September UK tour – and once again they ignore the north. Aaron and co will play at: Sep 5 Brighton Concorde II Sep 6 Oxford Zodiac Sep 7 London Mean Fiddler Nice to see you’ve forgotten about us folk north of

Bill of the year anyone?

In what has to be the gig of the year so far, Hot Rod Circuit have been added to the Saves The Day, Dashboard Confessional and Face To Face show on August 26. The Electric Ballroom in Camden is the

Cap Down with that thing!

Household Name’s rising starlets CapDown have added a couple of extra dates to their already bustling tour schedule. The band will play at the following venues: Aug 14 Scunthorpe Baths Hall Aug 15 Cleethorpes Winter Gardens Aug 17 Blackburn King George’s Hall

Let’s go Bowling for some October Soup

Bowling For Soup look set to return to the UK for their very first major headlining tour in October to celebrate the release of their forthcoming new album. Punktastic believes the dates are as follows: Birmingham Academy October 10 Manchester Hop And Grape 11 Glasgow Cathouse 12 Nottingham Rock

46 Itchy get scratchy on debut UK tour

Here’s a little red-hot news about another up and coming UK ska/punk band – this time Sunderland’s 46 Itchy. They are heading out on their UK tour and want you to check them out, so head on down to the following shows… Tuesday 23rd July The Black Swan/Newcastle w/Billy

Phinius Gage out on tour

Brighton skate punks Phinius Gage are to head out on tour tomorrow night as they bring their punk rock mayhem to various southern venues. The dates for your diaries are: Wed 24th July – Pontypridd Victoria Club Thu 25 July – Torquay Hideaway (** Chemical Reaction

[spunge] get smokey

Those crazy cats in know how to chill out, they really do! Oh how they crack me up… Taken from their latest newsletter: “Before we tell you some more news about the band, here’s one little anecdote from our shows with Green Day. “After

Free stuff x 3!

We don’t do things by half here at Punktastic, oh no… with our current competition coming to an end, and to celebrate our brand new facelift, we put together not one but three new competitions for you lucky, lucky people to enter! If you’re looking for t-shirts and

Tuesday 23 July 2002

Snuff set to go Golfing

Veteran UK punks Snuff, who many of you may have witnessed playing their very own brand of punk rock nonsense at the Distortion festival on saturday, have signed to Golf Records. A new album, entitled ‘Disposable Income’, is set for release on October 21st, and