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From Friday 18 October 2002

Millencolin to bring Christmas cheer to the UK

Premier Swedish punks Millencolin will return to the UK just in time for Christmas. The dates are: 16 dec Manchester, Academy 17 dec Wolverhampton, Wulfrun 18 dec London, Astoria 19 dec Glasgow, Barrowlands

Thursday 17 October 2002

Midtown dumped by MCA

Various punk sites have stated that MCA have dropped Midtown and that Drive Thru Records have picked up the band again. There is no official confirmation as of yet, but it would seem a strange decision bearing in mind the past history between band

Houston, we have a problem

Incase you noticed something weird was going on, Punktastic is encountering a few problems. Forum posts have been lost and news items disappeared so we apologise to everyone and somebody somewhere is getting a good shoeing for breaking it…

Wednesday 16 October 2002

Lightyear not playing October 19

We’ve been asked to clarify by Household Name Records that Lightyear are not playing on October 19 in Harlow on the Punktastic tour, as we stated yesterday. Apparently the band dropped off the bill a month ago, but I was not told of this and carried

Midtown support is…

…Recover, according to their label Fuelled By Ramen. So check them both out later this month on their full UK tour.

Go download a paradigm

20 Deck Records have now made their internet download album ‘Rock Star Paradigms’ available for your selection at www.20deck.com so go right ahead and select tracks from the likes of Uncle Brian, Brodie, The Bombjacks and Route 215‘s awesome cover of

Punktastic tour 1 continues…

It’s halfway through, but the tour continues for the next 10 days with the following dates. It’s Fletcher, Jerry-Built and the awesome Route 215 unless stated: Oct 16 – Motherwell Starka Bar (not Jerry-Built) Oct 17 – Glasgow 13th Note Cafe (not Jerry-Built)

Save Ferris follow TPR and Fenix TX into oblivion

Not only have Fenix Tx and The Promise Ring broken up over the past few weeks, Save Ferris have now followed suit and gone their seperate ways. Bandmember Eric Zamora left this message on their Yahoo! groups website : “Hello everyone. Let’s get to the

Consumed cancel Euro tour

Consumed have been forced to scrap their forthcoming European tour. Bassist Wes told the band’s mailing list: “We’ve had to pull out of the European dates with Snuff and the Bosstones. Many many apologies to those of you planning on seeing us and we

Tuesday 15 October 2002

Sorry…

To anyone awaiting a cd review or an email reply we apologise for being slackers – we haven’t forgotten about you and we will email everyone back eventually and review all the cds you send in. This week expect goodness from Sniper Wolf, Phinius