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From Thursday 13 March 2003

Jerry rox

Jerry-Built will look to continue building their ever-growing fanbase when they continue doing the rounds of the UK later this year. A big tour in support of a UK band is planned too, so there will be no excuse not to see this lot in action. March Fri 14th Dundee

Ally rocks Jake

It would appear that Allister have been added to the bill for the forthcoming May Less Than Jake tour. The Pietasters will also be in tow.

Wednesday 12 March 2003

Win tickets to see Belvedere

Punktastic has teamed up with the Met Lounge in Peterborough to give away 20 tickets to the Belvedere show on March 18. It’s the only gig for the band in East Anglia and the promoters are hoping people will travel to the gig to make it

Tellison launch a rocket

Tellison are set to finish their debut EP, ‘Launching Rockets’, which has been produced by John Hannon. The record will be out around May on Aberdeen’s Tam o’Shantie Records, and lots of gigs are being lined up to promote the record. Check out

Emails were misled

Kev from Scots ska-punk band Misled Youth emailed us to let us know that some fool hacked their email account and deleted their mailing list. If you want to keep up to date with all the MY info, or you want a free cd, please email

Poison a headline tour

After supporting Killswitch Engage, Poison The Well will headline three dates: April 27 – London Camden Underworld April 28 – Manchester University April 30 – Newport TJ’s.

Family news

Bit of a news round-up about Punktastic ‘family’ bands. Milk2Sugars have a new website up, it’s yellow and sparkly and looks rather nice. Check www.milk2sugars.net for the update. Phinius Gage have a homecoming show in Brighton on Friday at Scream

True Romance 2

From Epitaph HQ: “Matchbox Romance is streaming their debut album, the “West For Wishing” EP on their newly designed web site! Just click the link below and checkout this killer new record that is due out on April 8. You can also get an MP3 for the song

At your funeral I will sing the requiem

Worthy of a mention I thought, US band May’s Funeral have a stack of MP3s up for download – there’s all kinds of instruments thrown in there so if you get chance check out www.maysfuneral.com

Warning – new song alert

Short Warning have a brand new unreleased song available to download called ‘Luck of the Draw’. The song can be accessed by visiting www.mp3.com/shortwarning so check it out. You can also win a copy of the band’s latest EP