Fred Hell shot!

From epitaph.com “As some of you may have heard, Tiger Army drummer Fred Hell was hospitalized on the night of Monday, March 10th after being shot four times. He was at a friend’s apartment in Chino, CA when two men with guns entered the apartment in

Leeds Fest for Wetherby

Punktastic has learned that Mean Fiddler, organisers of the Leeds Festival, have made a planning application to hold this years event at Bramham Park, Wetherby. Despite earlier rumours that the event would be held at Temple Newsam, a planning application has been received by Leeds

Katies lasso the moon

Before they open up the Deconstruction stage at Download, Not Katies are playing Leicester Attik on March 24 with support from 1000 hours and lasso the moon. Tickets are £3 on the door.

Crossfire Changes

Tonight at Subterania, London, Household Name Records are hosting CrossFireNight, part of the extreme sports film weekend. However, Thinktank have been forced to pull out of the event because singer Darren has lost his voice because of flu, so The Foamers have

Crossfire changes

Glassjaw get their girl

A little birdie tells me that thisGIRL look odds-on favourites to be the main support on the forthcoming Glassjaw tour. Thursday are also rumoured to be on the tour, but this has not been confirmed by anyone as of yet.

Appease break down Atoms

Appease have left Bravestar Records to take up residence at Mighty Atom Records, home of 3 Colours Red and Funeral For A Friend. However, Bravestar have signed up two new bands who will be announced next week. Both are great bands, one is

I pity the fools…

So The Next Autumn Soundtrack (who incidentally rock extremely hard) asked me if I knew someone who was clued up, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, had extensive contacts and was trustworthy enough to become the band’s manager. Unfortunately they couldn’t find anyone that had any of those characteristics, so they asked

Poindexter get unbearable

Finally the winner of the Poindexter competition has been chosen – and you could be the winner! The band searched through all your entries and have picked one suggestion to be the name of their fothcoming record! Gary told Punktastic: “We at Poindexter

Last night, I had a dream…

www.punkrockvids.com have just added The Ataris doing ‘San Dimas’ at their recent Mean Fiddler show, show check it out if you can. It’s a good site and well worth checking out.