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From Tuesday 22 April 2003

Finch and Used for Carling

Finch and The Used have now been officially confirmed for Reading and Leeds. Both will play on the main stage, Finch on Friday at Reading and Saturday at Leeds (along with Blink 182 and Jay Z) and The

Is this common knowledge?

On their day off from their tour with Less Than Jake, The Pietasters, Teen Idols and Allister will play at Swindon Furnace on May 12. LTJ won’t feature and tickets are £6 in advance.

They’ll steal your soul

Gameface, Otherwise and Route 215 hit the streets for a mini UK tour this week. Get there early to catch Nick, Rod and the boys and buy them a beer! April 22 – Leeds Josephs Well w/ Fifth Goodbye April

I hope this isn’t true

There have been lots of rumours floating about for a while now, but Drowned In Sound reports that Scottish emo kids Stapleton have split up. I asked the folks at Gravity about this last month and it was denied, maybe this time it’s for keeps.

A warm up show

A will warm up for their Download Festival appearance with a one-off show at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms on May 30. Tickets are £10 and will quite possibly sell out fast. Ace.

The rumour mill goes round and round

Three interesting rumours received today: Good Charlotte are currently booking a full UK tour for November; Brand New are playing the Reading and Leeds festivals and Moneen will also be supporting Brand New and Taking Back Sunday.

It’s going to be carnage!

Another two additions to the line-up for Punktastic Bash 3, in what promises to be our biggest and best all-dayer yet! Opening the day’s entertainment will be Sheffield’s very own comedy skate-punks Six Foot Nothing. And our latest additions, especially for you post-hardcore/emo kids, are

MAC rule

Fresh from the news of their trip to San Diego, My Awesome Compilation warm up some new songs at the following venues this weekend. The line ups are truly stonking, Friday contains three (count ’em) Punktastic bands and one highly approved – so be there! Friday 25

It’s all a big deal

On April 28 one of the bands in the Punktastic Family will play their last ever gig. No Big Deal will split up after the show at Joseph’s Well, Leeds, so go along and witness a little piece of history. Tickets are £3, doors 8pm

NC do midlands trek

Straight from the fingers of Oz from NoComply: “NoComply are no longer playing Nottingham on the 23rd due to problems out of our control, but all is not lost as we will be in Derby at the Vic Inn on the day before, which is quite near