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From Friday 12 July 2002

HHN gig in Hartlepool

Our buddy Stephen Gorton from the website Random Damage has helped to save the cancelled Household Name show in Middlesborough by rescheduling it for Hartlepool. Next Tuesday, July 16, Knowledge Presents – Household Name Records Tour 2002 Featuring: Lightyear Da Skywalkers Five Knuckle The gig will

Sniper that wolf!

We like to help out our friends here at Punktastic, so if one of our mates’ bands gets a gig, up it goes on site. So, for anyone living in the London area, get yourselves down to the Verge on July 30 to witness the birth of a

Enjoy Hot Water Music

Gainesville’s finest (No, not Less Than Jake!) Hot Water Music have added themselves to the wealth of top quality American bands making the trip across the pond this summer. If you think The Carling Weekend is the pinnacle of August’s gigging calendar, think again. Gravelly vocals

Bosstones set to Jackknife the UK

In support of their cracking new record, ‘A Jackknife To A Swan’, Dickie Barrett’s sharp suited ska merchants, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones will be landing on British soil in October. To catch these masters at work, skank on down to one of the following venues; 2/10

Thursday 11 July 2002

The Busdrivers go vroooom…

Floridian ska-punkers The Busdrivers are heading this way very soon, and as we love them so much, here are the tour dates once again for their co-headlining tour with Shootin Goon’: August 2002 2nd Ryde, Isle of Wight – Royal Squadron 3rd Harlow – The Square 4th Leicester – Princess Charlotte 5th

311 get back into the studio

US rockers 311 are staying busy in a Los Angeles studio as they look to complete the follow up to ‘From Chaos’. So far the band has been exploring musical ideas on about 15 new songs. Ron Saint Germain will produce the

More news on the tragic loss of Jim Cherry

As most of you will know, ex-Pulley and Strung Out and current Zero Down guitarist Jim Cherry passed away on Saturday. Although details were thin on the ground at the time, www.fatwreck.com have posted this on their news page: “On July 7th Jim

Get your M2S tee here!

Paris, Milan, New York, Normanton… they will all be wearing them. Yep, it’s the latest must-have fashion accessory, the Milk2Sugars t-shirt. The shirts are currently in the design stages and they want to know if you want to buy one. Click here to see the

Jerry Built EP details

Emo noiseniks Jerry Built are set to release their debut EP on Firefly Recordings, probably in August, according to bassist Sami. Speaking exclusively to Punktastic, Sami told us that the new recording would have 7 tracks and was provisionally entitled ‘Upstart’. He said: “It was due to

AFI to get in studio soon

AFI have announced that they will be entering the studio on August 1 to record their new album. As of yet no further details have been released regarding titles or producers, but expect the record to appear in Spring 2003. However, Punktastic understands that Davey Havok and crew could