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From Thursday 12 June 2003

And through the letterbox today…

…were two things I thought needed ‘bigging’ up. Firstly issue two of the Rancid-News zine, 126 pages of goodness and a very good read. www.rancidnews.co.uk has ordering details. Also, another mention for www.punkermentality.com for the quickest order turn around ever – cheque in the post

I’m feeling used

The Used have a DVD coming out next month with loads of the usual extras and live footage included. Clicking on the ‘ole ‘discuss this item’ bit will give you sneak previews and all the info.

HHN bombardment

Wherever you are, you’ll be able to see a shedload of HHN bands on tour over summer. Good. Dates below from the mailout: ADEQUATE SEVEN 20 June @ Birmingham Edwards No8 21 June @ Game On Festival @ The Millenium Dome w/ THE VANDALS +

German Skanksters join noo noo

“German 9 piece ska-core band Skunk Allstars join Noo Noo Records to release their full length album “BLEEDING HEARTS & SMILING FACES” This is not your typicial run of the mill ska band these guys are the dogs bollocks. Their sound can be comparable to bands in the vein

Keep an eye out..

A few weeks ago I said big things were happening here at Punktastic, well this is just a reminder to keep watching because very soon we’re going to have some big announcements to make. The shop is on its way to help our hosted bands and PBs 3

I go away for two days and my inbox gets filled

Humanfly from Leeds, consisting of 2 ex-members of Canvas, have now joined IATDE. There’s a mp3 up on www.iatde.com and with the quality of Mark’s recent sigings, you know this lot are going to be good…

Live

The Julianna Theory are to release their live album, imaginitively named ‘LIVE 10.13.2001’, on August 5.

Wanted: Girls.

Submitted: “We need a female fronted or all girl punk band to support the X-Possibles from NYC and Suspicious Stains at The Backdoor, Rochdale, Lancs on June 20. Any bands that fit the above criteria please email asap and they must be able

AFI go grey!

A press release from AFI: “To our fans, as some of you may already have discovered, there has been a manufacturing error with one of the formats of our new single, whereby CD1 was pressed with the tracks intended for CD2. CD2 is unaffected by this, and contains

Uxfest details

The Uxfest is on August 2 and there are plenty of bands you may well be interested in. Hitting ‘Discuss this item’ will give you everything you ever wanted to know, and probably a whole lot more…