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From Wednesday 14 July 2004

Motive

Submitted: “Motive Sounds has been dedicated to supporting and exposing committed bands from and around Cumbria and South West Scotland for over two years recently we released a Double Compilation cd featuring 30 of the best bands from around cumbria. The cd is a limited run of 500 with

Taunt them

Scots Tauntra have a new Pure Volume page up at www.purevolume.com/tauntra The band also play on the main stage at this years Wickerman Festival in Kirkcubright on July 23 with bands such as The Selector, The Buzzcocks, Aerogramme and Spiritualized.

Good dog!

Seeing as though most of our reviewers tend to go AWOL shortly after they start, we’ve hired another! Welcome Pete to the ranks and read his first review, of the new Underoath record, by clicking here.

Tuesday 13 July 2004

Festivals get networked

The Network have been added to the Reading/Leeds festival bill. You can see the entire weekend’s line-up here. Weekend tickets for Reading are long sold out, but weekend Leeds tickets are now very thin on the ground, so if you intend to go, get

Watch out for this lot…

Manchester upstarts The Maple State have a new song, ‘The City Is Under Marshall Law Until We Have Annihlated Them’ at www.myspace.com/themaplestate

Poindexter split

Our good friends in Poindexter have decided to call it a day. You can read the band’s parting statement by clicking ‘discuss this item’.

Win MC Lars cds

And to celebrate the start of the PT tour we have 5 copies of the MC Lars EP ‘The Laptop EP’ to give away. Just email the answer to the following question, with your name and postal address, to paul@punktastic.com: “Which band does

Now it goes to Stoke

The Punktastic Summer Tour kicked off in Leicester last night and by all accounts went down a storm. There are still plenty of opportunities to catch Audio Karate, MC Lars and My Awesome Compilation – and that’s beforer Piebald join

MDA in also free shocker

Submitted: “In case you don’t currently own these my deaf audio tracks you can download them here for free – www.purevolume.com/mydeafaudio. MDA are currently writing their second album as we speak, more news on that soon.”

Leadtheway for free stuff

Suibmitted: “Northern Monkeys Leadtheway are to release their debut album through random damage recordings early next year. As a taster they are giving away free eps just email Paul@leadtheway.co.uk with your details and one will magically wing its way to ya. For mp3s and stuff check the site –